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I had the good fortune to attend MPU yesterday. I've been hearing about it and other large gaming LAN's for ages but never got around to attending one. I've had a few LAN days at friend's houses, at work etc.. but nothing compares to a purpose-built LAN in a big venue:

Close to 300 PC's in a big, dimly-lit hall. JimX in his natural environment.

The venue in question was the Parramatta Masonic Club. Apparently there were about 250 people there but there are usually more, over 300 or so. BTW, they're looking for a new venue, so if you know somewhere that can take over 300 well-behaved computer geeks on a monthly basis, drop Bane (Brent) a note.

This isn't meant to be an in-depth writeup of the event - suffice to say fun was had, games were played, people won and people lost. JimX and I had met up beforehand and I met a few people there, including VooDoo (Stewart) from MOS Technology, who had a stall there selling a variety of PC goodies to eager gamers as well as competing in a few events.

VooDoo showing off one of his Alpha coolers.. not sure who the evil possessed dude in the background is.

Anyway, most of the photos I took on the day were of some of the cool cases scattered around the hall. Quite a few overclockers obviously present and some budding case-modders too. First to catch my eye was that of [MOS]DeadEye, team-mate of VooDoo:

Pretty obviously tricked out with a neon kit, the side window was apparently cut with an angle-grinder.. hmm, delicate tool for delicate work I guess! Plenty of fans etc, however only bringing his P3-550 on a P3V4X to near the 600MHz mark.. I'm sure we'll see a better effort from him next month. :)

Hmm, guess the sponsor.. free Jolt is hard to beat!

Next to catch my eye was a familiar case belonging to Strange1 - you might recognize it from the Case Modding Forum. Specs unknown, but love the rusted metal minimalist look. :)

Apparently the front temperature display is hooked up to a thermocouple embedded in the heatsink itself.. cool.