Are You Ready To Win Parts For Your Back-To-School PC?

[CaedenV]

I'm pretty happy with my current rig... but this would still be a nice step up from what I would ever be able to justify purchasing myself! *crosses fingers*

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]Zagen30[/nom]Technically triple-channel was a feature of the 1366 chipset, but Intel never released anything other than i7s for 1366 since it was their premium one. They did release some i7s for socket 1156, their mainstream chipset that launched about a year after 1366, and those used a dual-channel configuration just like all the other lower-end processors that fit that socket.But that only applied to the first-gen Nehalem i7s. This gen, Sandy/Ivy Bridge, Intel again has a mainstream/high-end chipset split (1155/2011), with the former again using dual-channel and the latter using quad-channel. Unlike the first gen, though, they rolled out the mainstream chipset before the performance one, so most people aren't overly familiar with 2011.[/citation]

thanks, that said, i still wish they would seperate the i seriese more.
low end
mid end
main stream high
preformance high
and extreme high

easy to see with the first few letters instead of needing to also know the sockets.

 

[cknobman]

Free stuff me likey.

 

[bllue]

I love these these giveaways Tom's. I could really use these upgrades. GL to everyone

 

[TeraMedia]

This contest is a bit, ah, double-edged. If you win, you have a 20/23 chance of ending up with a case of overpriced, flavored fizzy water. Keeping in mind the tax laws, that's actually a liability if you don't care for the product at its stated value of $62.

If I am selected to win the flavored water, other contestants may be pleased to hear that I will likely choose to decline acceptance of that particular prize. I don't feel obliged to pay $25 in additional taxes for the "privilege" of winning 2 cases of carbonated sugar water with food coloring.

 

[TeraMedia]

@abitoms and others: It's not the US laws that exclude Europeans and other contestants. It's the laws in the destination countries. There's no US law that says, "you can't give any prizes to Rhode Island." But there is a law in RI that places restrictions on what types of contests may be held, what prizes may be given, what taxes must be paid, etc. Unless I'm mistaken, the primary laws at play here are import tax laws and/or contest prize tax laws that THG would have to pay if they awarded prizes to non-US contestants. I honestly don't know what's up with RI, but I do know that it's not anything that anyone outside of RI did to them.

 

[sicom]

Thanks, Tom's. I love these giveaways.

 

[ko888]

[citation][nom]chronium[/nom]It's more to do with the fact that they're to lasy to include a skill testing question, which Canada requires.[/citation]
Canada has lottery laws that make it illegal to run a lottery without government approval.

Making the winner answer a skill testing question turns it into a contest and not a lottery so it's not subject to the lottery laws.

Quebec, like Rhode Island, is subject to their own lottery laws and exclusions.

 

[punahou1]

Will the Black Raspberry water work with my water cooled heat sink?

 

[louiecog]

Really looking forward to winning some of that flavored water. Woohoo!

 

[Feedmemoarfood]

So, how's the weather? On another note, wtf is with the captcha box. I get denied 2\3 tries with it. I guess I am not human.

 

[bzog99]

Great giveaway from Tom's Hardware here!

 

[winter999]

I love this giveaway. It is the best.

 

[Krusher]

Sorry if I've missed it, but did Tom's announce the winners? I didn't get the email so it's not me. Don't forget to check your spam filters everyone. It would be a bummer to win, but have the email filtered out by accident.