CES Las Vegas: Sunday
January 6th

     To save time, we arrived at the Las Vegas Convention Center plenty early on Sunday to pick up our press packs and scope out the place. LVCC was full of activity with vendors scrambling to setup booths and lugging in equipment. We could already see that the LVCC would be packed wall to wall.

     Later Sunday CES started off with a bang with the CES tech zone kickoff party hosted by NZXT and Tagan. Basically this turned out to be a rave for us press type geeks attending CES. NZXT and Tagan went all out with a suite at the Caesars Palace, a DJ and of course - free booze. It was more of a meet and greet for the press attendees, than it was a product sampling, but of course there was new stuff on display. 

A power supply from Tagan which featured ESA monitoring system with controls and displays which are interactive on the Windows desktop to monitor the inner working of the power supply.  This was our first chance to see ESA in action and it was pretty kewl.  Real-time monitoring of all of the rails, temperatures and etc.  As you can see from the photo, the Tagan ESA monitoring program monitors up to 12 things at once.  For those of you that missed the press release that we posted on ESA, here's a quick rundown of what it is and what it does.  ESA stands fir Enthusiast System Architecture and is the industry’s first open-standard PC monitoring and control protocol for real-time communication and control of system thermal, electrical, acoustic and operating characteristics.  ESA can even help control system temperature by monitoring temperatures and controlling voltages to fans and water pumps.

 A Tri SLI setup was also up and running inside a NZXT Tempest enclosure.  This led to some pretty smooth gaming with the Tri-sli and nvidia 780i combo.  Big thanks to Tagan and NZXT for the invitation to the kickoff party and we plan to see more of them in the days ahead.

NZXT System & Party Photos

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