Bjorn3D's April Contest!! [Archive] - Bjorn3d.com Forums brought to you by XFX

Scott Sherman

04-16-2006, 10:40 AM

Well time for a new contest and new prizes.

For our USA and Canada winner the prize will be a XFX 7900GT. For out European winner the prize will be a PowerColor X800GTO.

All you have to do to have a chance to win is post 125 quality post in the forum in the month of April. This mean any one liners will not count. You must also let us know what country you live in when your register for the forum so when new which card your are looking to win.

Good luck to all.

Scott

liqnit

04-16-2006, 11:16 AM

Another great contest from Bjorn3d.
the 7900GT is the new king !!

Bio-Hazard

04-16-2006, 02:12 PM

Looks like the first contest post got dropped in the change over, but never hurts to repost a great contest from a great site............;)

Chakka

04-16-2006, 10:41 PM

pym

04-17-2006, 03:27 AM

That's a great thing to have a contests forums.
Great contests to start it off as well ;)

Good luck to all with this one :)

zachig

04-17-2006, 07:20 AM

Thanks. GOOD LUCK everyone. :D

I wish I could put my hands on this sweet 7900GT. :rolleyes:

Kougar

04-23-2006, 09:58 AM

Well I never thought I could post 125 legitimate posts within 1 month (actually since April 7th when I joined). Im still shy around 30 posts, but I still have 2 weeks so I keep my thinkin cap on for the next 2 weeks.

Hmm, mind if I borrow that cap for a week? :D

Contests are certainly a great way to attract attention, should be obvious enough I'm an example of that! Also is what got me over onto Driverhaven as well, but a person can only live on his computer for 24 hours a day, so that was my limit to forum posting contests!

Belated Good Luck wish to everyone here... now those winners had better put those cards to some good use! :cool:

Scott Sherman

04-23-2006, 11:31 AM

The good thing so far is all the winners except last month guy from Europe have joined the site and stayed. That is the type of people I am hoping we bring to Bjorn3D. I would like to see that active forum member # go from where it is now to a couple of hundred.

I myself when I have time love to talk to people in forums and hated it when I had to go to other sites to talk because we had no one partaking here. I do not think we have done that bad for only doing the contest for 5 months.

I think Bjorn3D's birthday month contest will bring some folks in and be a real challenge. Remeber I said something on the front page about practicing the forum games? Better get busy.

Scott

Bio-Hazard

04-23-2006, 01:45 PM

I can only imagine what you have up your sleeve for the Birthday contest prize..........;) Knowing you all here and XFX, you're going to have a super prize for sure. I wouldn't pu it past you guys to put up a 7900GTX SLi setup as the Grand Prize................:)

Scott Sherman

04-23-2006, 01:50 PM

Knowing you all here and XFX, you're going to have a super prize for sure. I wouldn't pu it past you guys to put up a 7900GTX SLi setup as the Grand Prize................:)

Man you must think I am rich.

Bio-Hazard

04-23-2006, 01:57 PM

We can only hope based on your past generosity..........;)

zachig

04-23-2006, 04:44 PM

I'm starting to practice already...;)

Just let me know when the forum games begin.

Oh...sorry for the "stupid" question, but when is exactly the "Bjorn3D Forum Birthday"??? :rolleyes:

...And a 7900GTX SLI setup wouldn't be that bad afterall...:D

werty316

04-23-2006, 06:15 PM

Probably next month May? Well any how can't wait to see what Scott and the staff have up their sleeves.

PUTALE

04-23-2006, 06:53 PM

hehehe, yeah, it's awesome that XFX keeps giving us great prizes.

BTW, happy birthday Bjorn3d. I notice that you turn 10 this year when I was reading the site info.

mousiness

04-24-2006, 10:48 PM

Thanks. GOOD LUCK everyone. :D

I wish I could put my hands on this sweet 7900GT. :rolleyes:

Heyheyhey dont TRY to be humble we all know youre twitching by the sound of the 7900GT lol:rolleyes:

werty316

04-25-2006, 12:20 AM

Thanks. GOOD LUCK everyone. :D

I wish I could put my hands on this sweet 7900GT. :rolleyes:

I guess zachig wants to rub a good one with that 7900GT lol jk

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 02:43 AM

??????????

Let me think, :rolleyes:

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 02:54 AM

Does anybody know who Happy Gilmore is this month?

