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If you call ahead to your hotel they will receive a package for you and hold it until you check in for up to like a week or so.
In the bottom floor of the WSCTC there is a fedex shipping center where you can ship it back to yourself at the conclusion of PAX.
DO NOT CHECK YOUR COMPUTER AT THE AIRPORT! Those fuckers will destroy the thing.
I remember seeing you with that last year. I was wondering if that was considered carry-on. It seemed kinda large.
I posed the flying-with-a-PC question here and got some good advice.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44541
wasn't me i'm afraid
this is going to be my first PAX :P
Oh, it was a very specific case, on wheels, most definitely NOT in a suitcase...
WD-40 would have been most welcome in that situation
This is where I add the normal disclaimer that details like this can change very, very easily this far in advance, and all the other stuff you guys already know.
Also, one more time to affirm, if you're bringing a laptop, it's really, really smart to invest in a laptop lock. We do what we can to keep security super-tight and we've never had any significant problem of this nature, but it's the difference between "You should be fine" and "You will be fine". Isn't that worth $12?
Not been a problem.
Last year one got misplaced but was found later in the room.
We are just going to hammer the idea into people though that if they bring a laptop, to bring a laptop lock.
I have a friend that works for FedEx so I was able to abuse his employee discount to ship my tower to the Sheraton. A few things to keep in mind. Take the hard drives out and bring them with you in carry-on luggage/in the car/on the train. If you have a screw-less card holding system in your case find a way to reinforce it or remove the cards so they don't pop out and go flying around the inside of your case.
Sheraton specific info: They will hold your package for (if I remember right) up to a week before your check-in date. They will charge you $25 for this service. You request your package from the concierge desk in the front lobby. The business center on the 2nd floor of the new tower has a shipping center in it. I'm not sure if you can purchase shipping from there, but they have everything to re-box your computer and both UPS and FedEx pickup packages there.
You really want to spend the first day of pax installing/updating windows? :P
What if something goes wrong? :P
Seriously though. Shuttle makes some tiny cases now that actually (finally) can support decent graphics cards.
I am inclined to agree.
I personally would never go SFF though, I need more than 2 hard drives :P
I've looked at mATX stuff and I can't seem to find anything comparable. The ONLY case I've seen that even comes close to what I need has a huge ass ribbon cable for the graphics card and was really expensive. I would agree propriatarty sucks but I may just get a shuttle case in early august with an 8800gt and call it good.
Biggest problem right now IMO isn't the cases themselves but the mATX mobos being compotent but not quite comparing to their full size counterparts for features/performance.
Then again if I had the extra money to pay for a shiney all spiffy when I get it system I probably would.
a 700w power supply isn't sufficient for a Q6600 @ 3ghz, 4gb of ram, 8800GT 512, watercooling, and 15 hard drives.
Also... uh... don't bring something like that to BYOC :P
did somebody actually try that?
*imagines 3 helicopters airdropping it onto the roof of the WSCTC*
He did.
I tried adding hard drive #15 to my computer today. Power supply safety overload thing would trip when the hard drives tried to spinup on boot.
Thats what I'm upgrading. Putting all 1TB drives in it, and moving the 750GBs to my main rig.
http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/cases/GTR_Tech/GT3/index.asp
Yep. I've looked at the prices and 400$ for a barebones shuttle looks like how I wanted to roll initially from the beginning. I like my antec lanboy but its not a tiny portable shuttle.
So exactly how much porn *do* you have?
The internet.
jk :P actually none of it is porn, its mostly movies/tv shows
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814013
skarsol: you going to bring your computer & storages to BYOC? ;-)
If you have a burning craving for 80's cartoons though, I might take requests.
Doo eet...