HotHardware Memorial Day Sweepstakes!
Just a reminder here folks -- Our contest ends MONDAY, 6/2 and we will announce the winner on Tuesday 6/3! Good luck!
In conjunction with our good friends at Diamond Multimedia and Smooth Creations, we’ve got one patriotic rig to give away this month! This time around, you could win a full AMD Phenom X4 9750-based system, complete with dual Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 3850 512MB graphics cards running in a CrossFire configuration, and an awesome, custom painted Smooth Creations case emblazoned with the good ol' Stars and Bars! And two runners up will also win AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processors.
As you can see, this machine is definitely a head turner, and it could be all yours! As we've done with previous sweepstakes, we’ll be giving away this rig away to a randomly selected contributor to our on-line forum and discussion systems, but this time there's a twist (see below). The complete break-down of components in the system includes:
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Processor: AMD Phenom X4 9750 Graphics: Diamond Radeon HD 3850 512MB (2) Case: Smooth Creations CM Cosmos 100 PSU: Silverstone 850 Watt Memory: 4GB G-Skill DDR2 Memory Motherboard: Abit AX-78 Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 500GB Optical Drive: Lite-On DVD-R / RW Miscellaneous: Zalman Cooling, Windows XP |
To be entered into the sweepstakes, you’ve got to be a registered, active member of our forum and a resident of the United States. If you’re not already a member, you can sign up quickly and easily (and for free), right here.
From this point forward, we’ll be monitoring discussions on the site and will be randomly selecting a winner based on community involvement and contribution. You can also increase your chances of winning by signing up for our HotHardware RSS News Alerts. Finally, to coincide with the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, we're going to give extra credit to anyone who makes a charitable contribution to the Disabled American Veterans Fund. Make a donation - of any size - and forward a copy of your receipt to this e-mail address for another chance to win. Donations are NOT a requirement to win, but with Memorial Day coming up we thought this was a good opportunity to give something back to the military. We here at HotHardware will be making a contribution to the DAV fund as well. The winner of the rig and runners up will be announced Monday, June 2.
This is a great chance for to you to win a custom, powerful new system and to help out the many men and women who have selflessly served in the U.S. military. Now go make some new friends in the forum and get in the running! Good Luck!
Comments
another great give away. very patriotic! also nice to see an added bonus for donations. my friend got sent off to boot camp (marines) just last month. this is a great computer, but then again what else do you expect from hh and smooth creations :-). this reminds me alot of this laptop http://www.smoothcreations.com/gallery.asp?specific=17 :-) this definantly is another show stoper.
good luck every one.
also, i think this is the shortest contest so far (under a month)
That rig makes me proud to be an American! It is so damn beautiful
This is just one more reminder of why I love this place. And kudos to the kind folks at Diamond and Smooth Creations for once again giving away a high performance system. I'm such a fanboy of all AMD system too, so I'm glad to see that.
The American flag case is a really nice idea. It's actually rather touching. That's a case no one in our country cannot be impressed by it. I've gone ahead and made a small donation. Really good idea there guys. I usually don't think of Disabled Veterans, but it's a good wake up call to look above yourself and do something good for people who truly deserve it.
Good luck all!
As usual... nice system! Great paintjob.
Good luck guys.
Nice! I am so tempted to buy a system from them right now.
you should buy one if you can afford it :-)you get the option to have them paint the ipod, keyboard, monitor, everything! how sweet is that!
Wow Nice deal!
Wow another giveaway already! Way to go HH.Great looking rig.
I must say you guys again impressed me. As a veteran myself, i really get excited to see those who remember our military men and women. I am not a disabled veteran but I am still gratefull for HH push for the disbaled veterans and their contribution as well. This was not something I was expecting and it only furthers my deep respect that I have for the guys running the show here. I really can't put into words how awesome this is.
Oh and the giveaway of course is top notch yet again. Thanks HH and smooth creations.
Looks great. Whoever wins this should be proud!
Another Amazing contest. I'll try to come an join some conversations as much as I can over this month, because things are getting a bit calmer now. Good luck everybody! :)
nice rig =O love the american theme
Good going HH!! I too appreciate what you're doing with supporting those in uniform.
