Update! HH/Intel Core i For The Mainstream Guy/Gal Winner Announced!

Cue lights, Rock Star sound track, and drum-roll please...  Check, check, is this thing on?  Ladies and Gents, we have ourselves a winner for the HotHardware.com and Intel Core i7 For The Mainstream Guy/Gal Sweepstakes!  This new-found Core i Guy has been with us here at HotHardware since April this year and it's good to have him aboard.  You'll find he's often chatting it up in our news story threads and hanging out for a bit of banter in the HH Community Forum as well. 

Give it up for our Intel Core i For The Mainstream Guy/Gal Sweepstakes winner, REALNEIL!

Congratulations Neil, you are the proud owner of this <HOT> new Intel Core i7 860 Gaming System, courtesy of our friends at Intel and CyberPower PC.  Just drop us a note with your shipping address and phone number and we'll turn this bad boy around to you in the next day or so!



  

Cyberpower PC Gamer Xtreme 5000 - Intel Lynnfield System
Specs:
-Intel® Core™ i7 870 @ 2.93 GHz LGA 1156 45nm 8MB L3 Cache
-Intel P55 Chipset Mainboard
        - 3x PCI-e 16x
        - 4x DIMM DDR3 Memory Slots
        - 2x PCI-e 1x
        - 2x PCI
        - 10 USB (8 x rear, 2 x front)
        - GB LAN
- 6x SATA, 2x IDE
- I/O: 2x PS2, 8x USB, 1x IEEE1394a, Optical S/PDIF Out Port, Coaxial S/PDIF          
  Out Port,2x RJ-45, Audio
-8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 1333 Memory(Corsair Value Select or Major Brand)
-1TB SATA-II 3.0 Gb/s 7200RPM HDD
-Nvidia Geforce GTX 285 PCI Express Video Card
-Blu-Ray Player Drive
-22x DVD±R/±RW DUAL LAYER DRIVE
-Flash Card Reader Drive
-Viewsonice VA2226W 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
-Xtreme Gear USB Keyboard
-Xtreme Gear USB Mouse
-Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64-Bit
(With Windows 7 Upgrade Coupon)
-CoolerMaster Sniper Storm Gaming Case

Thanks to all of you for participating in the contest!!  We also have a couple of goodies for our buddies gibbersome and martin-nj as well, as a sort of consolation prize.  Again just drop us a note and we'll drop you a little somethin-somethin to thank you for your efforts.

Thanks again to our buds at Intel and CyberPower PC for making this sweepstakes give-away possible!  Congrats again RealNeil!