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VR-Zone is a technology news website in Singapore. It was founded by Terence Lee in 1999. It started off as a hobby site talking about hardware news, reviews, technology, overclocking and anything deemed interesting by hardware enthusiasts. VR-Zone has now evolved into one of the best source for computer hardware news and reviews and is widely recognized by the hardware enthusiast community and companies in the industry.
VR-Zone constantly sources for the most interesting news for our readers and is also committed to writing in-depth and objective reviews on computer hardware. VR-Zone also has its own community where one can ask questions and chat about computer hardware and many other things.
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VR-Zone.com Main Site
VR-Zone.com main site currently holds the computer hardware component reviews and technical news. Computer hardware modification tutorials and Overclocking tutorials are one of the biggest hits in hardware enthusiast community. In recent years, VR-Zone began writing consumer electronic reviews.
Media Coverage
VR-Zone also covers important technology events like: CeBit and Computex.
VR-Zone.com Community and Lifestyle Forums
Currently, VRForums is one of the most popular IT discussions forums in Singapore. It discusses topics ranging from computer technical news to gossipy celebrity news. It also currently hosts one of the most popular “Marketplace forums” in Singapore.
Another notable forum is "News Around The Web". Users will post interesting Tech and IT news for members to discuss.
Harddisk Mass Order Scam
In March 2008, several dozen VRForums members fell into a “Raptor Mass Order” scam. Money was transferred to the point-of-contact but the collection of the Velociraptor Hard Disk Drive never materialized.
VR-Zone conducted its own investigation and unveiled a potential scamming case. A police report was filed and an illegal over stayer Johnson Plant was arrest Template:citeweb . The deposits for the Velociraptors Hard Drive was not recovered.
Mas Selamat Saga
VRForums also attracted media and authorities attention during the Mas Selamat saga. VRForums member AS1 [discussed the possibility of a jailbreak] before the escape of Mas Selamat was announced by Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore).
VR-Zone.com Events and Campaigns
Over the years, VR-Zone built up an extensive port folio from organizing of online events and contests.
Online Contests and Campaigns
- November 2006
- Creative forum signature contest with Kingston
- December 2006
- Christmas letter writing contest with EVGA
- February 2007
- "Express your love with Kingston!" Valentine's Day campaign with Kingston
- March 2007
- Creative forum signature contest with PowerColor
- April 2007
- Online blogging contest with NVIDIA
- April 2007
- Online contest with PowerColor
- February 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- Think of a tagline” signature contest with Freecom
Gaming events
- March 2004
- Gunbound competition at the National University of Singapore
- September 2004
- World Cyber Games National Finals at Suntec City
- October 2004
- GX-League at Suntec City
- November 2004
- Family Festival 2004 at Suntec City
- December 2004
- Funan CyberGame Challenge at Suntec City at Funan IT Mall
- March 2005
- School's Out Gaming Challenge at Funan IT Mall
- April 2005
- Unreal Tournament 2004 at Funan IT Mall
- 2005
- VR-Zone's Quake 4 Launch Party at Funan IT Mall
- 2006
- Chinese New Year LanParty at Little India
- June 2006
- VR-Zone Eskimo LanParty at Fuji Ice Palace, Jurong East
- August 2006
- Kode 5 South East Asia Regional Qualifiers at Funan IT Mall
- November 2006
- Kingston Children's Charity Gaming at Funan IT Mall
- December 2006
- Nvidia Reality Tour at Funan IT Mall
- December 2006
- Battlefield Funan LanParty at Funan IT Mall
Overclocking events and displays
- At Various Times
- Super Over-Clocked Gaming PCs Displayed @ Sim Lim Square Shops
- 2005 and 2006
- VR-Zone Supercooling Rig & World’s First Automated Dry Ice Cooling System at Computex Taipei Hall 1 for 2 consecutive years
- 2004 to 2007
- Various Liquid Nitrogen Cooling sessions
- October 2004
- Computer Refrigeration Workshop at Burlington Square
- December 2004
- Benchmarking Summit + BYOC event at Funan IT Mall
- January 2005
- Super-Cooled Gaming Monster at Nanyang Technological University
- January 2005
- Competition on Super-Cooled PCs at National University of Singapore
- March 2005
- IT Show at Suntec City
- June 2005
- PC Show 2005 at Expo
- June 2005
- Dry-Ice Over-clocking LAN Party
- 2005
- VR-Zone Over-clocking Competition at World Cyber Games National Finals 2005
- 2005
- The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Singapore 2005
- 2005
- VR-Zone at World Cyber Games Grand Finals 2005
- 2006
- VR-Zone @ DFI Overclocking Competition in Beijing, China
- 2006
- VR-Zone Eskimo LAN Party OC Competition at Ice Skating Rink
- 2006
- ABIT OC Competition 2006 at Funan IT Mall
- 2007
- Asus Overclocking Championship at Funan IT Mall
- July 2008
- August 2008
- Memory Overclocking Competition at World Cyber Games Qualifiers with Qimonda
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