3dfx Prize Pack Giveaways

We have our winners! A big thanks goes out to everyone who registered for the contest. The winners are below:

Winner #1: Dan Mahoney

Dan becomes our first winner with his sad sob story about how his TNT2 got replaced with an ATI. Poor guy, we couldn't help but hook this guy up. Read his story below and see an example image from his current gameplay :-)

Well, I was planning on coming up with a really creative way to win this contest but then school came around, and homework so I'll forget all the creativity and just show you how sad I really am. It all started last spring. My sister was planning to go off to college and my dad wanted to get the replacement computer soon so that I wouldn't be playing games on his computer when he had to do work. I managed to talk him up to getting a PIII 600 from the AMD K6 II 500 he wanted to get. Then finally I got him to spend an extra 50-100 dollars to get the computer with the actual AGP slot, with a TNT2 card, instead of an integrated "agp" 3d accelerator. This was all good but when I got my computer there was a problem. The video card had something wrong with it. It was causing most games to crash and I would have to reboot every few minutes. I called up tech support to complain, and the guy (after spending 15 minutes trying to find out if the TNT2 card supported "hardware acceleration" to which he got no answer) eventually agreed to send a replacement part. Problem was is he somehow decided it was my RAM that was the problem. The guys came to my house they put the RAM in and it didn't fix it. When they called to report, the tech support people automatically sent a new motherboard. I told the guys that I thought it was my video card so when they came to put in the motherboard, they tested it out with one of their own video cards. The motherboard didn't help, but they tested their video card and everything worked fine. The called in to order up the video card and the next day they came to put it is... only problem, they came to replace it with and 8mb ATI RAGE card. I wasn't happy, but after all my experiences with tech support, I wasn't about to complain more. This card has had unusually bad performance, and to make things worse, I just bought Covert Ops and it won't even run the Training CD!!!

Winner #2: John Khalil

Our second winner is John Khalil who humored us the most with his reasoning behind why he needed a new video card. Check out the evidence he provided.

Winner #3: David Burt

While there weren't many entries for contest two, Reynolds-Wrap had the best use of the 3d-R logo. Nice job.

Winner #4: SamTheMan

Unfortunately SamTheMan wins by default because he was the ONLY other person to submit an image with a "creative" use of the 3d-R logo. Just think of how you guys missed an easy chance to get some free stuff. Shucks :-)