Joyswag: Win this $5K dollar gaming rig from Falcon Northwest

12126 Comments by Christopher Grant Nov 20th 2007 6:00PM
Filed under: PC, Joyswag

[Update: Comments are closed, and we've selected our winner and ... it's Ignatius! Congratulations, Ignatius. The folks at Falcon Northwest are custom building your PC right now. Solitaire is gonna fly on this thing!]

Here it is, folks. The most extravagant, expensive, and opulent prize we've ever offered you guys on this here blog. In laymen's terms: it's a one-of-a-kind Falcon Northwest system featuring a 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, two Nvidia GeForce 8800GT cards in SLI, two 500GB hard drives in RAID 0, and a 22" widescreen Viewsonic monitor, and a custom case featuring branding for the first-person limb mangler, Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Interested in the full specs for this beast (estimated retail value $4999), hit 'em up after the break.

As always, there are official rules you should probably avail yourself of, but we'll share the most important ones with you here: you can only enter once per day (we'll remind you daily) and you need to be 18 or older and live in the US (sorry, we don't make the laws). The contest will be open for two weeks and we'll pick a single (very lucky) winner at 5pm ET on Tuesday, December 4th.

For today's entry, let us know how embarrassingly underpowered your current gaming PC is. We'll start: we're rocking a 486 – DX2, thank you very much – and 640kb ought to be enough for anybody. You?

Full List of Specs:

ICON Exotix – Custom SOF artwork w/ bulletholes
ICON Standard Solid
Silverstone 1000Watt Strider - Modular
EVGA nVidia nForce 680I - SLI
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz
Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCU LED
2GB Corsair Dominator 6400C4
2x nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Creative Labs X-Fi
Raid 0 - Requires 2 Identical Drives

Seagate 500GB 16MB Cache SATA 2

Seagate 500GB 16MB Cache SATA 2

Lite-On 20X DVD+-RW W/Lightscribe
Mitsumi Flash Media & Floppy Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium - 32 Bit
Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX-518 Gaming-Grade Opt. Mouse
Viewsonic 22&#34 - 1680x1050
Logitech X-240 2.1
Falcon Northwest T-Shirt (LG)

Tags: Falcon-Northwest, Soldier-of-Fortune

(Page 1) Reader Comments

Joe: Nov 20th 2007; 6:03PM

I don't know how my computer machine even works *sigh*

Lament: Nov 20th 2007; 6:40PM

2 gigs of RAM
200 GB of hard disk space
Other stuff I can't really remember off the top of my head...

pizzavideogames: Nov 20th 2007; 6:41PM

Mine's a Dell, 2.0 ghz Pentium 4, 512mb RAM, windows xp, and it runs like new.

Dan: Nov 20th 2007; 9:00PM

I'm running a Dell from 1999 with 128mb ram, an integrated video card that has about 64mb memory, and I don't even know what the CPU is.
I can get about...10fps on Diablo (the first one, not even the 2nd one)

michael corsner: Nov 20th 2007; 9:24PM

i have a commodore 64.....hehehe well it practically is.

Jake: Nov 20th 2007; 10:12PM

My computer is a 6 year old stock Compaq Pressario 6000 with a 17 inch color monitor and some JBL Platinum Series speakers and a 60Gb (I believe) HDD. She handles Snood on the highest settings but the framerate chugs a bit on my Peggle demo.

SCPChop: Nov 20th 2007; 10:22PM

Um I dont even have to list how underpowered it is. Just think that it cannot even run the Halo PC trial

CMorrison: Nov 21st 2007; 8:29PM

Athlon 1.6 ghz
2 gigs of ram
GeForce 7300 low-profile
Windows Vista (God have mercy)

Kn1ves: Nov 21st 2007; 3:07AM

I own not one, but TWO compaq presarios. enough said.

Chris: Nov 21st 2007; 7:47AM

My rigs not even rocking anything it broke about 6 months ago since then I've been using an old IBM business laptop to get my wow fix, this shortly after I went on a PC game spree and bought up Q4, the source package, Fear all the good stuff :(

Cap'n Jack: Nov 21st 2007; 9:06AM

Tandy from Radio Shack, circa 1985.

Matthew: Nov 21st 2007; 9:57AM

CPU: AMD Athlon 1.3 GHZ
Memory: 1 GB DDR RAM
Hard Drive: 40GB + 80GB
Video: ATI Radeon X700
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live 24-bit
OS: Windows XP / Ubuntu (dual booting linux)

Drizzt: Nov 21st 2007; 10:08AM

Mine is a gateway of some sort. My mom got it like 12 years ago and gave it to me a couple years ago. Its running windows '98 and has a 10gig hard drive. I cant even play solitar on it. The stupid thing also likes to turn off whenever it feels like it. At least I can look at the interweb with it. Most of the time lol

Chad Cornish: Nov 21st 2007; 3:55PM

I have a Dell Latitude D610 my work lends me (can't play games!) and an old Powermac Beige G3 266 I play Total Annihilation on. HELP!

shwink: Nov 21st 2007; 8:56PM

3 year old pc. Specs

Intel cpu 2.6ghz
120gb hdd
geforce fx5200 (yeah can you believe it can actually run hl2 at a decent frame rate)
1gb ram(not that it makes too much diffrence with the graphics card).

kethdredd: Nov 22nd 2007; 9:05AM

I had a full blown mullet which I decided to complement with a flattop. I'm pretty sure I looked totally awesome.

noel morales: Nov 22nd 2007; 12:11PM

I rub two sticks together...

taulpaul: Nov 25th 2007; 10:18PM

Apple Newton MessagePad 120

20Mhz RISC processor
4MB ROM
2MB RAM

I used the PCMCIA card for dialup to play Dungeon Master. Yeah, I like MUD's.

