I’ve never had great luck with giveaways or sweepstakes, and frankly, I stopped participating in them years ago. On a fateful day in June 2022, however, I decided to enter an online PC building contest organized by WD and Nvidia. Like always, I didn’t really believe I’d win something, but a few weeks later, it became a reality. My tale is 2 years old, but better late than never as they say.
The stakes were that three winners would win the PCs they configured in the competition, and the first place winner was allowed to pick $1800 worth of components of their choice. From mulling an upgrade from my GTX 1660 Ti to an RTX 3060 Ti, I won an RTX 3080 gaming PC out of the blue. So here’s the crazy story of how it all went down.
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