What's In YOUR Tower has come to present itself yet again in this new issue. This feature will include two known professional gamers and a randomly selected community member. Featured in Issue #4 is the Finnish superstar and current member of 69N-28E Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen, community member Patrick "Burst" Ding, and Dallas Venom star Josh "Dominator" Sievers.

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
Hardware/Software:
Case: Shuttle XPC SN95G5V2
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Video Card: PNY GeForce 6800 GT 256MB AGP 8x
Sound Card: Sennheiser USB
Motherboard: Shuttle FN95V20
RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) TwinMOS PC3200 DDR in Dual Channel Mode
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB UltraATA/100, 7200RPM, 16MB cache
Optical Drive: LG GCC-4521B DVD/CD-RW 52x32x52x16x
Monitor: 19" Samsung SyncMaster 959NF

Peripherals
Mouse: Logitech MX510 (with SteelSeries All-round padsurfers)
Keyboard: Microsoft Wired Keyboard 500 Black
Mouse pad: Steelpad QcK Heavy
Headset: Sennheiser PC166 USB
Extra: Using SteelSeries Cord Holder

Game And Software Settings
-Video Card Settings
Anti-Aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: Off
Image settings: High Quality
Vertical Refresh: Always Off
Digital Vibrance: Off
Gamma: 1,16
Brightness: 100%

-Mouse Settings
Drivers: None
CPL Mouse Fix: No
Acceleration: Off
Windows Sensitivity: 6/11 (Default)
Enhanced Pointer Precision: No

-1.6 In Game Settings
Operating System: Windows XP
Launch Options: -noforcemaccel -noforcemparms -freq 100
Refresh Rate: 100Hz
Resolution: 640x480
Sensitivity: 2.1
Crosshair: Large, Green, Non-Translucent


The History

I remember that my first computer that I got somewhere around 10-15 years ago was a 75MHz Intel Pentium, but I never really used it much except for the occasional gaming, because I preferred playing consoles BY FAR (Nintendos, Playstation, played especially the NHL-series and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1& 2).... And by far I mean I didn't probably touch a computer for +5 years up until I believe 2000(?) when our parents bought me and my brother a new enough computer to play new games (NOLF, Hitman 47!). That was back then we didn't have ADSL though, and I didn't really care because I was only playing single player games anyways. However, when we finally got an ADSL in October(?) 2001, my brother (naSu) started playing CS and eventually I started as well which forced us to first upgrade our computer and then finally in January 2003 to buy ourselves two different computers, which is when I guess you could say we started playing CS actively.

Apart from the video card, I bought this computer in January 2005 and ever since then I have had it completely untouched, as it still maintains 100FPS in CS 1.6, which is all I really need. I use the Logitech MX510 because I've used a MX5** series mouse since 2002, and cord holder, padsurfers and mouse pad from SteelSeries because I have used them for ages and they're what I'm used to. I've tried almost every mouse pad on the market and used a QcK+ since 2005, until I upgraded to the QcK heavy version last fall, simply because it’s thicker and therefore better at LANs where the tables tend to be uneven. For headset, I use a Sennheiser PC166 USB which is my personal preference. Besides that, I just try to keep my setup as universal as possible, trying to use settings that I can use anywhere else (a lot of small things such as removing mouse acceleration with -noforce commands instead of mousefix.reg, forcing monitor refresh rate with the -freq command instead of third party program such as reforce or refreshlock, and not using any drivers for my peripherals).