Gaming Rig Contest @ creativelabs.com

[Enchilada]

Hey,

Looks like Creative's giving away an ABS gaming system every week along with their gigaworks 7.1 speakers.

http://us.creative.com/local/1/promo/gfs/welcome.asp

Here's the specs:

ABS Ultimate M5 Gaming PC

CASE: Antec Performance Plusview 1000AMG w/ side panel & case harness / front USB & FireWire
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 333FSB 512K
RAM: Corsair 512MB PC-3200C2 XMS
Sound Card: Audigy 2 ZS
Speakers: Creative GigaWorks S750 7.1's
Graphics: Leadtech WinFast/GeforceFX 5900 Ultra 256MB
Monitor: Samsung 19" Flat CRT (silver & black)
MOBO: Asus A7N8X-E deluxe Nforce2 Ultra 400 / WiFi slot Chipset: NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 + MCP-T
FSB: 400/333/266/200MHz
RAM: 3x DIMM support Dual Channel DDR400/333/266/200(Non-ECC) Max 3GB
IDE: 2x UltraDMA 66/100/133 up to 4 Devices
Slots: 1x AGP Pro/8X, 5x PCI
Ports: 2xPS2,1xLPT,1xCOM,2xLAN,6xUSB2.0(Rear 4),SPDIF Out, Audio Ports
Onboard LAN: Realtek 8201BL 10/100Mbps + Marvell 88E8001 GbE
Onboard SATA/RAID: 2x
Power Supply: Antec 450 watt power supply
HD: Two Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache serialATA in RAID0
Optical Drive: Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM
Mouse: Creative Mouse Optical 5000
Keyboard: Ideazon Zboard Interchangeable keyset keyboard
floppy
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home
Bonuses: Round cables for floppy & optical drives
cathode light & led fans
cool dragon sticker for side panel window
Built with love and care

-ench

 

[imported_Mike]

Thats a nice set up, signed up, but won't wait around for the wInnAr e-mail.

 

[Ness]

Contests are NOT hot deals. Sorry.

 

[zodder]

Sweet!

 

[RushWilliams]

Linkedified

 

[lowenbotten]

Originally posted by: ness1469
Contests are NOT hot deals. Sorry.

STFU

 

[AmericasTeam]

Originally posted by: lowenbotten

Originally posted by: ness1469
Contests are NOT hot deals. Sorry.

STFU

Maybe you should STFU and read the rules.

 

[fleshconsumed]

And they call it "Ultimate Gaming PC"?

Ha...! This rig has no right to be called ultimate gaming PC, this is more like a cost-wise solution where you get decent performance for not a lot of money. Come on, who the hell puts Athlon 2800, 512 memory, two 2-year old hard-drives and a crappy antec case (helloooou..) together and calls it an ultimate gaming PC? The only good thing about this PC is videocard, almost, yea, almost! top of the line, but this is it.

Oh well... whoever wants to give out your email address to the spammers are welcome to try. IMO the hassle is not worth it.

 

[nAeS]

yes creative labs is a spammer.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Maybe not maybe yes. You might not believe it but I actually had my ISP email account spam free for two years, and I do mean spam free - not even ONE spam email for the two whole years. Then something happened and for the last year I've been steadily receiving 5-10 spam letters a week. I dunno how my address got leaked to the spammers, most likely one of my friends used it to send me a yahoo postcard or something. It might have been me, which is possible, but if it was me indeed, I know that I gave my email address only to the reputable websites/companies. So if you don't want any spam on your email account than keep it as safe as you SSN or a credit card #.

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
And they call it "Ultimate Gaming PC"?

Ha...! This rig has no right to be called ultimate gaming PC, this is more like a cost-wise solution where you get decent performance for not a lot of money. Come on, who the hell puts Athlon 2800, 512 memory, two 2-year old hard-drives and a crappy antec case (helloooou..) together and calls it an ultimate gaming PC? The only good thing about this PC is videocard, almost, yea, almost! top of the line, but this is it.

Oh well... whoever wants to give out your email address to the spammers are welcome to try. IMO the hassle is not worth it.