I do since I have decided.

http://ai.pricegrabber.com/product_images/17687000-17687999/17687592_640.jpg

I bet Happy Gilmore would be happy with this.

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 03:01 AM

I bet he would be to......;)
That's one super card............:)

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 03:03 AM

I bet he would be to......;)
That's one super card............:)

Funny how you happened along Mr. Gilmore.

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 03:08 AM

This just fantastic, I'm really at a loss for words, I've been wanting a new card for the longest time...................:)
Thanks so much you all, at Bjorn3D, Scott and XFX

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 03:40 AM

PM me your shipping info and I am hoping you continue to keep posting on the site.

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 04:12 AM

PM sent, I'm not going anywhere.......;), this is one of the few sites that has anything going on really except for the H and I stopped going there a while back. The people there always seem to be out for a arguement all the time.

liqnit

04-25-2006, 05:28 AM

CONGRATS MAN
Have a great time with that wonderfull card
i am having a great time with my 7800GT

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 05:31 AM

Thanks, I'm already planning the water cooling loop..........;) Can't wait to run a few benchmarks with a card that really performs..............:)

liqnit

04-25-2006, 05:35 AM

Thanks, I'm already planning the water cooling loop..........;) Can't wait to run a few benchmarks with a card that really performs..............:)
judjing by past Post of your rig it should be somthing awosome .
please post pictures and benchmarks

pym

04-25-2006, 05:44 AM

Well, I can't say that I am surprised...
You really contributed a lot and I think you surely deserve the prize!

CONGRATULATIONS, keep us updated with pictures and details :D

Catch you later ;)

zachig

04-25-2006, 05:49 AM

CONGRATULATIONS on your win, Bio!!!

You really deserve the card!!! :D

Anyway, I really hope I'll be the lucky winner next month or so...:rolleyes:

...Waiting for the next contest to start already...;)

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 05:56 AM

Thanks you guys, you'll all be the first to know as soon as the card gets here..........;). Now I've got to do a little more reading on drivers and all the setting on Nvidia cards, it's been a long time since my last one, I'm really looking forward to this.

PUTALE

04-25-2006, 06:21 AM

wait, april is not yet finished. man, I didn't even get a chance.:(

congrat man, that's one awesome card. Man, how I wish that I could have gotten it., so are you going to send me your his card as a consolation prize:).

werty316

04-25-2006, 08:02 AM

I guess it was a no competition for Apr.

Congrats sbrehm and let the games begin.

pym

04-25-2006, 10:10 AM

The games have already begun ;)

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 11:14 AM

Guys.

He really has been adding to the site alot for the last several months and really there is no one close to the number of post he has done. It was a was really up to a coin toss last month but I could not do that again to my March winner. He had that happen to him in Feb.

So if you go and look back you can now see that the really active members on the forums for the since the contest started that made the 100 post min all have won.

This is a good thing to me so the wealth has been spread around to all of you. And like I said the other day all the winners except last month winner in Europe has stuck around. Now what do I have up my sleave for May.

I have not decided on all the rules yet but here is my thinking and give me your thoughts.

Bjorn3D 10 Birthday Party

Must post 25 post min. XFX is now sponsoring USA, Canada and Europe.

Has all month to get the best scores in all the forum games. Ahh the Olympics Part!!!

XFX and Bjorn 3D will have a GOLD Medal Winner, Silver Medal Winner and Bronze Medal winner.

What do you think?

Scott Sherman

04-25-2006, 11:17 AM

I am doing the 25 post min to try to get more people around the world to give it a try. I think the high post count scare some off. For the birthday I do not want to do that.

pym

04-25-2006, 11:21 AM

First, CONGRATULATIONS Bjorn3D !!! :D
May's contest looks amazing to me!
Bjorn3D's Olympic Games, don't you just love the sound of it :)

I think it's great, Scott!

zachig

04-25-2006, 11:25 AM

It's good to know that we'll have a VERY BIG contest for May.

I personally think that it is really unfair to give ALL three prizes only to the people who will get to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the forum games, since not all of us have "a lot of time" to "spend" on the games, and believe me it takes A LOT OF TIME to try and break the records.

Beside that, not everyone has good "gaming" skills (like me), so to be honest, I've already given up on trying to break new records...

Also, in some games you can "easily" reach 100,000 Pts while on other you can "hardly" reach 100 Pts. So I don't think it is fair, if I'm very good at "Simon" and won the 1st place, but I really suck at "Breakout"...

