Enter to win a Galaxy GTX 460 for Black Friday !!
Why stand out in the rain to spend your hard earned money on hardware when you can win a brand new GTX 460 right here? Help AlienBabelTech celebrate Black Friday by entering to win a brand new Galaxy GTX 460-768MB video card. Just answer three easy questions about Galaxy that can be easily found on their website. Submit your guesses by private message to our contest administrator and the winner will be drawn at random from the correct answers.
To enter to win a GTX 460, simply join our forum and private message us from this designated thread. This contest is now open to all North American residents including current ABT forum members – except ABT staff and their families. The winner will be decided by a random program at 10 AM Pacific Time on Black Friday morning November 26st, after the contest ends at midnight PST on Thursday, November 25, 2010. The winning ABT forum member who has answered the following 3 questions correctly, gets a brand-new Galaxy GTX 460-768M in accordance with the contest rules (below).
- What year was Galaxy founded?
- What unique cooling feature do the Galaxy GTX 470 GC & GTX 460 GC/SOC have that no other graphics card brand has?
- Can you modify your Galaxy card without voiding the warranty?
After you have signed up at ABT forums, feel free to start or join a discussion already in progress. ABT forum is the best place on the Internet to freely speak your mind – with minimal moderation and no “site point of view” imposed on anyone! Instead, everyone has real freedom balanced with personal responsibility. That means that everyone is their own moderator and is empowered to block those that they deem trolls as a “foe” and you will never see their posts again. AlienBabelTech is a Great Experiment that you are invited to become a part of; one that is evolving into the first true twenty-first century forum.
In the meantime, you are very welcome to join our growing lively membership, answer our 3 questions, and maybe win some great Galaxy hardware. It is all free to join and enter.
Of course, there are always legal details and fine print as below:
“Black Friday – GTX 460” Contest Eligibility and Disclaimer
Eligibility
This contest is open to all; but only residents of the North America who are at least 18 years of age may win prizes. This contest excludes employees or staff of AlienBabelTech.com from participating in this contest and/or those living in the same household.
Only entries submitted electronically through ABT forum are eligible for consideration.
Contest officially starts now – Sunday November 14, 2010 – and will run for until the ending date on Thursday November 25, 2010 at 11:59 PM PST.
There will be a Galaxy GTX 460-768MB video card as the grand prize for the winner who is drawn at random from the members who have private messaged the ABT contest administrator with the correct three answers to the questions at the end of the contest. You must also make at least one post on ABT forum to qualify for winning the prize.
Only one contest entry is allowed per IP address and/or email address. Only one Private Message conversation to the designated ABT Forum Administrator with the submitted list of found treasure chests will be allowed per member name/IP address.
General Conditions
All contest entries, including whatever personal information provided in them, become the property of AlienBabelTech. The entries submitted are accepted under the conditions by ABT will become the property of ABT.
By participating in this contest, entrants agree to be bound by these Contest Rules and Regulations, including the eligibility requirements. The submission of an entry constitutes permission for AlienBabelTech to use the entrant’s email address and other submitted information for purposes of marketing and promotion.
AlienBabelTech, its officers and employees, shall have no obligation nor responsibility regarding entries that contain inaccurate information or are unintelligible nor entries that do not comply with these contest rules and regulations. Entries that are lost or submitted after the official deadline or not received by ABT will not be considered.
In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an on-line entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the holder of the forum account. The chosen winners’ names will be posted online and they will also be contacted via email. Entries will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holders of the forum membership at the time of the entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the person who is assigned membership by ABT.
The selected entrants will be contacted by email within 2 days of winning after Black Friday, November 26, 2010 and their names also announced on the ABT forum. The selected entrants must respond to the e-mail/announcement within one (1) week of its receipt/posting in order to claim the prize. If the selected entrants cannot be contacted and/or does not respond within the specified time period, ABT reserves the right to select another winner from the pool of correct answers – the runner up in the contest, and so on. An email address is deemed invalid if the destination email server is unable to deliver the message, which includes full mailboxes, content filters or any other circumstance that prevents the timely delivery of the message. Invalid email address shall be immediately disqualified, and another winner shall be selected.
The selected entrants must sign a declaration and waiver form releasing ABT, its officers, employees, agents, respective affiliates, representatives, sponsors and franchisees, of any and all liability, claim or legal actions of any nature for injuries, damages or losses resulting from acceptance, possession or use of the prize, including transportation, preparation and/or participation in activities in connection with this contest.
The prizes will be shipped by Galaxy. The odds of winning the prize depend on the number of eligible online entries received. Prizes must be accepted as awarded with no substitutions. This prizes are not redeemable for cash.
ABT reserves the right to disqualify any entrant trying to tamper with the contest submission process and/or disqualify any entrant violating these rules and regulations. This contest is subject to all applicable Federal and State laws of the United States. Any contestant who does not agree with the above terms and conditions should not enter this contest. No purchase or payment of any consideration is necessary to enter the contest.
We look forward to seeing you on our forum. Besides staying home on Black Friday, we think you will like the freedom of ABT forums that no other site has or can handle. This is just ABT’s third contest; please stay around for another one that is planned for Christmas.
Welcome and good luck in the contest.
The contest is over! – BLACK FRIDAY UPDATE
The contest winner is:
AdenFlorian
Congratulations and expect an email from us that you need to respond to within a week to claim your Black Friday Galaxy GTX 460-768M.
Thank-you to everyone for participating and please remember that we will have a new contest with an even BIGGER prize for Christmas!—The ABT Staff
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Am I misniterpreting the second question? I have gone through the list of features for all of their GTX 400 series cards, and have not found a feature shared by the GTX 470 GC & GTX 460 GC/SOC that is not also available on one of Galaxy’s other cards such as the GTX 465 or GTX 450 SOC. I feel like I’m making this more difficult than it needs to be…
Yes, you and other very technical people are unnecessarily complicating this.
It is not a trick question. Perhaps it is better phrased as:
If necessary we will rewrite the question. Sorry for any confusion.
Aah. I suspected that was the case. Thanks for the clarification!
You’re welcome. The question was slightly altered to indicate “cooling” feature and graphics card “brand”:
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