I have no idea what you're going to do now for Independence Day but I can't wait! Good luck topping this baby!
The Independence Day machine will have a fireworks device built in (:-p) But yes, this time's machine is nice though
And I notice AMD again, and no Vista (not that I mind XP)...any reason why?
XP is good, although I got used to Vista Ultimate now. lol. Probably because everything runs better on XP, that's why they include it with this system. Also the majority of the people use XP still. That's my guess.
hopefully no gaming comas for the winner.
xp is best for dx9 gaming (most titles) but vista is the future (unfortunatly).
I prefer XP right now. DX10 doesn't seem that great right now anyway, especially considering the performance hit.
Wow, that's one cool looking machine...
WahWahWeehWah!!!
Thumbs Up HH Crew :D
Hoping to win this one. I'm in BAD need of a PC. Still running AGP X800XT on a non-PCI-E board. :( Not to mention what an awesome case that is.
That's actually pretty cool.
winners were supposed to be announced june 2nd werent they? im curious who won.
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winners were supposed to be announced june 2nd werent they? im curious who won.
No way someone won and they did,nt call me like I left my nu: and a map!
Jkding!
I just got my vid card in today and wanted to say thanks to all the guys here at HH again.
Congrats nelson I forgot about that what was it a geforce?
yep, it is a 8800gts 320MB geforce.
Most of us have become dedicated & avid gamers with some of the popular titles out on the market, and have been members of small gaming clans on the LAN gaming circuit. Today, Diamond & SmoothCreations wants to give full credit to our US Soldiers whom compose the real, “Company of Heroes” of the military.
This American flag resembles a strong set of cores values that make our country the best place in the world. If you guys know of a US Military personnel that is in need of help assembling components for a new rig. I am here to help. As far as I am concerned, This is US Soldiers Month, and Diamond and I, along with our partners will do our best to support our US Troops.
So remember, Memorial day is not about backyard bar-b-q’s. It is about brave woman and men whom died serving in the US Armed forces. Nothing resonates so loud and clear as those soldiers whom showed up on the LA times obituaries this weekend on Mother’s day. As a parent, I could NOT imagine how painful it is to lose a son or daughter in the US Military. As Dave & Marco, I humbly ask to pay homage to those US Soldiers by supporting the Disabled Veterans Fund. I welcome every member of this forum to a call to action and invite members to register to participate on HotHardware.
And is my final shout out. The first US Soldiers serving in Iraq that decide to order one of these bad boy gaming pc's, I will personally fly into Iraq and hand deliver this American Flag PC to you.
Love you guys. Mario Gastelum
Mario@Diamondmm.com
Most of us have become dedicated & avid gamers with some of the popular titles out on the market, and have been members of small gaming clans on the LAN gaming circuit. Today, Diamond & SmoothCreations wants to give full credit to our US Soldiers whom compose the real, “Company of Heroes” of the military.
This American flag resembles a strong set of cores values that make our country the best place in the world. If you guys know of a US Military personnel that is in need of help assembling components for a new rig. I am here to help. As far as I am concerned, This is US Soldiers Month, and Diamond and I, along with our partners will do our best to support our US Troops.
So remember, Memorial day is not about backyard bar-b-q’s. It is about brave woman and men whom died serving in the US Armed forces. Nothing resonates so loud and clear as those soldiers whom showed up on the LA times obituaries this weekend on Mother’s day. As a parent, I could NOT imagine how painful it is to lose a son or daughter in the US Military. As Dave & Marco, I humbly ask to pay homage to those US Soldiers by supporting the Disabled Veterans Fund. I welcome every member of this forum to a call to action and invite members to register to participate on HotHardware.
And is my final shout out. The first US Soldiers serving in Iraq that decide to order one of these bad boy gaming pc's, I will personally fly into Iraq and hand deliver this American Flag PC to you.
