Other Palit GTX 580 3GB Graphic card Giveaway! Winner announced!

As I am feeling so generous, I am going to be giving away 1 of my Palit GTX 580 3GB cards to one lucky person!

This isn't going to be given away that easily, as I don't want someone to win it and then just sale it!

The point of this, is to give someone a break and for that person to really appreciate it and deserves it.

Competition finished - Winner KayinBlack

Cheers,

Simon.

 

My story is this, I sold these cards to this guy, real cheap, as I'm so nice. I then buy these other cards from this other guy and he isn't so good or cheap, but I was like that's OK still a good ideal, but then he never delivered the cards and still has all mah mooney. Then I read this forum and the guy I sold the cards to cheap got rid of them for some epeen tri sli cards and then I see him giving my old cards away for free.

I'm going to start cutting myself unless I get a card in my rig soon.

Givf.

 

^^^^ aaahhh, you've got my vote.

 

Always complaining bennie your cards will be delivered by hand now let me tell you a real sob story.

I am married with 3 kids...............The End

 

I thought that too flame, Mike sadly didn't turn up.

 

Mine is fairly simple.

In that since I have been building PC's myself I have NEVER owned a new graphics card. i started with a 2nd hand 7800GTX, then after getting given an Nvida 260 which failed pretty fast (both the original and the replacement) I kept using my 7800gtx for a while. Untill I was able to borrow a card from my old house mate. and now I have an XfX 6870 from the market place as I never really have spare funds to spend on parts. So I have to buy 2nd hand and that happens very rarely, Due to the amount of outgoings I have each month. the cash situation is getting better but there are numerous things higher on my list that a new graphics card. Oh and to top it all off work who told me when i joined in 2011 saying there was loads of promotion opportunities have now slashed that saying all the jobs above me are being axed permanently so I have no chance of moving up in the company unless I want to stop doing something I do enjoy and start selling to hit targets.

 

ive been made redundant from 4 jobs in just over 2 years, my house is still mid renovation and my sector of employment in the uk is a mess, to make matters worse its a small sector and I think ive been blackballed from one fairly large firm in it because of some dickhead manager who decided to constructively dismiss me by moving my job to the arse end of nowhere making it a 3 hour round trip and bankrupting me in fuel costs.

Im 30 and still havent made it yet despite having the skill to excel in my field of choice.

oh and my cpu/mobo is 5 years old

I cant run Crysis 3 properly

 

Ive only won one thing in my life and that never worked

I spend 5 nights a week not in my bed with my loving wife as a night job was all I could get

Child with behaviour probs...she told me to 'kiss her ass' yesterday ... she's only 9

I Havnt upgraded anything inside my pc for nearly 2 years

I am also married with 3 kids mind I do miss my wife when Im at work

My beloved local Peterborough United are real danger of being relegated

A mistery virus has struck my aquarium...Ive lost an entire shoal of Tiger Barbs and 2 Peppered Corydoras in the last foretnight

Will probably have no money for the next god knows how long, we desperately a 4 bed house and the only way to do it affordably is by extending which will put us right down for a year or 2 in finances

IF I WIN THE GPU I WILL DONATE MY GTX 460 IN A COMPO ON HERE

 

Well, my son story is the fact that I don't have a sob story. Do I win?

Anyway, good luck to everyone else, and a large helping of rep that Simon doesn't need!

 

I've generally stayed out of these, but my situation continues to deteriorate and my last stash of video cards is all dead.

So far this year alone I've buried my child, had our already meager income cut in half, been bitten by a diseased rat, and been hospitalized twice. I find that the condition I'm going in for isn't a simple abdominal wall hernia (which isn't simple anyway) but a urachal cyst, and that I have a bladder wall hernia and an inguinal hernia as well, which leaves me stuck lying about a lot and dependent on painkillers to function. Yes my doctors know about and monitor my pills, but it's still misery.

While Knight's Rest is on hiatus (because I need to be better to work on it, it's heavy) I've got a Dell Precision T7400 to mess with. The system is pretty good, except it's got a Quadro FX 570 for a video card. THIS is the issue with that. It's a crippled, slowed down 8600 GT. It can't really even run SketchUp. Torchlight II fails on it. I haven't played GW2 in two months. I can't game, and about all I'm fit to do is game right now. It won't even play video right, so I can't even watch stuff on my PC.

My wife is not handling the passage of our little boy well, either. I've had to stop episodes of cutting more than once, one of which ended in me getting kicked in said cyst. What makes that worse is that she is on permanent coumadin therapy, which makes it ultradangerous. She IS improving. She does have medications for her issues and she is making progress, but it's sometimes two steps forward and one back, or three back if something happens like when we got an ad for Gerber Life Insurance for our deceased son. It's just hard to support her and cope at the same time with all that's on my plate.

Our bills are paid, we can eat (meagerly, but enough) but there is NOTHING left over. I can't even get a disability lawyer to help me fight for my disability, which I've been turned down twice for. Hopefully Sunday I can talk to the one that goes to church with us, and he might take the case, but things are pretty blasted rough.

So yeah, things suck here. I can pull the card if you'd like to see that I have a FX 570. The system is practically perfect otherwise, but the video is beyond my repairing. I thought of painting it in a nice BMW M1 scheme, but that piss-poor video card keeps me from feeling like I should waste the time. I can scan discharge papers, give pics of the swelling, and I posted the obit a month or so ago. I hate entering things like this, but I could really use an upgrade so I can simply play again.

 

i vote for KayinBlack nothing compares to what he and wife have been through

/thread

 

You can all vote on the Poll after 8pm on 9th March, when we have a selection of stories.

 

My vote is for chrismarkham1982

 

Feel bad for ever felling sorry for my self now...

Happy to help in to pay for shipping to the US for KayinBlack

 

My sob story starts with a bit-tech forum member called True Gamer.

He got into his head one day to be very generous and give away a 580 GPU. So he sat down and thought to himself "How should I decide who to give it to?" So he thought and he thought and he thought and finally decided to have long standing forum members prostate themselves in front of the forum telling their tales of woe. The worst (or best depending on your point of view) would win.

Why is this a sob story I hear you ask? Simon, you're British, we're better than that!

.

 

Reading some of these stories, makes me realise, im actually not that bad off.

When i got broken into a while back, i came home and found out that the robbers actually left me some gear as they felt sorry for me.

Ok thats a lie, but you all know i love to tell my jokes.

 

Short entry, was in a car accident 8 months ago and it has knocked a disc out my back, since then i haven't been able to stand still or sit for more than a minute. Funnily, this does mean I would never be able to use the card but it would make a nice present for when I've had my surgery and recovered!

So far all the other insurers have offered for compensation is £50 plus a refund of the excess I had to pay to fix my car because the 17 year old refused to admit liability.

But in all honesty, give it to kayinblack and be done.

 

Sorry that it may not appeal to you, but I'm very grateful for the things I have!

This is not the first time I have given stuff away, and nor will it be my last.

You need to understand that I would rather have someone who would appreciate such a thing, rather than win it for there own capital gain. As this is not what I'm doing it for.
So in other words, someone who would not normally be able to afford such a GPU, can now have such a chance to own one and appreciate it.

At the same time, I feel good about given someone that opportunity, as I am very lucky to have the experiences I have in life.

 

Get a dash cam, really good investment of £100!

 

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Not enough. That's my sob story. :-(