It also seems that most people will be interested now in playing the games in order to break records, instead of posting in the forums, so I guess that the forums might be almost empty, during the forum games contest...

So...in my opinion, you should think of something else for May Contest, since it'll make a lot of people to give up on the prizes, before the contest even started.

At the end, it's UP TO YOU to decide how the May Contest will be held and what will be the rules for it.

I can only tell you how I personally feel...:(

EDIT:
I have a suggestion...Since it's Bjorn3D Birthday Contest :D afterall, you can just RANDOMALLY select 3 winners out of all the people who will play the forum games during the contest period.
I just think that it might scare some people off and some of us (including me...) might give up on the prizes before the contest even started, and most people will agree with me that the contest should be FUN afterall and not an "endless race" to try and get the maximum points available in order to win a prize...

Hope you'll take this into consideration when you decide on the contest rules. :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance, ;)
zachig.

liqnit

04-25-2006, 11:49 AM

First of all i think making a birthday contest is a great idea
I agree with Zachig in general about people just gaming instead of posting is not what should be for this forum
after all games is not the main thing around here :)
i think the prizes should be divided among the top players and most intresting posters.

and one that won best game cannot win in the posts contest or somthing similar.

also there can be a poll for best poster among the people of this forum

ofcourse you make the contest rules but please take that into considiration.

pym

04-25-2006, 12:04 PM

I am sorry, zachig, I must say I think totaly different than you...
In global, I agree the contest should not be around games only.
I agree with liqnit, prizes should be divided among the top players and most intresting posters.
But the games part must have the medals and all, I think it's a great idea...

Here is what I think about some things you said

...since not all of us have "a lot of time" to "spend" on the games, and believe me it takes A LOT OF TIME to try and break the records.

How long do you think it takes to post 125 quality posts?
I know it takes much longer then the games, I invest a few hours on every Preview / Article I write...

...not everyone has good "gaming" skills (like me), so to be honest, I've already given up on trying to break new records...

Not everyone can express themselves in posts and think of creative ways to conribute to the forums as well.
Still, I never heard anyone complain about that...

It also seems that most people will be interested now in playing the games in order to break records, instead of posting in the forums, so I guess that the forums might be almost empty, during the forum games contest...

I disagree, it will only attract people to the forums and create a healthy competition as well between the members, which will result in more threads and conversations...

...RANDOMALLY select 3 winners out of all the people who will play the forum games during the contest period.

If this will happen, it won't really be Bjorn3D's Olympic Games anymore, will it?

...and I'm sure that the contest should be FUN afterall and not an "endless race" to try and get the maximum points available in order to win a prize...

Hasn't it been an "endless race" of posts until now?

Think about it... ;)

Bio-Hazard

04-25-2006, 01:37 PM

Just a thought here, how about having say a grand prize for the member that boes both based on helpful posts and games, posts to be on decided by staff. Then have a First place for the best gamer and then a first place for the most helpful poster, also to be decided on by the staff.

werty316

04-25-2006, 05:30 PM

How about whoever has the most points from all the games, first place in the games or not? I mean some games you can get really high scores and some require a lower score to get first place; who ever has first place in most of the games is gonna win.

EDIT:
bI have a suggestion...Since it's Bjorn3D Birthday Contest :D afterall, you can just RANDOMALLY select 3 winners out of all the people who will play the forum games during the contest period.
I just think that it might scare some people off and some of us (including me...) might give up on the prizes before the contest even started, and most people will agree with me that the contest should be FUN afterall and not an "endless race" to try and get the maximum points available in order to win a prize...

Hope you'll take this into consideration when you decide on the contest rules. :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance, ;)
zachig.

This would defeat the purpose of the games.

EDIT:
[b]bI have a suggestion...Since it's Bjorn3D Birthday Contest :D afterall, you can just RANDOMALLY select 3 winners out of all the people who will play the forum games during the contest period.
I just think that it might scare some people off and some of us (including me...) might give up on the prizes before the contest even started, and most people will agree with me that the contest should be FUN afterall and not an "endless race" to try and get the maximum points available in order to win a prize...

Hope you'll take this into consideration when you decide on the contest rules. :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance, ;)
zachig.

As it istands the most points isn't the winner but I like the most points over who is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on the games.

Victor

04-25-2006, 05:38 PM

congrat sbrehm7225. That's an awesome prize you have won. Heck, most people who ordered it can't even get it.

