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Almost 2 mmH2O on a 60mm thick rad at 1000 RPM, that's impressive. Most fans can't do that at 3000 RPM.

Valid points. To me, paying an entry fee or essentially buying a raffle ticket instead of specifically paying money to win said prize seems better. Ultimately what I don't want is our vendors thinking we are profiting off of their "free" merchandise. I honestly can't think of a way to collect funds from participants and not make it seem that way. Most of of vendors did in fact ship directly to the winners and that solved this issue, however some did not. I was not told that Cooler Master was going to do what they did (Shipping all the prizes to me). I will make it a point of clarity when asking next month. We also did not anticipate the customs duties either. Being American, it's not something that @damricor I have ever experienced before, so we had no idea. I still do not see a clear way to do this without anyone (EHW included) paying out of pocket given how this past one went with prize distribution. I will have a clearer picture next moth as I begin to petition vendors for products as to their ability to ship directly and avoid out of pocket expenses for the site.

I'll DM you the details and can take more pics if you need it. There is no specific manual for the key it's self, but it's in the user manual. Looks to be a 10-1 Pin cable. E6989_Rampage_IV_Extreme.pdf

Sigh, yea. I bought it for my Rampage 4, but sadly, it's missing the cable required for it to function.

<$100 New, I couldn't refuse.

K8M800 754 I have one of those

I know, I know, not blaming you, it's just annoying that everything is a leak now

Leak, leak, leak. How is EVERY piece of tech news a leak now? Cool board though. Thats a hard pass for me.

I'm not opposed to this, but I would have to bring it up with the organizing staff first. If they did decide to allow that, it would be something that we would want to have in hand before announcing it as a prize. Last thing we would want is to try and coordinate a prize donated by a member after the compo ended. But I personally thank you for considering it.

Bronze might not be a horrible idea, but Platinum is a lifetime upgraded membership. For every "free" membership that we distribute, we are taking away the potential revenue from the site. You would have to ask @ENTERPRISEif that kind of prize is something he would like to do.

So we learned quite a few things after this years tournament. Luckily most of the participants live in pretty similar lines of latitude and fall under similar seasons (fall/winter). How a vendor labels the item is a HUGE part of how fee's are assessed before delivery and we can only "suggest" they be labeled as a gift. If the shipping agent for whatever vendor fails to do so, we end up liable for those fee's. The second part of that is "Declared Value", a few places have dollar amounts that must be kept below or fee's/taxes are assessed. 1- We tried doing that in small part last year, limiting Cooler Master prizes to USA only because they bulk shipped the items to me, which I then had to distribute out of pocket to all the winners. I dislike holding an event where prizes have to be limited to region based on cost, this is why we are asking how people feel with a $10 entry fee. 2- Tech manufacturers do not issue gift cards that I am aware of. They would also need a proprietary online store to accomplish this. I can reach out to some vendors over the next month and inquire about this as it's actually a good idea. 3- If we do this, it is no longer a "Gift/prize". They should not have to be paid for by the winner. Last year we had Canadian customs asking for higher duty fee's than most of the items were actually worth. 4- Extreme swag is not manufactured by us and still has an associated cost. We wanted a way to give our members gifts for participating in activities that did not incur a cost to members or EHW in any way. That was at least the plan.....

I did some vBIOS modding to increase the voltage limit and I haven't decided if it's worth hard modding yet. Basstian will probably mod all 5 of his

I'm jelly. Now I have to buy one because you bought one...

I'll let you and our resident gamer girl @Fluxmavenfight to the death for the title.

Welcome to the forum = BAN!

Linky poo is broken homeslice

I agree with Flux on this one, I think $10 is the right amount. $20 is a stretch

I like the February idea, should help with temps. I think I like @Monsterkater's idea of 5 days. I think that a $10 entry free to be eligible for prizes is also more than fair.

Love most of your ideas, the one above is difficult for three reasons. 1. We almost always have the vendor's directly ship the prizes to the winners (If an option), which should eliminate the need for middle men. 2. If we keep it a "random draw", there is no way to know which prizes will go where. This makes it hard if not all winners of a certain vendor are in the same country. 3. That would be many points of coordination and EHW does not want to make non-staff members liable for gifts if anything should happen to them.

You wouldn't have happened to update your MOBO bios recently have you?

Fine, sending.