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Vote in the Custom PC Awards and win a £999 PC
The Custom PC Awards 2008 are only a couple of months away, but we need your input before we can finalise the winners
Awards ceremonies are traditionally an occasion to spend a ridiculous sum of money on hiring a suit, schmooze with people you don’t really like and then endure hours of speeches, but we’ve kindly decided to spare you all of that. That’s not to say that we don’t want your valued input and judgment to play a big part in our awards, though.
This year, we’ve decided to carry on the awards system that we introduced last year, where you guys decide the outcome of the majority of the Custom PC 2008 Awards, while we decide on three of them. We’re going to decide on the Dream PC 2008, Technical Innovation and the Elite Hardware awards this year, but we still want the following awards to be judged by you:
- PC and laptop manufacturer
- Chassis manufacturer
- PSU manufacturer
- Memory manufacturer
- Graphics card manufacturer
- Motherboard manufacturer
- Best Retailer
- Best ISP
The results of all the awards will be announced in Issue 63, which goes on sale on 23 October. Plus, if deciding the winners of Custom PC’s prestigious awards isn’t a big enough incentive for you to give us your clicks, then you’ll also be in with a chance of winning a £999 overclocked gaming PC from YoYoTech, which includes an Athlon 64 X2 500, a Radeon 2900 Pro and, perhaps most importantly, a unique hand-crafted Cooler Master chassis with a Sapphire design.
Want to make your voice heard? Then cast your vote right here.
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Yes, uk regulations (note, not laws unfortunately) are such that marketing should now be opt-in options, not opt-out. The survey might at least be consistent. Perhaps the designers were the same people that came up with the last scottish polling system.
Comment by Landy_Ed at 8:57pm 10th August 2008
or just dont give them your personal details :D. so long as you dont mind missing out on a chance for that fairly mediocre PC with a facelift :/
Comment by soddit113 at 5:57pm 10th August 2008
or just dont give them your personal details :D. so long as you dont mind missing out on a chance for that fairly mediocre PC with a facelift :/
Comment by soddit113 at 5:57pm 10th August 2008
I'm with Xonerater on this: Does it really matter about the prize anyway? Sure it'd be great to win it, (sell it if you win and already have something better) but I'd have done it without a prize as well - partly to reward the suppliers who gave me good service this year, but mainly to get back at the one who treated me like dirt! (Don't worry Scan, I won't be mentioning names...)
Comment by antonyg at 2:07pm 9th August 2008
I don't know why people are moaning - I'd have voted if there wasn't a prize - and the box ticking stuff is SOP these days - just use a second e-mail address and your mobile number - who cares if they get spammed? Ditto postal spam. It would be nice to be able to say why something was naff. Then the manufacturer may take note.
Comment by Xonerater at 7:31pm 8th August 2008
I'd give it to the orphans....... nah just kidding i'd flog it on eBay!
Comment by pveater at 9:34am 8th August 2008
The prize will still be a better PC than a lot of people on here have. If I won it I'd keep the motherboard, RAM and CPU (which are better than what I have now), then put my old ones into tha case and give it to my parents. Anything is better than their old Athlon XP.
Comment by l3v1ck at 8:57pm 7th August 2008
You don't need to vote again; we've just put the story on the website to try and get as much exposure for the awards as possible. The more votes, the more accurate it is!
Comment by Sifter3000 at 4:57pm 7th August 2008
I did this like last month? apparently novatech said it didnt work or sumthing. Do i have to do all that again???
Comment by Lightning_Pete at 4:10pm 7th August 2008
I would be inclined to agree with pveater - you really needed a chance to expand a bit more. Obviously its hard becuase all the results go into a database but still it would of been useful...
Comment by PyrO_PrOfessOr at 3:51pm 7th August 2008
I've just taken it. What would have been nice is a section to elabotrate on the answers given. My graphics card for example I didnt rate high for overclockability but thats because the manufacturer has already pushed it close to its maximum on air anyway. Just a thought.
Comment by pveater at 3:43pm 7th August 2008
I'm very dissapointed with the very last section where you have to tick boxes to determine what crap is going to bbe sent to you... First you are asked to click to indicate how you DON'T want to be contacted by Dennis, then how you DON'T want to be contacted by partners. All well and good (except its clearly a perversion of the regulations that state you cannot be contacted unless you specifically say you do want to be). Then it asks you, again, and for no reason, how you DO want to be contacted? For what it doesn't say, but clearly this is meant to confuse people who have been just ticking the boxes to say no to anything in to letting Dennis send them stuff. You see this all the time on the internet, but I'm depressed to see it on a CPC questionnaire
Comment by NewParadigm at 3:17pm 7th August 2008
I guess there hasnt been a massive response. Maybe if the prize was a bit better. Handcrafted chassis, rubbish internals. Like an Aston with a Fiesta engine!
Comment by pveater at 3:20pm 7th August 2008
yeh i think so but i dont think many are voting so they put it up twice
Comment by Mizugetsu at 3:21pm 7th August 2008
Isn't this the same awards we've been voting for for a while now?
Comment by l3v1ck at 3:15pm 7th August 2008
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