Skylake-Based System Builder Sweepstakes

[C_Ray]

Tiki!

 

[agentbb007]

The iBuyPower definitely seems to be the best bang for your buck.

 

[Guest]

Origin, Digital Storm, AVADirect

 

[thedude5001]

AVADirect, Falcon Northwest, and the Xotic PC. Fantastic looking builds. Thanks for the giveaway!!!

 

[Gurg]

1st Ibuy Power, because it is the only balanced build that doesn't scream out that it has a major deficiency. Attractive color and looks.

2nd Origin for being an absolute monster, but it just seems wrong that it isn't a 5960x.The electricity cost to power this as well as an enormous room air conditioner to keep the room temps to 72ºF make this the supreme energy hog winner unless you live in Alaska. Can it be tuned to break into the top 20 Firestrike Ultra list?

The AVA Direct is a nice build, but only 16g og 2133? Being a Buckeye I hate blue, but maybe the custom color allows for a change.

If paying big bucks, then I liked the builds from the previous challenge better if upgraded with 980tis in SLI and the faster DDR4 RAM available now. Many of these builds just scream out with a major deficiency (PSU/970s/2133/no m.2 pcie).

Guess that's why I'm building my own. The AVA at $5900 is twice the component price of my home desktop build (5820/100i/32g-2133/hyperx 240 m.2 pcie/480gb ssd/980s in sli).

 

[alidan]

All of the systems are just way too overpriced/spec'd if you ask me. Yes it would be fun to own these systems, but who has this kind of $ for these builds, the 1%'ers???

According to your statistics 1 in 100 people have the $ for these builds, thats still quite a lot of people.

if i remember right to be in the 1% you need an income of $130,000
once you get even close to that and have your house/living space paid for, you have a crapload of disposable income, even more if already have the nest egg built up.

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that said, i wish there were more amd fury based builds, or even air cooled build... i just dont see the appeal of watercooling when you have to rip the crap apart every 6 months to a year, hope you can get everything clean and not have a leak putting it back together... my brother has a watercooled system, and i would never touch a custom loop after watching how much of a pain it is.

at least one of those tubes looked like it was hard plastic that was formed into shape... i dont know if its hard to build that kind of a cooling system, or if its hard to assemble that kind, but that one i would not want to do myself.

personally, i am holding out for the zen to see if that is good or not, if its not, i'm going a 6 core intel, if it is, im going with a zen based amd build, likely holding my 280X for another year or two... it really depends if new games with good settings chug below 30fps or not... as my gpu is currently bottlenecked by the cpu and i turn off some of the more demanding settings in games because i dont like them, such as msaa to name one.

 

[epicface997]

I also like the look of the digital storm system, but all of them are better than my current PC, which uses on board grahpics

 

[rtas23]

Digital Storm, Steiger Dynamics and Falcon

 

[davidarad02]

First one (air 540), last one (Air 240), and the nvidia one.

 

[KenZen2B]

Can you please report the complete results of the voting when you announce the winners ?

 

[Math Geek]

I like the looks of the AVA Direct watercooling, the white just pops for me.

the Steiger Dynamics is just different enough to make me notice it. the lcd screen on the case showing pc stats gives me a bit of a semi...

the Origin PC is simply overkill just because i can. be fun to have it just to say i have it

 

[odwillia]

Ibuypower, Puget Systems and Steiger Dynamics.

 

[Brenden77]

Ugh! Stupid Rhode Island contest laws!!! GAH!!

 

[emccalment]

This is an interesting piece from the Sweepstakes.

13. Participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes an entrant’s consent to the Sponsors' use of his/her name, likeness, voice, opinions.

There's not really any limitation there. Pretty out there rule.

 

[Avenges]

AVADirect, Xotic PC and Digital Storm

 

[Mimicowow]

Love the green nvidia build!!! I'm drooling

 

[a2kross]

Wonder what the chances are that all these systems could be collected in one spot and some lucky somebody could pick and choose parts from all of them to make one "perfect" system. That would be a build I would like to see. Followed by a test to see if it actually performed better.

 

[wickedrubio]

I love them all, such great computers, good show. I would pick number 3,1,5. my fav.

 

[TheBindu]

I'm out of my depth here, but: AVA direct, Digital Storm and Falcon Northwest.

 

[unfadingchunk12]

I think 3, 5, and 11 were all pretty aesthetically pleasing, and they had a lot of power behind them. Not to say that they didn't all have power, but 2 780tis are hard to beat unless you have a titan.

 

[James_98]

AVA Direct, Origin and Xotic 😉 THX!!!

 

[James_98]

AVA Direct, Origin and Xotic 😉 THX!!!

 

[Deb907]

The Cyber Power PC (#3) the falcon Northwest, and the Stieger dynamics. I sure hope this is the way we enter this contest! I sure would love to win!

 

[yatishr]

i liked iBuyPower, Origin PC & CybertronPC are good too.

 

[Socdaneuic]

CyberPowerPC, Digital Storm, and Origin. The CyberPower simply looks awesome.