Win Tom's screaming $10,000 PC! - Page 2

I read somewhere in this thread that they can't include Europe because they would have to pay "duties".
Last time I ordered something from the US I got a bill from belgian customs 2 weeks after the package arrived.
If they would ship this thing out to Europe with Fedex or something it would cost the receiver money when it crosses a border, not THG.

Very lame indeed not to include ALL visitors on the THG site...
Like the US visitors are better or something? :x

This has to be one of the sweetest systems. I can't wait to see the full review on it.

This, right here everyone, IS the American DREAM; to own the fastest consumer PC in the world. Forget wars, politics, and feeding the homeless, when you can dwindle what life you have left into this godsend. About the only thing this piece of artwork can't do is fly! What girlfriend? Oh that's right my new indistinguishable virtual girl! Wait you mean she's NOT real!? My dual Nvidia 7950GX's say otherwise. HAH!

*calms nerdy self down*

Alright I'm done =)

We???

I can honestly say that I didn't expect THG to exclude its Canadian fanbase/users from such a contest.

Not very impressed about that.

Well I'm in, this would make a good Hellgate London, and WoW at the same time box.

But does this meet the minimum requirements for Vista?

Really lousy that this is a US resident only contest. I've been reading this site for like 8 - 9 years. I don't expect anything for reading it, as I enjoy the articles. But it'd be nice to be included

Keep on the good work.

omg, that comp wont go outdated for like 10 years, and with water cooling u can overclock everything

so much VGA memory, omg, 16 times as much as i have

So true.....

Same goes for Europe....they even have a headquater here........

Would not be a stretch to solve some of the distribution problems by using different setups that are based upon locally available components......

(small disclaimer stating that, would suffice)

Now, my life wont end because of this......but it is a disappointment if you been a faithfull reader since the beginning........specially if the beginning lies within your continent and is still existing.......but does not recognize it needed your support to come to this stage of your company....

Very nice! But can we swap out the dual GX2s for dx10 cards in three months?

I just wanted to make sure that all of our readers know that we meant no disrespect to anyone not living in the US when we set up this giveaway.

The legal and logistical framework for our competitions dictates that they be open to US residents only. There may be other organizations that can do these things on a larger scale and with a broader geographic remit, but unfortunately, we don't have those kinds of resources.

So, no offense was intended. It is purely a legal restriction that we have to adhere to, and we hope that our readers understand and appreciate the circumstances.

Our legal counsel has sharp teeth and is known to bite when provoked.

Omid Rahmat
CEO
TG Publishing

US only... thanks...

I have been reading the news articles on THG for like seven years now and what do I get for my loyalty? I've been left out from the contest. Yea, I know, it's a fresh registration with only one post. Yes, it is, because I always came here for the news, sometimes read some posts but that's all, I'm mostly interested in the news articles. But today I feel personally offended by the exclusiveness of the contest so I had to register and post about it. It's so offending!

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Sure, and I'll be happy to take such obsolescent hardware off someone's hands when the time comes....

Very nice rig! Should perform admirably.

As usual THG are a bunch of assholes. When the fuck will u get this simple fact tru your head "Not everyone is an american"...

Why dont you research how many of your reader (not to mention forum member) are from diffrent countrys.

Dunno about Europe, but as far as I know, Canada and Mexico have long had free trade agreements with the U.S., and even my country (El Salvador), has just adhered to a free trade agreement with the U.S. that took effect this year (CAFTA), heck we even have U.S. dollars as official currency here! 8O

Nevertheless, maybe it would have been beyond the scope of a hardware website to make a worldwide held contest, altough it can be done (Powercolor and another hardware review site just gave an Ati high end video card to whoever guessed who would win the world cup not long ago, and anyone in the world could subscribe to the contest), but the logistics of such a feat must be a nightmare.

Anyway, hopefully in the future we will live in a more open world, at least economicaly speaking

8O need....god-puter....cant...live...without....

Seriously though everyone go easy on the caffine cause if you win you will most likely die from a heart attack.

Heck, I'll just use the address of one of my relatives in the US and have them ship it to me if I win... Can't believe I didn't think of it before...

