Live From CeBIT 2008

Last tuesday I’ve presented you our stickers (which are now printed) - but it isn’t the only idea we had…

This afternoon we’ve sticked the car !!!

We’re now 3 days away from the CeBIT trip, and things are to be done in a hurry if we want them in time. This is geeting more and more worrying as everytime you sort out something, ten new problems appear For today, we started with a good news about hardware supply… and ended with a lot of work to fit our cooling solution on one of the chips we plan to chill. By the way, this is not completely over, and will probabaly take a few hours tomorrow to fix it.

About everything else, we’re now quite ready, at least as much as you can be when planning this kind of event.

Good news: that depends on out internet connection there, but we’re pretty confident that we’ll be able to broadcast a video streaming live from the booth!

(short news tonight, we’re really overbooked…more next time)

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As expected yesterday, we managed to get our cooling system done today. It was not as easy as we thought, and we endured some delays due to inoperative diodes… but anyway, it now works fine ! This is the main part of our project, even more than trying to get some high scores on benchmarks, just because that cooling device is completely new in computer industry. We never saw such a thing used for overclocking, so it should be a world premiere on march, the 4th for the CeBIT opening.

You’ll all be welcome on Cooler Master’s booth, Hall 21, C17/19 to see the first tests with it. Be sure to wear a pair of gloves and a scarf, it will be chilly there

I’ve spent half the day in the garage finishing some parts, but now brazing jobs are over, what’s left to do is just a bunch of electric connections. Comparing things to do with things done yet, I’d say we’re 80% done at the moment. Tomorrow, we should get to 90%, with the first real tests.

More pics will come tomorrow…

On the hardware side, things are really turning well, as missing parts are now ok, and will arrive in time for the show. Latest BIOS updates from Foxconn are really improving the X48 board’s behavior, making it both more performant, and more stable. We hope to get very high results, and the mainboard looks really strong !