Introduction

The final round of the FiringSquad Editor's Challenge brought to you by the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor is in full swing. This time around our competitors need to deliver 3 mblogs in their Matrix pages.

CanadaDave struck first with his article about building a system around the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Processor! He breaks down his case, motherboard, graphics card, memory, power supply, cooler, and of course CPU options. Finally, he shows us how to put it all together.

Jacobvandy was not going to sit back and take things lying down, however. He was working on his own first entry and comes back with detailed breakdowns of all his hardware choices. Very, very detailed, in fact.

How close are our two competitors? Public voting has them both pegged at 90%!

Honestly, we could not ask for better entries. At every stage of the competition, the submissions have been better – and this has been demonstrated with both public votes and the tough choices we editors have made. Jacob and Dave have both absolutely floored us with the quality of their work, they could easily be professionals and one of them will get the chance! Best of all, you have a say in all of this, you get to help us decide which one of them will get the big writing contract!

I dare anyone to take a look at either Jacob's or Dave's entry and tell me that doesn't compare favorably what you might find on a professional site. Do it, and let us know in their mblog comments!