HotHardware Holiday Sweepstakes!

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 09:30 AM EDT

It’s that time again folks! Time for another giveaway here at HotHardware! We’ve teamed up with our friends at AMD and will be giving away prizes--including a complete small form factor PC--to three lucky winners. Instead of a straightforward sweepstakes, however, we wanted to have a little fun and get all of your creative juices flowing this time around.

We’re going to keep this one fairly open ended. We want you all to stretch your legs, be as creative as you can be, and design the AMD / ATI powered PC (or PC component) of the future! If you want to draw up a mini-super computer with an over-the-top graphics configuration--go for it! Maybe you’ve got an idea for an awesome looking GPU heatsink? Or a funky new graphics card design? That would be cool too! Our main goal here is for everyone to have FUN, so anything goes! And don't think you need to be an expert in 3D modeling to win. Like we said, we want you all to have fun, so just do your best with Paint if you have to!

In the end, the most impressive and creative designs take the cake, or components in this case!

*First Prize*
*Second Prize*	*Third Prize*

First Prize:

1 x Fully Configured Micro PC
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core 9350e, 2.0GHz
Graphics: PowerColor Radeon HD 4670
Chassis: Thermaltake LANBOX Lite VF6000BWS
Memory: Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 4GB (2x2GB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar (WD6400AAKS) 640GB SATAII 7200 RPM 16MB Buffer
CPU Cooler: Scythe SHURIKEN
PSU: Enermax ETK500AWT Tomahawk 500W
Optical Drive: LG GBC-H20L Blu-Ray / DVD

Second Prize

PowerColor Radeon HD 4830

Third Prize

PowerColor Radeon HD 4670

Please submit your entries to hh.contest@hothardware.com and they must be posted in this discussion thread as well, so the community can check them out. If you're new, you can register for HotHardware, right here. The contest will run through the 2008 holiday season and we’ll announce the winners Wednesday December 31, 2008.

We're accepting entries from anyone across the globe for this giveaway--this one is not limited to US residents only. As always, participation in the various HotHardware forum and news community discussions will have the contest gods smiling upon you, so get in here and chat it up.

Good luck everyone! Have Fun!

Tags: sweepstakes, holiday, giveaway, AMD, HotHardware

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