You speant $10,000 on a computer and it has onboard audio good gawde maude and Logitech speakers. Tell ya what remove my name from the contest, sheesh a $10,000 computer with onboard sound and crappy speakers what a waste.

Just get a friend/relative in the US to pretend to be you.

you guys dropped $10k on something and didn't get it chromed?

In defense of THG,

Wow ... what selfish, ungrateful and spoiled people we have here!

Pay attention please.
Suppose one day you are at home, it's as normal as ever and you hear a knock on the door. You answer the door, and there's a man standing there, who, without giving any reason or explanation, hands you a 100 dollar bill. He then turns and walks away. The next day, you hear a knock on your door and answer it; again, it's the same man and he hands you another 100 dollar bill. A week passes in this format, each day that man appears on your door step to hand you a 100 dollar bill. As time goes on, you begin to peek out the window for this man, you sometimes find yourself waiting near the door. Sure enough, the man arrives as is his pattern, and hands you a 100 dollar bill. A month goes by and now you're beginning to expect the visit from the man. His pattern has become so consistent, that you don't even stand by the window waiting for him to walk up your door step. You happily accept the 100 dollar bill each day and it just seems right. But then, one day, there is no knock on your door. You become puzzled and look out the window. You see the man walking, but he passes by your door, knocks on your neighbor's door and hands them a 100 dollar bill. What right do you have to shake your fist at that man?

It's a cute story, but it illustrates some issues here which are being overlooked. Tom's Hardware has been providing free content for nearly 10 years now. We, the community of members who make up their user-base, have been enjoying free content with detailed information, specifications, advice, including financial and technical, a free solution where we can discuss these options and points ... we've paid nothing for these services. The people who run Tom's Hardware shell out time, energy and other important resources so that we have a place in cyber-space to complain that we're not getting our 100 dollar bills anymore. And it's not even that extreme. This is a promotional contest you guys are bickering about, not an organizational decision to make THG a subscription-only service.

No one has any right to shake their fist at Tom's Hardware in this case.

It's a contest. It's supposed to be fun! Get with the spirit! There's no cause for this to become a political dispute.
It's like going back to your mother and telling her you are unsatisfied with your eye color! Be grateful for what you already have. You all have computers of your own ... or at least access to computers; how else would you have been able to post here?
It's good to see some people being able to appreciate this contest for what it is. I'd just like to conclude by extending a big THANK YOU to Tom's Hardware Guide for providing users like me with 10 years of outstanding services.

Good luck to all contest entrants.


ArbY

Seriously remove my name from the entries, onboard sound and logitech 5400's you can't be serious. Here's your Jaguar XKE but we put lawm mower tires on it sorry. The motherboard is last generation, the ram isn't top of the line latest from Corsair either, never ever hear of sanyo doing anything but crappy electronics, ever heard of Koolance or Alphacool? I see only two things worth the effort and risk of letting personal info out onto the web, the cpu and the video cards not much else. Onboard audio hahahahahahahahahahaha I still can't get over that on a $10,000 investment, whoever picked this out has to have crap behind their ears.

Arby, just out of curiosity: Do you live in the US?

Your analogy isint exactly accurate, it should be something like the following..

A man walks up to your door and hands you a 100$ bill, he also does this for every other house on your street. You dont feel others are getting preferential treatment because you're all getting your 100$ bill. Now this goes on for weeks and so on and so forth. After a while, the man starts handing out 10,000$ cheques to homes on the south side of the street. Your house is on the North side. Everyone is still getting their 100$ but some of them got the huge bonus, and the reason given is that the cheques are too heavy to carry accross the road to your house.

How do you feel, being picked out because the man didnt feel it was worth trying to walk accross the street with his chequebook?

Now that is an analogy.

Great, you 'thought up' the same thing that's been floating through all international reader's mind. Hmm.. I guess it's a shame my french-canadian family has decided to encourage the canadian economy by living and working in our homeland and not sell-out our skills to other countries. So this means I dont have anybody to enter the contest for me.. Shit..

OOoooo i would not mind having the rig though.....but it is a bit like having a kickstarter on a space shuttle