HME 2009, Day 3: Early Sunday morning waiting for the first people to visit the MSI booth.

HME 2009, Day 1: Visitors filling out a questionair about MSI.

HME 2009, Day 1: MSI's Bart behind the conrols of the DJ panel and CS:S gameserver.

The graphics card fan on our backup server has been in the process of dying for the past month, so we tore off the small heat sink and fan and slapped on a huge passive heat sink with thermal epoxy.

Postscript: It didn't end up working :(

HME 2009, Day 3: MSI booth.

Experimentation with techniques to achieve in camera creative blur

My nVidia 9800GTX decided to die a couple of days ago.

It now provides photo ops :)

HME 2009, Day 1: MSI stand with Joran as MC.

I Have recently had to change out my graphics card to keep me in the 21'st century of gaming and as we took the old one out a mate of mine suggested using it with the Friesians for a few photos.

So here's what I got....

A new graphics card.

Short of a pony, I think this was the best thing I could have gotten her. She was hyperventilating when she got it.

This is actually the second card I bought her; the first went back to Amazon after I discovered, belatedly and with much swearing, that her current computer lacks an AGP slot.

HME 2009, Day 2: Component wall - MSI R4650.

It isn't even hot here. Room temperature is about 22°C and all case fans are operational.

If I had a hot-air thingy I could try to reflow the RAM chips. But a replacement card is much cheaper than getting a cheap hot-air station. Maybe I will keep the card for experimenting with it later.

HME 2009, Day 3: MSI's Elif providing visitors information about our notebooks and AIOs.

Gfx card decided to go passive all by itself.

HME 2009, Day 1: GX623 with a Core 2 Duo P7350 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD4670.

Meine neue Grafikkarte. Schön leise und ausreichend schnell.

New PC Build 2014

HME 2009, Day 1: Friday Morning. MSI stand was well visited right from the start.

Gigabyte Nvidia GEFORCE GTX1050

I'd sent off my NVIDIA GTX960 card for replacement under warranty but after 5 weeks got fed up waiting for it's replacement.

* VGA WD – We Color Your World

* OAK Super-16 VGA Controller

* IBMVGA-Compatible Video Graphics Controller

* Mono Chrome GraphicsCard

BB Elmix

I wonder why it died today. It's not the first time I played Quake4... damn!

I could easily insert a bit of copper/brass foil + thermal goop to restore proper contact. But without an hot-rair station there's no way to give the RAM-chips a treatment that might revive the card.

Before the start of HME 2009

HME 2009, Day 1: Visitors playing Counterstrike: Source against FnaticMSI.

Features 512mb of DDR3 Memory

ZOTAC® Reveals World’s Fastest DirectX® 11 Graphics Card

Live from the HME2009.

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