It is that time of year again: another installment of the PC Perspective Hardware Workshop!  Once again we will be presenting on the main stage at Quakecon 2011 being held in Dallas, TX August 4-7th.  

Main Stage - Quakecon 2011

Saturday, August 6th, 3:30pm CT

Our thanks go out to the organizers of Quakecon for allowing us and our partners to put together a show that we are proud of every year.  We love giving back to the community of enthusiasts and gamers that drive us to do what we do!  Get ready for 2 hours of prizes, games and raffles and the chances are pretty good that you'll take something out with you - really, they are pretty good!

Our thanks for this year's workshop logo goes to John Pastor!!

Our primary partners at the event are those that donated a good amount of prizes and also threw in for some of our hilarious new workshop Tshirts!  Our thanks to Corsair, NVIDIA and OCZ Technology!!

Live Streaming

Missed the event?  No worries, you can watch the replay right here!

If you can't make it to the workshop - don't worry!  You can still watch the workshop live on our page right here as we stream it over one of several online services.  Just remember this URL: http://pcper.com/workshop and you will find your way!

System Build Contest

To mix things up, we are going to be holding a system build contest where a couple of lucky, randomly selected participants will be brought up on stage to build a computer LIVE and in person - first one to get to Windows desktop gets to KEEP THEIR SYSTEM!  Specs are very impressive:

• Corsair Graphite 600T case
• Intel Core i5-2500K  CPU
• MSI Z68A-GD65 G3 motherboard
• PNY GTX 580 Liquid Cooled GPU
• Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 Memory
• Antec High Current Gamer 620 watt PSU
• OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD
• Western Digital 3TB HDD
• Thermaltake keyboard and mouse combo

Not too shabby, huh?  Make sure you are in attendance for your chance to utilize those PC-building skills!

Case Mod Competition

Along with the Hardware Workshop, PC Perspective is sponsoring and judging the annual case mod contest!  There are two categories for the competition: "from scratch" and "pre-fab" that will allow those that build their computer enclosures from the ground up to compete separately from those that heavily modify their existing cases and systems.

On Friday the PCPer staff will be wandering around the BYOC area looking at the various entries for the mod contest (sign up to enter at the information booth in the BYOC) and will then select two finalists from each competition category, "pre-fab" and "from scratch".  Those finalists will be asked to bring their systems to the Hardware Workshop on Saturday to show off the designs, explain the detailed work that went into each and what they learned during the modification process.  On stage we will select one of the two competitors for each category as the WINNER and all four participants will take home some kick-ass hardware, the category winners will each get a bit more on their plate!!

Have questions?  Email casemod@pcper.com!

Prize List (will continue to grow!)

Continue reading to see the list of prizes for the workshop!!!

• Antec
  • 2 x High Current Gamer 620 watt PSU
  • 2 x Gaming chassis
• ASUS
  • 1 x GTX570 DCII
  • 1 x GTX560 Ti TOP
  • 1 x 6850 DC
  • 1 x Crosshair V Formula
  • 1 x Maximus IV Extreme
  • 1 x P8Z68 Deluxe
  • 1 x P8P67 EVO
  • 1 x P8H67-M EVO
  • 1 x Xonar DG Audio Card
• Cooler Master
  • 10 x Wireless Laser Mouse
  • 5 x Storm Scout
  • 4 x HAF 942 NV Edition
  • 3 x Silent Pro Gold PSU
  • 2 x Storm SF-19
  • 6 x Storm Gaming Mouse
• Corsair
  • 3 x Corsair Gaming Series PSU
  • 3 x DDR3 memory 8GB kits
  • 1 x Graphite 600T white
  • 2 x Obsidian 650D
  • 1 x H100 cooler
  • 2 x H60 cooler
  • 2 x Force Series 3 SSDs
  • 50 x HS1 / HS1A gaming headsets (!!)
  • 5 x 32GB Flash Voyager
  • 10 x SP2100 / SP2500 speaker sets
• ECS
  • 1 x P67H2-A2
  • 1 x GTX 550 Ti
  • 5 x USB Speakers
• EVGA
  • 2 x Duke Nukem GTX 560 Bundles
• Galaxy
  • 1 x GeForce MDT x5 graphics card (details at show!)
  • 1 x GTX 560 Ti
  • 1 x GTX 550 Ti
• Gigabyte
  • 1 x G1.Sniper motherboard
  • 1 x Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard
  • 2 x M6900 mouse
  • 2 x M8000 mouse
• Kingston
  • 2 x 16GB HyperX 1600 MHz memory kits
  • 1 x HyperX Max 3.0 External USB 3.0 128GB
• MSI 
  • 2 x GTX 560 Twin Frozr II
  • 3 x Radeon HD 6970 Twin Frozr II
• NVIDIA / PNY
  • 10 x GTX 570/560 graphics cards
  • 2 x GTX 580 Liquid Cooled cards
  • TONS of Tshirts and water bottles!
• NZXT
  • 1 x Phantom case
  • 1 x Cryo LX notebook cooler
  • 1 x Sentry LXE fan controller
• OCZ Technology
  • 2 x Fatal1ty 750 watt PSU
  • 5 x Vertex 2 SSDs
• Patriot
  • 1 x WIldfire 120 GB SSD
  • 1 x Viper Extreme Memory kit
  • 2 x Gamer 2 AMD Black Edition memory kits
  • 5 x 16GB USB Xporter XT Rage drives
• Rosewill
  • 1 x Challenger Case
  • 1 x Power supply
• Sapphire
  • 1 x Radeon HD 6870 FleX
  • 1 x Mini PC HD2 (Brazos based)
  • 1 x Pure Platinum A75 MB
  • 1 x Pure Black X58 MB
  • 1 x Pure Black P67 Hydra MB
• Seasonic
  • 1 x S12II 620 watt PSU
  • 1 x M12II 620 watt PSU
  • 1 x X 460 watt PSU
  • 1 x X 760 watt PSU
• Silverstone
  • 10 x USB desktop fans
• Thermaltake
  • 3 x Shock Spin headset
  • 10 x Mobile Fan 12
  • 5 x Dasher mouse pad
• Western Digital
  • 2 x Caviar Green 3TB HDD
  • 2 x My Passport 500GB
• Tshirts.  Did we mention a TON of Tshirts??
• PLUS MUCH MORE!!!

We are really looking forward to the event this year and are looking forward to seeing all of you there!