TechPowerUp & PowerColor "Pimp my Rig" 2012 - Details and Goodies for our Readers

btarunr · Sep 3, 2012, 08:55 AM

TechPowerUp and PowerColor get together once again to bring you "Pimp my Rig" Contest 2012. Pimp my Rig is our undying quest for the fastest slowest rig on the planet, which will be pimped up with some rad new hardware courtesy of PowerColor, AMD, ASRock, and Cooler Master. The contest is divided into two rounds, 1 and 2. Winners of the first round, who qualify for the second round, stand to win prizes including Cooler Master HAF-XM chassis, CM Storm QuickFire Rapid keyboard, CM Storm Sentinel Adv. II mouse, AMD FX-8150 eight-core processor, and ASRock 990FX Extreme3 motherboard. The winner of the second and final round stands to win the grand prize - a PowerColor Radeon HD 7990 Devil13 dual-GPU graphics card. Contest rules and fine-print can be found in the link below. Good hunting!

More information and to participate - TechPowerUp and PowerColor Pimp my Rig 2012

Sir B. Fannybottom · Sep 3, 2012, 08:56 AM

hehe W1zz already posted this ;3 Also, check #10, you forgot the Y.

_JP_ · Sep 3, 2012, 11:23 AM

Hmmm...let's see for far I can go with my laptop. I probably won't be able to beat a score of 1, but I'll try. I could use that upgrade, excluding the 7990...
Btw, btarunr, Powercolor lists an 990FX Extreme 3, in the prize list, not an Extreme4.

Morgoth · Sep 3, 2012, 12:48 PM

can i use a old pentium 1 setup?

W1zzard · Sep 3, 2012, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morgoth

can i use a old pentium 1 setup?

yes as long as the rest meets whats written in the rules

adrianx · Sep 3, 2012, 01:07 PM

so for dx 9 .. same old nvidia fx 5000 (or more precise fx 5200/fx5300) and ati X300 SE or X200 IGP on laptops or XGI V5, and athlon or p3/p4 cpu...

_JP_ · Sep 3, 2012, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adrianx

X200 IGP on laptops or XGI V5

By this:

Quote:

Only stand alone graphic cards are valid for this competition

I understand that Integrated graphics chips are not allowed, so those two aren't eligible to enter the contest.

Necrofire · Sep 3, 2012, 02:23 PM

I totally could have had a shot in this maybe 2 years ago when I still had my Pentium machine.
60MHz, 64MB ram, and what I think was a pci FX5200 iirc.
That bad boy had a smoking ~520MB hard drive, I had to use nlite on a windows xp disc to bypass xp's hard drive space requirements.

cdawall · Sep 3, 2012, 03:37 PM

Time to break out the fx5700 and semprons.

hardcoreimpulse · Sep 3, 2012, 05:01 PM

don't have a dedicated graphics card can i participate???

Kreij · Sep 3, 2012, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Rules

4.Only stand alone graphic cards are valid for this competition

No.

Aleksander · Sep 3, 2012, 05:31 PM

For me this kind of competition is a bit fake.
The 3D Mark 2003 programmers can participate and program it to show 0.00001 Points
So, no matter what prize it is, i wont be part of it.

OneMoar · Sep 3, 2012, 06:20 PM

this is way to easy to falsify
it should be limited to off the shelf-hardware that is running at the rated clock speed

cdawall · Sep 3, 2012, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneMoar

this is way to easy to falsify
it should be limited to off the shelf-hardware that is running at the rated clock speed

Don't ruin my fun. I already dug up a 128mb stick of DDR1, FX5700 and sempron 2500+. Turns out you can passively cool a sempron 2500+ with my water loop.

Prima.Vera · Sep 3, 2012, 06:34 PM

I have a 4x86DX with 32MB RAM, S3 Virge GX and Windows XP. Anyone can beat this????

cdawall · Sep 3, 2012, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prima.Vera

I have a 4x86DX with 32MB RAM, S3 Virge GX and Windows XP. Anyone can beat this????

Everyone can you don't support DX9 so it doesn't even qualify.

Jacez44 · Sep 3, 2012, 06:49 PM

Boy, the description leaves practically everything to be desired.

So, I have to come up with the lowest spec rig that can accommodate a DX9 GPU, in order to score the lowest on 3DMark03?

Well, how is that a competition? Just get the slowest DX9 card and underclock it.

Also, what does it have to do with Pimping? Is there any modding involved?

cdawall · Sep 3, 2012, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jacez44

Boy, the description leaves practically everything to be desired.

So, I have to come up with the lowest spec rig that can accommodate a DX9 GPU, in order to score the lowest on 3DMark03?

Well, how is that a competition? Just get the slowest DX9 card and underclock it.

