Gigabyte X79-UD5 Giveaway

Earlier this month we reviewed Intel's new ultra high end CPU: Sandy Bridge E. The 2.7 billion transistor chip is a serious workhorse, overkill for most enthusiasts but a dream come true if you do a lot of video encoding, offline 3D rendering or any other heavily threaded task. The platform is expensive but Gigabyte gave us a pair of its X79-UD5 motherboards to give away to any of our readers that might be interested in going down the LGA-2011 path.

Entries will be accepted until 11AM EST on December 2nd. You can enter by leaving a comment below (please leave only one comment!) and as always, the contest is only available to legal residents of the US (excluding Puerto Rico). Read on for full entry details  - good luck!

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The Motorola Xoom Giveaway, Final Round

We've given away three Motorola Xoom tablets already, this is your last opportunity to win one. Read on for details on how to enter.

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The Motorola Xoom Giveaway, Round 3

When we reviewed Motorola's Xoom, all that was available was the $799 3G version. Since then Motorola has released a more affordable $599 WiFi only edition with 32GB of NAND on board. Inside the Xoom, as you're all familiar with is NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC. Tegra 2 was Google's reference SoC for the Honeycomb release of Android, and thus it's been the heart and soul of all recently announced Honeycomb tablets.

NVIDIA, eager to parade its success with Tegra 2, shipped me a box containing four WiFi Motorola Xooms to give away to our most loyal readers. We're still trying to contact the winner of the first Xoom (AyashiKaibutsu). The second Xoom goes to AnandTech reader jrtroo, respond to my email to claim your prize! Remember you have seven days to claim your prize otherwise you forfeit it. Also remember that the contest is only available to legal residents of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico). Be sure to read the eligibility section to make sure you aren't disqualified if you win!

Here's a shot of the remaining two:

We'll be giving one away every two days until we're out of WiFi Xooms. Sound like a plan?

Read on for instructions on how to win!

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