HotHardware's Labor Day Gaming System Giveaway Winner!

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, October 03, 2011, 05:08 PM EDT

To commemorate the Labor Day holiday, HotHardware.com and our friends at NZXT, NVIDIA, EVGA, Asus, Intel, Gigabyte and Patriot teamed up to put together one heck of monster give-away! This time around readers had a chance to win an Intel Core i5-2400S-infused, custom-built gaming rig with 8GB of Patriot DDR3 RAM, a Patriot Pyro SSD, a Gigabyte mobo, dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics cards by EVGA, all wrapped up in an NZXT Phantom case with an NZXT Hale 90 PSU providing the power.

The complete parts list and breakdown for this custom built gaming rig are listed below:

Chassis: NZXT Phantom Mid-Tower (Winner's Choice of Color!)
Exterior Finish: Winner's Choice!
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400S
Processor Cooling: NZXT HAVIK 140
Motherboard: Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Motherboard
Memory: 8GB Patriot DDR3 Memory
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: 2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Power Supply: NZXT Hale 90
Storage: Patriot Pyro SSD
Secondary Storage: Seagate 3TB HD

Well, we've had a chance to review all of the entries and have picked the winner. So without further delay...

rrplay - You are the winner!

Shoot us a note with your full contact information and let us know what color case you'd like and we'll let you know when the machine ships! Congrats from Team HotHardware! We hope you enjoy it!

And for the hundreds of runners-up (there are no losers around here!), keep those commenting fingers limber--we'll be announcing our next giveaway soon and you’ll definitely want to stick around!

Tags: Nvidia, deals, giveaway, Intel, NZXT, evga, contest, Patriot, labor day

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com