Also, what does it have to do with Pimping? Is there any modding involved?

It isn't quite that simple. None of the tests can go N/A so there is a minimum score you can make. You can also try it on any rig with PCI since all cpu's can downclock...If you don't like the competition why bother posting?

hellrazor · Sep 3, 2012, 07:06 PM

I'd like to enter my rig but if I win, but not only do I not like the keyboard, mouse, or case, I'm afraid I'm going to end up with a new motherboard, a new processor, and no memory, which would make both of them worthless (unless I decided to sell them or something) and even if I only win the first round I'd end up with a better GPU without a decent PSU to support it.

damric · Sep 3, 2012, 09:06 PM

Finally, a benchmark my bulldozer chip will be good at.

Prima.Vera · Sep 3, 2012, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdawall

Everyone can you don't support DX9 so it doesn't even qualify.

Right, I need to ask someone for a 5200FX on AGP....

theubersmurf · Sep 3, 2012, 09:55 PM

This should be done based on the rigs in people's signatures, and the longevity of that rig. It's too easy to throw together something that will fare really poorly. Hell, it'd be worth it to go to walmart and buy a pci 5500fx and stick it in my old socket a nforce 2 mobo just to take a shot at a few of the prizes...it just seems too easy to come up with a pitiable system that you don't really have or use. meh

AphexDreamer · Sep 3, 2012, 10:19 PM

Is underclocking aloud as well as running background programs to slow the benchmark down even more? Or is that considered cheating?

damric · Sep 3, 2012, 10:24 PM

I just underclocked my FX-4100 to less than 800MHZ, with all of the other dividers and multipliers bottomed out, and downclocked my video card as low as it would go. It took like a hundred years to boot up and load windows, and another hundred years to open up 3dmark03, but it still managed 30-60FPS...

Definitely going to need a lame GPU for this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AphexDreamer

Is underclocking aloud as well as running background programs to slow the benchmark down even more? Or is that considered cheating?

I assume that in order to win, yes.

bejo · Sep 4, 2012, 12:30 AM

great, thanks for the info

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Sep 3, 2012, 08:56 AM	#2
Sir B. Fannybottom Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Canadia Posts: 1,843 (2.47/day) Thanks: 1,768 Thanked 940 Times in 561 Posts System Specs	hehe W1zz already posted this ;3 Also, check #10, you forgot the Y. __________________ I do say, what is this madness? Last edited by Sir B. Fannybottom; Sep 3, 2012 at 09:06 AM.

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Sep 3, 2012, 11:23 AM	#3
_JP_ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Portugal Posts: 2,142 (1.85/day) Thanks: 1,968 Thanked 650 Times in 471 Posts System Specs	Hmmm...let's see for far I can go with my laptop. I probably won't be able to beat a score of 1, but I'll try. I could use that upgrade, excluding the 7990... Btw, btarunr, Powercolor lists an 990FX Extreme 3, in the prize list, not an Extreme4. Last edited by _JP_; Sep 3, 2012 at 02:16 PM.

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Sep 3, 2012, 08:55 AM	#1
btarunr Editor & Senior Moderator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hyderabad, India Posts: 15,035 (7.23/day) Thanks: 792 Thanked 13,032 Times in 5,720 Posts System Specs	TechPowerUp & PowerColor "Pimp my Rig" 2012 - Details and Goodies for our Readers TechPowerUp and PowerColor get together once again to bring you "Pimp my Rig" Contest 2012. Pimp my Rig is our undying quest for the fastest slowest rig on the planet, which will be pimped up with some rad new hardware courtesy of PowerColor, AMD, ASRock, and Cooler Master. The contest is divided into two rounds, 1 and 2. Winners of the first round, who qualify for the second round, stand to win prizes including Cooler Master HAF-XM chassis, CM Storm QuickFire Rapid keyboard, CM Storm Sentinel Adv. II mouse, AMD FX-8150 eight-core processor, and ASRock 990FX Extreme3 motherboard. The winner of the second and final round stands to win the grand prize - a PowerColor Radeon HD 7990 Devil13 dual-GPU graphics card. Contest rules and fine-print can be found in the link below. Good hunting! More information and to participate - TechPowerUp and PowerColor Pimp my Rig 2012 Last edited by btarunr; Sep 3, 2012 at 12:19 PM.