Love you guys. Mario Gastelum
Mario@Diamondmm.com
Its great the type of support you are giving to the U.S. armed
forces. My family originates from Russia and all my family in that
time period served in the war effort. my home town was occupied by the Nazi’s
and my great grandmother (while pregnant) was digging trenches to help the
soldiers retreat, eventually two Nazi’s actually came to lodge in our apartment
because of the occupation and they nearly killed my great grandmother because
of the way she put away the broom (the Germans put it upside down) and one of
the was taking out his machine gun but the other stopped him and said to not
kill her because she is pregnant. The military is an important aspect in every
country. They are the people that put their lives on the line to protect all of
us from dangers.
Thank you HotHardware for remembering the military may 9th is victory day
in Russia over 20 million
people died in Russia
because of the war (about 15% of the entire population) and it is a sad but
joyous holiday in Russia.
Most of us have become dedicated & avid gamers with some of the popular titles out on the market, and have been members of small gaming clans on the LAN gaming circuit. Today, Diamond & SmoothCreations wants to give full credit to our US Soldiers whom compose the real, “Company of Heroes” of the military.
This American flag resembles a strong set of cores values that make our country the best place in the world. If you guys know of a US Military personnel that is in need of help assembling components for a new rig. I am here to help. As far as I am concerned, This is US Soldiers Month, and Diamond and I, along with our partners will do our best to support our US Troops.
So remember, Memorial day is not about backyard bar-b-q’s. It is about brave woman and men whom died serving in the US Armed forces. Nothing resonates so loud and clear as those soldiers whom showed up on the LA times obituaries this weekend on Mother’s day. As a parent, I could NOT imagine how painful it is to lose a son or daughter in the US Military. As Dave & Marco, I humbly ask to pay homage to those US Soldiers by supporting the Disabled Veterans Fund. I welcome every member of this forum to a call to action and invite members to register to participate on HotHardware.
And is my final shout out. The first US Soldiers serving in Iraq that decide to order one of these bad boy gaming pc's, I will personally fly into Iraq and hand deliver this American Flag PC to you.
Love you guys. Mario Gastelum
Mario@Diamondmm.com
Mario, my hats off to you and your partners and of course HH. I actually have a very close freind of mine who just got back from Iraq. He joined the marines following in my footsteps. My tour was up just before the war hit so I never went over but he did and if your serious about helping out the troops he would be an ideal canidate if your willing. Last time I talked to him he was looking to get a new pc when he got back to the states. So if he hasn't gotten 1 yet and your willing I would love for him to get it. It still bothers me to this day that others went but I didn't. I even tried to do volutntary activation but never heard back from them and there are soldiers doing 3,4 or even more tours over there. It's just not fair that I am home while someone else is over there fighting especially a good friend of mine. I know there are thousands who desrve it and it would be nice to give all of them 1 but it's not possible. So if you are really looking for an active member to hook up this month I know of 1 who def deserves something. Matter of fact he just reuped in order to go on embassy duty which he didn't get. Instead they sent him to Iraq which crushed him cause that was the most important thing to him was getting embassy duty.
Most of us have become dedicated & avid gamers with some of the popular titles out on the market, and have been members of small gaming clans on the LAN gaming circuit. Today, Diamond & SmoothCreations wants to give full credit to our US Soldiers whom compose the real, “Company of Heroes” of the military.
This American flag resembles a strong set of cores values that make our country the best place in the world. If you guys know of a US Military personnel that is in need of help assembling components for a new rig. I am here to help. As far as I am concerned, This is US Soldiers Month, and Diamond and I, along with our partners will do our best to support our US Troops.
So remember, Memorial day is not about backyard bar-b-q’s. It is about brave woman and men whom died serving in the US Armed forces. Nothing resonates so loud and clear as those soldiers whom showed up on the LA times obituaries this weekend on Mother’s day. As a parent, I could NOT imagine how painful it is to lose a son or daughter in the US Military. As Dave & Marco, I humbly ask to pay homage to those US Soldiers by supporting the Disabled Veterans Fund. I welcome every member of this forum to a call to action and invite members to register to participate on HotHardware.
And is my final shout out. The first US Soldiers serving in Iraq that decide to order one of these bad boy gaming pc's, I will personally fly into Iraq and hand deliver this American Flag PC to you.
