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!