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To get you all into the holiday spirit, we joined up with our friends from Digital Storm and put together yet ANOTHER monster sweepstakes give-away! This time around we gave you all a chance to win an Intel Core i7 950-infused gaming rig with 6GB of DDR3 memory, a 1TB hard drive, a Radeon HD 6870 graphics card and water cooling... Read more...
To pay tribute to the back-to-school season (or just party), in conjunction with our good friends at CyberPower.  We're giving away yet another fully loaded, quad-core powered gaming rig! This time around, you could win a complete Intel Core i7-950-based system, with a GeForce GTX 460 graphics card pushing the pixels, Asetek Liquid... Read more...
Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, we’ve got 20 copies of the excellent game Just Cause 2 to giveaway to our loyal HotHardware fans. They are digital distributable versions available via Steam, so winners can immediately begin enjoying their hot new game, as soon as we send over the download key! As we've done with previous contest here at Read more...
To commemorate the St. Patrick's Day holiday, we announced an exciting sweepstakes, along with our friends at Intel and iBuyPower, in which we planned to give away a custom, fully loaded Intel Core i7-980X-powered system, complete with a Radeon HD 5870 pushing the pixels, an Intel X25-M SSD, and a head-turning Chimera Inferno 2 case.... Read more...
Over the weekend, we held the official Unreal Tournament 3 deathmatch for our AMD-sponsored Economic Stimulus Sweepstakes to determine which prize packages were distributed to the five lucky winners. We left a practice server up and running for the days leading up to the official match, so the winners could hone their skills. And when all... Read more...
We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, from our little family here to you and yours.  We hope whatever you had on your wish-list, naughty or nice, that your Yuletide dreams come true.  But most of all, we wish you all, health, happiness and good times with loved ones and... Read more...
We simply must chalk this one up in the totally cool column.  After all, how many times have you been asked to specify your own dream product by top-tier manufacturers?  The world's first "crowd-sourced" personal computer is the vision and goal of the new Asus and Intel WEPC campaign and web site.  What are your top five... Read more...
You know our HH Forum regulars are definitely a lively, ambitious crew, always eager to lend a hand, some advice or an opinion, sometimes whether you ask for one or not.  Many of the HotHardware Elite possess a wealth of knowledge such that, if you're in the dark on something, they'll be happy to oblige and shed some light, tips or tricks... Read more...
We have a request that we were hoping you could all help us with.  First off, we want to thank you for being a part of the community here.  Our forum members and readers are what we're all about at HotHardware, and we very much value your opinions. If you haven't noticed yet, HotHardware partnered with... Read more...
So you might want to file this one under "huh?" right from the get-go but allows us to expand your horizons a bit anyway.  Imagine it's 6:43AM, you're just sitting down at the breakfast table to a couple of english muffins, a bowl of grapenuts, or the lumberjack breakfast.  Whatever gets you going in the morning; you get the idea. ... Read more...
USB 3.0 is right around the corner, and rather than a minor speed boost, it looks like a serious technology reworking that could help USB 3.0 last well into the next decade.The major features of USB 3.0 are a tenfold speed increase and the obligatory lower power consumption."USB 3.0 is the next logical step for the PC's most popular wired... Read more...
You know you need your daily buzz and we're just the folks to give it to you - HH style that is.  This is the first shot of HH Forum HOT Threads goodness that we'll be serving up to you here, sort of like Isaac your bar tender but different. As we noted recently, we've upgraded the HH Forum software and things are looking pretty... Read more...
Please pardon our downtime today in the forum, folks.  We're upgrading our forum software package and we think you'll really like some of the new features.  We hope to have the forums back live sometime this morning. Thanks for your patience.... Read more...
Ever wonder what other HH readers might classify as a "good day"?  Some go fishing and the old adage applies, "even a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work".  Meanwhile others go flying.  And a good day flying is pretty great.  Check our Utah from a few thousand feet up at DerMeister's... Read more...
We've got the HH Battlefield 2 server back on line, if you'd like to mix it up with fellow members of the HotHardware Elite. We're also running a BF2 Tournament with Sapphire next week and you could win some sweet Graphics gear. So bone up on those snipe skillz....  ... Read more...
The title speaks volumes and it's a lengthy one indeed. AMD's new DDR2 infused platform is here, in concert with new chipset offerings from NVIDIA and ATI.  Swing on by for a look...   And Digg on it here please to spread the word to others.  ... Read more...
Please pardon our appearance as we are currently in the midst of a new server migration for the main HotHardware.com web engine.  Yes, we're aware of a few random broken images and will have all files reloaded shortly.  Thanks for your patience.  Marco broke it... :) ... Read more...
So it's probably obvious by now that we've been re-investing a little bit in things around here lately. All for your benefit of course!  :)  Last week we launched the new site design and asp.net backend database which, all told, went relatively smoothly.  Today we just got the high sign from our host, Data 393, that our new... Read more...
Good Morning All! This is the day, THE DAY of days... for our brother, good friend and HotHardware.com's "back-bone" of the organization – Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta.  Marco Chiappetta and Adrienne Matero will be joined today in holy matrimony.  Let's wish them All-The-Best as they take the first step on... Read more...
Hello All... Just stopping in here to formally introduce you to the newest member of the HotHardware.com team, Matt Beauvais (golf clap please!).  Matt has been with us as a very active member of our forum community for years now and recently has been doing the news on a regular basis for us as well.  We're breaking the man in slowly here Read more...
Heya Folks, how goes it?  We're plenty busy around the HH Labs this week and we have a ton in store for you in new hardware showcases.  Looking into the queue here I see we've got a i915 Motherboard Round-up in store, something new in the way of software from ATi, Low Latency Turbo DDR400 RAM, a Socket 939 Mobo Round-up and even... Read more...
Shuttle steps into the flat panel LCD arena tonight at HotHardware.com and we've got their 17" XP17 display on showcase.  With its all glass black bezel, base free chassis and zip up and go carrying case, this LCD seems to be a perfect accompaniment to a Shuttle XPC.  Take a look here and see for yourself!  ... Read more...