Win Tom's screaming $10,000 PC!

On September 26, 2006, Tom's Hardware Guide will celebrate its 10th Anniversary. To show our appreciation, the site is giving away a specially commissioned $10,000 PC from Falcon Northwest. From now, until the site's birthday, you can get take a stab at getting your hands on this screaming monster of technology.

Share your thoughts!

Awwwww nooooooooo US only
noooooooooooooooooo

Too right! They can come over here for our olympics, steal Nicole Kidman and Elle McPherson, and they don't even give us a fair go at the prize!

Unfair Koala Bear!

Finally something really nice to THG loyal fans!


I just hope THG will give us all some info of the winner and his/her comments. If I win this then I'll give my SLi rig to my bro since his is only good for pong.

You mean to say to finally registered to THG to join this sweepstakes?! Who wouldn't!?

So other than the $10,000 rig, what else are they giving away?

Well I'll thread you the puppy for a E6600.

So Tom's is only giving a $10K? That's it? No other prizes? Like a 128Mb dimm or something? So I guess there would only be one winner.

It's my girlfriend's chiwawa (not the one in the avatar) and it's very lazy and wants to be carried around the place. I'm trying to get rid of it, it's eating my shoes every time I go to work. If you win the $10K pc I'll trade you with this puppy and I will tell my girl that it's missing.

I had to spend my saved money last month on a car because my '87 junker died. I was going to buy a pc, but this will do instead!

=d

Don't worry, I will.

Ewwwwww Onboard Audio

I reiterate! Ewwwwww!

Other than that and the wireless speakers(God I hate wireless speakers), that's an incredible gaming rig, and I'm definitely entering to get it anyhow.(Who the hell has hyper-expensive speakers and *horrible...Fuzzy...Quirky* onboard audio instead of a soundcard? Really)

I'd like to have those custom Klipsch-made Alienware 5.1 speakers myself...God those things were amazing.

This is dumb.. considering the fact that toms started in the UK, by a german - why the heck is this only available to the yanks... that's a real kick in the teeth ! Or are you planning a Quad SLI for us faithful europeans *wink* *wink*

Hey, I'm not deficient, I just can't enter because I'm not a U.S. residential but a NL residential...

Im gonna kill someboby at Toms, because all the contests are US only, they should get some "World Wide" or something!

Netherlands I didn't really knew if 'Netherlands residential' was correct English so I used the language code

US only thats so unfair!!!!!!!!

Thanks Tom 4 donating 2 the Conroe fund!!!

I need to sell this, so that I can afford my E6600!!!

HA HA HAAAA!!!!

Ok, Is it just me or are these specs a little weak for the 10K that's supposedly being spent. I mean...onboard audio? 600W power supply? Isn't a 600W cutting it kinda close considering it's quad SLI? I mean, that's ~500W in GPU consumption alone. I know the Core2 is energy efficient, but couldn't they have thrown in a PC-P+C 1KW at least? I guess the FNW 10,000K computer is a bit like a $5 milkshake...it's better because it's 10,000 dollars! As for all you non-americans out there, funny how something like this will really unite you. Don't worry, once you're all fully integrated as minions of our global empire I'm sure you'll be able to enter contests, well, maybe not. I'm kidding, don't hurt me.

I hate US government (not its citizens) for very different reasons.......

The concept of ....other country.......seems not to be in the US dictionairy.......aswell as.....other culture........or........other people.....for that matter

While this being us only sux. [I think it would of been reasonable to make it EU&US.]
I do think this isn't ultimate rig, too many trade offs made differently compared to what I would expect for a 10 000$ rig.
Double 3Ghz xeon woodcrest should of been the beginning.
Anyway chances of getting this rig are slim. Better spend time earning the money, and getting a rig that is really customed to your own needs.

Amazing machine.

Real dim-witted decision to make this contest available to US residents only!!

Unfortunately, I guess this is one contest which will leave THG readers with a bitter taste, hardly the impression THG wants to shed by giving away 120K worth of machinery.

I thought THG was originally an european site, which makes this contest look even more insulting to their original followers...

Bah, on to anandtech....

Here's another vote for being angry the prizes are for US residents only. They have been offering prizes for months for the 10th anniversary, and ALL of them have been US residents only.

Most of them were not THAT valuable, so I could live with it. But a prize like this... yeah, that's just a knife in the back. I'm in Canada, but I feel for those in Europe, where the website started to begin with! without them, it would have never made it to a North American audience!

Guess it's time for me to choose another website (anandtech maybe). This one does not recognize my readership as being valuable or worth recognizing. Typical American corporate BS.

OK, this is the milionth post complaining about the exact same thing, but it's a shame Europe gets kicked out by regulation.

See it from our point of view: "Here's a super duper computer, but you can't touch it, EVER!".

But what else is new for Europeans, right?

We pay American products (much) more than Americans do, then the rebate is not eligible, and so on.

Europeans are always second class customers.

I paid for the top of the line ATI video card, and their give away contests are also US and Canada only, and their site doesn't even have local versions, therefore they make sure everybody outside US and Canada knows they are being deliberately cast aside.

Do US companies even realize how crappy this PR is?
Leaving a bitter taste for "only" 50% of customers? (I'm not even talking about Russia or Asia here)

Maybe Europeans let themselves into this mess because regulations are different for every country, but it's about time global companies start making use of their authorised local retailers to inform and make global contests, because the Internet is just that: GLOBAL.

Hope US firms will start taking some actions, or some entrepeneur starts his company to perform real global contests.

Cheers,

PS: anyway, no worries, I still love TG and ATI and so on...

i completely agree, just do away with woodcrest and built a gaming rig around a 8 way opteron rig