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

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Tom's Hardware asked system builders across the U.S. to send us their Haswell-based creations. We received gaming boxes, NAS devices, and workstations in several different sizes. Vote on your favorites for a chance to win a new CPU, motherboard, and SSD!

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[s3anister]

Oh my.

 

[Darkerson]

Wow, very nice giveaway!

 

[kcconlin9319]

"The Sweepstakes opens on September 22, 2013 9:00 PM PDT and closes on October 7, 2013 9:00 PM PDT." I hope that's not correct... Love the super-compact Falcon NW system.

 

[adimeister]

What is the GPU on cybertron PC build? GTX Ti Boost, I'm guessing 650ti boost..?

 

[adimeister]

Got excited until........... "DUE TO LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, THIS CONTEST IS LIMITED TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE USA" Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (((

 

[Zac Lloyd-Jones]

Oh great. Americans only again. Can't you give away these prizes to the rest of the world and have a separate competition for Americans for cheeseburgers and lard? I'm sure there would be no disappointment there.

 

[monsta]

"Got excited until........... "DUE TO LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, THIS CONTEST IS LIMITED TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE USA" Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ((("

Isn't it always?

 

[cangelini]

I think we cover this every time we give stuff away In essence, due to the taxes and laws in other countries (and sometimes even in the U.S.; notice that Rhode Island cannot participate either), we can only operate this sweepstakes in the U.S.

I very much wish we could work around this, and open the opportunity up to readers in other countries who support Tom's Hardware. Unfortunately, when it comes to legal matters like this one, it's out of my hands

 

[rolli59]

Entered!

The NCIX box my favorite one.

 

[adimeister]

"Entered!" @rolli59: So jealous right now

 

[giovanni86]

Digital storm, Xotic PC and safe harbor just drooling over those three. Very nice builds. I always enter but never win, here's to hoping i win nothing again

 

[lunyone]

My thoughts on these builds:

* AVA Direct's $1245 Light Gaming Build
4770k, 4 gb's RAM, ~$280 Mobo, & 7770 GPU
Too much CPU & Mobo, Not enough GPU, & should be 8 gb's of RAM. Should also have at least a 120 gb SSD in this price range, IMHO.

* CybertronPC's $1300 mini-ITX NightHawk II
4670 CPU, Mini-ITX Mobo w/WiFi, BitFenix Prodigy Case, 60 gb SSD, 16 gb's RAM, & 650 Ti Boost GPU.
Would prefer 4670k CPU, Mobo looks like a good option, Case is good, SSD good for boot drive, Plenty of RAM (could go with 8 gb's and be fine), GPU okay, but would prefer at least a 7870/7950/660Ti for this price range.

* Digital Storm's $12,374 Aventum II
Too expensive for the <1% of the market!

* Falcon Northwest's $4539 mini-ITX Tiki
i7-4770K CPU, overclocked, Asus Maximus VI Impact Mobo. 16 gb's 1866 RAM, Titan GPU, dual 960 GB M500 SSDs in RAID 0, and a 3 TB HD
Interesting build, but still <1% of the market for this one.

* Highly Reliable's BNAS 501 Backup Appliance $2,500
Nice idea, but still way too much for most people.

* Maingear's $6400 Shift
Too much $ for my interest.

* Micro Express' $1700 Microflex 47T
i7 4770K, Asus' Z87-Pro Mobo, 16 GB 1600mHz RAM, GTX 780 GPU, 700 W power supply, 24x DVD burner, 250 GB SSD, & 1 TB HD.
One of the more interesting builds listed here. This should be a nice gaming rig and also a good all around system for the $ (at least for the systems listed in this article).

* NCIX's $1400 microATX 506-IA
i5-4670K, Corsair's H60 liquid cooler, 8 gb's Kingston HyperX RAM, EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2 GB GPU, Seasonic 750 W PSU, 120 GB Kingston SSDNow V300, BitFenix Prodigy M Case, & 3 TB HD.
Probably the best built unit on this article. The PSU is overkill, but is good for any upgrade that you would want.

* Origin PC's $10,000 Desktop Genesis Z87
Overpriced and not necessary, IMHO.

* Puget Systems' $3457 Serenity
Too much $ for the average consumer.

* Safe Harbor's $4300 Tsunami Surf
Again just too much for most, not interested.

* Steiger Dynamics' $6483 Black LEET Core Limited Monochrome HTPC
Too much $.

* Velocity Micro's $3674 Edge Z55
Too much $ for most.

* Xidax's $6261 X-6 Gaming Desktop
Too much $ for most.

 

[smeezekitty]

The Sweepstakes opens on September 22, 2013 9:00 PM PDT and closes on October 7, 2013 9:00 PM PDT.

Huh?

 

[cangelini]

The Sweepstakes opens on September 22, 2013 9:00 PM PDT and closes on October 7, 2013 9:00 PM PDT.

Huh?

A. There will be one Sweepstakes, which will run from October 15, 2013 9:00 PM PDT to October 29, 2013 9:00 PM PDT.

 

[Anomandaris]

US only once again makes me sad I hope eventually there is a way around that.

 

[RooD]

This would make an amazing birthday present for this lad!

 

[cats_Paw]

OFC its only limited to USA. I think there has never been any contest that was NOT limited to USA in toms. Its understandable, but it sucks.

 

[Pranaysonu]

Congrates The all new Intel has made The Intel core i7 4 generation,as given 20 cores, great c.p.u........... I am using an 8 core c.p.u amd fx 8350,mine is nothing in front of this... These c.p.u are has to be taken to enjoy The GAMING...... Also g.p.u is great......

 

[bigubig]

Falcon Northwest's $4539 mini-ITX Tiki
i7-4770K CPU. I could sure use vthis

 

[qlum]

I wished the content was us shipping adres only instead of us only as there are ways of getting yourself a us shipping adres from europe.
Anyway I find these rigs mostly very over priced but hey that's what happens when you don't want to build my picks would be
the xotic, the maingear and the northwest falcon as they at least look the part and at least offer you a good rig with their price point.

 

[qlum]

I do wonder if the people who say they are not from the us still get a part in deciding which case wins even if they can't win the price.

 

[eldragon0]

"A. There will be one Sweepstakes, which will run from October 15, 2013 9:00 PM PDT to October 29, 2013 9:00 PM PDT."

 

[mouse24]

Would a skype phone number work? Not really interested giving out my real number to a sweepstakes drawing.

 

[spookyman]

I will take one of these Digital Storm's $12,374 Aventum II...

Thank you.