Have you voted in the 2010 bit-tech and CPC awards yet?
Vote in our survey and you could win kit.
Voting in the awards doesn't just help us out, it gives you the chance to praise the companies who go the extra mile, and to expose those who don't deliver on value for money or customer support. By voting, you can also win some great prizes, too.
We want to know who's the best when it comes to enthusiast PC hardware and games. Who makes the best graphics cards? Where's the best place to shop? When it all goes wrong, who are the guys who come through with quality post-sales service?
As well as specific hardware and retailers, we're also looking for the manufacturer who's done the most to contribute to the modding scene, and the one who's helped with overclocking. As we're all about innovation, we're also interested in which new company has had a real breakthrough this year.
There are 11 awards in total that we need your help with - and there are also two that we're deciding amongst the editorial team, for Technical Innovation (the best new idea) and Elite Hardware (the single bit of kit we'd most like to take home).
Here's the full list of awards:
Reader Awards
1. BEST MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURER
2. BEST GRAPHICS MANUFACTURER
3. BEST MEMORY MANUFACTURER
4. BEST PSU MANUFACTURER
5. BEST PC & LAPTOP MANUFACTURER
6. BEST RETAILER
7. OVERCLOCKING & COOLING AWARD
8. BEST MODDING MANUFACTURER
9. BEST RMA & SERVICE AWARD
10. BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR AWARD
11. BEST PC GAME DEVELOPER
Editorial Awards
12. TECHNICAL INNOVATION AWARD
13. ELITE HARDWARE AWARD
For the.... WIN
While voting gives you the chance to be heard, you can also win prizes. First prize is a £270 Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic graphics card, overclocked out of the box and with Sapphire's excellent Vapor-X cooler.
Second prize is a media PC bundle, with a silent Sapphire HD 5550 Ultimate graphics card, Synology Diskstation DS110 NAS box and a Startech USB 3.0 hard disk docking station, complete with USB 3.0 PCI-E controller card. There are two third prizes - a SteelSeries Kinzu Optical Mouse with a CoolIT ECO A.L.C. all-in-one CPU cooler, and a 700W Enermax PSU with four Enermax fans.
Further more, ten runners up will win year long subscriptions to the magazine!
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI doubt everybody will have a look through a few reviews and make an informed decision for every award and just chose the manufacturer they bought at the time they last build/bought a PC which may be old hardware now and not representative of the current best.
Well the whole point is it's an award based on people's experiences, whether that's stuff they buy or reviews they read. It's not a statistical thing, it's an opinioned award.
Thank you confusis ;)
Why was Noctua in the overclocking category but not the modding category with all the other CPU cooling manufactures?
Because their fan are 100% made to be efficient and 0% made to look cool(brown and brown is not cool). Other manufacturer have gone the colored led fan way.
Not for a while yet, November 11th :)
Been saving up lately & now have enough to upgrade but I'm split between 3 things:
A few new power tools & pile of aluminium to get busy with more modding.
32inch 1080p 100hz led tv, forget the 3d ones they are just way too expensive currently.
Good i7 1366 Motherboard, cpu, mem with good speed & low latency like the corsair dominator 1600mhz 6,6,6,20.
Just can't make my mind up lol, I'm just as tempted to upgrade as I am to build my modding arsenel but feel modding is pulling me in more.
seriously many of us wouldn't mind paying for the transport costs if we'd win some of these, I know I wouldn't
It seems a bit silly to have "Laptop and Desktop" together, after all you wouldn't ask for "Best Graphics card and Power supply manufacturer" would you?.
That allows me to vote for Activision-Blizzard then, since Cataclysm is probably coming out early November.
I doubt most people here would buy a pre-built desktop anyway.
I can see some people on here buying barebones like the pre-overclocked bundles from overclockers and similar and maybe some very rich readers buying the odd (and by odd I mean 1 or 3, probably no more) CPC featured mega machine of the year but as you say most people here will do component builds. My question still stands - Why bundle Laptop and Desktop supplier together?