Yesterday we gave away our second SSD of the contest. The winner? Bob-o. Congrats! Respond to my email with your shipping info and we'll get your prize out right away.
I started out reviewing motherboards. Back in 1997 there were dozens of motherboard manufacturers and they were all very eager to have their products reviewed. In some senses the industry was a lot cleaner back then. The focus of motherboard PR hadn't yet shifted to winning awards above all else. Before I handed off motherboard reviews to Mike Andrawes, our first Senior Editor, I reviewed 209 motherboards for AnandTech.
Today's prize is made by a company that wasn't even around back then. ASRock. Originally an ASUS subsidiary, ASRock is now completely independent. The company was kind enough to ship us its H55M Pro. You can find full specs of the LGA-1156 motherboard here on ASRock's site.
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Happy 4th to our US readers. And a very special 4th to the winner of our last contest: mmmmmdonuts21. Respond to my email with your shipping info and we'll get your prize out right away.
Given the subject matter of the review I'm writing today, our next giveaway is fitting. OCZ grew its loyal userbase with memory but in the past couple of years has become known for its SSDs. Thus it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that OCZ sent over a 60GB Vertex SSD for today's giveaway.
The Vertex is based on Indilinx's Barefoot controller. You can get an idea for how the Barefoot performs using our SSD Bench database.
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I'm currently on my last day of meetings on the West Coast and when I return it's back to SSDs for me. To tide you over until then we've got another giveaway. First let's announce the winner of yesterday's giveaway: bluebee21. You should have an email from me requesting your shipping info, respond and we'll get your prize out to you!
Our first giveaway was a 4GB memory kit from G.Skill. If you wanted the kit but didn't win, here's another chance. Today's prize is a 4GB (2 x 2GB) G.Skill Ripjaws kit (F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM). The memory is rated for DDR3-1333 with 8-8-8-24 timings at 1.5V. This should work in Intel LGA-1156 and AMD Socket-AM3 motherboards. You can find a full list of qualified motherboards here.
Read on to find out how to enter.
After a brief hiatus the giveaways our back and even more streamlined. We've done away with the email entry and now all you need to do is post a comment to enter the giveaway! Our previous giveaway was an OCZ Behemoth Mousepad. The winner? dumpsterj. You've got an email from me, just confirm your address and we'll get your prize shipped out!
For today's giveaway we're back to memory, but this time it's notebook memory. G.Skill sent over a 2GB stick of DDR3-1066 notebook memory. It's the F3-8500CL7S-2GBSQ, you can find the full specs on it here (note that page has multiple products on it, we're giving away the F3-8500CL7S-2GBSQ). You can check out Newegg's listing here.
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Yesterday we gave away our third set of G.Skill DDR3 memory. The winner? AnandTech user: lazydc. Congrats! Your kit will be shipped out next week.
Today we have the first of many prizes from OCZ. While there are SSDs in the mix, today's prize is an OCZ Behemoth Mousepad. The mousepad measures 380 mm x 260 mm and is 4mm high, that's almost 15" x 10"! You can find the full spec sheet here.
We've also heard your requests so we're making a slight change to the way we accept entries, you now only need to email your info in once. You still have to post a comment in any giveaway thread you are trying to enter though, but you don't have to keep sending emails. And if you've already sent in an email we'll hang on to your info until the end of the contest period.
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It's time for day four. Yesterday we gave away a Patriot Zephyr SSD and we have a winner to announce: a2f. Congrats! Your drive will ship it out next week.
If you didn't win yesterday never fear, there are more SSDs in the prize pool. Today it's back to memory however:
We have another 4GB kit from G.Skill, the F3-16000CL6D-4GBPIS. The memory is divided into two 2GB sticks and is specced to run at DDR3-1600 speeds with 6-9-6-24 timings. The kit even comes with a fan that you can mount on the two DIMMs to keep temperatures in line while overclocking. You can find a full rundown of specs and a qualified motherboard list here.
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Thirteen years ago I wrote my first articles on a Geocities hosted website called Anand's Hardware Tech Page. In celebration of our 13th year of operation a number of our gracious sponsors have provided us with hardware to give away to you. This site has and always will be yours, and as a way of showing our appreciation for for reading our content, helping us stay on track and helping spread the word when you like what you see we're going to do a giveaway every day for the next 28 days.
G.Skill was the first sponsor to send in product and they sent in a ton. G.Skill alone sent in a total of 58GB of memory for everything from desktops to notebooks and we're giving it all away over the next month (see above for a pic of what 58GB of memory looks like).
Today's prize is a 4GB (2 x 2GB) G.Skill Ripjaws kit (F3-10666CL8D-4GBRM). The memory is rated for DDR3-1333 with 8-8-8-24 timings at 1.5V. This should work in Intel LGA-1156 and AMD Socket-AM3 motherboards.
Read on to find out how to enter!
Yesterday we kicked off the first of 28 days of giveaways celebrating our 13 years of operation here at AnandTech. G.Skill was the first to send in product and they sent in a lot: 58GB of desktop and notebook memory for us to give away. Congrats to yesterday's winner: Wieland, your 4GB kit will be shipped out this week!
If you didn't win yesterday's 4GB kit, here's another chance. Today's prize is another 4GB (2 x 2GB) G.Skill Ripjaws kit but it runs at a faster DDR3-1600 speed (F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM). The memory is rated at 7-8-7-24 timings at 1.6V. This should work in Intel LGA-1156 Motherboards, but a full list of G.Skill qualified motherboards is here.
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We're now on day 3 of our 28 days of giveaways celebrating AnandTech's 13 year anniversary. Yesterday's winner was AnandTech reader: Averox. Congrats! Your prize will be shipped out this week.
If you aren't in the market for new memory, today's prize may be a bit more tempting. Patriot sent over a box of goodies including this:
The Patriot Zephyr SSD is based on JMicron's JMF612 controller, the same controller used by Kingston in its V-series drives and by Western Digital in the SiliconEdge Blue. A solid performer, the Zephyr would be a great introduction to the SSD world for any user. We're giving away a 64GB drive.
Read on to find out how to enter.