Love you guys. Mario Gastelum
Mario@Diamondmm.com
Mario, my hats off to you and your partners and of course HH. I actually have a very close freind of mine who just got back from Iraq. He joined the marines following in my footsteps. My tour was up just before the war hit so I never went over but he did and if your serious about helping out the troops he would be an ideal canidate if your willing. Last time I talked to him he was looking to get a new pc when he got back to the states. So if he hasn't gotten 1 yet and your willing I would love for him to get it. It still bothers me to this day that others went but I didn't. I even tried to do volutntary activation but never heard back from them and there are soldiers doing 3,4 or even more tours over there. It's just not fair that I am home while someone else is over there fighting especially a good friend of mine. I know there are thousands who desrve it and it would be nice to give all of them 1 but it's not possible. So if you are really looking for an active member to hook up this month I know of 1 who def deserves something. Matter of fact he just reuped in order to go on embassy duty which he didn't get. Instead they sent him to Iraq which crushed him cause that was the most important thing to him was getting embassy duty.
2 of my friends are currently in the rotc, and one of them just went to boot camp and will be serving a tour of duty (all of them went into the marines) :-)
So does that mean your going to follow suite Ice? Going into the marines was the best decision I made in my life. I am 1 of the few from my high school crowd that actually did something with my life. Most of my old friends ended up in jail, rehab or dead. I can honestly say the marines changed my life for the better. I would recomend it to anyone. Well except someone just doing it for the college money, that is the worst reason to join.
On a side note, if anyone feels a patriotic rush this month and want to give even more there are plenty of programs out there. The disabled veterans is a great organization and everyone should def donate if they can but if you also feel compelled to go further than another great organization is the Navy and Marine corps relief society. They help service members in times of hardship. Just if you want to go the extra step I figured i would throw that out there.
So does that mean your going to follow suite Ice? Going into the marines was the best decision I made in my life. I am 1 of the few from my high school crowd that actually did something with my life. Most of my old friends ended up in jail, rehab or dead. I can honestly say the marines changed my life for the better. I would recomend it to anyone. Well except someone just doing it for the college money, that is the worst reason to join.
On a side note, if anyone feels a patriotic rush this month and want to give even more there are plenty of programs out there. The disabled veterans is a great organization and everyone should def donate if they can but if you also feel compelled to go further than another great organization is the Navy and Marine corps relief society. They help service members in times of hardship. Just if you want to go the extra step I figured i would through that out there.
Awesome contest guys, glad to see some folks that are proud of and support us vets/disabled vets and VFW..............:)
Another great organization to give to is the Army's AER, basicly the same as the Navy/Marine version
So does that mean your going to follow suite Ice? Going into the marines was the best decision I made in my life. I am 1 of the few from my high school crowd that actually did something with my life. Most of my old friends ended up in jail, rehab or dead. I can honestly say the marines changed my life for the better. I would recomend it to anyone. Well except someone just doing it for the college money, that is the worst reason to join.
On a side note, if anyone feels a patriotic rush this month and want to give even more there are plenty of programs out there. The disabled veterans is a great organization and everyone should def donate if they can but if you also feel compelled to go further than another great organization is the Navy and Marine corps relief society. They help service members in times of hardship. Just if you want to go the extra step I figured i would throw that out there.
im thinking of doing that once i get my degree. i came from stuyvesant highschool, the top highschool in new york city and we were literally right at ground zero on 9/11 this of course influenced alot of us. which is why so many people joined the marines/airforce. i went to a few poolie meetings and was seriously considering going in full time but then i got a scholarship to college and.... well i choose college. however once im out i might sign up to do a tour or 2 or at the very least the reserves. marines are the only ones trusted to gaurd an embassy! and the marines are the only branch of the military over quota!
they are also the only branch to guard nuclear weapons and also the president.
hey Guys,
Yes. I am very serious about supporting our US Troops. have your buddies shoot me an email with all their contact information. I will try my best to pull out some gifts from my coomponents stash jar. I will make sure, i support as many as could.Here is my contact info. Mario@Diamondmm.com
Wow That is Beautiful Awesome cause to :)
I wanted to post some information and stress just how much donations are needed and would help for folks who are on the fence about donating perhaps due to financial situations or other matters.