Chad Cornish: Nov 22nd 2007; 6:05PM

My Powermac Beige G3 266 can still play Total Annihilation. I heard about Supreme Commander and can only dream to play that in about 5 years when I can afford a machine to run it. :(

Maci: Nov 22nd 2007; 8:10PM

I'm thankful for my microwave.

John B: Nov 22nd 2007; 8:10PM

Looks like a killer rig. I would love to have it at my house. Can we expect a subsidy for the electricity bill to be included as well?

Frank: Nov 22nd 2007; 11:37PM

pentium 2.8 ghz
1 gig ram
radeon 9700 pro (128 meg)
250 gig hard drive

Chad Miller: Nov 23rd 2007; 12:18AM

im running an amd x2 4200 with 2gb ddr2 and 120gb of 7200rpm 8mb cache slowness. couple this with a 8800gts/320mb card running stock specs and compare it with the grand prize and it makes mine look like generic toilet paper!

StrangeFear: Nov 23rd 2007; 4:32AM

All I have is a macbook.

Registered99: Nov 23rd 2007; 7:35AM

I'm thankful for the oxygen machine that pumps fresh oxygen into my lungs.

Linkamus: Nov 23rd 2007; 9:37AM

I am thankful for my electric hari cutting machine... I've never cut my own hair and never will, but it keeps it trimmed for the ladies. ;)

k-y: Nov 23rd 2007; 11:57AM

my eee pc cant play quake 3!

Travis: Nov 23rd 2007; 2:41PM

electric toothbrush ftw

rojosucio: Nov 23rd 2007; 7:40PM

1.2 ghz amd, radeon 9800, 1 gig ram, soundblaster zs

Howard Matalon: Nov 23rd 2007; 9:52PM

TRS-80 with Tape Deck!

Trek-80 FTW. Have they made any games since then?

Shane: Nov 24th 2007; 12:43AM

Dell i9300 laptop.
Centrino 1.86
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB

Urza: Nov 24th 2007; 12:53PM

I want one!

Sheldon Nicholas: Nov 24th 2007; 1:46PM

I am most thakful for the cable modem under my desk....it lets me see all these great giveaways.

lakerz213: Nov 24th 2007; 4:47PM

A 4 year old IBM Thinkpad. The thing takes about 10 minutes to boot up.

Justin: Nov 24th 2007; 4:12PM

My computer is a Compaq that's equipped with a 3200+ AMD Anthlon XP processor ( 2.2GHz ), 512 MP SDRAM memory, 120 GB hard drive (7200RPM).

Marlie: Nov 26th 2007; 9:15AM

if i tryed any of the new games coming out my COmputer would prob blow up

Satyan Telikepalli: Nov 25th 2007; 12:18AM

My specs:
Dell Dimension 4550
2.8GHz Pentium 4 (no Hyper-Threading though)
1GB RAM
128MB ATI Radeon 9700 XT
60GB Hard Drive!!!

I can run Oblivion quite nicely (at 400x600 and minimum settings!)

markelphoenix: Nov 25th 2007; 8:28PM

Pentium 4 3.6 ghz Dell
2 gig of DDR Ram
X800 XT Graphics Card
Broken Fan
Been running like crap ever since my room mate opened it up.

david kehoe: Nov 26th 2007; 1:09AM

I would have to say my non-xbox gamepad is wasting space

Dustin: Nov 26th 2007; 2:24AM

I've got a Tablet PC with a gig of ram and a GeForce 6800 Go. And go it will. Provided the game has been made prior to 2005.

Chris: Nov 26th 2007; 1:22PM

I only gots 1 40gb hard drive running with windows vista(which eats about 12gb itself) :( Now how many games can you possibly store on that?

Justin E: Nov 26th 2007; 4:50PM

ahh i game on a laptop... nuff said

k-y: Nov 26th 2007; 7:08PM

pick me

Jon D: Nov 26th 2007; 10:17PM

Please?
Thanks

Chris Thom: Nov 26th 2007; 11:47PM

P4 2.8 = SLOOOOWW!

Jon: Nov 26th 2007; 11:54PM

let me win

Nushio (NDF - Blue): Nov 27th 2007; 12:00AM

Useless electrical devices? I see an intercom. We don't need that.

Also, please let me win. I'll sell the prize on ebay and donate 90% of the earnings to Childs Play in behalf of Joystiq!

Chris: Nov 27th 2007; 1:22AM

hax0red ipod running linux...

...it plays teh doomz!

jeckelbros: Nov 27th 2007; 7:31AM

My toaster

John Hill: Nov 27th 2007; 7:53AM

1.8 Ghz
1 GB Ram
60 Gig Hard Drive
7800 GTX

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