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
And they call it "Ultimate Gaming PC"?

Oh well... whoever wants to give out your email address to the spammers are welcome to try. IMO the hassle is not worth it.

Well, if you don't want to give out your real email addy, just use sneakemail.com

 

[wallsfd949]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
if you don't want any spam on your email account than keep it as safe as you SSN or a credit card #.

If you own a domain, and run a mail server or use DNS like zoneedit, when you sign up or give out an e-mail addy, make it CLGFS_contest@yourdomain.com or contest/companyname@yourdomain.com. Then you know who the offender is and can redirect that addy to a spamcop or junk juno/hotmail box.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I kind of like being informed of contests that are easy to enter so screw the rules... As far as spam mail is concerned, it doesn't take a lot of brains to realize you shouldn't give out your domain email. With several free mail services, theres no point to it.

 

[Gagabiji]

ya know, you can look at the glass half full or half empty, I dont' mind winning a free computer. Thanks Enchilada!

 

[superHARD]

uhh...thread crapping!

 

[DorkBoy]

thanks

 

[MontyBurns]

Sorry to be interrupting all the whining by the hall monitors, but:

Damn, those are some expensive speakers. $500?

 

[Thoreau]

Hmm, they got the specs wrong on that rig. The case is an Antec 1080AMG, not 1000AMG.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
And they call it "Ultimate Gaming PC"?

Ha...! This rig has no right to be called ultimate gaming PC, this is more like a cost-wise solution where you get decent performance for not a lot of money. Come on, who the hell puts Athlon 2800, 512 memory, two 2-year old hard-drives and a crappy antec case (helloooou..) together and calls it an ultimate gaming PC? The only good thing about this PC is videocard, almost, yea, almost! top of the line, but this is it.

Oh well... whoever wants to give out your email address to the spammers are welcome to try. IMO the hassle is not worth it.

Let me know when you win, because I'll take that off your hand.

FYI, the Maxtor hard drives are DM9, the latest generation.

 

[fleshconsumed]

devxvx
I'll let you take it for $100 less than the MSRP which should make it like what... $2900? Deal?


ps didn't see those were maxtors, thought they were WDs. well, I wouldn't want them anyway, out of 4 maxtors from 30 to 120Gb I had 3 failed...

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
devxvx
I'll let you take it for $100 less than the MSRP which should make it like what... $2900? Deal?


ps didn't see those were maxtors, thought they were WDs. well, I wouldn't want them anyway, out of 4 maxtors from 30 to 120Gb I had 3 failed...

So far, I haven't had any maxtors fail. WD's on the other hand... :disgust:

 

[wampa]

Originally posted by: Thoreau
Hmm, they got the specs wrong on that rig. The case is an Antec 1080AMG, not 1000AMG.

actually it's the 1000AMG Plus View as stated. The 1080AMG doesn't have a window just bare sheet metal. I actually have the 1080AMG and its really heavy.

 

[wampa]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
And they call it "Ultimate Gaming PC"?

Ha...! This rig has no right to be called ultimate gaming PC, this is more like a cost-wise solution where you get decent performance for not a lot of money. Come on, who the hell puts Athlon 2800, 512 memory, two 2-year old hard-drives and a crappy antec case (helloooou..) together and calls it an ultimate gaming PC? The only good thing about this PC is videocard, almost, yea, almost! top of the line, but this is it.

Oh well... whoever wants to give out your email address to the spammers are welcome to try. IMO the hassle is not worth it.

If those hard drives are the SATA 80gb drives, they can be had for about $80. And if the CPU is unlocked you can then you can overclock the CPU to gain more performance. They should've added a 8x DVD burner, nice LCD, AMD 64 CPU or the new Intel HT CPUs, 2x 74gb WD Raptor in Raid 0, and a water cooling kit. Now that would be a gaming rig

 

[lowenbotten]

Originally posted by: AmericasTeam

Originally posted by: lowenbotten

Originally posted by: ness1469
Contests are NOT hot deals. Sorry.

STFU

Maybe you should STFU and read the rules.

STFU