Nvidia Revives LAN Party After 13 Years To Celebrate RTX 50-Series GPU Launch (tomshardware.com) 7
Nvidia is hosting its first LAN party in over a decade to celebrate the debut of the RTX 50 series. It'll occur at CES 2025 in January and feature a 50-hour gaming marathon with tournaments, prizes, and global remote sessions. Tom's Hardware reports: The LAN party (dubbed GeForce LAN 50) will start on January 4 at 4:30 pm PT and end right before Nvidia CES Jensen Huang gives his opening speech at the CES event in Las Vegas on January 6 at 6:30 pm PT. The main LAN event will occur in Las Vegas, while remote sessions will take place in Beijing, Berlin, and Taipei. The event will purportedly host up to 400 gamers, requiring a $125 refundable deposit to sign up. The 400 lucky people who manage to make the list will not include content creators who might be invited directly to the LAN party from Nvidia.
As mentioned, the LAN party will be a full-blown 50-hour gaming marathon with in-game and LAN contests, tournaments, and prize raffles. For everyone who won't be able to get into the LAN party, Nvidia is providing additional prizes through its Nvidia App dubbed "LAN" missions. More prizes will be given out through the hashtag #GeForceGreats on social media. Nvidia is going all out for its GeForce RTX 50 series debut early next month. The last time Nvidia hosted a LAN party was purportedly 13 years ago.
As mentioned, the LAN party will be a full-blown 50-hour gaming marathon with in-game and LAN contests, tournaments, and prize raffles. For everyone who won't be able to get into the LAN party, Nvidia is providing additional prizes through its Nvidia App dubbed "LAN" missions. More prizes will be given out through the hashtag #GeForceGreats on social media. Nvidia is going all out for its GeForce RTX 50 series debut early next month. The last time Nvidia hosted a LAN party was purportedly 13 years ago.
Meh (Score:2)
No DFI motherboards? What's the point?
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Hah well okay, the 12VHPWR connector was pretty awful, and it's possible that the replacement is just as bad. But I was actually referring to old LANParty motherboards.
400 gamers together running beefy GeForce cards? (Score:2)
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You jest but this is a big problem in the modern days. I used to be admin on some pretty big (starting with 5 of us and eventually growing to 150+ people) LAN parties back in the day and we were always power limited by venues. These days in a small group of friends it's actually difficult to find a holiday house to rent which can withstand having 10 beefy PCs running in parallel. It's really a case of long extension cords to load up all circuits on the house equally and hope you don't trip the master breake
Aww yiss LAN parties are BACK! (Score:2)
Set neon case lights to maximum obnoxiousness and crack open a BAWLS! Gonna pwn some noobs like it's 2009!