Enter to Win a Tom's Enthusiast PC with Vipre Antivirus

[viper1152005]

well my rig is a enthusiast rig, I7-970@4.2, sabertooth x58, 2x6970 frozor3, 120gb 510, 12 gigs patriot extreme@2140, 1000w kingwin lazer 80plus bronze and a darkfleet 85 case...........
this rig is what we call mid line gamer, in the buisness of building rigs for people custom.

 

[xyster]

never any love for canada....

 

[gpfear]

Good for parts I suppose.

 

[shockingmonkey]

For those of us who have better things to spend our money on than "enthusiast rigs," this is not a bad machine. Sure beats my X2 2.8/2GB/x1950 Pro!

 

[dillonpeterliam]

C'mon Tom, I'm on this site everyday, its the first thing I do in work! Please try and let foreign fans enter future comps. (Ireland btw)

 

[mortsmi7]

I'd cannibalize it for a few upgrades.

 

[Guest]

Very sweet just love it hope i win and good luck all.

 

[joshybo7]

if anybody complaining about this build wins it, just hit me up and i'll relieve you of it seeing as how it insults your taste as much as it appears

 

[josippyboi]

I would love to win something like this BUT, Being 14 and underage i can only dream =/

 

[Guest]

would love to have this as mine dies , its awesome !!

 

[aaron88_7]

WTF is anyone going to do with a 30Gb SSD drive? Sell it for something usable maybe?

This might have been a hot system 2 years ago, right now it's just a joke. Thank god I can afford a better system and don't have to enter this stupid contest!

 

[blazorthon]

Its a decent machine but I'm not sure on it being $1250. I won't complain since it's free and good luck to all others trying for it.

 

[back_by_demand]

How about if I win and I give my Uncle's address and he ships it back to the UK for me, would that be OK?
Nah, how about a foreign fans only competition, entrants from the USA are excluded, what are the chances apart (maybe 6 billion to 1)

 

[descendant75]

this would be a nice upgrade to me... the drawing ends two days before my bday, so it would be a nice present too

too bad i never win anything.

 

[pvt_awol0]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]WTF is anyone going to do with a 30Gb SSD drive? Sell it for something usable maybe? This might have been a hot system 2 years ago, right now it's just a joke.[/citation]

Possibly this SSD was a joke 2 years ago, but with the 2500k's ability to use Intel's Smart Response SSD caching, a small SSD like this doesn't seem too bad at all, considering the processor they are using. If this was an AMD build... I could see the justification behind that comment. But being an Intel Sandy Bridge, it seems like the choice wasn't made in haste. Just my opinion.

 

[aaron88_7]

^If you buy into Intel's marketing mumbo jumbo then yea, maybe a 30Gb SSD wouldn't seem like a joke....but the two 460's should be the most obvious clue this system was built with whatever crap was lying around. A well thought out PC would have at least gone with a 500 series or 6900 on the AMD side.

I'm just saying, look at the sponsor, can't they at least afford a couple of 560's with a nice 128Gb SSD? At the very least I hope that Windows Home is the 64bit version!

 

[zybch]

Still pushing the decidedly average Vipre eh Toms?

 

[quangluu96]

Time to pirate the Antivirus.

 

[fb39ca4]

[citation][nom]mortsmi7[/nom]I'd cannibalize it for a few upgrades.[/citation]
so would i. if i got it i would take the ram and the gtx 460s and put it in my comp. i might also oc my i5 2500k a bit more aggressively, if i ended up burning it out, then i would have a spare

 

[flips]

omg... I think I entered contest twice I think this is same one they had last time just reposted to get people to enter twice LOL! what the fuck...

 

[randomizer]

I'm running my main rig on a 30GB SSD, partitioned off at 27.5GB mind you. It's tight but it can be done. I don't have all my software on it, just the ones that I use often and which get the most benefit.

 

[americanherosandwich]

Yay, another new contest where I won't win! I'll still have wet dreams dreaming about it, though.

 

[Cash091]

You people are animals man... I basically have this identical rig give or take a few minor details and it maxes out ANYTHING I PUT IN! Crysis 1 and 2, BF3 Beta, GTA4, Batman AA, Metro 2033... I know there are better rigs you can buy out there but above 1080p it would be pretty much a WASTE of money!! Since when does enthusiast have to mean most expensive?! Don't get me wrong I'd love to spend 5,000 on a machine, but just cuz you don't doesn't mean it's crap! Get over yourselves...

If I won however(having basically this same build), I'd sell off a few pieces on ebay from the two machines I have and build something pretty sweet... *dreams*

 

[Cash091]

amendment to above
*playing at 1080p

 

[nottheking]

Well, I notice that this *is* One of the monthly "System Builder Marathon" rigs... And really, for the price, isn't that terrible for performance. I mean, hadn't we all concluded that for the money, the i5 2500K was the most worth spending money on? (especially once you squeezed in a nice OC?)

The real amuzing part is that there's a claimed retail value of approximately $1,250US, yet the SBM page shows it cost $1,032US. So apparently they're acting as if the Vipre Antivirus is worth $218US? I have a hard time buying that, (pun not intended... Maybe) Since at last check it was free to all us enthusiasts who gave a "Like" to Tom's on Facebook. Of course, not that any of us would want much to do with typical antivirus software...