Just for comparison, the Barack Obama campaign prides itself that over 1.5 million people have contributed to the Obama campaign and to date, have raised over $235 million dollars.
Now I'm as much an Obama supporter as the next guy but I'm using that statistic to show the power behind small donations. I personally gave a small donation to the Obama campaign and the statistics show the average donation is $25.00. The power of small donations by large numbers of people adds up. If more people would donate to the DAV, the concern over Veterans receiving appropriate healthcare, employment, housing, and benefits would not be an issue.
Some facts:
1 in 4 homeless people in the U.S. are Veterans, despite Veterans only making up 11% of the U.S. population.
25% of Iraq war veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress syndrome. This manifests itself in a high divorce rate among veterans and the disturbing fact that an average of 18 veterans per day commit suicide.
The unemployment rate among Veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq in 2005 was 25%. That is more than TRIPLE the national unemployment rate. 25% of those who DO have jobs are earning less than $21,000 a year. That means that the average veteran who DOES find work, is making LESS than the national average. Surely our soldiers deserve better than this.
There is currently a backlog of 600,000 veterans' claims in the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs which means while the bureaucrats squabble amongst themselves, there are veterans out there in need of monetary assistance who aren't getting it.
In short, our veterans need much more help than they are getting and that is where organizations such as the DAV come in. But they can't do it all themselves. They need the support and help of those of us who are living our lives while our soldiers are fighting.
Give them your help. Cut out coffee or soda for a week and take that $20.00 and donate. Just give what you can.
This seems to be indicative of American society today. Don't get me wrong I love America I love our soldiers and our people from every color nationality and calling thats what makes our country truly great. But we treat the men and women who defend our country like second hand goods when there not on the battle fields for us, We pay the people who educate and train our children to be thinking adults less than almost any professional field in existance. We downgrade our collective morality on a daily basis to meet the status quo. I should have the right to make the decisions in my houshold as to what is what etc. But Why should somebody anybody else be able to do it to be politically correct. Sorry enough of my rant. I'm sure you get my point.........
And another sweet give away and that is definitely one of the sweetest looking rigs I've ever seen sorry I love this paint job beautiful hell maybe I'll win it that would be awesome.
Thanks HH for supporting our troops my dad was career army. My Brother inlaw is being redeployed this time in Baghdad in a couple months and has already served two tours in this war. Hopefully some of you hardware geeks will appreciatte this he is a ranking officer in the communications core. So computer repair building as well as mission critical com routing etc is what he does for our country every day. Whether in Hawai africa or this time downtown Baghdad we could'nt shoot the first round without our army geeks. There'd be no bullets there and thered be no co-ordinates to begin with if we did'nt have them.
Wow thats the best looking Rig yet and also get a oppurtunity to give to a just cause.Count me in for both!
To tell ya the Truth I'd Love to win this just to display it on my desktop. Then I could convert my current rig to a media server for the house. Plus The Soldiers will benefit from the sweepstakes to way to go HH :)
Did.... I say that case is Beautiful :)
il cut off my own balls before supporting barack obama bin laden. Hes a good speaker and people eat him up.. ask him some serious questions and watching him dodge them like a a cat runing from the water hose. Sorry for getting political but from the military perspective, hes the last guy on earth any one in uniform should be supporting. Unless of course you want smaller military, treaties with Iran.. and who knows what else.. you know it's strange fact that terrorist want him to win the election. Why ? because hes a pansy he wants to make deals and negotiate with terrorist and regimes in the world in the name of false peace that will do nothing but destroy us. Wouldnt suprise me if iran attacked israel and he was president he wouldnt do a darn thing about it.. my guess anyway. A lot of you may discredit bush but he made a decision based on what intel he had. And I may not agree on every issue at least the man stands up and fights and has enough resolve to do what is right instead of what is popular, aka lets hold hands, rainbows and butterflies, coming from the democratic party. People need to really get informed on the real issues and the real world instead of listening to the news and the media with their own agendas.
