Eric Garay

If you’re in to attending some decent LAN parties, you might want to hit Infernalan. Check out http://lanfest.intel.com/ for the forum and to register. It’s a healthy 300 seat charity LAN event!

Before you go off thinking it’s another LAN, they do give away about a dozen of their best processors and motherboards in random raffle drawings. They’ll raffle off any major component a PC can use as well. And if your PC is “teh suck” all together, they have been known to raffle off a couple complete game systems from IBuyPower and Alienware.

And there’s a $1500 computer case mod contest at the upcoming March 27-29 LAN sponsored by CPU Magazine. As long as it’s recognizable as a computer, you should be just fine. Plus it’ll show up in the next CPU Magazine issue. Can you Dremel up something by the end of next month?

Here are just a few of the sponsors. All proceeds from the event are matched by Intel and donated to the United Way. So, in a sense, while you’re having some fun playing video games, someone somewhere in the immediate future will receive a helping hand thanks to everyone.