Here Are the Winners of Dec. SBM Contest PCs
Awesome PC gaming rigs, from us to you.
We all love to build our own systems, and whenever we hold our System Builder Marathons here at Tom's Hardware, we're sure that you love the systems that we build too.
We like to build them and then give them away. And today we're announcing who got to take home our custom rigs that we prepared for December 2010.
The winner of the $500 Gaming PC is Aaron Christman.
Taking home the $1,000 Enthusiast PC is Alexander Melnykovych.
The very lucky new owner of the $2,000 Performance PC is John Lynch.
Finally, the $2000 Hand-Picked Build goes to John Honess.
(See here for all the different configurations' values compared.)
Congratulations to all the winners! Everyone else, stay tuned for our next round of the SBM and hopefully we'll be making one for you next!
If you want to take our favorite configuration home with you today, you can order it from Newegg. Check out the special offer below:
The purpose of the System Builder Marathon is extracting maximum value from enthusiast components at a variety of price points. We come together at the end of the series to see whose build exemplified our goal.
This time around, like last time, Newegg gave us an opportunity to pick the parts we as editors wanted to see--after the fact. Our follow-up build adds a *lot* of value to the first $2000 build, and we're much happier recommending the components in this story.
As before, we've worked with Newegg to make this entire configuration available as a combo build--at adiscount to Tom's Hardware readers. The parts we ordered added up to $1920. The prices later dropped to $1749. Using Newegg's Combo link, the same setup is selling for $1679 after rebate. That's pretty impressive for a setup we already thought was a solid value close to $2000!
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Why have the Gods forsaken me!!!!1... Grats guys!
Congrats All!
Correction, not everyone likes the systems. Why were they given away after so long? They are all outdated already.
Congrats!!!!!
Congratulations!
(Translation: You lucky dogs!)
What about September's Cyberpower PC?
I don't know, seems a bit staged... The winners, 2 A's, and 2 J's?????
I NEED TO WIN
Why dont I ever win?
the one time I did win something, it never showed up at my house 
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I don't know, seems a bit staged... The winners, 2 A's, and 2 J's?????
Really? You're going to resort to that? Your conspiracy theory isn't even about their last names (which would be the selection criteria).
[citation][nom]halodude23[/nom]I don't know, seems a bit staged... The winners, 2 A's, and 2 J's?????[/citation
I have a J and an A! I should have won all of them!
The winners are, not me, not me, not me, and not me again. Woo hoo. (Boo hoo, actually.)
congrat's to the winners...nothing wrong with FREE!!!
btw tom's i'm so looking forward to this months SBME...
sandy bridge marathon extravaganza O.O
congrat's to the winners...nothing wrong with FREE!!! btw tom's i'm so looking forward to this months SBME...sandy bridge marathon extravaganza O.O
Oh hell yes. I can't wait to see the performance of especially the unlocked multiplier CPU's in these already awesome builds.
ahhhhhhhhhh man. oh well. congrats guys.
gratz yall
In case one of our Winners is unable to collect, give me a shout Toms
Congrats to the winners!
Next time it will be me!
majority of contests are rigged.(saw it with my own eyes too)
Probably a family or friends of a Tomshardware employee. Can't we see a video with a spin wheel and he or she pulls out a name from it.
majority of contests are rigged.(saw it with my own eyes too)Probably a family or friends of a Tomshardware employee. Can't we see a video with a spin wheel and he or she pulls out a name from it.
Get over yourself. Despite what you THINK you know, you really know nothing at all.
What about September's Cyberpower PC?
yea they never announced a winner for that ... its possible they canceled it.
Why have the Gods forsaken me!!!!1... Grats guys!
Easy! Because "the gods" don't exist. So, perhaps you have forsake the one and only God.
majority of contests are rigged.(saw it with my own eyes too)Probably a family or friends of a Tomshardware employee. Can't we see a video with a spin wheel and he or she pulls out a name from it.
Yes because you can't rig a video where someone "randomly" pulls one name out of a bowl with a bunch of paper with one guy's name on it. LOL
You know as much as I would love to win sometime I just wouldn't feel right getting it pre-assembled.
congrats guys
Grats to the winners!!!! Awesome loot!
Wow, some of you people are actually quite disrespectful and greedy. Go buy your own crap..
'Gratz to the winners! Use them to the fullest please for those who didn't win!
Thanks again to Tom's Hardware and Newegg for putting the time, effort, and money into giving us this information ( although not the bleeding edge, its still relevant and helpful, be grateful ) and doing test builds in a variety of price ranges.
lucky bas
Congratulations to all winners