Get Lucky With The HotHardware, Intel and iBuyPower Sweepstakes

by Marco Chiappetta — Sunday, April 18, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT

In light of the St. Patrick's Day Holiday, we thought it would be fun to give away yet another awesome gaming system! Thanks to our good friends at Intel and iBuyPower, we’ve got a killer rig to give away to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! This time around, you could win a full Intel Core i7 980X Gulftown-based system, complete with a Radeon HD 5870 pushing the pixels, an Intel X25-M SSD, and a head-turning Chimera Inferno 2 case.

There is no doubt this machine will be great for all of the gamers and enthusiasts out there! And it could be all yours! As we've done with previous sweepstakes, we’ll be giving away this rig away to a randomly selected contributor to our on-line forum and news discussion systems (see below for details). The complete break-down of components in the system includes:

Case: Chimera Inferno 2

Processor: Intel Core i7 980X

Cooling: Liquid CPU Cooling w/ 120mm Radiator

Memory: 6 GB DDR3-1600 Triple Channel

Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 1GB

Motherboard: Intel X58

Motherboard Add-on: ASUS U3S6 USB 3 & SATA 3

Power Supply: 1000 Watt Power Supply

Primary Storage: 80 GB Intel X25-M MLC SSD

Data Hard Drive: 1TB Hard Drive

Optical Drive: 10X LG Blu-Ray Re-Writer

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Miscellaneous: iBUYPOWER / NZXT Internal USB Expansion System + Bluetooth Module

Subtotal: ~$2,999.00

To be entered into the sweepstakes, you’ve got to be a registered, active member of our forum and a resident of the United States or Canada. If you’re not already a member, you can sign up quickly and easily (and for free), right here.

From this point forward, we’ll be monitoring discussions here in the news and in the forum as well. We will be randomly selecting a winner based on community involvement and quality of contribution. You can also increase your chances of winning by signing up for our HotHardware RSS News Alerts or becoming a fan of HotHardware via our respective Facebook or Twitter feeds. The contest will run for about a month; we'll announce the winner on Monday, April 19, 2010.

This is a great chance for to you to win a custom, ultra powerful new system. Now go make some new friends in the forum and get in the running! Good Luck!

Tags: sweepstakes, HotHardware, Intel, core i7, Radeon, Gaming, IBuyPower

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

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