As you might know, we announced that Stardock will be giving away a custom built gaming PC worth over $4000 to the millionth Impulse customer.  I was told the specs, and I’m just in awe of what an awesome machine this is.

I wanted to share the specs of the gaming PC just to give you a taste.  I will update the post once we get some pictures taken.

Custom Built:

  • Case: Ikonik RA-X10 Full Tower
  • Processor:  Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz
  • RAM: 12 GB DDR3/1600 MHz Corsair
  • CD:  Sony 5X Blu-Ray Player/DVD-RW Burner
  • Power: 1,000 Watt Power Supply
  • Video: 2xATI Radeon 4870x2 in Crossfire
  • Monitor: 24" LCD Widescreen
  • Sound: Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatality Pro
  • Speakers:  Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround System
  • HD:  2 TB RAID-0
  • OS:  Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Whoever ends up with this, is going to be one lucky gamer.


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on Mar 18, 2009

Very, very nice.  So this goes to the new customer #1,000,000 or can any of us who buy something win?

on Mar 18, 2009

*drool*

on Mar 18, 2009

Hummm... Brads old computer perhaps? 

on Mar 18, 2009

How many Impulsers are there now?

on Mar 18, 2009

So this goes to the new customer #1,000,000 or can any of us who buy something win?

That's what I've been trying to find out since they posted about this yesterday.  All the thread titles say user, some content says user, others says customer.  No direction on what type of customer...completly new customer or the millionth person to buy something from Impulse, implying that all of us have a chance at it.

on Mar 18, 2009

Wow, that's quite a work horse

12GB RAM? I'll never get used to how odd the amount of RAM gets with 6 slots for memory.

on Mar 18, 2009

messiah1

So this goes to the new customer #1,000,000 or can any of us who buy something win?
That's what I've been trying to find out since they posted about this yesterday.  All the thread titles say user, some content says user, others says customer.  No direction on what type of customer...completly new customer or the millionth person to buy something from Impulse, implying that all of us have a chance at it.

Completely new customer only.

This sums it up: >LINK<

on Mar 18, 2009

yeah yeah whats the dealio?

 

on Mar 18, 2009

Completely new customer only.

This sums it up: >LINK<

 

No it doesn't, read #31, #32 and then #35.  WTF?

on Mar 18, 2009

I thinks it is for SOASE where as it's a sale of 500k++ and going up

on Mar 18, 2009

So what about the rest of us?  The ones who helped you get to 1,000,000 in the first place?

on Mar 18, 2009

messiah1

No it doesn't, read #31, #32 and then #35.  WTF?

Ugh... You're right... Not definite anyway... Oh well...

on Mar 18, 2009

I intend to build my own, something like that. Except with the Nvidia graphics card, latest, and possibly liquid cooling. Including a motherboard capable of overclocking. I have most of my list finished for it, just need to get the funds then.

Thing about the Intel 7I CPU is that you really don't need it for gaming. Games are not programmed to take advantage of it properly. You're only going to be getting a bare few extra frames from it when running Crysis (I blame Crysis for this though, it had shoddy coding), but excellent for multi-media editing purposes. It's like buying a really fast car that would require you to break the law and being insane to actually use it properly. Although it's something to last you for a long time, no doubt.

The AMD cards is a good idea, getting the most out of your PC at a fairly cheap price. Again, Nvidia is better, but your not going to be using it fully at any time for any game out there. I refer again to the fast-car example.

If you want a powerful gaming rig, without the flash of a fast car, an AMD high end CPU and AMD Radeon graphics is what you'll want. Also, spend the extra for a 2 ms refresh rate on a wide-screen. You may be sacrificing an enormous scree, but nowadays you can get a fairly big screen with a 2 ms refresh rate, which prevents ghosting and allows you to wear 3-D glasses. I'd say the nerdgasmic experience is worth it.

on Mar 19, 2009

oh, as a longtime stadockcentral and impulsecustomer I feel cheated and dirty...

 

thanks a lot stardock!

on Mar 19, 2009

Still surprised by the lack of a definate answer from SD on who is eligable.

Best i can get is a new customer, so new email nick, and that that person buys something.

Does that include retail bought items that are regged under a new customer?

Too many grey area's.

And oh yeah...I want that PC!!

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