New ‘Best PC Build’ Competition Now Underway

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We're proud to announce a new Best PC Builds Competition. Winning builders will receive a Newegg gift card worth $100!

New ‘Best PC Build’ Competition Now Underway : Read more

 

[why_wolf]

question do we still need to insure that ITX builds have built in WiFi?

 

[ajcroteau]

When they say "Best PC Build", are they saying best gaming or productivity build? or Best well rounded build in each price category?

 

[Lucky_SLS]

no unlimited budget category this time? 🙁

 

[shrapnel_indie]

Well, we're starting in Q3, but it will be Q4 when this is over. Time to start examining the possibilities.

Ugh! GPUs are still feeling the bite of the mining operations grabbing everything in sight.

(When will the interface between article web page and forum finally be fixed?)

 

[YoAndy]

Do we have to follow any budgets?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Do we have to follow any budgets?

Please read the rules for each budget category. I have placed links for each budget category in the original announcement article, linked here.

Any builds out of budget will be disqualified.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

question do we still need to insure that ITX builds have built in WiFi?

This is a good question. I was under the assumption that ITX motherboards now come with WiFi standard.

 

[why_wolf]

question do we still need to insure that ITX builds have built in WiFi?

This is a good question. I was under the assumption that ITX motherboards now come with WiFi standard.

They mostly do but I see a few that don't have it built in or at the least the only have an empty PCI slot but no actual WiFi card installed. Price difference is small like $10.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

Side note: some of the built threads use Q2 instead of Q3 in the titles.

 

[ibjeepr]

What are you supposed to due if PCPartsPicker's price doesn't match what Newegg or Amazon shows?
Are you allowed to edit your submission up until Sept. 14?

 

[shrapnel_indie]

What are you supposed to due if PCPartsPicker's price doesn't match what Newegg or Amazon shows?
Are you allowed to edit your submission up until Sept. 14?

They allowed editing. They allowed tossing out of a previous entry in a category for a new entry last time... AFAIK, if it is ran like last time, as long as you keep it to a single entry as of the cut-off date and time, you're good.

_Johnny5, feel free to correct me on that.

 

[ThePoetPyronius]

Surely the worst builds should get the $100 gift card, not the best? Bless their little cotton socks.

 

[ThePoetPyronius]

Surely the worst builds should get the $100 gift card, not the best? Bless their little cotton socks.

 

[lp231]

Can we have the voting poll directly in the voting thread just like the old days, instead of using survey monkey. That thing sucks, can't even see the final results of who got the most votes.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

What are you supposed to due if PCPartsPicker's price doesn't match what Newegg or Amazon shows?
Are you allowed to edit your submission up until Sept. 14?

They allowed editing. They allowed tossing out of a previous entry in a category for a new entry last time... AFAIK, if it is ran like last time, as long as you keep it to a single entry as of the cut-off date and time, you're good.

_Johnny5, feel free to correct me on that.

This is correct.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Can we have the voting poll directly in the voting thread just like the old days, instead of using survey monkey. That thing sucks, can't even see the final results of who got the most votes.

The Survey Monkey voting poll is far more robust than the one built into this forum. I will make sure to post the final results for each category.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

question do we still need to insure that ITX builds have built in WiFi?

This is a good question. I was under the assumption that ITX motherboards now come with WiFi standard.

They mostly do but I see a few that don't have it built in or at the least the only have an empty PCI slot but no actual WiFi card installed. Price difference is small like $10.

Given this small price difference, I'm not going to make wifi an hard and fast rule. Builds not including wifi will be at a disadvantage.

 

[ibjeepr]

Given the daily price changes, when is the pricing locked in? The day I post the build to Tom's or on the 13th or 14th?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

Given the daily price changes, when is the pricing locked in? The day I post the build to Tom's or on the 13th or 14th?

You can edit your build up until the final posting date.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

I'm going to quote myself here

Ugh! GPUs are still feeling the bite of the mining operations grabbing everything in sight.

(no "self plagiarism" now... (I can't believe there is such a thing. Sheesh!))

With what I said before, and now have repeated (in a quote)... How will this be handled?

We have so many cards that are effected by this plague that we are suffering from Here now, gone tomorrow or reasonable now, scalped/gouged pricing tomorrow.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

I'm going to quote myself here

Ugh! GPUs are still feeling the bite of the mining operations grabbing everything in sight.

(no "self plagiarism" now... (I can't believe there is such a thing. Sheesh!))

With what I said before, and now have repeated (in a quote)... How will this be handled?

We have so many cards that are effected by this plague that we are suffering from Here now, gone tomorrow or reasonable now, scalped/gouged pricing tomorrow.

It is both an exciting and challenging time to be a PC builder. I'm sure you and our other members will rise to the occasion

 

[tom.glimpse]

why not to make money no object build category?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

why not to make money no object build category?

There wasn't a tremendous response to the category in the past few Best PC Builds.

 

[tom.glimpse]

why not to make money no object build category?

There wasn't a tremendous response to the category in the past few Best PC Builds.

Yes, but if we would not have such category, some of the craziest builds will get lost..- it would be awesome to have that.