Okay my friends, seventeen pages of photo's, totalling up to a selection of 135 entries in the first selection in this competition. A lot of people have entered Contest 1 the 'A decade of Guru3D' photo contest.

Some of you went for a fairly normal photo, others where really creative, and again others made some really hard effort out of their projects.

We absolutely love to see the diversity on photo's entered. Guru3D is a global website, and if anything this contest has proven that. America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, Asia .. photo's came in from everywhere, and that made me a very proud site owner.

Of course the final winners still need to be picked, but we wanted to share with you guys 135 of the most interesting photo's entered in this competition !

Check out all the photo entries here. And again, this is a first selection .. some entries did not make it, and later (likely in a week from now) the final five winners will be announced.

Hey chaps ! It's time to announce the winners of A decade of Guru3D Contest two. This contest was a logo-hunt and we literally received roughly two thousand correct answers.

The logo was 'hidden' in the following article on the second page:

• An interview with ATI - Dave Baumann

We like to congratulate the winners very much, here is the lucky five ! And sure .. we are all a little jealous as gosh ... we had some great prizes to give away !

1. Zachary Peterson / California - He wins a Custom Far Cry 2 / Guru3D theme spray painted Smooth Creations CoolerMaster chassis.
2. Darren Gordon / Scotland - He wins a HIS Radeon HD 4890 TURBO Edition and Zalman GS1000SE chassis
3. Ben Isaacson / United Kingdom - He wins a Point of View GeForce GTX 275 EXO editon ! and Zalman CNPS9900 CPU cooler
4. Bert Schreu / Belgium - He wins a HIS Radeon 4850 TURBO Edition and Corsair TX650W PSU
5. Joanne Suen / Canada - She wins a HIS Multi-view and HIS VT Book.

To the prize winners, of course our  congratulations. Shipments have already been sorted out and most prizes are already on their way and might be in your possession already.

For those that still would like a good competition with awesome prizes, check out contest 1 which you can still join.

Guys and girls, just a friendly reminder that Contest 2 - The logo hunt is still in effect and ending this week on Friday. if you have not submitted your answer or simply forgot, please click here for the contest information.

Some of the prizes here are:

• Custom Far Cry 2 / Guru3D theme spray painted Smooth Creations CoolerMaster chassis
• HIS Radeon HD 4890 TURBO X
• Zalman GS1000SE chassis
• Point of View GeForce GTX 275 EXO editon !
• Zalman CNPS9900 CPU cooler
• HIS Radeon 4850 TURBO X
• Corsair TX650W PSU
• HIS Multi-view
• Also a HIS VT Book

So with three contests up and running, the first one closed yesterday. For the Benelux we have a full Dragon based PC ready and waiting for the winner. And that was the answer of the question in this contest as well, 'A Dragon platform'. Dragon is the PC's infrastructure combined with the following AMD components, AMD 790 chipset based motherboard, AMD Series 4000 graphics card and a AMD Phenom II based processor.

From well over a thousand correct entries we picked a (random) winner. As such we'd like to congratulate Martijn van Beursem who lives in Vaassen, the Netherlands.

Martijn is soon to be the proud owner of the following PC, congratulations!:

• Motherboard: MSI 790FX GD70
• CPU: AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2 GHz
• Scythe Mugen II CPU cooler
• Gpu: MSI R4890-T2D1G (880 core / 999 mem).
• Memory: Patriot 4GB DDR3 memory
• DVD-RW
• Samsung Spinpoint F1 640Gb HD
• 850 Watt Corsair PSU 
• Gigabyte Poseidon 310 Chassis
• Cardreader
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit registered (installed)

We very much like thank our sponsors AMD and tones.be for this fantastic prize.

Other Competitions
We still have two other contests open and active. These competitions are global and not regional bound. In these competitions we still have to give away many thousands of EURO's worth of prizes including graphics cards, soundcards, power supplies, custom Smooth Creations chassis, a GeForce GTX 285 sighed by the CEO of NVIDIA, DDR3 memory ... and so much more.

• Guru3D Contest 1 (open) - This is an awesome photoshoot contest, join now.
• Guru3D Contest 2 (open) - A logo hunt, spot and find a logo .. and perhaps win a great prize.

Go check them out and join in, especially in contest 1 we hope to see some more entries in, it's the coolest contest evah !

  
Random photo's sumbitted for Contest 1

The Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC) 2009, the world

Guru3D.com is ten years of age, this is contest three in a week full of history and competitions. So alright, here it is the last competition that starts for this week.

The prize we are giving away with this contest is awesome, a complete AMD/ATI system. This prize is sponsored by AMD and tones.be, you will need to have a shipping addres in the Netherlands or Belgium in order to be able to participate.

That entails a complete gamers desktop system that includes: Phenom II X4 955, 790 series chipset motherboard, loaded up with 4GB DDR3 memory and Radeon HD 4890. A prize worth roughly 1250 EUR (!).

• Motherboard: MSI 790FX GD70
• CPU: AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2 GHz
• Scythe Mugen II CPU cooler
• Gpu: MSI R4890-T2D1G (880 core / 999 mem).
• Memory: Patriot 4GB DDR3 memory
• DVD-RW
• Samsung Spinpoint F1 640Gb HD
• 850 Watt Corsair PSU 
• Gigabyte Poseidon 310 Chassis
• Cardreader
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit registered (installed)

Find out what you need to do and what the rules and regulations are right here.

