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iBisQ Returns

May 6, 2008

ibisq internet cafe melbourne

The old home of Melbourne Counter-Strike iBisQ is coming back, and back in a big way. The renovations are pretty much complete and let me be the first (or second) to say after testing these machines out it looks very promising.

For our beloved Counter-Strike and all other Steam games, everything is updated via the Steam Cafe software on the local network (yes this includes Counter-Strike Source). There is ample mousepad room (check pictures below), clean desks and the machines run 1.6 perfectly and feels very very smooth. You can also adjust mouse and graphics settings.

For Warcraft III / World of Warcraft the new owner (Callum) has put in place a system which checks for software and map updates every day.

The major changes include:
- Upgrade of PC’s
- Clean everything (they will be cleaning keyboards and desks each day)
- Improved lighting
- Insulation of the roof (less noise when it rains)
- Heating/Air con

The machines specs are as follows:
- AMD Athlon 62 X2 5200+
- 2GB DDR2 800
- 250GB Hard drives
- ASUS 512MB 8500GT
- Diamond Digital 19″ CRT Monitors - 100htz @ 1024×768 (or max 85htz on higher res)
- Front Audio/USB ports
- ADSL2+ Internet Connection

Pricing:
- $3.50 per hour for members
- $13.00 for 5 hours

+ more hour packages to come as well as having the ability to use eftpos
+ if you were a member there previously, the hours are carried over - same login software

After a chat with the new owner Callum Bruce, he’s expressed interested in hiring the venue out for Counter-Strike competitions as well as the possible return of iBisQ league style events - which will include different games such as UT3, COD4 etc

And as per usual, iBisQ will also is also interested in sponsoring teams - for any competative game, not just CS of course.

With iBisQ’s major upgrades, we could possibly be seeing the return of nationals being held in Melbourne.

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32 Responses to “iBisQ Returns”

  1. hellRAISER on May 6th, 2008 4:15 pm

    looks good ibisq is love

  2. coop on May 6th, 2008 4:40 pm

    looks really good, keen 4 comps there

  3. bee on May 6th, 2008 5:07 pm

    yeah looks great will def attend/run comps

  4. tnyvo on May 6th, 2008 5:28 pm

    N1

  5. Spectre on May 6th, 2008 5:28 pm

    Comps at iBisq i’m keen as! lol

  6. shard on May 6th, 2008 5:30 pm

    wow holy shit its that looks so good compared to what it was

  7. bl4nk on May 6th, 2008 5:38 pm

    looks good

  8. bui on May 6th, 2008 6:00 pm

    looks very good, will be interesting to see comps run there.

  9. davestr1zl on May 6th, 2008 7:20 pm

    yeh its a shitload better than what it has been recently, should be pretty good for comps i rekn

  10. humski on May 6th, 2008 7:47 pm

    looks amazing

  11. humski on May 6th, 2008 7:49 pm

    please Callum, have the train, dust2, nuke map fixes for cs 1.6! so there won’t be any issues on flashbug -.-

  12. endless on May 6th, 2008 8:00 pm

    graphics cards are a bit on the lowdown

    8500gt’s, worse than VA’s cards (va runs source at around 50fps)

    no sourcers then :P

  13. shaaief on May 6th, 2008 8:21 pm

    omgomg exciting!! hehe xD woo

  14. Paladin on May 6th, 2008 8:36 pm

    LOL yeah due to the extensive work we have had to do, we opted for a lower end G-Card to all other upgrades. The graphics cards are the first on the list of upgrades. We have put in place an extensive upgrade plan that allows us to upgrade components every 6 months.

  15. Paladin on May 6th, 2008 8:52 pm

    Hey also just ran the video stress test on the systems and in the source video stress test they scored 126.86 FPS

  16. Jason Stone on May 6th, 2008 9:30 pm

    Yeah it looks really good. Keen to play in comps there :D.

  17. poopies on May 6th, 2008 9:40 pm

    yeh looks much better. i think i might actually return to kick some Jastoner ass!

  18. endless on May 6th, 2008 10:05 pm

    good work paladin!

    looking forward to it

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  20. random on May 7th, 2008 2:43 pm

    is there a comp there?? i heard theres one how do i join?

  21. Godless.esau on May 7th, 2008 4:13 pm

    Ok looks like ESAU might have to run some comps there.

  22. rumeboy on May 7th, 2008 5:45 pm

    PRIME now I don’t have to travel for 40minutes to get there!

  23. davestr1zl on May 8th, 2008 8:08 pm

    btw rumeboy ur account has no credit left i used it all… ROFL

  24. Jason Stone on May 9th, 2008 3:08 pm

    i wonder if my account has any left ;O been a few years

  25. serx on May 11th, 2008 2:41 am

    wow ibisq looks awesome always was and always will imo :) love that joint keen to play some comps there asap

  26. Johnny Marks on May 12th, 2008 4:14 pm

    Lol id cover that ceiling insulation. I cant tell exactly what you have used but not could it be a major health problem it will also create alot of dust.

    over n out

  27. Paladin on May 15th, 2008 11:26 am

    Hey Johnny. We have used a rating 3 poly bat that is completely safe and alergen free. and due to the new heating system haveing a fine dust particle filter there wont be to much of an issue with dust.

  28. chaNNNOOBOYY on May 15th, 2008 5:20 pm

    coOOOOLLL better not be cold like zam ==”

  29. Paladin on May 16th, 2008 1:52 am

    Nope its always a nice 22Deg inside now. lol that is providing people leave the door shut ^__^

  30. motzeh on May 18th, 2008 8:04 pm

    Nice work there, IbisQ looks really awesome now, can’t wait to get there and try it out :). Hopefully CS comps will come back to IbisQ - closer to my house :D.

    -motz

  31. dippa on June 12th, 2008 12:22 pm

    return of nationals being held in melbourne? what was ainc then?

  32. Dav3o on September 21st, 2008 7:04 pm

    service is poor… bad attitude in regards to most staff… and good luck getting any headphones/mousepads

    asides from that computers are good now

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