Tom's Hardware Q4 2014 System Builder Marathon: The Winners

[scolaner]

We announce the recipients of our Q4 2014 System Builders Marathon giveaways.

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[gilbadon]

More like "And let the odds be never in your favor".

 

[rayden54]

Ever get that one fixed?

 

[Gunbuster]

Congrats winners!

 

[vmem]

Always been curious what the odds are actually like, as in how many people typically sign up for these things

 

[tch]

I have to say I don't know what the odds are and how they have changed since I last one, but in 2009 on my birthday i won the SBM with a Core I7-970 and SLI GTX460's. Then in 2010 I won an HP laptop all from this site. So the odds can't be too bad if one person could win twice.

 

[tch]

Won not one. Woops.
Just to update on the status of the system... after moving from SC to NM, i managed to kill one of the two graphics cards, although it might have been all the F@H i was doing as well, and I never got the system to work at 4+ GHz like in the review (things got to hot). But other than that it is used on daily basis and I have added an SSD for booting and multiple HDDs for storage and it runs like a champ at 3.7GHz on all 6/12 cores/threads.

Update on the HP laptop, the system itself still works perfectly however I took it as carry-on on an airplane and they "did'nt have room for it" so they stored it underneath the plane and broke the screen hinge. 🙁 So now it sits in my closet unused for the most part as I know have an Alienware M18X R2 that we use as our portable, if only slightly, computer.