Guru3D.com is ten years of age and as such we really want to celebrate that fact, not only with some interesting articles, but of course also with some really sweet competitions. And I say sweet competitions here as, my man... we have so much lined up to give away as prizes, it's nearly crazy.

In this first competition of the week we'll be giving away, in five prize packages (!):

• GeForce GTX 285 personally signed by Jen-Sun Huang, the man himself, the CEO of NVIDIA!
• BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC2
• Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 sound card  (x3)
• OCZ Blade 2000MHz 7-8-7 Triple Channel 6GB
• OCZ Vendetta 2 including Core i7 brackets
• OCZ Illuminati Keyboard
• OCZ Behemoth Mouse
• OCZ Behemoth Mousepad
• BFG EX1200 Power Supply
• ECS X48T-A motherboard
• HIS Radeon HS 4870 IceQ 4+ TURBO
• PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 power supply
• Corsair TX650W PSU (2x)
• HIS Radeon HS 4870 IceQ 4+ TURBO
• Zalman NC1500 notebook cooler
• ECS N9600GT-512MX-F
• HIS Radeon HD 4670 iSilence 4 1GB

Check out what you need to do right here, A Decade of Guru3D Contest 1.

Last week we celebrated the joyful fact that Guru3D.com distributed over 10 million copies of our in-house software, Rivatuner. To commemorate the moment we ran a contest for four days, in this contest we asked you the simple question, 'How many RivaTuner versions have been released since the first public beta'.

The correct answer was 59 !

Our winner of this contest comes from the wonderful Belgium, his name is Koen Van Nevel. Koen congratulations, your address information has been passed on towards point of View who will ship you a free GeForce GTX 285.

I'd like to thank Unwinder for his dedication and time to this inmense Rivatuner project, and of course Point of View graphics for making the GTX 285 available.

Thanks guys.

Rivatuner breaks a milestone and passes 10 million downloads.

To commemorate this event we give away a Point of View GeForce GTX 285 graphics card.

Today is a monolithic day in the history of Guru3D.com, ever since 2002 when we started counting our downloads there where few utilities so extremely popular as Rivatuner.

Today we mark a milestone as Guru3D served over 10 million downloads of Rivatuner ever since that moment. It shows how remarkable this application is and how much dedication comes from project. Rivatuner has grown to become the number one tweak utility for Radeon and graphics cards. What some of you don't realize is that products like D3DOverrider and EVGA's Precision are based off Rivatuner. This project grew intensely big and wild.

Both Alexey (programmer) and yours truly would like to thank you guys for the continuous support. The project requires tremendous input , our energy and resources, but we get a lot of that back from you guys with simple things as just writing a thank you note every now and then.

Rivatuner Contest - Win a GeForce GTX 285 from Point of View

To celebrate this milestone, one of Rivatuner's sponsors, Point of View in collaborations with Guru3D.com figured we just had to give-away a graphics card to commemorate this moment. Please head on over to this page for the details on how to join a little competition and perhaps win a nice prize.

Again thank you guys for your support, and onwards to 20 million !

• click here to congratulate programmer in our forums
• click here to enter contest (prize is a GeForce GTX 285)
• click here to download Rivatuner

Here at Guru3D.com we have a little bit of a match going on in our forums, heck we like a good competition.

Pretty much we want as many people as possible to team up with us in our 3DMark Vantage hardware bot competition. HWbot is an inter website competition. On each forum users can submit their benchmark scores. Everything is accumulated and the gets ranked. Now surely we love the folks with the maximum scores, but do not think for a second that it's just about that. We just want our team to be BIG.

Interested in receiving a free 3DMark Vantage Advanced edition key ?

To do so we have a little incentive available for you with a little help from Point of View. We're giving away 100 keys for 3DMark Vantage. This is a 19.95 USD valued advanced edition key. All we require you to do is Run the 3DMark Vantage performance test (Duh) , post you score in our 3DMark Vantage HWBot thread, and apply for a key. It can't be any easier than that.

UPDATE: We are out of keys. This giveaway is now closed.

It takes a lot of people to do a lot of work, and we surely did that recently as Team Guru3D has entered top 100 in the Folding@home rankings !

It was close to a year ago when team Guru3D joined the folding@Home project for the good cause. At first we had a lot of people donating thei IDLE CPU cycles to the project and recently all the hottie new GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA can be used to compute as well. back then we advanced roughly 40.000 points per day. Wonderful yet currently we average at 170.000-180.000 points per day, amazing. Due to your help we now have entered the Top 100 which is a fantastic achievement.
Guys thank you all so much for helping out in this project !

Now if you have an ATI Radeon series 3000 or newer or GeForce series 8 or newer graphics card and like to help fighting diseases, please join our team, we have Team ID number 69411.

You can download the latest GPU or CPU clients here.

Should you need help / want info check out our Folding support forums here where anyone will help you with any questions you might have. Come on people, team 69411 ! Thanks to all who are participating in this project, and a special thank you to our top 20 donators: