HotHardware April Sweepstakes Winner!

Awesome congrats Ice. Nice to see someone who's been around for a little bit win and not just someone who joined for the contest. Enjoy your Rig Bro.

Kool gratz ice, take pic when you get it.  

higgamo:

Kool gratz ice, take pic when you get it.  

I think we've got enough pics from the review. Just play your heart out, sniff the paint fumes, or overclock the heck out of it! lol

CONGRATS Ice_73!!! 

Gratz man enjoy it!

Well, I guess it is time to order that build I have been waiting to start!

Congrats Man!!

Enjoy ur Killer Rig, You Deserve it ;)

Congratz!!! I'm sure you'll enjoy that killer rig.. just make sure to come back and visit us in the forums :) Don't want you to end up in a gaming coma like Kamrooz ;)

News:

At the beginning of last month, we announced an exciting sweepstakes in which we planned to give away a custom painted Smooth Creations system powered by an AMD quad-core processor and Diamond Multimedia Radeon 3870 X2 graphics card.  The response we received after the announcement was awesome, with hundreds of new members joining our community, posting thousands of comments throughout the forum and news.  Well the dust has settled and we’ve picked a winner.

Are you ready for it?  Drumroll please...And the Winner Is…

Ice_73

Congrats!  You've just scored yourself a killer rig brother!  On a side note, we feel our last few sweepstakes have been such successes, that we'll be doing similar giveaways on a regular basis from now on. Stay tuned for the next announcement coming very soon.

Shoot me an e-mail with your full contact information (including phone number) and we'll get the system sent out to you as soon as we're done reviewing it!

Congratulations Ice, that is one mean rig you got going on there!

 Congrats man, Nice to see an Oldie win it this time

Congrats Ice,you da man!Enjoy the new rig.Thanks HH for a great contest and site.-Vic

Congratulations!! Wow, this whole monthly contest thing was a great idea, HH!

You're welcome, Ice! Stay tuned for details and in the mean time, please contact me with your shipping info and phone number. Another contest will be announced soon folks!

Stick around!

Thanks!

Dave

congrats ice 

Congratulations Ice_73! You are soon to be the proud owner of one hell of a rig. I am glad to see this baby go to a deserving winner. 

Enjoy! 

Ice,you scored yourself a very nice rig!Congrats and I hope it will serve you well! 

im counting the days till i get it :-)

Way to go ice man!  Congrats to you.  Enjoy the all AMD powered rig.

Congrats ICE 73 you tha Man enjoy!!!! Can I come over to your house and play!!! LOL Have fun.

Congratulations ice_73!

 In the unboxing thread, I just knew you goign to win. Congratz Ice.

Congratulations ice_73! That is trully an awsome price. Not many people get to win such a cool price. I am happy with you. :)

 i just noticed that buffalo is painted on the cooler, yet theres no buffalo components in the system O_O

Congrats Ice! When are we gonna play CS:S again? : ) 

entermymatrix03:

Congrats Ice! When are we gonna play CS:S again? : ) 

Thats more of like league gaming huh? Not into that, I don't have the time anymore. I like to jump in for a few rounds. :) 

 ups fails again :-( i think postal services hate me. i ALWAYS end up going to their depot, which is a bus ride, and 2 train rides.... :-( really not looking foward to this but what can i do.... i just hope i manage to be able to cary it for the 10 blocks i gotta walk O_O  

Damn man. I feel you on the Postal Services issue. I had to send my Logitech Harmony back in one time and they kept telling me that it had been delivered and that I had signed for it. I argued with them and 4 days later it shows up. Come to find out, the driver signed for me and he came back out in my area 4 days later. They do this so that it look like they made their quota for the day.  

entermymatrix03:

Damn man. I feel you on the Postal Services issue. I had to send my Logitech Harmony back in one time and they kept telling me that it had been delivered and that I had signed for it. I argued with them and 4 days later it shows up. Come to find out, the driver signed for me and he came back out in my area 4 days later. They do this so that it look like they made their quota for the day.  

