Be Quiet! and TechPowerUp Announce Giveaway

btarunr · Mar 12, 2018

Be Quiet! and TechPowerUp have come together for a chance for PC enthusiasts from the United States and Canada, to build a quieter PC. The company, which has a design focus on low-noise across its entire product lineup, is giving away two of its quietest products - the first lucky winner stands to win both a Be Quiet! Dark Base 700 case and a Be Quiet! Straight Power 11 750W power-supply; the second lucky winner stands to win a Dark Base 700 case, while the third lucky winner gets a Straight Power 11 750W power-supply (three winners in all). The giveaway is open from today, till 26th, 2018 23:59 UTC. Good hunting!

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dorsetknob · Mar 12, 2018

What a Bummer for the rest of the world

for a chance for PC enthusiasts from the United States and Canada, to build a quieter PC.[/quote ]
Do they realize they have Other markets throughout the world

rtwjunkie · Mar 12, 2018

Very interesting that even Europe isn’t included...from a German company.

Vayra86 · Mar 12, 2018

I guess I'll be Quiet then on this one...

Ferrum Master · Mar 12, 2018

Indeed... no love for the old world.

robert3892 · Mar 12, 2018

US and Canada only, what a bummer!

RejZoR · Mar 12, 2018

That's dumb. A German company doing only US/Canada giveaway. ? Literally the only time I'm even interested in it and it has this stupid limitation. Oh well.

_JP_ · Mar 12, 2018

Good luck to those in NA!

Chaitanya · Mar 12, 2018

Still entering this as I have valid US shipping address(my friends address) and have couple of commercial pilots who wont mind carrying the package for me.

Beerbam · Mar 12, 2018

Mäh no europe , good luck.

But it's adequate tho I finished yesterday boxing up 300 - 450W be quiet Power supplies that were exchanged against an competitor from ... yes US.^^
My yearly Family and Friends Computer Service Exchange program finally finished. :slap:

For the bored:
Switched half of em to Platinum grade and >=750W, especially with the specialists who changed to 1080Ti.
Improves their P-state memory overclocking buginess, 450W are too low for whatever reason, didn't find any peaks nearing the limit within 100W on scope.

From 11 pcs all were still functional after 4-5 years and only 1 had some strange 12V stability issues above ~50% load.
Noise was still okay.
Efficiency Grade seemed to be still around their 230V ratings but no measurement, compared the power draw to the new ones.
They will likely end up as spare parts for 3d printers etc.
Had to many issues with PS after 6-8y, doesn't matter if they were rated for 10 yrs or not.

cucker tarlson · Mar 12, 2018

I honestly don't understand why all those have to be us/canada only every friggin time.

Anyway, good luck for all participants, this is really top quality hardware you can win.

Legacy-ZA · Mar 12, 2018

Pffft, not international... I guess you don't need ad block revenue from outside the U.S and Canada either.

_JP_ · Mar 12, 2018

You guys are making a fuss about something Be Quiet! decided and the reason being, probably, logistics. Maybe next time it will be EU/EMEA only?
Calm down...

cucker tarlson · Mar 12, 2018

How is this a logistics issue if bequiet is based in Germany ? And yeah, next time it will not be EU/EMEA only.

crazyeyesreaper · Mar 12, 2018

Oh my god so many fucking cry babies. So much entitlement.

1 giveaway goes US / NA only and you lose your damn minds.

So out of the last 5 damn giveaways i could easily find on TPU 4 / 5 were available world wide on it multiple regions. Manufacturer picks the regions and lets face facts usually giveaways are to promote brand awareness in the hopes of increased sales. Be Quiet might be looking to increase there presence in the US / NA market. Just a hunch.

ADATA giveaway in December was world wide
Nerdytec giveaway in December (US / NA / EU / AU)
Reeven giveaway in January was world wide
Cryorig giveaway in August was world wide

FreedomEclipse · Mar 12, 2018

Im entering.... If i win, I would like the prizes to be sent to @Norton to be given away to the F@H/WCG/BOINC crew

Beerbam · Mar 12, 2018

cucker tarlson said:
How is this a logistics issue if bequiet is based in Germany ? And yeah, next time it will not be EU/EMEA only.

It's a regulative issue, each country has it's individual terms for Giveaways and some are even contrary.
You could easily burn 10x times the worth of the equipment just for the regulatory efforts.
For Germany it seems to be § 4 Nr. 5 UWG which has some differences to the EU Version.

So a lot of funny stuff to check for a simple world wide give away and cause that companies tend do that regionally

cucker tarlson · Mar 12, 2018

Well, to be honest just this year bequiet had a giveaway in Poland where you could enter to win basically an entire high-end system with:

Intel Core i7-7700K
MSI Z270 Tomahawk
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Aero
16 GBHyperX Savage 3000 CL15
SSD HyperX Savage 240 GB
2 TB Seagate FireCuda
be quiet! Pure Power 10 600W CM
be quiet! Silent Loop 240 mm
be quiet! Pure Base 600 Window Black
Windows 10.

Hugis · Mar 13, 2018

FreedomEclipse said:
Im entering.... If i win, I would like the prizes to be sent to @Norton to be given away to the F@H/WCG/BOINC crew

Me 2!

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Be Quiet! and TechPowerUp Announce Giveaway

btarunr

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dorsetknob

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rtwjunkie

PC Gaming Enthusiast

Vayra86

Ferrum Master

robert3892

RejZoR

_JP_

Chaitanya

Beerbam

cucker tarlson

Legacy-ZA

_JP_

cucker tarlson

crazyeyesreaper

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FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

Beerbam

cucker tarlson

Hugis

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