TechSpot New Year Giveaway: Register here for participation

[jaroddog]

Ok... Ok... If you're going to force it on me, I guess I'll give a 7800 a try. I just sent my Radeon 9600xt back to newegg.com for a refund and am using a GeForce2 MX 200. I doubt I would see much improvement between a 7800 and my current card, would I???

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Ok... Ok... If you're going to force it on me, I guess I'll give a 7800 a try. I just sent my Radeon 9600xt back to newegg.com for a refund and am using a GeForce2 MX 200. I doubt I would see much improvement between a 7800 and my current card, would I???

No not much, except for a few 100 fps here & there.

 

[PanicX]

Hmm.. why not, count me in. My friend wants his 5700 back anyway.

 

[vampirehunter_j]

count me in, that would sure beat my 9600XT

 

[DragonMaster]

Why not? Better take the chance than not!

 

[Moimit]

This is a great idea julio, i remember the thread you posted asking us what we wanted you to give away in a competition. i really agree with the idea of you being able to compensate for the 7800gt. good to see you actually took into account what everyone was saying on that thread. imagine giving some poor bugger a 7800gt and him trying to put it into an old socket A board or something. Also the geographical thing was also a big winner in my books not actually being only american or canadian based makes a big difference. i really hated it when ATI and NVIDIA would get a competition going and i wouldn't be able to qualify because i'm Australian. I haven't posted in quite some time really but i've been getting my usual techspot update every morning at work. would you be able to release statistics of how many people came from being idle to fully fledged techspot members because of this competition?
Guys who keep techspot on the map: JULIO - AGASSI - DIDOU. imho

good luck with the competition guys

 

[Subservient]

I would be forever in your debt!! My current card is an nVidia 5800, and all my friends make fun of me for my lame card!! Save me TechSpot!! :wave:

 

[PC_Nerd]

I would be forever in your debt!! My current card is an nVidia 5800, and all my friends make fun of me for my lame card!! Save me TechSpot!! :wave:

You think your card's lame.... it was only about a year ago that I upgraded from an fx5200 (which came stock with no fan, just a puny heatsink) to my fx5600, which absolutely blew it out of the water!!
Now imagine if I got a 7800, thats 2 whole serieses of upgrade, :haha: It'd be just like a year ago, all over again!!!

 

[Moimit]

yeah the problem with video cards is that you have to upgrade them every 6-9months to have something at least relatively up to date. staying Mid range is always the best way i see it. the 6600GT was Mid range when i got one and it still is comparitively powerful to the price one is o pay for it. the 7800 series is powerful but when will the Mid range 7600's be coming ? they will be the cards to watch. if they follow trends you should see it for $350au on initial release and $250au in 6 months. meaning happier gamers

 

[darkstuarez]

Lol, i know exactly how those people feel. last February, i had to tear out the carpet in my house so my mom could buy me a better card than my 32mb SOMETHING that was in my stock eMachines. She bought me a GeForce 5500 FX which ran CS:S ok with like 40fps, then with that new HDR(High Dynamic Range) update last september, my fps ranges from 25 and down to 9fps when i'm shooting, it sucks when your main game isn't playable anymore. I ended up having to go back to 1.6

 

[Tedster]

did I win yet?

 

[kisserprostyler]

here i am

wow ....amazing ..im in this contest...thanks Techspot

 

[lonerayven]

I'm in...

I'm in the contest now... I need this so bad... Building my new computer soon but still have no idea how in the world I'll be able to afford a graphics card...=/... Right now all I have is a 128mb that isnt compatible with anything...
And this graphics card would be PERFECT for my new computer...

 

[hewybo]

give 'em here!

So you want that kickass videocard? Just reply to this message and start posting comments in our news coverage.

Feel free to post any comments or suggestions.

Remember, full contest rules can be found here.

I want ALL 4OF 'EM. I'm really neat, and deserve them. And broke, and NEED them. At least- please enter me in the contest? Uh, wait....... don't enter me, exactly....... place me in the contest. there. :wave:

 

[jomondo]

I really must have that card.

:hotouch: I really must have that card. And I will give free screen captures to the rest of you... MINE MINE MINE.

 

[PaulWuzHere]

I WANT IT! And I need it. I am running a 9600xt and want to switch to PCI-X but I don't have enough money for a new mobo and a good card. PLZ!

 

[Tedster]

I plan on building a newer system in a year or so, a new card would be nice.

 

[Bartzy]

Count me in !

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Hey, philosophically speaking, it's human nature to get more than what u already have. So give 'em a break.As for ur system spartanslayer, man I used to have a PII 266 Mhz just like 2 years back. That relic had a Riva TNT2 and 128MB of RAM. The only thing you could play on it without it freezing up was Unreal Tournament
Hope things turn around for u 2 buddy

 

[spartanslayer]

Believe me, I can understand you all want better cards, but you shouldn't say like your fairly new card is trash. And 1 year ago exactly, I have a 450MHz system with only 64MB of ram. I'm happy to have the system I do.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Aw screw it. We're supposed to be talking about how great this giveaway is, not how trashy everyone thinks their cards are or how damn powerful this 7800 GT is. People, everybody knows the power of this monstrous thing called the NVIDIA 7800 GT. Whoever doesn't, well let them go visit this link
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=715&cid=2
End Of Discussion

 

[slolrnr]

Contest

This is a great promotion, and I appreciate the opportunity to kick start my system upgrade with your generous offer. Your giving the option to exchange the cards for other hardware is a really grat idea, thank you and New Egg!

 

[schwit]

Yea baby. I'm there.

I don't mind Christmas coming a few days late.

 

[jackblack8]

Want one

Have the 6800 but would love to upgrade

 

[Vigilante]

Hey I'm a bit late coming in, just saw this actually! But my X850XTPE is doing quite well. But I could really use the Newegg bucks! That's an awesome idea!

Let's see, I'd get another 120gb SATA for RAID 0. Then an additional 200+GB for backups.

Let the games begin!