Chillin' Out With The HH Community Sweepstakes Winner!

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, March 04, 2011, 09:15 AM EDT

To bring some much-needed heat to this chilly winter, we joined up with our friends at OCZ, Intel, WD, Gigabyte, and Xigmatek, and assembled another <HOT> rig to give away to a lucky reader. This time around we gave you all a chance to win an Intel Core i7-870-infused gaming rig with 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 600GB, 10K RPM hard drive, an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, Radeon HD 6870 graphics card and a few other goodies.

The complete parts list and breakdown for this sweepstakes build is listed below. And just below that, we're announcing the winner!

Processor: Intel Core i7-870

Graphics: XFX Radeon HD 6870

Case: Xigmatek Utgard

PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer 760W

Memory: 4GB OCZ DDR3

Motherboard: Gigabyte P55

Hard Drive: WD Velociraptor 600GB

SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB

Optical Drive: SATA DVD-R / RW

Input: Thermaltake Challenger Pro

Coolice -- You are the winner!

Shoot us a note with your full contact information 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 VERY soon. And you’ll definitely want to stick around for this one!

Tags: sweepstakes, giveaway, HotHardware, Gaming, system, contests, Win

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