HotHardware's "Dads and Grads" Gaming Rig Winner!

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, June 30, 2011, 05:28 PM EDT

To commemorate Father's Day and to congratulate all of you that are graduating this season, in conjunction with our friends at AMD, Thermaltake, and Kingston, we assembled yet another <HOT> rig to give away! Readers had a chance to win a full AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition based system, complete with a pair of Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, some super-fast Kingston DDR3 RAM, a Kingston SSD, and a slick Thermaltake Level 10 GT chassis.

We decided to give the rig to a randomly selected contributor to our on-line forum, news and reviews discussion systems. And we have picked the winner! Before we reveal who it is, here's one last look at the complete break-down of components in the system:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 980 BE

Graphics: Radeon HD 6870 CrossFire

Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT

PSU: Thermaltake Power Supply

Memory: 8GB Kingston DDR3-1600

Motherboard: AMD 800 Series AM3

SSD: Kingston 128GB V+ 100

Hard Drive: 750GB, 7200RPM

Optical Drive: SATA DVD-R / RW

LBowen-- 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!

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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