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Buyer orders GTX 470, gets unreleased GTX 465 instead Even though the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 haven't exactly been selling for very long, the web is already filled with talk of the upcoming Fermi model known as the GTX 465. So far, this card's specs have only been hinted at or speculated, but an unusual situation has arisen that seems to have shed light on the complete set of performance numbers. Softpedia
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Before the winners are announced, we'd like to thank everyone who joined us last night. Things were significantly more active and the server was well populated during most of the event. We hope you had as much fun as we did, and we look forward to playing with you again in the near future!
Now, onto the winners: Scoring 814 points, Xplicit clinched the first position, while Düstiñ_ds3000 was the randomly selected winner (coincidentally with the second best score). Expect an email soon guys. If you're curious to see how you fared, we've included a table with some basic stats after the jump.
| Players | Points | Kills | Assists | Deaths |
| Xplicit | 814 | 576 | 107 | 252 |
| Düstiñ_ds3000 | 642 | 508 | 95 | 174 |
| [ZBSM] Issun | 574 | 298 | 35 | 303 |
| Relic | 361 | 206 | 92 | 184 |
| Burger Train | 251 | 143 | 58 | 154 |
| Matthew | 211 | 147 | 45 | 139 |
| Goku | 114 | 29 | 89 | 50 |
| Doods | 110 | 49 | 56 | 53 |
| Javelin[PanicX] | 92 | 59 | 7 | 83 |
| Julio | 75 | 54 | 35 | 97 |
| Xile | 75 | 51 | 33 | 50 |
| ^ElektrikerJens | 48 | 37 | 14 | 51 |
| Tserag | 39 | 20 | 18 | 71 |
| Burty117 | 35 | 27 | 4 | 45 |
| Basher | 33 | 24 | 6 | 18 |
| Cyrus JumpjeT | 29 | 8 | 36 | 26 |
| Tizzlejack | 15 | 13 | 8 | 10 |
| Big.Bad.Dad | 10 | 8 | 1 | 13 |
| lordphill | 10 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| Total | 3538 | 2259 | 747 | 1788 |
***Note: If you are a member of the TechSpot Steam group who played with us yesterday but are not listed on the table, rest assured that you were in the random drawing. All players (even public) were in the drawing to ensure every TS member was included. We extracted TS members from the logs for the table afterward. Public players were not included in the table.
https://www.techspot.com/news/39054-weekend-tech-reading-winners-of-techspots-tf2-meet-up.html
