He was only 27.
Chris volunteered countless hours of his spare time to helping gamers with their graphics issues on a variety of forums. He provided excellent feedback to the team at NVIDIA, and he was a tireless advocate for improving the experience for NVIDIA users. Chris was a longtime graphics enthusiast, nZone moderator, and frequent contributor on a number of forums including NVnews, SLIzone, EVGA, Rage3D, Anandtech, and others. He loved graphics technology and had a sincere desire to help people by sharing information, trouble-shooting, and reporting issues to NVIDIA. As a member of our user group, he helped us evaluate new hardware and advocated for improvements like advanced anti-aliasing and improved multi-GPU scaling. His Twitter (ChrisRaySLI) bio states: “Goal: Help all Nvidia users by improving their experience with Nvidia hardware.” He did that in a big way.
The graphics community and the team at NVIDIA have lost a great friend and a tireless advocate, and he’ll be sorely missed
NVIDIA worked with Mike Chambers at NVNews.net to set up a memorial page for Chris here: http://www.nvnews.net/articles/chris_ra ... ndex.shtml
NVIDIA also posted news about this on our corporate blog: http://blogs.nvidia.com/nTersect/
If you wish to help, we encourage you to visit the memorial page and make a donation to benefit Chris’s mother, who relied on him for support. You can also post thoughts and reflections on Chris here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=144339
Chris Arthington with friends at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, January 11, 2010.
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I only got to meet Chris in person for the first time during CES 2010 and he was a great guy. Brian Wallace and I here from Legit Reviews got a chance to spend Jan 11th with Chris and had a blast with him out on the town till the early hours of the morning. It's sad to think that I might have handed him his last Corona when I bought a round of four beers for the gang towards the end of the night. I left Vegas with a new friend and am sad to see his life come to an end due to pneumonia at the age of 27. He was younger than I am. Life isn't fair. Please live life to the fullest. If he helped you on the forums, was someone you knew or just have a few spare bucks please donate to his fund.
He will be missed by many. 