il cut off my own balls before supporting barack obama bin laden. Hes a good speaker and people eat him up.. ask him some serious questions and watching him dodge them like a a cat runing from the water hose. Sorry for getting political but from the military perspective, hes the last guy on earth any one in uniform should be supporting. Unless of course you want smaller military, treaties with Iran.. and who knows what else.. you know it's strange fact that terrorist want him to win the election. Why ? because hes a pansy he wants to make deals and negotiate with terrorist and regimes in the world in the name of false peace that will do nothing but destroy us. Wouldnt suprise me if iran attacked israel and he was president he wouldnt do a darn thing about it.. my guess anyway. A lot of you may discredit bush but he made a decision based on what intel he had. And I may not agree on every issue at least the man stands up and fights and has enough resolve to do what is right instead of what is popular, aka lets hold hands, rainbows and butterflies, coming from the democratic party. People need to really get informed on the real issues and the real world instead of listening to the news and the media with their own agendas.
let me point out whats wrong with your statement. Muslim americans dont want him to win because they see him as a trator (since in muslim, like judaism the religion is passed down from the parent( though in judaism its passed down from the mother, in islam it is passed down from the father) ) because he was born islamic and converted to christianity. ohh and bush went to war based on bad intelligence which they knew was bad (read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#2001.E2.80.932003:_Iraq_disarmament_crisis_and_pre-war_intelligence). i completly support our military but we still should not have gone to war, and now that we are there we have to finish it.
talk about people need to be informed. :-p
I don't want to step on any toes here but can we have the political discussions in the Who will win the 08 election thread, and keep this thread to the topic at hand? Nice job HH and Mario, you guys are really great.
Amen!
Wow I did'nt think about it this sweepstakes is short wow just till june 2nd hope I win :)
I'd love to win this PC plus it's such a great cause. I think HH should put up some kind of donation meter with this sweepstakes. I would love to know how much was raised for such a great cause through this sweepstakes. Plus it may bring an amount of publicity/acknowledgment for HH and cool creations as well as for the community being behind a great and recognizable cause.
I wonder if it has an unlocked quad cpu or not
If by "unlocked" you mean a Black Edition with an unlocked multiplayer, then no, it doesn't look like this system will have that. The 9750 does not have a Black Edition available. It's the second fastest Quad by AMD though, so I wouldn't worry to much about it.
did my duty and donated. Hey BigWop or Davo or whoever is handling it, let me know if my email was sufficient. I screwed up somehow when donating and my email was wrong so I never got the conf. email so I copied the conf. page that popped up when I finalized everything. I guess there ain't much I could do about it now anyway other than donate again.
We got it bro, e-mail was fine. Very generous of you! (BTW, all of the e-mail to come in so far have been fine. If you sent something is up to this point, it's all good...)
Yeah I sent two donations and two receipts one for my Grandfather (Career MARINE) and one for my father (Career Army Pilot) how do I know if you got both receipts. Anyway this system is absolutely awesome hope I win. Oh and for anyone else who donates you will receive a confirmation receipt in your email a few days after you do the donation as well as the auto receipt you get when you do it.
Yeah I sent two donations and two receipts one for my Grandfather (Career MARINE) and one for my father (Career Army Pilot) how do I know if you got both receipts. Anyway this system is absolutely awesome hope I win. Oh and for anyone else who donates you will receive a confirmation receipt in your email a few days after you do the donation as well as the auto receipt you get when you do it.
kool nice to know !
Another US only contest. :(
Alright folks. Here's something to perk you up a bit. For those of you that have (or will) donate(d) to the DAV (and you know who you are... did you send proof of donation to hhcontest@hothardware.com ?), the first one to answer this trivia question correctly, gets a new mid-range to high-end graphics card! I'm talking GeForce 88X or similar Radeon!
What was the frame rate in HH's Dell XPS 630 article, for ET Quake Wars at 1600X1200 resolution, with the 8800GT in SLI?
