Futuremark ''Life of a Benchmarker'' Video Contest Begins

malware · Dec 15, 2008, 05:53 AM

Futuremark Corporation is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its 3DMark benchmark suite with a video contest for gamers and overclockers everywhere. Fans of the popular benchmarking program are invited to show the "Life of a Benchmarker" in an original video with great prizes awarded to the best entries.
"We’re launching this contest as a thank you to all our fans who have helped 3DMark become the number one PC gaming benchmark," said Dr. Jukka Mдkinen, VP and General Manager at Futuremark.

The "Life of a Benchmarker" video contest celebrates the world of benchmarking and overclocking. Contestants are asked to create a video illustrating what benchmarking means to them. For example, they could record 3DMark running on their systems, or show what happens when benchmarking is taken to the extreme.

Top prizes will be awarded to contestants who impress the judges with their originality; prizes include an HDTV, MSI Eclipse motherboards, MSI R4870 graphics cards, Enermax Revolution85+ power supplies and special 3DMark 10 Year Anniversary Collectors’ Edition bundles.

More information on the contest can be found on the Futuremark website: http://www.futuremark.com/community/.../introduction/

Source: Futuremark

theJesus · Dec 15, 2008, 06:37 AM

Sounds pretty cool. Fits needs to submit a video demonstrating how fast he goes through parts

Wile E · Dec 15, 2008, 06:55 AM

Hahaha! This is a pretty cool Idea. Too bad I don't own a video camera. My video would be mad scientist style. I would even put up a couple Jacob's ladders in the room.

theJesus · Dec 15, 2008, 06:59 AM

Wile E, do any of your friends have video cams? Or do you have a still camera that takes videos as well? That would ok I suppose.

I've got a friend that took two years of video production in high school. Too bad none of my friends around here are serious benchers

blobster21 · Dec 15, 2008, 07:01 AM

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to all our fans who have helped 3DMark become the number one PC gaming benchmark

There's no other competitors in the commercial graphic benchmarking field, how could you be anything else but first !? lol @ those press release

theJesus · Dec 15, 2008, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by blobster21

There's no other competitor in the graphic benchmarking field, how could you be anything else but first !? lol @ those press release

There's plenty of competitors. They're called games. Many even have built-in benching tools. Fraps has benching tools to be used with games that don't have their own. Not to mention the variety of other alternatives, free and commercial.

The only reason it seems like 3DMark is the only competitor is because it's so popular that people tend to overlook, or not even care about, other graphics benchmarks; which is kinda stupid to do, since benching within games will always be the most accurate way to benchmark gpus (for gaming).

Triprift · Dec 15, 2008, 07:09 AM

or show what happens when benchmarking is taken to the extreme.

Now thats got me thinking lol what could ppl come up with.

theJesus · Dec 15, 2008, 07:15 AM

I hope someone posts an old-school benching video with a pentium-mmx on a crazy TEC setup . . . I also want to see a TEC fry.

Triprift · Dec 15, 2008, 07:18 AM

Someone donate Wile e a vid camera.

theJesus · Dec 15, 2008, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Triprift

Someone donate Wile e a vid camera.

there

Exavier · Dec 15, 2008, 02:45 PM

I think Fits should show how fast he gets through tech..before he sells his current i7..so you get a sense of the scale

newconroer · Dec 15, 2008, 03:17 PM

You know..everytime I see one of these guys up there doing promo videos and what not about overclocking, it just makes me chuckle.

They are such posers.

Real nerds respect geek culture. Overclocking used to be for the zainy, the brainy, and the downright 'r< turbomem' nutjobs. They knew it, everyone else knew it. You didn't mess with overclockers.

Now everyone and their brother bumps their vcore, flashes their GPU bios and voila!

Even the geeks have sold out.

Wile E · Dec 15, 2008, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by newconroer

You know..everytime I see one of these guys up there doing promo videos and what not about overclocking, it just makes me chuckle.

They are such posers.

Real nerds respect geek culture. Overclocking used to be for the zainy, the brainy, and the downright 'r< turbomem' nutjobs. They knew it, everyone else knew it. You didn't mess with overclockers.

Now everyone and their brother bumps their vcore, flashes their GPU bios and voila!

