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peti1212
08-16-2011, 06:46 AM
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Summer is almost over and it’s back-to-school time! In the spirit of back-to-school, we've teamed up with Kingston to give away something to help you study. One lucky winner picked at random will have a chance to win an awesome 120GB Kingston HyperX SSD based on the latest SandForce controller. The drive is blazing fast so that you can finish that term paper ahead of time and still have plenty of time left to kill your enemies.


Two other randomly-picked winners will have a chance to win a 4GB DDR3-1600 Kingston HyperX Blue or a 32GB DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 flash drive.

Here's how to win some awesome prizes:


Enter the contest by simply do the following:

Like Bjorn3D's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Bjorn3D) and post something in the Scavenger Hunt Contest post.
Like Kingston's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/hyperxcommunity) and post something in the Scavenger Hunt Contest post.
Share the contest on your own wall (simply click the share button under the contest post )
Take a screen shot of your Facebook page showing that you have shared the contest on your wall; send the screenshot to contest@bjorn3d.com
You must complete step 1 in order to qualify for steps 2 and/or 3.



This will get you an entry into the contest. Now to make the contest more interesting, we are going to let you submit extra entries by fulfilling some additional criteria. Every extra entry you earn means your name will be entered into the pool one more time. So if you fulfill all the criteria correctly, you'll have 5 entries, meaning your name will be submitted 5 times, increasing your chance of being picked.

Here's how to increase your chances:


Throughout our reviews and articles posted in 2011, we have scattered 10 contest images like this


http://bjorn3d.com/Material/revimages/Contests/contestentry.jpg



All you have to do is find them and copy the links to the pages you found them on. Once you have gathered all 10, send the list of the links to earn one extra entry.



Once you have found all 10 links, send an email to contest@bjorn3d.com with the 10 links and your forum username, under the subject "Scavenger Hunt 1".



For those who want to increase their chances of winning, we also have 10 questions below. The answers to these questions are scattered through reviews and articles we posted in 2011. If you answer 5 of these questions correctly, you will get one extra entry. If you answer all correctly, you will get 2 extra entries.

Once you have found the answers, send an email to contest@bjorn3d.com with the the answers and your forum username and under the subject "Scavenger Hunt 2"



Here's our list of questions:


What Sandy Bridge-compatible chipset did Intel release this January for SMB users?
In Alice: Madness Returns, what setting file must be changed to lift the maximum FPS cap?
On the GIGABYTE HD 6990, what are the two BIOS profiles (give the name and core clock frequency of each profile)?
Why does a PCI-E SSD based off the SandForce 1200 controller lose performance if written with incompressible data?
What is the read speed difference in the Everest benchmark between a 1600MHz HyperX H2O kit and an overclocked 1680MHz kit at 8-8-8-24?
What recently released technology compresses SSD data using a deduplication algorithm on-the-fly?
What machine is used to perform a 5 year accelerated life test on a piece of computer hardware in less than a week?
What is one major flaw in the Zalman Z9 Plus?
On the GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD7, what was the highest we pushed up the CPU VCore to?
In Crysis 2 what are the different levels of Ceph soldiers?
What product that we haven’t already reviewed would you like us to do a review on? (optional for a fifth entry)

Now, start clicking and searching, and put this stuff to good use. Study hard!

Contests starts today 8-16-2011 and will run till 12PM PST on 8-31-2011.

peti1212
08-16-2011, 06:36 PM
Let the fun begin! :) For those looking for the Kingston Facebook Post for the contest, hang in there as Kingston updates their Facebook page. They might not have it up till tomorrow afternoon, but till then have fun with the scavanger hunt and don't forget to like Kingston once their contest post is up. :)

Blacksmith1
08-16-2011, 07:17 PM
NICE! I can't join since I work for us, but I've got to see if I could have qualified for the extra entries.
Good luck to those that can and do join.

Grufey
08-16-2011, 09:52 PM
please let me win once, would be happy with any of the 3 prizes! :)

Cody_Irwin
08-17-2011, 01:21 AM
I only found 8/10 links, and I checked all reviews and articles two times wich took over 7 hours. so I must be missing something here... Unless your search engine for categorys is not updated.

peti1212
08-17-2011, 01:34 AM
Let me double check but as far as I can tell they are there all in the 2011 articles.

Cody_Irwin
08-17-2011, 02:04 AM
Yea, just saying I double checked every 2011 review and article and not a single one from the list where I can choose by mobo or processor ect. category was the other 2, Only found 8, Not trying to be a sore loser here, just I clicked every single page two times each wich took 7 hrs and I still cant find it going into 9 hours almost now haha. Maybe I missed one article or maybe I didnt but Holy mother of jesus does this alone take forever, I got carpeltunnel from scrolling too much now haha.

