Gaming Heaven AMD competition: Win one of 45 copies of CALL OF JUAREZ!

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  1. HardwareHeaven

    HardwareHeaven Administrator Staff Member

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    We have teamed up with AMD to hold a monster DX10 gaming giveaway for our community. To be in with a chance to win a hot game, read our competition page over here!
     
    HardwareHeaven, Aug 9, 2007
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  2. Spyre

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    OK I will get the ball rolling and christen this thread :D

    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    Sure do, Vista X64

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air Cooling, 3 x 120mm fans and a top mounted 240mm fan for the CPU its a Asus Silent Square Pro CPU Cooler

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    Too much, maybe £1000 a year give or take

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    DX10 via a HD 2900

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    A new monitor with HDMI
     
    Spyre, Aug 9, 2007
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  3. Zelig

    Zelig Well-Known Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    Yes, Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air cooling, lots of big, low rpm fans.

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    $1000 average, I'm going to say.

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    No, and probably not.

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    USB TV tuner.
     
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  4. glaurung

    glaurung New Member

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    Hi there...

    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    Nop, Win XP SP2

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Nop, Volcano 10 over my Athlon XP

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    Nothing, unless some component crashes

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    Nop, no money in my pockets.

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    A whole new system.
     
    glaurung, Aug 9, 2007
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  5. Bart1987

    Bart1987 New Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    No, I will when games force me to use it
    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    aircooling
    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    €200
    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    no.
    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    Monitor or a whole new pc.
     
    Bart1987, Aug 9, 2007
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  6. Dark Lord

    Dark Lord Well-Known Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    no

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    air cooling

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    less then 100.00

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    no and no

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    full computer.
     
    Dark Lord, Aug 9, 2007
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  7. RoyBatty

    RoyBatty Well-Known Member

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    1) No.
    2) Air cooling.
    3) Not much, <150 EUR.
    4) No and No.
    5) Whatever breaks down first.
     
    RoyBatty, Aug 9, 2007
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  8. Trusteft

    Trusteft HH's Asteroids' Dominator

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    1) No

    2) Air Cooling

    3) $200 to $1000 depends on the year.

    4)Was but not anymore. I also do not plan on using DX10 for the next 6 months.

    5) Headset or Joystick or PS2.
     
    Trusteft, Aug 9, 2007
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  9. Iria

    Iria New Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista? Yes

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)? Air

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year? varies from 3 - 5K ... if I get a new system that year :)

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months? If 5) comes out

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be? DirectX10 Capable Gaming Laptop ... but not until they get a DX10 laptop card that matches the Go 7950GTX in performance
     
    Iria, Aug 9, 2007
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  10. dsdsdk

    dsdsdk New Member

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    1) No
    2) Watercooling
    3) $2500
    4) Yes, plan to.
    5) 2gb SO-DIMM ram
     
    dsdsdk, Aug 9, 2007
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  11. >GSXR<mrbusa

    >GSXR<mrbusa MY BIKE vvv

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    No. I will upgrade to Linux before I install Vista.

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air.

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    If I average all upgrades across several years it would equal about 500.00 maybe?

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    No. Unless M$ allows D$10 to be implemented within XP then I doubt I will ever run D$10.

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    More drive capacity to occomidate 100gigs plus a month of constant downloading of free games.
     
    >GSXR<mrbusa, Aug 9, 2007
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  12. Ferret_Style

    Ferret_Style Bouncing off the Walls

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    Yes on laptop and desktop

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air Cooling on both

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    Depends on year just bought new laptop so not much on desktop.


    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?

    No and No until buget allows.

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?

    Either replace desktop with another new laptop in a year or laptop for wife.
     
    Ferret_Style, Aug 9, 2007
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  13. nitrousoxide52

    nitrousoxide52 Driverheaven.com err .net

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    No

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air Cooling

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    $800

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    I plan to move up to DX10 within 6 months

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    A new DX10 graphics card
     
    nitrousoxide52, Aug 9, 2007
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  14. Erroneus

    Erroneus Get off my lawn!

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    YANCFD (Yet Another Nice Contest from Driverheaven)

    1) Yep, Business and Ultimate
    2) Air
    3) Around 650€
    4) All ready running DX10
    5) It could easily be Phenom, if it kicks ass :)
     
    Erroneus, Aug 10, 2007
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  15. MIG-31

    MIG-31 Old time Member.. Staff Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?

    Yes.. Windows Vista Home Premium

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?

    Air Cooling by the intel stock heatsink.But do plan on swapping to to a much better heatsink in the next few months.

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?

    Seeing as this is a new pc built within the last week.This contributes a good £400 this year...

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?

    Currently not running a DX 10 GFX card (But Obviously Installed Due to Vista) but if the rest of this year goes well it may be considered.Being Self Employed Bills come first.

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?

    A DX10 GFX Card if i can afford to.
     
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  16. dj_stick

    dj_stick Apple Fanboy?

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    No, not yet, though considering it

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Rather loud air-cooling

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    <$150 usually, unless i do a major upgrade, thne it'll blowout above $1K

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    No, but considering it

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    Possibly a new pair of monitors, or even a new computer
     
    dj_stick, Aug 10, 2007
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  17. bug77

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    1. No
    2. Air
    3. 2-500$
    4. No/no
    5. Nothing in the foreseeable future, unless the Phenom will rock or a decent video card pops up (and yes, it has to come with proper Linux support, too).
     
    bug77, Aug 10, 2007
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  18. EcPercy

    EcPercy Well-Known Member

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    Question 1) Do you currently run windows Vista?
    Vista Ultimate 64-bit

    Question 2) Does your system run on air cooling, water cooling or other (please state)?
    Air Cooling

    Question 3) How much do you money do you spend on your system per year?
    This year I will have spent about $2500 (once I get the new monitor and UPS), but I haven't built a computer in over 4 years. Normally, I would spend ~$300

    Question 4) Are you currently running DX10 or plan to in the next 6 months?
    DX10 via Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB

    Question 5) What is your next hardware purchase going to be?
    A new Vista Premium LCD monitor and a UPS.
     
    EcPercy, Aug 10, 2007
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  19. Ney

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    Question 1) No.
    Question 2) Air cooling.
    Question 3) Less than $200.
    Question 4) No. No.
    Question 5) Gamepad.
     
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  20. ChaosMinionX

    ChaosMinionX USB 3 dot oh

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    Question 1) Windows Vista Ultimate x64

    Question 2) Air Cooling

    Question 3) $1000-$10,000 USD, I tend to upgrade alot, multiple mobos at a time, new cpus , gfx etc... almost totally new system builds with case. Just really depends.

    Question 4) Yes currently running DX10

    Question 5) Intel X38 board, and Auzen XFi Prelude 7.1
     
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