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Old August 20, 2008, 12:15 PM
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Default SPONSORED: Palit GTX 260 Sweepstakes!!!

Hardware Canucks & Palit are giving away a GeForce GTX 260 to one lucky member.

The Palit GeForce® GTX 260 is equipped with 192 stream processors, operating with a 576MHz core clock, a 1242MHz shader clock and 896MB of 448bit, 1998MHz GDDR3 memory. The Palit GeForce GTX 200 series products support 2nd generation NVIDIA® Unified Architecture, providing 50% more gaming performance over the 1st generation. Moreover, NVIDIA CUDA™ technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks and increasing performance up to 7X over traditional CPUs.

Are you ready to get pulled further into the gaming experience than ever before? With Palit GeForce® GTX 280 and GTX 260, games including Unreal Tournament® 3, Assassin’s Creed™, Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare™ and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky are turning to the real thing. With 50% better performance than previous generation graphics processors, there is no lag, no dropped frames, and no compromise.

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Old August 20, 2008, 12:22 PM
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Good luck everyone!!
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:27 PM
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wow such a great and easy contest! Good luck!
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:32 PM
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nice... i am joining...

and good luck too...
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:36 PM
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Oooh nice! Good luck everyone :)
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:39 PM
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GL to all

hm...if I win I'll have to build a 2nd system
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:44 PM
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Don't forget guys, the higher your level, the more changes you get!!
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:48 PM
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well its not good idea to encourage it... or this forums could be become into a spamland... maybe?


and average 10 level member is the winner >.> <.< >.>
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:50 PM
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entered like hot bacon.
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Old August 20, 2008, 12:56 PM
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Excellent, nice prize! I may not be much of a gamer but I'm sure I could put it to good use,

Good luck to all.
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