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Chris is live from the U.S. leg of Overdrive, Tom's Overclocking contest asking these extreme overclockers advice on more moderate forms of OC and other hardware related questions. Plus Chris announces the winner of our Reader's Rig Contest (and new owner of a NZXT Avatar gaming mouse). Post your rig in this Forum Thread for props and chance to win in upcoming giveaways.
1:50 AM - November 19, 2008 by
Ben Meyer
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: talkback, overclocking
Categories: Overclocking
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Somehow find the contest winners rig a bit silly. Sure it's great and all - but modding isn't about hardware specs, but about looks, feel and cools. It's like with cars - the fastest isn't nessecarily the best.
Someone building a c7 system that looks like a hand mixer or builds a 4 cpu server into a piano or something would be a lot cooler than someone who builds a 'simple' workhorse pc into a 'simple' chassis imo.
^^^Yeah mine too. I liked that system with all the consoles built into a video game machine. So yeah what neiroapelcc says.
Somehow find the contest winners rig a bit silly. Sure it's great and all - but modding isn't about hardware specs, but about looks, feel and cools. It's like with cars - the fastest isn't nessecarily the best.
Agreed, but the winner was picked at random from all those who posted their rigs in the forum thread.
What Ben said =) Everyone who submitted their system was entered in the contest--we're just happy we got to see so many nice rigs!
Its not about how much money you can throw at a box, its what you can make it do. Any rich fool can pick up the most expensive components and cases and call it a "contest rig". Selecting components off a shelf is not called "design".
I have a cyrix-c2 300mhz dumb terminal on 256mb of flash, it pushes 16 channels 24/96, all day all week, day in and day out. it runs linux and has an ice1712 dsp. costed me about $250
where is my prize?