This is serious. Right now! Let's do it! Email me here: davea@hothardware.com
Ready, set, GO! :D
And if anyone posts the answer here, I'm going to thrash you with a wet noodle. :)
I would love to win this box frickin awesome components an awesome paint job awesome cooling and an awesome power supply looks like the whole ticket to me I would love to have it
WOW I'm dreaming of haveing something configured by Smooth and HH hope it has a grand ending :))))))
Would love to have a piece of desktop real estate like this
amazing contest again. you guys are awesome. I want the case!
wow great giveaways, im curious though any reasons why canadians cant win? i know theres a canadian law that you cant win based purely on luck but this doesnt apply here because the person has to post and be active.
I'm guessing here but I would say shipping is a factor.
Well once again I am looking at this beautiful case wishing it were mine
Love the casework gonna go over to smooth and check out there other custom paintjobs maybe I'll win this one who knows :)
Wow smooth creations have some decent setups with some great casework........ Maybe I'll win this one
Does everyone know smooth creations is also selling this as a limited edition. So you can buy one of these beutiful numbers if you don't win. Just thought I'd let everyone know.
I also looked through there systems they have some pretty nice rigs. The paint jobs are awesome to especially the laptops I'd love to have one of those.
This contests is awesome not only is the case beautiful but it has some nice components as well. Plus it is in honor of memorial day which is a big plus. I donated in memorial of my father to some people who really deserve it.
Nelson21, you're our winner of the weekend graphics card contest! Thanks for your contribution to the DAV and for responding first when we announced the mini contest in this thread.
You're the proud new owner of an XFX GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card! Please contact us with your shipping info and phone number for delivery.
:D
Thanks!
Damn you Nelson! : ) Its cool. I already have an Ultra. I was hoping it would have been another for SLI! : )---
Congrats on the win Nelson! I bet that xfx geforce 8800 GTS is a hoss. Have fun!
Congrats on the win! Very nice card. :)
Congrats Nelson, you lucky little devil. As if I need another reason to check these forums every chance I get. At least I bowled a 110 while you were winning (that's a good score for me 
).
Hey Nelson Congrats, Diamond & AMD will piggy back on HH promotion. I will toss in a AMD CPU & TV Wonder Anywhere.
shoot me your contact information.
Mario
^^^Umm...not to be rude...but who/what is this about?
That kind gentlemen is with Diamond, who have played a big part in the April and May giva-a-ways. He even gave another member a free AMD 64 5000+ CPU.
See his first post.
yeah, i just did my research. Sorry about that. Got a little Mod happy...thats all. : )
Welcome to the forum. You guys are doing a great job on the contests!
Holy cow! That is freakin awesome! You guys rock. Thanks HH and Mario. I guess I need to put Hothardware on my rig when I get it completed now in nice big letters on the front don't I? That really helps me out alot in terms of hardware that I would of had to purchase.
So Davo do you want me to change the theme of my mod from frostbyte to Hothardware? it's not to late, I could go with Flames and red and yellow lights instead of the frost and blue lights. Instead of FrostByte in big letters on the front radgrill I could put HotHardware for you guys to show my appreciation. And Mario I do have another grill I am putting on the side I could show alittle love for you guys too. I feel like a nascar driver right now ready to sport logos.
Seriously though this is so awesome and if it's cool with you guys here I would like to do it as long as your ok with the copyright and logo and such. I don't know how else to express my appreciation.
id love a free ati tv wonder :-)
Congrats again Nelson! A TV tuner would be awesome. I need to get all of these damn television shows off of my DVR! : )
yeah I am sitting here pondering the possibilities of this tuner card now. I am thinking of possibly distributing video to multiple tv's with it and having my comp as a dvr. I have to check out the specs on this thing first I guess but since I will be wiring a new house soon I am sure I can rig something up.
This is so awesome I haven't stopped grinning since I got home and discovered the news today. I have to pick out a MB for this stuff now. I wonder if it's the g92 model gts and which cpu I will get. It's like christmas time man. This is so awesome. I don't think I will be able to stop saying that
Imagine what you will be saying if you win that PC! lol. I want it!
yeah I know right. But that won't happen cause I just won something so I am not eligable to win anything else me thinks! I totally cool with that though as I am just happy I won this great stuff. And ya'll know I ain't going no where so I won't win and run with the merchandise
Oh yeah, Davo and Mario I sent you both emails with my info.
