This was actually filmed over 5 weeks ago before the rain season took hold of Vancouver. Recently the weather’s been lousy enough that I don’t even think I would have wanted to film this outside…

I’m very proud of this Tech Tips because it marks a continuation of our success in keeping the episodes shorter, and also packing in more information. Check it out below.

Well my day two coverage is actually being written on the morning of day three. It’s amazing how the hours and days seem to blur together at an event like this. I overheard Yellowbeard from Corsair saying on the phone “We’ve been here all weekend” when he had actually been here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and we laughed about it afterwards. I guess you had to be there.

Speaking of being there, here’s me at the event set up next to the Corsair rig within the Intel booth. We’ve had a LOT of people come check out the booth and of course it feels good to show off my hard work in person to people. No one even raises an eyebrow when I tell them that between 8-10 hours goes into a machine like the Dream Machine.

Me again with the Dream Machine and a lot of the swag that Corsair showed up with. They’ve actually got Corsair branded energy drinks, which have been a big hit along with the Intel chair pillows.

Thankfully our Intel guy, Ross, was kind enough to provide me with one of these. The chairs here look okay at first, but you sit down for a while on one and it starts to be not fun.

Now when I arrived I was very confused to see all of the staff with pink hair. My natural assumption was that they wanted to be highly visible in case people needed help. Actually it’s in support of the Weekend to End Breast Cancer. At 4pm on Friday they brought out the shavers, and every one of the staff members shaved his head.

nVidia also generously offered $1000 per shaved head in addition to the staff members up to $10,000. This Tech Tips host was very impressed and decided to do his part by getting his head shaved too. I didn’t clear it with the girlfriend, so we’ll see how that conversation goes when I get home. :p

Here’s everyone who went bald all together. Thanks to everyone here (including the girl who paid $160 to shave the event organizer’s (Gil’s) head, Fragapalooza raised more than $15,000 for breast cancer research. God knows a bunch of guys like us want to preserve as many breasts in this world as we can.

There have been other neat events like a wall sit for an nVidia video card. I’ll be covering that in an upcoming Tech Tips. Apparently there is also a dance-off today and you can bet there’ll be some good footage from that. Stay tuned!

Well another day another Tech Tips. This one was actually able to launch while I was gone. I realize we’ve done a lot of coverage on these sub-notebooks, but honestly I think it’s a very relevant topic because the product category is so new and exciting to many people.

We’ve got a lot of exciting things coming up for Tech Tips and we’re making constant efforts to improve our release schedule. Thank you for your viewing and the feedback that has allowed Tech Tips to keep improving.

By far the best Tech Tips episode we’ve yet produced. We’ve been hard at work shooting and re-shooting this episode to reduce the repetition and provide a more engaging viewing experience.

Part of the reason for the improvements is the important nature of the subject matter. After the tremendous interest in our Asus EEE (original) memory upgrade video, we felt that it would be great to do a showcase of some of the competing products in the market right now.

Also stay tuned for a follow up to this video featuring the Asus EEE 1000 which from my initial impressions is possibly better than any of the ones we have in Tech Tips #16.

Well I’m not completely happy with this edition of Tech Tips to be honest. We’ve run into some technical difficulties (as you can probably tell by the video quality), and this one also took a little bit too long to get together for release for my liking. It’s been VERY busy around here with all the video card launches and other launches.

Speaking of launches, I wish I could have included the AMD nForce 7 offerings and the newer GTX series video cards in this one, but there were a couple restraining factors, not the least of which was the length of the video.

We’re going to be making a big effort in the future to keep video lengths down closer to to the 5 minute mark for big topics and 3 minute mark for small topics. Thanks for your patience as we continue to work towards improving NCIX Tech Tips.

This was a tough topic for me to approach. On one hand I’ve got the state of the memory market right now, which is >99% DDR2, but on the other hand, I’ve got to consider that that’s about to change. DDR3 is quickly becoming a viable option. X38/X48 and 790i were designed for use with DDR3, whereas all of the previous chipsets were designed for use with DDR2 and DDR3 support felt like something of an afterthought.

I’ve been criticized a little bit for calling out Corsair’s marketing names for their products and ignoring the others, but when it comes down to it, A) Corsair is a GREAT choice for system memory and power supplies (and anything else they make), and B) They were the ones who ponied up the RAM for us to showcase in the Tech Tips. If anyone else had asked to have their RAM featured, we would have been happy to oblige. It all comes down to support, and I’ll support whoever supports the Tech Tips project.