Sep 3, 2012, 12:48 PM	#4
Morgoth Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,668 (1.24/day) Thanks: 83 Thanked 237 Times in 165 Posts System Specs	can i use a old pentium 1 setup? __________________ http://www.moddb.com/mods/biohazard-project http://biohazardproject.net76.net/

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Sep 3, 2012, 01:07 PM	#6
adrianx Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Bucharest ROMANIA Posts: 321 (0.16/day) Thanks: 2 Thanked 25 Times in 20 Posts System Specs	so for dx 9 .. same old nvidia fx 5000 (or more precise fx 5200/fx5300) and ati X300 SE or X200 IGP on laptops or XGI V5, and athlon or p3/p4 cpu... __________________ http://hitechcoffee.blogspot.com/ Last edited by adrianx; Sep 3, 2012 at 01:20 PM.

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Sep 3, 2012, 02:23 PM	#8
Necrofire Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 585 (0.28/day) Thanks: 28 Thanked 45 Times in 40 Posts System Specs	I totally could have had a shot in this maybe 2 years ago when I still had my Pentium machine. 60MHz, 64MB ram, and what I think was a pci FX5200 iirc. That bad boy had a smoking ~520MB hard drive, I had to use nlite on a windows xp disc to bypass xp's hard drive space requirements. __________________ My [FS] thread

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Sep 3, 2012, 03:37 PM	#9
cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,182 (6.41/day) Thanks: 460 Thanked 2,810 Times in 2,256 Posts System Specs	Time to break out the fx5700 and semprons. __________________

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Sep 3, 2012, 05:01 PM	#10
hardcoreimpulse Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 8 (0.01/day) Thanks: 14 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	don't have a dedicated graphics card can i participate???

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Sep 3, 2012, 05:31 PM	#12
Aleksander Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 3,038 (2.35/day) Thanks: 653 Thanked 283 Times in 229 Posts System Specs	For me this kind of competition is a bit fake. The 3D Mark 2003 programmers can participate and program it to show 0.00001 Points So, no matter what prize it is, i wont be part of it.

System Name:	Mercury
Processor:	Phenom II x4 B50
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Benchmarks:	Maybe it is time to benchmark :D

Sep 3, 2012, 06:20 PM	#13
OneMoar Banned Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,345 (2.01/day) Thanks: 91 Thanked 442 Times in 380 Posts System Specs	this is way to easy to falsify it should be limited to off the shelf-hardware that is running at the rated clock speed

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Sep 3, 2012, 06:34 PM	#15
Prima.Vera Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Antagonia Posts: 1,429 (2.22/day) Thanks: 246 Thanked 185 Times in 124 Posts System Specs	I have a 4x86DX with 32MB RAM, S3 Virge GX and Windows XP. Anyone can beat this???? __________________ *The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.*

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Sep 3, 2012, 06:49 PM	#17
Jacez44 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Givatayim Posts: 35 (0.08/day) Thanks: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts System Specs	Boy, the description leaves practically everything to be desired. So, I have to come up with the lowest spec rig that can accommodate a DX9 GPU, in order to score the lowest on 3DMark03? Well, how is that a competition? Just get the slowest DX9 card and underclock it. Also, what does it have to do with Pimping? Is there any modding involved?

System Name:	White Phoenix
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Sep 3, 2012, 07:06 PM	#19
hellrazor Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,361 (1.12/day) Thanks: 1,414 Thanked 276 Times in 194 Posts System Specs	I'd like to enter my rig but if I win, but not only do I not like the keyboard, mouse, or case, I'm afraid I'm going to end up with a new motherboard, a new processor, and no memory, which would make both of them worthless (unless I decided to sell them or something) and even if I only win the first round I'd end up with a better GPU without a decent PSU to support it. __________________ "Doom means two things: demons and shotguns." -John Carmack

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Sep 3, 2012, 09:06 PM	#20
damric Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: In a troll cave Posts: 295 (0.24/day) Thanks: 227 Thanked 72 Times in 44 Posts System Specs	Finally, a benchmark my bulldozer chip will be good at. __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

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Sep 3, 2012, 09:55 PM	#22
theubersmurf Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Dawn Posts: 859 (0.55/day) Thanks: 118 Thanked 102 Times in 79 Posts System Specs	This should be done based on the rigs in people's signatures, and the longevity of that rig. It's too easy to throw together something that will fare really poorly. Hell, it'd be worth it to go to walmart and buy a pci 5500fx and stick it in my old socket a nforce 2 mobo just to take a shot at a few of the prizes...it just seems too easy to come up with a pitiable system that you don't really have or use. meh __________________ my heatware ebay feedback

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Sep 3, 2012, 10:19 PM	#23
AphexDreamer Eligible for custom title Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Aphexdreamer\ Posts: 5,617 (2.56/day) Thanks: 812 Thanked 888 Times in 674 Posts System Specs	Is underclocking aloud as well as running background programs to slow the benchmark down even more? Or is that considered cheating? __________________ Sent from my PC using chrome.

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Sep 4, 2012, 12:30 AM	#25
bejo Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	great, thanks for the info