LlamaLAN XI - VERY IMPORTANT NEWS
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:30 pm
LlamaGROUPIES,
The Management team have thought long and hard, we've borrowed power meters and tested a variety of gaming rigs with them. As you are probably all aware a single UK plug can only draw 13 Amps, the LlamaLAN events to date have all been run from TEN, yes you heard right a mere TEN, sockets. At the moment we are supporting FIVE attendees per socket, for this event we will endeavour to run ... *cue drum roll* ... SIX per socket.
Our calculations are based on a maximum draw per attendee of 2A, which may not sound like a lot, but my personal PC with an Core2Duo 6600, 4Gb RAM, 4 HDDs, an Optical Drive, and 2 fans, driving a 24" monitor on draws 1.49A under gaming load and 1.11A on idle. I know that many attendees may have more power hungry machines, but equally there are many who are more conservative in their energy needs, so we feel that it is a reasonable risk to be taking.
However, we will be EXTREMELY STRICT about what is attached to the electrical supply ANYWHERE in the building, so make sure that anything you have with a battery is charged before you arrive, additional lights, fans, fridges and anything we consider to be less than essential will not be permitted ... also if you feel that you may be one of those people who have a power hungry beast of a machine ... PLEASE LET US KNOW ... we may be forced to rearrange seating based on spreading the heaviest load around.
This will be experimental, but we will be taking steps to monitor the current draw and have complete confidence that the power supply will accommodate us if we follow these simple procedures.
It is therefore, with the greatest of pleasure, my duty to inform you that LLAMALAN XI WILL BE A 48 PLAYER EVENT for the first time in it's history!
There will be an additional TWO seats on each team, we will arrange everyone as best we can to keep people in the informal groups which we know exist, however, from now you have a further two seats to rearrange yourself around in, please be understanding to anyone trying to get a group together in one place.
The additional spaces will be available for purchase from 6PM TOMORROW, FRIDAY the 27th of FEBRUARY to give everyone to arrange their groups and get their finances in order.
We would like to thank all of our loyal LlamaFANs without whose support we couldn't have achieved this EPIC milestone.
'der Management
The Management team have thought long and hard, we've borrowed power meters and tested a variety of gaming rigs with them. As you are probably all aware a single UK plug can only draw 13 Amps, the LlamaLAN events to date have all been run from TEN, yes you heard right a mere TEN, sockets. At the moment we are supporting FIVE attendees per socket, for this event we will endeavour to run ... *cue drum roll* ... SIX per socket.
Our calculations are based on a maximum draw per attendee of 2A, which may not sound like a lot, but my personal PC with an Core2Duo 6600, 4Gb RAM, 4 HDDs, an Optical Drive, and 2 fans, driving a 24" monitor on draws 1.49A under gaming load and 1.11A on idle. I know that many attendees may have more power hungry machines, but equally there are many who are more conservative in their energy needs, so we feel that it is a reasonable risk to be taking.
However, we will be EXTREMELY STRICT about what is attached to the electrical supply ANYWHERE in the building, so make sure that anything you have with a battery is charged before you arrive, additional lights, fans, fridges and anything we consider to be less than essential will not be permitted ... also if you feel that you may be one of those people who have a power hungry beast of a machine ... PLEASE LET US KNOW ... we may be forced to rearrange seating based on spreading the heaviest load around.
This will be experimental, but we will be taking steps to monitor the current draw and have complete confidence that the power supply will accommodate us if we follow these simple procedures.
It is therefore, with the greatest of pleasure, my duty to inform you that LLAMALAN XI WILL BE A 48 PLAYER EVENT for the first time in it's history!
There will be an additional TWO seats on each team, we will arrange everyone as best we can to keep people in the informal groups which we know exist, however, from now you have a further two seats to rearrange yourself around in, please be understanding to anyone trying to get a group together in one place.
The additional spaces will be available for purchase from 6PM TOMORROW, FRIDAY the 27th of FEBRUARY to give everyone to arrange their groups and get their finances in order.
We would like to thank all of our loyal LlamaFANs without whose support we couldn't have achieved this EPIC milestone.
'der Management
