Annisman's Second Annual Christmas Giveaway! *New* Winner Announced!

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I imagine a fair number of you have seen at least one of my giveaways here on Tom's. The most recent one was a GTX 480 that was won by AMW if I remember correctly.

There have been four or five other giveaways, including steam games, other video cards, hard drives, cpu's, memory and other computer hardware. Usually I upgrade my computer, and am left over with generally new, and well taken care of 'extra' parts. I used to sell these parts on Ebay, or here on the forums, but that is tedious, and you never get the amount that you want, so now I just give them to you guys.

This is my second annual Christmas giveaway, it is no different that one of my other giveaways, it just takes place a few weeks before Christmas.

As the title vaguely suggests, I am giving away a GTX 285. It is a BFG, overclocked edition, my brother was using it in his rig until I swapped it for a GTX 460 (from my old setup).




Anyways, all you have to do to enter for this giveaway is to post in this thread and list the computer setup you will be adding the card to

Secondly, you need to post one of the following for my amusement: A picture of a pet (doesn't have to be yours, you can find it on the internet!) dressed up in a christmas costume. OR A de-motivational poster (keep it clean) OR any other picture involving cats, kittens or 'cats in sinks' which is my favorite.

Thirdly (and lastly) you must not enter if you have a high-end graphics card already, so if you have a card that is equal to or better than a GTX 285 then don't enter please! Give someone else a chance, thanks.

You can look up the 'Tom's Hardware Graphics Heirarchy Chart' if you are not sure.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, must live in the USA to be elligible.


Now of course, these guidlines are not hard, and rather rediculous, but, still, I reserve the right to do these things how I want to right ?

I will ship the card a few days after the contest is over, I will pick the winner randomly, I will pay for shipping.

Lastly, I want to say Merry Christmas!

For my family, Christmas is about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I hope whatever you celebrate brings you joy and comfort this holiday season!

And of course, good luck to all !

- Annisman

*** Reserved to Announce Winner***


The *New* winner of the random giveaway is Pyrozen, he's got a full 24 hours to get ahold of me before I pick another name.

EDIT: WINNER HAS CONTACTED ME!


I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends, God Bless!

Look for other giveaways as soon as I can spare them, I am out of money and spare parts lol.

Fail pics are good to use, I'm not gonna be picky.

Now let's see, what is in my PC... *ponders for a moment* ...ah, I think I remember!

i7 920
MSI X58 Pro-E
2x3GB of some RAM that I think is G.Skill
Zotac GTX275
Corsair HX-520
Coolermaster CM690 (not a fan of it)
640GB WD Caviar Black
30GB OCZ Vertex
Dust
More Dust
Even more dust

Thanks again for running this annisman. Merry Christmas all!

As always, Annisman, thank for your generosity and good luck to all who enter!

Think I'll give this one a go:

My System:
Intel Core I5-760
Gigabyte H55M-S2V
4 Gig (2x2GB) RAM
ATI HD 4650




-Wolf sends

As I cannot enter the competition.

I'll close it within a week, but no specific date. Think 5-7 days.

Intel E8500
2gb DDR2-800
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
NVidia GTX 260 (older 192 SP version)

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No you can't!!

UGHHHHHHHHH fuxin...accidently clicking bookmarks and losing my super long post...ah well here we go.

For disclaimer purposes, I am probably buying a 6890[ok, not 6890, whatever the equivalent is to the 5870 is, damn AMD and your confusing naming schemes] when they come out[or when I can manage to get one] if they are ~300$. If they're not out by February I'll probably go with a 5870. I am also [hopefully] building a new rig for Christmas. Telling you this because of the third stipulation. I realize it's only two months, but it'd be nice to have the...285[lol forgot] for those two months, and then later as a PhysX slave hopefully if I can get it to work. That being said, I know there are more deserving people probably and that's why I'm putting this upfront and bolding.

Current system is a 8800GTX, Intel Core 2 duo @2.33ghz, 2[1x2]GB ram, etc. Uhmm..and here's the sink cat, since I believe my dog is far too old and bionic to wear Christmas clothes.

I suppose that's my two cents D:

Happy Christmas[Yes I live in the US, but I prefer to say it that way =-p] and God bless.
[Finding that cat took a bit, it was the one I liked best. I hope no one else posted it ];]

ah well,
get the cat/demotivational out of the way first, i'd be putting it in a core 2 quad 2.33Ghz, gts250 1Gb, 8Gb ddr2 ram,
and have a friend with a 7900GTX that would love a gts250 for christmas

Hehe. For my birthday (which is in...30 minutes), I got a DirectCU HD6850. Feels great to not 'want' any sort of sys upgrade now. You'll make someone happy!

Feel free to use my little kitty as a picture.

Thanks

There's something where you can send in a picture to have it put onto a postcard. If it does make it then you can win a reward or something..but we're planning on sending the first picture. It looks so...professional? Nice? Holliday-ish? Not sure, but it's pretty dang nice (and yes, I took it ).

Here's two more, including the requested 'cat-in-a-sink'.

Oh well. I shall post pics of my kitty anyway and you can't stop me
Baby pix:



Current pix:

I think I will pull myself out of the running. The last thing I need is an even hotter card in the middle of summer! I'd probably be forced to actually clean out all of the dust!

Love cats, funny, that I have never been able to own one....

No I still live at home, but when I get outa here, first thing I'm doing is buying a cat, I mean, who needs a refridgerator ?

I can't (and won't) stop you from entering and winning either but I can protest!

Congrats to whoever wins!
Live in Canada so can't participate....

Perhaps in the future you should get a Siberian cat. They are Hypoallergenic.

Cats: Invading hardware discussion since 1970.

But I might end up getting a Husky. Wolves have always been my favorite animal, and a Husky is the closest you can get.

I agree. Cats are very affectionate but sometimes you need to earn that affection. Dogs are more like affection sluts, giving it away to all
As for the allergies have you tried Benadryl? Worked great for my brother who has issues.

My cat in a box

My brother with the same cat and his new bike.

http://vimeo.com/16964820

My system:

AMD Phenom X4 955
Gigabyte 790XT-USB3
4 GB RAM
600W PSU
EVGA 8600 GTS 512MB

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Thanks to Annisman for spreading holiday spirit!

edit: Not sure if the video is working right. Let me know if you can see it.

Hahaha that video is hilarious!

Your brother's bike has massive tires.

I liked the end credits " Mr. Felix as Mr. Felix "

He did a great job.