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OCC’s 2009 Christmas Contest

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

If you haven’t gotten yourself entered in OCC’s 2009 Christmas Contest, you still have a few days left. The contest will officially end sometime on the evening of 12/24. Follow the instructions on the link above, and you’ll be entered. Those of you who are signed up for the OCC Newsletter or are fans of OCC on Facebook will get an additional entry for a total of three chances to win.

In addition to a kick ass gaming rig, you can also win a ton of stuff from Mushkin, ThermalTake, CoolerMaster, Sapphire, Asus, OCZ, VisionTek, Antec, and others. There is currently a total of 65 prizes available to win, and we may get some more added before the contest comes to an end. You never know. ;)

During last year’s Christmas contest (before I re-joined the staff) I won a Sapphire Radeon HD 4750!

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OverclockersClub.com Userbar Contest

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

The submissions are in and now it is time to vote for the 2008 OverclockersClub.com user bar. There were 19 different entries into the contest, and now it’s time to vote on the winner… in addition to having their design used around OCC, the winner will also receive a Sapphire HD 3850 video card.

Go vote, and if you need help deciding on which one to vote for, I’d highly recommend #6! :D

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I Won A Sapphire Radeon HD 4870

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Back in December I was talking about the 2008 OverclockersClub.com Christmas contest, where they gave away over 50 prizes including a fully loaded Intel Core 2 i7 gaming system that I estimated the worth around $5K. Sadly, I didn’t win the gaming rig… well, to be honest, I don’t know what I would have done with it. :D However, I did win a pretty slick video card.

Thanks to OCC I now have a brand new Sapphire (ATi) Radeon HD 4570 video card with 512 MB GDDR5. Just so you know exactly how much of an upgrade this is, the video card in my current system – yes, despite being a Mac user, I still have an old AMD64 rig – is a VisionTek X1550 256MB (DDR2) AGP. I didn’t even know video cards were using GDDR5! When did 3 & 4 come out?? Ok, so it’s been a good 5 years since I built a PC. I’ve just not had any reason to build a new rig.

Enough talk, right? I’m sure everyone wants to see the prize now… so here it is.

Now, I just have to figure out which end plugs into the motherboard, the power, and the video cards. :D

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Overclockers Club Christmas Contest

Friday, December 12th, 2008

It’s been a long time since I’ve even mentioned OverclockersClub.com here on my site. It feels kind of strange. But this post isn’t about the past. It’s about, well as the title suggests, the OverclockersClub.com Christmas Contest. And one heck of a contest it is at that!

There are currently over 50 prizes available to registered members, and they just recently added more.

If I’ve done my math right, the grand prize itself is worth nearly $5K. More on the prizes in just a moment. (more…)

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