Cody_Irwin
08-17-2011, 02:06 AM
I would just check that they are also all in the year 2011 just to be safe if all 10 links are still there, because woo am i tired... haha

peti1212
08-17-2011, 05:59 AM
yep, double checked and they are all there. :) I guess a challenge is a challenge. :P

Cody_Irwin
08-17-2011, 06:25 AM
no way they are all there, unless for some reason they are in the forums lol wich would be breaking contest rules =P.

Guess tommarow ill spend another 8 hrs trying to find the last two page by page by page again......... Zzzzzz my wrist hurts too much from scrolling to check now lol.

peti1212
08-17-2011, 06:45 AM
nope, they are all in reviews/articles from 2011.

imagination
08-17-2011, 07:06 PM
Email sent. Now i have to check the pictures :)
Thank you. Great contest!

sifter
08-17-2011, 09:20 PM
First entry submitted.. and there was this loud NOOOOOOooo when finishing the last article of 2011: 9/10 pictures found.

slugbug
08-18-2011, 01:34 AM
First entry sent.

PP Mguire
08-18-2011, 03:36 AM
First sent.

James86
08-18-2011, 05:04 AM
I'm always in

dacrazydude
08-18-2011, 09:20 AM
Guess the kingston is still not up.

buburuza76
08-18-2011, 10:23 AM
i`ve just sent the first entry! lucky email maybe.

Sam Fisher
08-18-2011, 04:15 PM
Hey guys,
I'm new here, is this contest open worldwide? i'm from Algeria, can i enter the contest?
Btw awesome prizes, good luck all :)

imagination
08-18-2011, 08:04 PM
Those 10 winning pictures are included in articles/reviews from http://bjorn3d.com/content.php from the title - ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME all the way in 2011 when it started with...Intel Core i7 2600k and DP67BG right?

peti1212
08-19-2011, 04:09 AM
Those 10 winning pictures are included in articles/reviews from http://bjorn3d.com/content.php from the title - ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME all the way in 2011 when it started with...Intel Core i7 2600k and DP67BG right?

Yes, you are correct.


Hey guys,
I'm new here, is this contest open worldwide? i'm from Algeria, can i enter the contest?
Btw awesome prizes, good luck all :)

I'm checking for you, though since it was not specified, it should be worldwide. I'll double check for you though.

Hessian
08-19-2011, 10:22 AM
Found this competition through the power of Google. Really want an SSD, but just can't justify the cost, so I'm thinking this is the only way I can get one atm :P

With the first contest entry (Facebook screenshot) does the email subject need to be something specific like the Scavenger Hunt entries?

Hessian
08-19-2011, 12:18 PM
First entry submitted.. and there was this loud NOOOOOOooo when finishing the last article of 2011: 9/10 pictures found.

Same here! FML! 9/10

peti1212
08-19-2011, 06:33 PM
Found this competition through the power of Google. Really want an SSD, but just can't justify the cost, so I'm thinking this is the only way I can get one atm :P

With the first contest entry (Facebook screenshot) does the email subject need to be something specific like the Scavenger Hunt entries?

Everything should be explained in the First forum post!

peti1212
08-19-2011, 06:34 PM
For those anxious to win the SSD in this contest, make sure to check out the review on our front page. We've done in-depth analysis on its performance compared to the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. It's one hell of a beast!

psiloilmari
08-20-2011, 11:09 AM
1º ok I Like Bjorn3D's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Bjorn3D)

psiloilmari
08-20-2011, 11:11 AM
2º I'm liking Kingston's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/hyperxcommunity) !!

Saryn
08-20-2011, 04:47 PM
First step done :D

Hessian
08-20-2011, 04:55 PM
Everything should be explained in the First forum post! Im afraid to say it isn't, the first post xplains what 'Subject' to use for the 2nd and 3rd emails, but not for the original part.

Saryn
08-20-2011, 07:03 PM
Second step done. Had to send it twice...didn't have the right subject.

And all of the pictures are there. Just gotta look for em. Took me about two hours to find them all!

peti1212
08-20-2011, 07:11 PM
Im afraid to say it isn't, the first post xplains what 'Subject' to use for the 2nd and 3rd emails, but not for the original part.

Oh sorry, missed that part, it can be anything, but make it relevant.

rrplay
08-20-2011, 07:34 PM
First Email sent and hunting for the images .Along the way it is really fun for me to read the reviews as well.
Thanks

James86
08-23-2011, 02:27 AM
All three E-mails sent the questions took me longer to answer then the hidden pics thanks to some out of the box thinking by me and for the 11th question i put in a request for the HAF 932 Advanced for ya Black!

kobroro
08-23-2011, 07:52 PM
What happens if I send the same mail twice? In the second I completed the forum username ... Sorry!
By the way! My eyes are out of my head, like snail, looking for labels! I think that's why I neglected the username in the email:)!

werty316
08-24-2011, 01:08 AM
Dagnabbit, I forgot to include my username in my email.

peti1212
08-24-2011, 01:32 AM
Werty, just send another email, with your username in it.

seansin
08-24-2011, 06:48 AM
Ok, have posted in the Bjorn and Kingston facebooks and sent my facebook screenshot.