Now if only I couldn enter, then you won't stand a chance. Hehehe:).

Coolest-Tech

04-25-2006, 06:05 PM

Awww! you changed the URL, so I had no chance of winning, as you didn't post a link to the new forum! But, April isn't finished, so why are you sending him the card? I want a new card to replace my broken 7800 GT!

Schwarz

04-25-2006, 06:48 PM

Hehe nice one Happy Gilmore :p
Who here actually thought someone else would get the card :p
Anyways good job man enjoy the card cause i sure would abuse the card :p

werty316

04-25-2006, 09:35 PM

Hehe nice one Happy Gilmore :p
Who here actually thought someone else would get the card :p
Anyways good job man enjoy the card cause i sure would abuse the card :p

I think The_nVIDIA_Guy is the only one.

Awww! you changed the URL, so I had no chance of winning, as you didn't post a link to the new forum! But, April isn't finished, so why are you sending him the card? I want a new card to replace my broken 7800 GT!

I don't think you read all the posts and rules plus you were even close to the required posts.

Kougar

04-26-2006, 02:20 AM

Congrats Mr. Gilmore!! You better make good use of that card in your rig and take very good care of that baby!

Now, I would have easily broken 125 posts before the end of the month, and I was certainly trying to not do simple one-liners... But I couldn't agree more about Sbrehm getting it as he always seems to have two posts to my every one since I have joined these forums!

As for my thoughts on the next contest... I'm happy to hear there will be more than one winner! Spreading things out a bit is nicer for everyone that wants a shot at winning, by evening their odds a little.

As for how to go about designing the contest, games vs posts vs post quality... I can see it going either way, so I think I'll just stay out of that one!

Bio-Hazard

04-26-2006, 04:25 AM

I'm going to have the card installed and benching within the hour after it shows up on my door step, you can bet on that..............:)

XJnine

04-26-2006, 05:22 AM

I know I'm running a bit late with this but congrats on winning the card old man.. You definitely deserved it! Thanks for filling the forum up with interesting posts and good replies.

Chakka

04-26-2006, 02:45 PM

Congrats Sbrem! It was pretty obvious that you were going to win right from the get go.

I have never posted over 100 posts in any one month on any forum and I did achieve a personal best here with some great interchange with other members of the forum.

While I dont agree with you on a few issues, I think its healthy to have differences of opinion. As long as I can continue to express my beliefs, I stay on this forum. I originally found this forum because I had a problem with my XFX vid card, got great service from XFX support (with the help of Bjorn3d) and have been able to express opinions on other issues that I have had as well. As long as I can continue to do so without getting slammed too often, I plan to stay.

I would be very interested to see your 3dmark05/06 scores and see if these XFX 7900gts perform better than the competition which my card seems to achieve. While I may get another 7900gt later for SLI, I dont see the need for one right now because I can turn up all of advanced video features in any of the games that Im playing and I have no frame rate problems as far as I can see.

Again congrats!

werty316

04-26-2006, 06:23 PM

What do you mean by competition? Well the XFX 7900GT beats a stock 7900GT but not by much. XFX cards comes factory OC'd.

Chakka

04-26-2006, 06:31 PM

What do you mean by competition? Well the XFX 7900GT beats a stock 7900GT but not by much. XFX cards comes factory OC'd.

Heck if I know what I mean half the time....actually I have been reading reviews on other 7900gts and the scores Im getting on my xfx 7900gt card have greatly outpaced other brands. Just wanted to see if it were my card only or not. Why, well I have that issue with fan noise. XFX Support thinks its my fan is malfunctioning but I dont want to give it up because of the performance of this card that I have.

Unless of course I start seeing reviews of other XFX 7900gts that get the same scores or higher. I was told by XFX that if I send it in, I wont get the same card back cause they send it back to HQ. So I get stuck with a different card. Hope this all makes sense...yes, competition between vendors, not other types of cards.

veltsikas

04-26-2006, 06:46 PM

but what will hapen if none of europe users take 125 post....

werty316

04-26-2006, 07:05 PM

but what will hapen if none of europe users take 125 post....

Probably nothing.

FrostWarlock

04-27-2006, 01:35 PM

congrats sbrehm72255 on your great new card.
Sorry for disappearing for a few days, I went on a vacation...
Have fun eith your new XFX prize !!!