Congratulations Nelson! Mario and HH rule for sure. I am glad I decided to join here after PCGamer fell apart, and not somewhere else! You guys are absolutely the best bunch of fellows around!
Just stopping by this forum to remind everyone (admins specifically) that I really want this Kickin system.
Every time I see this system it becomes harder and harder to wait till Jun 2nd to see who wins it.
^^^^^^slaps player with zero health for not using the edit button^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hah, look a little ways back in the thread. He posted like a million times in a row.
yea that was my nice way of saying it's getting annoying. I mean don't get me wrong, I am happy that he's here and posting and I would like him to stay, just needs to learn a little common courtesy. Stretching 1 posts into 3 posts is not gonna win anyone the contests
It is about quality and not quantity of your posts.
Yeah, Rapid1, please start using the edit button. Double and triple posting isn't allowed here. Thanks man.
June 2nd?? That's my birthday! (hint hint lol)
Well done. Always nice to see people being reminded to help our vets. Some people aruge over this war being the right war (is there such a thing?) and perhaps the soldiers of this war don't deserve any type of assistance from the peoples. But to you I say; Remember the wars before this, remember your fathers, grandfathers, uncles, Aunts etc. who have fought in other wars. That's what Memorial day is for, not just to remind us of a war that has gone on far too long, but to remind us of the wars in the past, the wars that were faught because our entire country, and in some cases the world, felt they needed to be. I have been disabled for 4 years now, unable to work, only able to cook and watch after the kids, this isn't because of some war I faught, but I understand and sympathize with those who are disabled. I understand how much that $0.25 donation adds up. So when you see that man at your grocery store, handing out little possies, wearing his VFW badge proudly, dig into your pocket and give whatever change you have.
I am not for the "war on terror". I am extremely against it. But I am not against every war we have faught, and I will continue to support those who gave in the past to allow me the opportunity to choose between fighting or staying home.
June second gets closer every day
I need this computer :)
I need this computer :)
i need you to stop spaming. its good to show intrest in hh but please note we do have an edit button there so you dont have to triple post.... especially when the posts are one liners....
Rapid- This is your second warning, please merge the three posts above into one post or I'll delete them all. We DO NOT allow double...or TRIPLE...posting on the forums. Learn the rules bro. Thanks.
Hehe, he completely ignored everyone else talking about him. Somehow I don't even think he reads the forums; he just multiposts in this thread. 
Yeah he did. read his 3rd post down of this latest treo of posts. I don't want to keep singling him out as it's kinda mean. I am sure if he read and got it through his head what he's doing wrong he could find this to be a very friendly and helpfull community. If he keeps ignoring warnings he's basicly opeing himslef up to be targeted. I don't get why he would do that.
Rapid they said you must be an active member of the forums not the most active member of the forums. This statement from the original posts states how the winner will be selected.
"From this point forward, we’ll be monitoring discussions on the site and will be randomly selecting a winner based on community involvement and contribution"
So whether you posts once or split the post up into 3 posts to increase you post count it will not increase your odds. The best way to increase your odds is to most meaningfull reply's and help others out. 1 post is fine for a reply you do not need 2 or 3 to reply. The only thing splitting your post up will accomplish is irritating everyone else and resulting in action from the Mods. This repsonse from me was meant to be helpfull not put you down. I really would like you to stick around and get along with everyone here.
Nelson hit it right on the head. Good job bro.
Again Rapid, i ask you, please condense your posts. Thanks.
Davo and Mario,
Let me know if you didn't get my email I sent yesterday. I'll assume you did otherwise!
^^ you did give them my address right? Come on, you promised you would!
I did. they were looking for someone to do a cheer for an advertisement wearing only HH case badge pastie's so guess who popped into my head So naturally I gave them your contact info.
Oh yeah that's right, didn't he take a really weird pic of him bearing only case badges as his top? Eek!
Actually, you should repost it to scare all of the new members. 
lol No I think either Davo or Bigwop forbid enter from posting it again. said it scared him for life or something along those lines. I am to scared to go back through looking for what was said in fear of accidentally seeing the photo again.
Ah enter you thought we forgot about your silly pic