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Intel sweepstakes starts today https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/#

Sadly, its not available in my country. Good luck to those who are eligible.



PS. Sorry, I not sure whether this is the right place to post this.

Looks like the website is slammed. Can't load right now.

It still shows 3+ hours for me before it opens.

Working for me this morning, less than 8 hours remaining to enter.

Given that there's no form to fill out or Captcha to complete, I'll bet the lottery pool is completely bloated with multiple robot entries.

ludi wrote:

Working for me this morning, less than 8 hours remaining to enter.

Given that there's no form to fill out or Captcha to complete, I'll bet the lottery pool is completely bloated with multiple robot entries.

Probably, but they do say in the terms that all automated entries are being automatically eliminated. I don't know how they are determining which are bots, but I am sure they have some algorithm in place.

Anovoca wrote:

ludi wrote:

Working for me this morning, less than 8 hours remaining to enter.

Given that there's no form to fill out or Captcha to complete, I'll bet the lottery pool is completely bloated with multiple robot entries.

Probably, but they do say in the terms that all automated entries are being automatically eliminated. I don't know how they are determining which are bots, but I am sure they have some algorithm in place.

My guess is that more than X entries from a certain IP address gets all the entries from that address blacklisted.

Any word if winners were notified yet? Nothing updated on the Intel site other than it has ended.

The official rules say up to two weeks, so it might be a bit yet.

Thanks, so there could still be a chance!
After reading TR's review I see no compelling reason to buy one but it would be nice to be selected in the sweepstakes.

G8torbyte wrote:

Thanks, so there could still be a chance!
After reading TR's review I see no compelling reason to buy one but it would be nice to pick up one in the sweepstakes.

That's my take on it. If I win one, I'll likely pick up a motherboard and RAM, upgrade my main desktop and do hand-me-down upgrades around the house. Otherwise, no interest in purchasing one.

I didn't even receive any email acknowledgement that I'd entered successfully. The webpage said so and I have no choice but to trust it.

I couldn't give a damn about the 8086 edition, but I'll take a free 8700K (with bonus 5GHz single-core option lol) as an upgrade to my Ivy Bridge PC without hesitation. It might even stop me from buying a Ryzen 2700X workstation that is being delayed solely by the ridonculous cost of 64GB DDR4 at the moment.

Great chance to win a 1950....

Amiga500+ wrote:

Great chance to win a 1950....

How refreshing. Disingenuous sniping from a bitter loser. Incidentally, AMD is only giving away 40 of those 1950X parts and only in the U.S. which shows just how confident they are that they'll have takers. In other words: Not really confident at all.

Wake me up when they give away 8086 of them to every single winner around the world without requiring this stupid "trade in" program and then give away another 8086 to show that they aren't just doing this to be petty and weak like you obviously are.

chuckula wrote:

How refreshing. Disingenuous sniping from a bitter loser.

Hey, surely you don't expect everyone to let you have all the fun?

Whodathunk that AMD wouldn't be in a position to give away 8086 processors, let alone the 65,391,482 you [inanely?] ask for =P

Shobai wrote:

Whodathunk that AMD wouldn't be in a position to give away 8086 processors, let alone the 65,391,482 you ask for =P

Some of us actually want AMD to go above & beyond here! But I'll settle for AMD giving one Threadripper 1950X to each 8086K winner regardless of where that winner lives and without requiring a trade in. Even that's a big step down from AMD giving a 32 core Threadripper2 to each of the winners.

After all, from what I've heard Threadripper is so amazing that AMD should actively promote side-by-side comparisons. Especially in games.

chuckula wrote:

Amiga500+ wrote:

Great chance to win a 1950....

How refreshing.

Don't worry Chucky.

Having less cores in your machine doesn't make your d**k smaller.

Pop into a thread involving Intel, and guess who's there acting wounded. Quelle surprise.

Good luck to everyone who entered. Here's hoping I'm not disqualified for entering with two legit email addresses.

Holy ****, my wife won!

Going to attempt the swap for a 1950X on Monday when AMD releases the rules. She is my luck angel.

Waco wrote:

Holy ****, my wife won!

Going to attempt the swap for a 1950X on Monday when AMD releases the rules. She is my luck angel.

Assuming AMD's offer is popular you have less than a 2% chance of getting that 1950X.

So if you get it, please have your wife select lottery numbers for me OK?!?!

That's great!

chuckula wrote:

Waco wrote:

Holy ****, my wife won!

Going to attempt the swap for a 1950X on Monday when AMD releases the rules. She is my luck angel.

Assuming AMD's offer is popular you have less than a 2% chance of getting that 1950X.

So if you get it, please have your wife select lottery numbers for me OK?!?!

It's a race on Monday at 11 AM MST...hopefully we do get to swap. I have no desire for a new desktop (neither does she), but upgrading my NAS would be freakin' wonderful.

I'll have her generate a few lottery numbers for everyone - but if I know her well (and I claim to) she'll just dump a bunch of garbage from /dev/urandom for you.

I won, too!

Neat! I just got a 2600X I planned to run for a few years, I guess that can be my productivity PC and the 8086K will be the gaming PC. My i5-3570K will be relegated to the home theater. I should be more than CPU setup for quite some time. A bit deficient on GPU power with a 290X, 7870, and 4850...

I suppose I could trade this for 1/2 of a 1080 Ti now that the prices are getting close to MSRP

I won too! Holy MONKEY!!

Congrats to the winners.

Wow. Impressive! How many total winners posted on here? 3? Maybe I should have tried a few more email addresses I own.

Congrats!!

FYI, I'm assuming all the winners here are US residents of which there were 2086 winners.

https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/ ( See Details )
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Sweepstakes Prizes and Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): Grand Prize: Eight thousand and eighty-six (8,086) Grand Prizes will be awarded. The Grand Prize consists of one (1) Intel Processor Core i7 Chip (ARV: $425USD). Limit: One (1) prize per person during the Sweepstakes Period. Total ARV of all prizes is $3,436,550USD.
Country/Region Number of Winners and Prizes Awarded
United States 2,086
Mainland China 2,000
Germany 1,000
Canada 500
France 500
The United Kingdom 500
South Korea 500
Taiwan 500
Japan 500

Prize is awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by Sponsor. Prizes cannot be substituted, assigned, transferred, or redeemed for cash; however, Sponsor reserves the right to make an equivalent prize substitution at its sole discretion if any advertised prizes become unavailable.

BP is cheating, she's my better half. Still, 2 winners on TR is probably way against the odds!

Waco wrote:

BP is cheating, she's my better half. Still, 2 winners on TR is probably way against the odds!

Awww -- way to take away all my fun...

Officially requested a swap for the 2950X this morning (well, BluePanda did, but same difference). We'll see if we're one of the first 40!

Waco wrote:

Officially requested a swap for the 2950X this morning

The which?

Shobai wrote:

Waco wrote:

Officially requested a swap for the 2950X this morning

The which?

It's called seeing if AMD is paying attention or not!