With all the excitement of day 1 and 2 full hours of sleep behind us, we were very excited about what we would be checking out on day 2. Upon arriving at the convention center we headed down to the Kentia hall and eMagin booth to get in a match against the Fragdolls. After losing a close quick round against them due to not knowing what we were doing, we came back and absolutely dominated them on the second round. Our experience of competing with the eMagin 3DVisor was extremely fun. You might say that it was pretty difficult to achieve the precision shots needed in a competitive first person shooter, but it seems as though a user that spends enough time tweaking the headset to their likings, much like a mouse, should be able to easily adapt in a short period of time.

After wandering around the Kentia hall for a little while after that, we came across Sapphire’s booth. On display they had a working Radeon X1900 Crossfire setup using their “Blizzard” cooling solutions to take heat off that core faster than Carl Lewis. The cards were running on Sapphire’s new XPRESS 3200 (RD580) motherboard. The processor was also being cooled using a small Cooler Master CPU watercooling kit. Sapphire also had their entire line of graphics cards and motherboards under glass at their booth.

Across the aisle from Sapphire we found a neat company called CoolIt Systems. CoolIt Systems is a manufacturer of budget conscience extreme-cooling solutions that, for the most part, incorporate TEC’s and basic water cooling. The design of every one of their products is absolutely superb and the displayed cases in which their solutions were applied enforced that opinion. Not only does CoolIt make products for CPU cooling, they also have a very well-designed VGA cooler as well. This VGA cooler has built-in support for two video cards, but one of the cooling blocks can just tuck away until it is needed. This means that if you have just a single video card, no harm is done in buying the kit. This technology is currently being used in Alienware computers for cooling their Quad SLI systems. Another cool little thing they had was a simple peltier cooler applied for use as a USB beverage chiller.

Next stop was the Wolf King booth where they had a bunch of computers set up that were using their “Warrior” game pad. The Warrior game pad is a direct competitor to the Ideazon Fang that we saw on Day 1. The design is a bit better, but overall it’s pretty much the same thing. We will have a review about the Warrior coming up soon. Also, special thanks to Stuart Grubbs for beating the in-house Counter-Strike-turned-Quake 4 clan, allowing us to take home a free Warrior game pad!

Adjacent to the Wolf King booth was a nice area setup by Western Digital. They had several nice looking cases that had special modifications to allow E3-goers a full look at their clear Raptor X hard drive. As you know, the drive spins at 10,000RPM and has a 16MB cache buffer. Since hard drives spinning is not the most interesting thing in the entire world, we went back to the South floor to check out some babes.

We undoubtedly will have more report after tomorrow, when we might finally have a chance to have a full-on Core 2 Duo experience.