My local hub is at our airport. They stay open until the wee hours of the night...but they will not turn over packages! My brother had the same expierence with his laptop he ordered. He found out it was at the hub early so he drove up there to grab it and they denied him. He showed them everything he could think of and they told him that he would have to wait until it was delivered....3 days later it showed up at his house.

Wow, sorry to hear about your postal problems. I had a problem with ups a few years ago delivering my XM  satelite radio. I had it shipped to my apt originally, then had to have the address changed to my folks because no one would be here to get it. I changed the adress on line and confirmed it, yet the next day there was a no access tag on my door. I called, they said they had the right address and the same thing happend. Three times this happend, I even called corporate, and they confirmed the new address, yet a third no access tag was affixed to my door, this time it said I had to pick up the package..,..they would make no more attempts to deliver. I was livid!

The "delivery attempt" tags deal has happened to me before as well. After I bought my 2nd Xbox 360 it died after 3 months. MS repaired it and sent it back via Fedex. I come home from work one day and there is a "Third delivery attempt". I called Fedex and they said that i would then have to come and pick up my box...I never received the first 2!!! Complete and utter crap IMO. I got my box and all was well again!  

 well i finally got my box on tuesday. ups managed to pull a number on me... the paint job got chipped a bit (im just REALLY happy that its in the bottom of the case) i cant speak for other people especially in areas outside of nyc but with everyone i know ups manages to screw up in nyc.

on a side note im really digging the case! its amazing theres so many small details that the pics leave out, like the red glass on the bottom for the bottomless look, or the foam on the side of the case to protect cables! amazing devotion!

thanks again hh, and of course diamond.

im currently trying to resolve a driver error im getting so i might not post too much for the time being as i need to get that resolved ( ati2dvag infinate loop error). 

Glad you finally got your prize man.

What part of NYC do you live in? My wife and I were there a month ago and i fell in love with the place. I'd live there if I could....she won't allow that though. : (

Congrats ICE thats an incrediable toy u got there.Can I come over and play!!! HH Rocks dont they!

congrats ice if your still having problems with the driver error u can try this

http://www.menekali.com/ati2dvagdll-infinite-loop-problem/ 

 post up some pics of it up and running!

^^^Agreed! We saw the HH pics now we want to see it in its home! : ) 

I guess he might be busy working on the driver issues.  But once you're finished... no excuse. 

Crisis Causer:

I guess he might be busy working on the driver issues.  But once you're finished... no excuse. 

 I'm assuming you've already tried rolling back drivers and Omega drivers?

no drivers to roll back to :-p clean install of windows ha.

also omega doesnt support the 3870 x2 :-(

im trying one last thing, and thats to install the 8.3 drivers (ive been trying 8.5 this whole time.... if that doesnt work... im gonna call tech support )

So have you tried uninstalling the drives completely and then re-installing them fresh? did the machine come with any driver CD's? If so, the ones on the disc are probably older than the ones you can download.

Also I don't think it was mentioned but maybe a BIOS update is in order. Just a thought!

yea see if u can up the bios on the cards if possible best of luck

ICE!1!1!1 don't turn into a Kam...we want pics... : ) j/k man. 

ok update.... heres what ive tried

system restore,
widndows sp2
windows sp3
.net sp1
.net (no sp1)
8.5 drivers
8.4 drivers
8.3
diamond drivers


nothing works.... O_O the closest ive come to playing anything is for about 10 seconds before the computer crashed. im thinking the problem might actually be the card now. im testing out the computer with my old 7950. and latter on im going to try to put the 3870 in my old computer cause somthing is definatly not working right......

higgamo:

yea see if u can up the bios on the cards if possible best of luck

bitter sweetness.... i found the problem... its the card itself.... i put in my old 7950 and everything worked fine. no problems at all, pop in the 3870 x2..... freeze ups and lock ups....

i wonder what i should do now...

there is no bios on a vid card. If you have the most current drivers, bios and updates than it has to be the card itself.