Patriot Memory was gracious as always allowing me and my two demo systems to be borrow some table space. On one side of the booth, Patriot displayed their latest 8 Signature and 32GB XPorter USB drives (need one for your EE PC?), DDR2, and DDR3 memory kits. At the end of the table you can see their green NVidia tested DDR3 2000 MHz memory which could also be found in one of the demo systems.  This booth was always on the move since quite a few people needed help with system issues where we were all glad to lend an expert hand.

Zotac, a new PDXLAN sponsor, also lent their presence to the Antec and Patriot booths. Zotac offered up a few of their latest GTX cards for the Poker Tournament (no money was actually exchanged) and showed off a couple cards in the two VH demo rigs. The physics capabilities are a welcomed feature.

System number one consisted of a Zotac 790 Ultra Motherboard, Intel Core 2 Processor, Patriot Viper DDR3 2000 MHz 2GB Memory Kit, and Zotac Geforce 280 GTX 1GB Graphics Card. Recent testing put the board at around 2200 MHz Front Side Bus. This system was especially cool installed within Antec's Twelve Hundred enclosure.

In system number two, we had the most power Intel desktop system to date sporting the Skull Trail Motherboard, two LGA 771 QX9770 3.2 GHz Harpertown Processors, Kingston HyperX PC2-6400 ECC 2GB Memory Kit, Zotac Geforce 260 GTX 896MB Amp Edition Grapics Card, and powered by Kingwin's ABT Series 1000 Watt Power Supply. This was all water cooled by Koolance's latest dual radiators and water blocks, ironically housed within Thermaltake's SwordM case. This system rocks when it comes to gaming and is fanatically fast when encoding DVDs and Audio files.

The DangerDen team took up about two rows showing off a few of their past and present water cooling systems. The pictures barely do justice when considering all the effort they put in to building these sweet systems. It's here you can often see something really cool and brand new. Sometimes it's a prototype and sometimes it's just about to be launched exclusively by DangerDen. As far as PDXLAN goes, DangerDen is the foremost water cooling authority. Pretty amazing stuff, huh?

And Palit Multimedia was present in new and impressive form to show off their latest endeavor with DangerDen and to offer some cards to the prize box. Here we have a DangerDen cooled GTX series Tieton graphics card from Palit. It boasts a sexy, new look breaking away from the typical copper looking water blocks we see today. It'll be launching soon on the 260 or 280 GTX graphics cards after a few more details are hammered out. Good bye ugly GTX cooler, hello beautiful!

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