Blacksmith1
08-24-2011, 08:53 AM
All three E-mails sent the questions took me longer to answer then the hidden pics thanks to some out of the box thinking by me and for the 11th question i put in a request for the HAF 932 Advanced for ya Black!
I knew I liked you! It must have worked because it's supposed to be on it's way. ;) Keep your eyes open for the review.
Seriously though, you guys should ask about new stuff, different stuff, something we haven't done yet.

Hessian
08-24-2011, 02:36 PM
Found the 'Contest Entry' that I was missing, I must've been distracted by the rest of the article's content the first time round ;-)

Hessian
08-24-2011, 10:19 PM
Just sent my email off with the answers to all the questions! *Fingers Crossed* Would love an SSD for my OS and some other important programs! Been out of the hardware scene for a little while, discovered some interesting pieces through the reviews (which I guess is what this competition is all about, although the technical information is way over my head :))

subasuflorian
08-25-2011, 09:20 PM
It's not easy, what you asked us to do. I am dizzy a couple hours looking logo contest, then seeking answers to questions.
Worthwhile for first prize!

Awkward
08-26-2011, 03:48 PM
Good luck to everyone!!! :D

Greetings! :)

Jajuka81
08-27-2011, 07:52 PM
I spent nearly an hour looking for those logos, but after awhile I could barely see straight. I found 5 of them so far. Not sure if I can manage to find the rest. Yeesh. :) But I've submitted the questions and the FB parts.

fispas
08-27-2011, 09:28 PM
A very hard job... Really , a very hard job. Two days for quest..., more and more inforormations.
Congratulations, guys!

PM_DMNKLR
08-28-2011, 10:44 AM
I sure would like to know how people have answered question #5, considering it's nowhere in any of the Everest benchmarks. The Kingston HyperX H2O 1600Mhz @ 8-8-8-24 is there, but there's nothing pertaining to it being OC'd to 1680Mhz @ 8-8-8-24. The closest thing is OCZ Gold-Series 1600Mhz @ 8-8-8-24.

PM_DMNKLR
08-28-2011, 11:20 AM
Nevermind, lol, I had a duh moment. Sure would be nice to have a button to delete or edit my own posts ;)

PM_DMNKLR
08-28-2011, 11:33 AM
I just now sent out the last e-mail. All steps completed for all 5 entries. I sure hope I win, I could use either the SSD or the RAM, as I need both, lol. No matter what, however, thanks for this opportunity :)

rrplay
08-28-2011, 02:26 PM
All emails sent in.Sure it took a bit of effort but learned lot of stuff along the way.It takes a lot of effort to test and do the solid reviews and articles posted here in this forum and because of this great contest I can appreciate them more.
Thanks

Cody_Irwin
08-29-2011, 11:08 PM
I wish I had the time to do the rest of tickets but I only sent in one ticket. YAY for hard core raiding... Looks like im out on this contest :-\ Really wanted that ssd too, No computer stores near me to test stuff so i gotta buy everything I wanna test :( Grats to the winners when announced! Sucks only getting in 1 ticket due to no more time available to me this month.

psiloilmari
08-30-2011, 12:03 PM
2ºemail with 10 links of images contest entry sent!!;-)

werty316
08-31-2011, 02:37 AM
Good luck everyone!

goldenchessboard
08-31-2011, 06:44 AM
Good luck everyone! I had a lot of fun reading through some of the reviews, especially the GTX 560ti and 6870 reviews since I'll be purchasing one of these cards within the next month :) I'm currently using an 8800gt and figured its time to upgrade. woops.. gone off topic

peti1212
08-31-2011, 02:56 PM
Last Day to Enter! If you haven't done so yet, it's time to do a quick search for the scavenger hunt pictures and the questions. :) It could help you win some very nice prizes. :) Good luck!

Hessian
08-31-2011, 03:03 PM
Got my fingers crossed!

psiloilmari
08-31-2011, 04:28 PM
3rd email sent !!! GOODLUCK!!:grin::grin:

buburuza76
09-01-2011, 07:46 AM
fingers crossed for this one! goodluck!

peti1212
09-01-2011, 05:26 PM
Good luck guys. Now time to gather all the entries, and we'll pull out three lucky winners. Stay tuned in the next few days. This might take a while to gather together.

Blacksmith1
09-02-2011, 04:21 AM
Did I win? Oh wait, I didn't enter... Good luck to all that did.

Cody_Irwin
09-02-2011, 07:37 AM
I won the ssd! WOOO =P if only, id be set for awhile then hehe