Bio-Hazard

04-27-2006, 03:42 PM

Thanks, I'll do my best to abuse, opps, enjoy the the card when it gets here............;)

tomato

04-27-2006, 05:52 PM

Congrats on winning that sweet card, sbrehm! ;) You deserved it!

Bevous

05-03-2006, 10:17 PM

My step dad is totally excited about winning the card and so am I (I get his old X800XL when he gets it). He's already got everything all setup and ready to install his water cooling on the card as soon as it shows up........

Bio-Hazard

05-09-2006, 06:32 PM

I just wanted to say thanks again..........;) The card made it to the back woods today. I hope to get it installed later today after I finish up a few things on the wifes Honey-Do list, but for now heres a few pics. It's the 470/1.37 clocked version.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/photo/data/500/DSC00126.JPG

http://www.bjorn3d.com/photo/data/500/DSC00127.JPG

http://www.bjorn3d.com/photo/data/500/DSC00132.JPG

werty316

05-09-2006, 06:43 PM

That is very sweet news sbrehm now get some WC'ing on that thing hehe
I still can believe teh 7900GT cards don't have any cooling for the memory.

Bio-Hazard

05-09-2006, 06:59 PM

I was pretty surprized as to how small the card really is with all the last generation cards being so big. The 7900GT is just about the same exact size as my old X800XL...................:)

I'm going to install it with stock cooling at first to get a baseline for performance and operating temps, then the water cooling will come into action.

I've also got a set of Swiftech MC14 BGA video ram sinks to install on the card along with the water cooling. That should also help things out a little.

werty316

05-09-2006, 07:09 PM

Sweet can't wait to see the pics and benches.

Kougar

05-09-2006, 07:18 PM

That is one sweet looking card! Good luck with finishing that list in time so you can get around to properly installing it. ;)

tomato

05-09-2006, 08:14 PM

Nice card sbrehm! Glad to hear it made its way safely into your hands :) screw the to-do list and get installing that card! ;)

zachig

05-09-2006, 08:29 PM

CONGRATULATIONS, sbrehm!!! I'm glad you finally got your card!!!

Don't forget to let us know of far did you manage to overclock it with your extreme watercooling!!! ;)

Coolest-Tech

05-09-2006, 10:17 PM

Sweet card! I'm geting one of those 7900 GT, but I'm looking at the EVGA GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClocked.

I'll be using a VF-900 for cooling.

werty316

05-10-2006, 12:07 AM

Kougar

05-10-2006, 12:47 AM

Yeah my liking has turned a bitmore to eVGA since you can't void your warranty if you OC but then again how will a manufacturer know if you OC'd; its not like they will test everything that they get from an RMA. How about some pics of it with some WC'ing action sbrehm?

I can't profess to know for sure, but I believe they have some diagnostics they can perform. It's more a matter of costs though, as if the card still marginally worked it would be pretty easy to plug it into a machine and have the card itself report that it was run outside of it's specs. If it was dead they'd have to remove the rom store physically and plug that in to find out. At least that'd be one method I'd use... it'd still be cheaper than sending that same customer a new replacement card.

And there are the obligatory to mention ethical issues involved, which is why I say if you overclock against the warranty, it's yer own fault if it breaks. That was why I bought a card with Overdrive. It OCs without voiding the warranty. I tested the card anyway with ATI Tool after a year, and I found that exact same clock Overdive used was the highest limit without artifacts this card could support anyway.

werty316

05-10-2006, 12:54 AM

More times when you send a product for RMA they usually just test it to the companies standards and if it pases they send it to get repaired. Not sure if this is true for all manufacturers some if not all HD manufacturers send you a "Refurbished"/"Recertified" product like WD does.

Overdrive only OCs the GPU and not memory I think. That would still void the warranty unless otherwise specified by the manufactuer. How exactly would it not void a warranty if used?

Kougar

05-10-2006, 01:18 AM

Overdrive was the selling point of the 9600XT in my sig. At least for PowerColor models, you get a maximum overclock just with a click of the mouse and they explicitly stated Overdrive overclocking doesn't void the warranty. Powercolor had already OCed the memory up to it's limit beyond reference parts, I tested that as well but found zero headroom.

As for the Refurbished/Recertified drives... I'm stuck using one right now and it appears it will only last as long as the drive it replaced during an RMA. Sending out replacement products that are known to be faulty in some way is a cheap alternative for honoring a warranty, instead of testing the hardware and refusing to honor the warranty for whatever reason. ;)