Win A Custom-Painted Falcon Northwest Tiki!

[cangelini]

We recently published a story called Meet The Tiki, which walked through the mini-ITX-based platforms conception and design. Falcon Northwest saw the positive reception and agreed to build a custom-painted Tiki for us to give away. Enter to win!

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[jaquith]

Sweet!

I've entered and love giveaways! Good Luck to all. I remember this prototype, tons of power packed into a itty bitty box - great LAN party box.

 

[g00fysmiley]

nice looking rig there

 

[cscott_it]

This would be a great early Christmas gift from Tom's =-)

 

[fedelm]

I wish I could participate... (/Sad)

Cheers from Argentina, the most expensive Tech Country in the world.

 

[maxkremeur]

3300$ , U NUTS ??

 

[wolley74]

450W seems low as heck for all that, not even room for OC on it

 

[zugzug_64]

Very nice...loads of power + small package = win.

 

[Guest]

This is so awesome. Want want want

 

[bourgeoisdude]

"As always, we are legally obligated to limit entries to residents of the United States, excluding Rhode Island (in Rhode Island, we’d have to file a statement with the secretary of state and pay a $150 filing fee; yay, bureaucracy). Other countries have their own fees, taxes, and laws. It’s unfortunate that we’re not able to extend these contests to all of our readers, but we hope you understand why this is the case."

Thanks for explaining

 

[Leftbranch]

I just love this computer! I don't know why, but I just find the small form factor computers to be sexy!

 

[mousseng]

[citation][nom]Wolley74[/nom]450W seems low as heck for all that, not even room for OC on it[/citation]
The i7-based model comes overclocked to 4.3GHz, and it too has a GTX680. It's a tight squeeze, but it works.

Regardless, I'd love one of these. Two, even, if Tom's and Falcon NW are feeling generous enough.

 

[krowbar]

Granite stone base? That is pretty neat.

 

[CaedenV]

I never win anything, but I'll throw my hat in on this one! That would be one sweet little rig I would then need to sell my current PC to pay for a better monitor to play on

 

[Sakkura]

Somehow I suspect the Danish version of Tom's Hardware won't be doing something like this. :,(

 

[adamdbz]

why is there no tom's hardware Israel?

I'd love to help

 

[kracker]

Oh wow.. so beautiful.

 

[hunshiki]

Only in the US. ;_;

 

[hawkswoop]

=( wish i could enter from aus

 

[PlusOne]

I remember reading the design process for the Tiki a few months back. The thermal issues required to operate in such a tight space made me appreciate how hard it is to pack this much awesome hardware into such a compact case!

 

[TheBigTroll]

no canada?

 

[dragonfang18]

I thought the 680 needed at least 550W (according to newegg).

 

[TheBigTroll]

550w works. but no expanding

 

[badtaylorx]

if only the next XBOX were to be somthing like this

 

[larkspur]

And there’s zero chance you’re able to swap in a newer motherboard and processor two years down the road.

Not sure I'm with you on the zero percent part Chris. Could you explain why? It wasn't clear in the original picture article whether the I/O shield is custom-machined into the case, so I'm not totally sure... But it would seem to me that Haswell and Broadwell will have mini-ITX motherboards and Asus is likely to follow-up the P8Z77-I with such a board. Mini-ITX is Mini-ITX so as long as the upgrade board's layout is similar to this Asus board (like the next Asus mini-ITX board will likely be) then it shouldn't be too hard to upgrade. I figured that was part of Kelt's point about using as much industry-standard components as possible without customizing too much. Anyway, am I missing something or were you maybe a bit overly poetic in saying "zero chance"?