Tom's Hardware's Haswell-E-Based Builder Sweepstakes

[Bryan James Reyes]

Maingear
Origin
Digital Storm

 

[FrznTek]

I didn't see any place to put the 3 I liked best, so I'll put them here.
I am in to 3d Modeling/animation as well as video editing (gaming as well, lol), so having extra horse power is a definite good thing.

Digital Storm- all out dream machine
Puget Systems - the horse power... the 64g of ram, and ability to make it act like 4 comps at once!
Falcon Northwest - compact power house

 

[Straata]

NCIX, the Form and function is superb - saw that model on facebook and it really is a stellar build

Maingear - another good cooling job

Digital Storm - the only other competitor to utilize H20 that isnt an underpowered H100i or worse

 

[smithcocomputer]

Maingear
Origin
Digital Storm

 

[ohyes247]

Well my choices

Falcon Northwest FragBox

it is one helluva Small form factor build, Id be a happy man to walk into the living room with a pc like that hooked up to a 50 inch hd tv lol.. would be a great gaming system for people with not a lot of space either or for someone who wants to conceal the computer 7,000 dollars is a hefty price tag for it and i dont know if a Small form factor pc which is usually used for said living room gaming/small confined space type situations necessarily needs an 5960X.. Or 2 Titan blacks.. A single 780Ti would do it just fine.

CyberPower PC

This is a really good bargain, You get a Haswell E cpu and all the features that come with it for a cheap price (compared to the others anyway) DDR4, a Dual GPU 295X2 AND liquid cooling for only 2300 cash? thats great.

Digital Storm Adventum II

Why pay the price of a car for a PC? Because PC master race thats why, If you have the money, Go all out and enjoy it, This is absolutely insane.

 

[Yususium]

Cyberpower
Maingear
NCIX

 

[David Padilla]

Digital Storm, Maingear, and Origin PC.

 

[Avemi]

1. The Maingear has the looks and performance I have always wanted.
2. The Digital Storm is all show for me. Just a notch below the Maingear.
3. The NCIX, just because.

 

[Ruichie Sahagun]

Maingear
NCIX
Digital Storm 😀

 

[kuhwks]

Maingear
Digital Storm
Origin

But, really, how does one chose just three, or in any particular order, for that matter?

 

[Gigio84]

Cyberpower PC
NCIX
Digital Storm (albeit being ridiculously expensive it actually offers good value)

 

[Gigio84]

Cyberpower PC
NCIX
Digital Storm (albeit being ridiculously expensive it actually offers good value)

 

[mp455]

Digital Storm
Maingear
Falcon Northwest

 

[infinity81]

Falcon Fragbox #1
All about the form factor.

2. NCIX
3. Cyberpower

 

[zn]

Origin, Maingear and Falcon Northwest

 

[funkier_than_u]

Origin PC Genesis - Cooling and design
Digital Storm Aventum II - GeForce GTX Titan Blackx4, drool, and that's just to start
Maingear The Force - sick design along w/ hardware load

 

[SWDescent]

I didn't see an entry form for my top 3 so here they are:

Digital Storm, MainGear, and NCIX

 

[enotsola]

Puget Systems Multi-Headed VMWare Gaming PC sounds neat for the virtualization thing,
Falcon Northwest FragBox is just shiny.
Origin PC Genesis because I'm distracted by changing light colours.

Digital Storm is just too yellow for me. Also too in-the-car-price range. Reminds me of playing with the alienware configuration thing years ago just to see how much I could make a computer cost.

 

[gnomeone]

I can't afford an of the featured PCs but I liked the Velocity Micro. Wheels!

 

[Pavel Simjanoski]

CyberPower PC,Maingear,NCIX those are the best ones 😀

 

[airborne11b]

The water cooling in the Digital Storm and the NCIX rigs were really awesome looking! As for my 3rd choice, I'd have to say the PUGET system because I love that plexiglass cube case if for nothing but to show it off to people when they come over to your house. lol.

 

[toki5]

AVA Direct
Digital Storm
Maingear

All very nice builds!

 

[shortbus25]

I wrote a comment yesterday funny how it never showed up. Any way Maingear has what I think is the best looking system by far I just think if your going to do water cooling having precise piping is just cleaner and more direct. I don't like things to just hang out where ever.

 

[Brian McCoppin]

I stopped at #2. Simply because it is my exact Christmas list of a build. I am a fan of the 295x2 in a big way
It's a groundbreaking reference card. I am also a self contained water cooler systems. It makes it quite easy to replace and upgrade. The 5820k is a smart chip. While not a behemoth, it is flexible and more then enough for any gaming needs.

 

[Guest]

I just looked at the contest page today 9/17 5AM and see the voting for best rig is up. The problem here is about everyone else who filled out the contest form before 9/17 and weren't able to vote. My form was accepted without voting and now wonder if it is invalid...
First two sentences of the new form:
"YOU MAY ENTER THIS SWEEPSTAKES ONLY ONE TIME.

IF YOU ENTER MORE THAN ONCE, ALL BUT ONE ENTRY WILL BE DELETED."

Well now i that resubmitted my form with the vote, i do hope that "ALL BUT ONE ENTRY WILL BE DELETED."

Anyhow, the probability of me winning a 5960x and intel 730 240gb ssd is low...