aryayush said:
If anyone visited the fair, could you please tell us what was interesting there?
I went there yesterday, sunday 19th november and bought a logitech dual action gamepad for Rs.1250 from the logitech stall. In general there were stalls from all major vendors from the Bowbazar and Chandni Chowk area. One of the other purposes of me going there is also enquire about some deals in refilling empty deskjet cartridges for someone known to me. I also wanted to enquire about spare batteries for a HP ipaq owned by another person known to me. Well fortunately I got both these information at the Trisita Corporation stall.
There were stalls from Trisita, Eastern Logica Infoway, Berlia Compu Systems, Lalani Infotech, Supreme
, Tirupati Enterprises, Zebronics etc. There were also direct stalls from Microsoft, Samsung, Logitech, Asus, MSI, AMD, Frontech, Techcom etc. I tried out the NFS: most wanted demo for the XBOX 360 at the Microsoft stall which also had 2 HDTV's for the 360 on display. As I previously tried that out and knew the controls, I easily defeated the guy from the MS stall who was trying to be smart and challenged me in a multiplayer race.
. At the end he was staring at me with big eyes and asked me if I owned a 360. I told him that unless they reduce the price of the same from some Rs.25k odd to more manageable levels I will not buy. I also tried out the 2nd level from Farcry at the Zebronics stall which displayed a high end gaming machine for customers to try out high end nvidia cards. The MSI stall had some high end cards like the 8800GTS and the 7800 and the 7900 series. The price as usual is not within pur reach. The 7900GT from MSI is priced at Rs.18000, the 8800GTS at Rs.34000, etc. I also visited the Asus stall where they had some P5W-Deluxe motherboard priced at around Rs.13000 odd. On visiting the AMD stall I got my first bad news,i.e. there will be no option for me to upgrade to a X2 as the 939 pin X2's have gone out of the market. Now there is only AM2 X2's available. I own a Asus A8N-E and that means that I will have no X2 in the future.
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But one good news though, there were beautiful chicks at almost every stall (MSI, Asus, Samsung, etc)
. The girl at the MSI stall clad in the ATI model uniform were giving free mentos and free stickers of ATI: best for gaming. But on enquiring about high end cards like the 1900 series, I was told to enquire at their showroom as normally they don't keep such high end and will import them if I place an advance order. Usual reply...hmmmph.
There was also a stall for Sony displaying HDTV's. Hmmmpph....again, prices started over Rs.100000. The stall of Altec lansing was giving demo of the MX-5021 which I own and which, as usual has rocking sound. I did not pay visits to Frontech and Techcom as I do not like any of their products.
Overall Compass 2006 was better than Compass 2005 but as usual prices of most products are high.
Any other forum member went there? Post your experiences.
