Who’s the Winner of the Core i7 Gaming PC?

As I sit here, sipping my morning coffee, it looks to be a rather depressing day outside. It’s pouring rain, and not so bright out. So to lighten the day and mood, I think now would be as good a time as ever to announce the winner to our Core i7-870 gaming PC. Before I do that, though, I want to give a big thanks to everyone who has participated… the contest was a great success!

Without further ado, the official winner of our gaming PC is “srpoole“! On behalf of the entire staff, I’d like to give a huge congratulations to our lucky winner. As a reminder, srpoole must contact us within two weeks in order to claim the prize. If I don’t hear back by then, I will have to draw a new name from the hat. It’s not too likely that this will happen, though.

With that out of the way, I’d like to take a moment to stress that if you cheat in one of our contests, you won’t be getting away with it. Believe it or not, the first name I drew from the hat wasn’t srpoole. After investigation of that entry, however, it was revealed that the person entered more than once. Each entry was minutes apart, on the same IP address with a 100% identical answer. Entering one of our contests like this is just a waste of time. We will find out if you cheated or not. Plus, it wastes my time. I had thought I already had all the cheaters eliminated, but this forced me to go through the huge list a second time. *grumble*

If you’re not srpoole, don’t fret… there are more contests on the way. Not all our contests will consist of such stellar prizes as a gaming PC, but our goal is to begin rewarding our loyal readers on a regular basis. Winning something like a motherboard is a lot better than nothing at all, for example. With this contest wrapped up… I’ll give a quick preview of our next contest, which will launch in the next few weeks.

I won’t discuss details of how the contest will work (still working on it), but the prize will consist of NVIDIA’s 3D Vision, Samsung’s SyncMaster 2233 22″ 120Hz  gaming monitor, a copy of Resident Evil 5 and also Batman: Arkham Asylum. Since I received more than one copy of the latter, the spare will be given away to a runner-up. Stay tuned as I hope to post the contest by the middle of October (I wanted to review at least one of these games before launching the contest, and that’s still the goal).

Huge thanks to Intel for teaming up with Techgage to give away the Core i7-870 gaming PC!