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10th March 2002 - Article by James "Agg" Rolfe back to page 1 Next was a 1RU rackmount system from Axiom. I did a bit of a double-take walking past this.. it's 3 servers in one. At the back of each "strip" are the usual connectors for keyboard, power, video, USB, RJ45 for Ethernet etc.. they're 3 totally separate PC's with their own PSU, CDROM etc, and only 1RU high! Talk about packing them in.. they're FCPGA motherboards with 1 SDRAM slot and VIA's Apollo Pro 133A chipset, it seems. So you could in theory whack 1GHz P3's into them, but more likely some cool-running VIA C3's and have the smallest server farm around..  click to enlarge Belkin had a pretty big setup there with their range of connectivity and other gadgets on display.. one that caught my eye was the Nostromo n50 SpeedPad gaming controller:   click to enlarge Altech had the only watercooled PC I saw at the show.. I took this picture then got mobbed by some guys from the forums :) so I stupidly didn't get any details about the PC.. looks pretty decent though, obviously a P4 and check out the cooling on the video card!  click to enlarge Speaking of water, Siemon were demonstrating their cabling and other products, one of which was this waterproof power point/plug.. could be very handy in a watercooling disaster. :)  click to enlarge Finally, Intel were running a promotion/competition involving wearing a stick-on tattoo of the P4 logo. AMD had tattoos too.. I guess this person, Scott, just couldn't make up his mind. :)   click images to enlarge And that, I'm sorry to report, is pretty much it. Actually, probably the coolest thing for me was the people - plenty of OCAU readers recognised me and stopped me for a chat and it was good to catch up with a few of the vendor contacts I haven't seen since last year - as well as a few new ones. As I said earlier, the general concensus (which I agree with) is that the show was much smaller again this year. A marked lack of freebies and booth babes (apart from that girl in the box) was also a common complaint. Let's hope the organisers conjur up a way to get more vendors interested in it next year and make it bigger and better! If you want to check out my highlights from last year, click here. Other Recent Reviews:
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