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This past weekend I went to Intel’s LANFest InfernaLAN in DuPont, Washington. At 385 people the InfernaLAN is the largest and is the oldest LANFest event. The LAN parties are put on by a group of PC gamers that work at Intel. Over the past several years they have continued to grow larger and add more events across the United States. One of the best things about the LANFest events is, all of the proceeds are matched by Intel and donated to charity. The events have helped to raise almost $400,000 for charity.

Friday night was the first night and by 7PM more than 100 gamers were waiting in line to check in. By midnight almost all of the 385 seats were filled. One thing that I found very different about this LAN was the fact that it was very family oriented. Several parents had brought their kids along, to game right alongside of them. We gave away a several Gaming Audio Series™ HS1A gaming headsets and kits of Vengeance™ memory to members of our Facebook event.

It’s not every day you get to build a super high end gaming machine, let alone building it gets to be part of your job description! For this build I got to use the brand new Corsair Link™ hardware, along with the new Corsair Hydro Series™ H100 CPU cooler. The Corsair Link technology allows you to control your fans and lighting right from your Windows® desktop. The H100 cooler offers great cooling ability with its dual 120mm fan radiator and it also connects to Corsair Link.

Let’s take a look at the hardware to build this system. For the motherboard I went with the MSI Big Bang X58 motherboard, the CPU used is Intel® Core™ i7-990X Processor Extreme Edition. Filling the memory slots is Dominator® GT DDR3 memory, with an Airflow fan and Corsair AirFlow Pro™ on top. For the power supply I used the top of the line Professional Series™ Gold AX1200 and for the SSD I used a 120GB Force Series™ 3 6Gb/s SSD. To output display to the monitor I chose two NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560s in SLI. For the sound card I went with the ASUS Xonar sound card. I have found it makes a great combination with our SP2500 speakers or the HS1A headset. Finally to house all of these components the Corsair Obsidian Series™ 800D full-tower case was chosen.

Corsair Link™ is a technology that lets you monitor and adjust your PCs cooling and lighting based on any number of criteria and preferences.

Why am I going to want Corsair Link for my system?

If you want the best cooling control solution and the coolest lighting solution on the market, you’re going to want this.

Check out this video where George Makris, Product Marketing Manager and Aaron Neal, Engineer Program Manager walk you through the Corsair Link™ hardware and the Corsair Link Dashboard software.In the video they explain the differences between the cooling kit and the cooling and lighting kit. Aaron also gives a demonstration of the Corsair Dashboard software and shows you how to adjust the cooling fan profile based on the current CPU temperature as well as the LED profile based on the current GPU temperature.

Here at Corsair we have a level of obsession for performance that sometimes worries our parents. The latest result of this singular focus is the production of a Dominator® GT 2x4GB DDR3 kit that's guaranteed to operate at 2400MHz, with latency settings of 9-11-10-30 at 1.65V. We made the announcement yesterday.

We recently posted some amazing benchmarks put up by our newest SSDs, the Force Series™ 3 120GB and 240GB solid-state drives. Here’s the original blog post for Corsair Force Series 3 SSDs are Now with Us.

Further testing has yielded more awesome benchmark results. One frequently used test by enthusiasts is PCMark® Vantage from Futuremark®. According to Futuremark, “A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.“

Several years ago, Corsair worked with Intel® on the development of the Extreme Memory Profile (Intel XMP). These profiles are used to store overclocking information on the memory module, so your system can be overclocked to a known-stable value by adjusting a single setting in the BIOS.

We are big fans of Intel XMP, and we'd like to announce a bunch of new Intel XMP certifications for the latest 2nd Generation Intel Core™ processor family!

Corsair Professional Series™ Gold power supplies have set a new standard for performance, quality, reliability, and energy-efficiency in consumer PSUs. One of the best features of the AX series is that it is completely modular. I will be showing you how the AX750, AX850 and AX1200 cables provided with the PSU should be connected to your power supply.

This past weekend Corsair went to the GXL Lan, located 45 minutes from Philadelphia.  The event was completely sold out with over 350 gamers attending.