Even the geeks have sold out.

Yeah, but LN2 and DICE are still reserved for us true geeks. I don't think that will ever be mainstream, so we'll always have that.

I can see the vid now, fog pouring out of my DICE pot, a couple Jacob's ladders, a pair of goggles, crazy Einstein hair, maniacal laughter, etc., etc.

Triprift · Dec 15, 2008, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wile E

Yeah, but LN2 and DICE are still reserved for us true geeks. I don't think that will ever be mainstream, so we'll always have that.

I can see the vid now, fog pouring out of my DICE pot, a couple Jacob's ladders, a pair of goggles, crazy Einstein hair, maniacal laughter, etc., etc.

Lol now thats what im talking about exactly the way imaged it mon.

Seriously though we need at least one person from here enter. =/

imperialreign · Dec 15, 2008, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newconroer

You know..everytime I see one of these guys up there doing promo videos and what not about overclocking, it just makes me chuckle.

They are such posers.

Real nerds respect geek culture. Overclocking used to be for the zainy, the brainy, and the downright 'r< turbomem' nutjobs. They knew it, everyone else knew it. You didn't mess with overclockers.

Now everyone and their brother bumps their vcore, flashes their GPU bios and voila!

Even the geeks have sold out.

true - remember the days when you had to set the switches on the mobo . . . when stock CPU coolers were thermal epoxied to the core and used 40mm fans . . .

man, those were the days

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wile E

Yeah, but LN2 and DICE are still reserved for us true geeks. I don't think that will ever be mainstream, so we'll always have that.

I can see the vid now, fog pouring out of my DICE pot, a couple Jacob's ladders, a pair of goggles, crazy Einstein hair, maniacal laughter, etc., etc.

well - there's still the extreme cooling for extreme OCs . . . but let's not forget those that set up high-OCs (50% +) to run 24/7 without issues . . .

I backed mine down from 3.8 to 3.6 just so I could OC the DDR3 . . . although, I'm looking forward to attempting a 75% 24/7OC on this quad once I finish getting my HOH setup installed . . . but we'll have to see how that goes.

Anyhow, if I had a spare camera to send yer way, man, it'd be in the mail! All I can picture is Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein as he's reviving the creation

mlee49 · Dec 15, 2008, 11:47 PM

Watch the Video and @ 4:44 TPU gets some free publicitiy!!!

cdawall · Dec 16, 2008, 01:56 AM

haha ill do one

theJesus · Dec 17, 2008, 07:24 AM

$60 vid cam = no excuse for not submitting an entry!

Wile E · Dec 17, 2008, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theJesus

$60 vid cam = no excuse for not submitting an entry!

Except that it's sold out. lol.

theJesus · Dec 18, 2008, 06:22 AM

lol, well it wasn't when I posted it

It did sell out pretty quick though.

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theJesus Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canton, Ohio Posts: 3,127 (1.74/day) Thanks: 2,308 Thanked 866 Times in 613 Posts System Specs	Sounds pretty cool. Fits needs to submit a video demonstrating how fast he goes through parts __________________ HEAT “congratulations! you have successfully been inflicted with tpuitis! symptons include: prolonged computer usage, urge to make tpu your homepage, posting at rapid posts-per-day ratios (also known as post whoring), and the urge to waste lots of money on high end computer hardware that you dont need!” -panchoman “Modding to me is something best shared with others.... Kind of like a fine wine, but without the drunk driving arrest and hangovers.” -MKmods “i'm going to punch you in the face now Jesus..” -BumbleBee

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theJesus Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canton, Ohio Posts: 3,127 (1.74/day) Thanks: 2,308 Thanked 866 Times in 613 Posts System Specs	lol, well it wasn't when I posted it It did sell out pretty quick though. __________________ HEAT “congratulations! you have successfully been inflicted with tpuitis! symptons include: prolonged computer usage, urge to make tpu your homepage, posting at rapid posts-per-day ratios (also known as post whoring), and the urge to waste lots of money on high end computer hardware that you dont need!” -panchoman “Modding to me is something best shared with others.... Kind of like a fine wine, but without the drunk driving arrest and hangovers.” -MKmods “i'm going to punch you in the face now Jesus..” -BumbleBee

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