Thursday, September 1st 2011
PowerColor and TechPowerup Present Pimp My Rig Contest
It's that time again, when bagging some rad graphics hardware is as easy as showing off your PC tuning skills and filling up a form in GPU-Z 0.5.5. PowerColor is back on board with us, and this time what we're giving away will come with the bragging rights of being perhaps the only people in the world to have it! Presenting, PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp my Rig Contest 2011!
You stand to win a rare, one of its kind PowerColor dual Radeon HD 6970 X2 prototype, which is designed by its makers to be one of the fastest, most tweakable graphics cards. There's just one prototype on the planet that's fully finished for the consumer, and you stand to win it! All you have to do is get the lowest possible 3DMark 03 score in default settings (of 3DMark), submit the validation link of your feat along with other details in the "PowerColor Giveaway" tab of GPU-Z 0.5.5. That's right, you don't need the fastest hardware to win this contest, just your skills.
That's not all! You can still leave things to Lady Luck. From the pool of valid entries, we will randomly pick one person, who will bag an awesome new PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 X2 dual-GPU graphics card! So there's simply no reason not to try!
For more information, download GPU-Z 0.5.5, and click on the "PowerColor Giveaway" tab. Good luck!
You stand to win a rare, one of its kind PowerColor dual Radeon HD 6970 X2 prototype, which is designed by its makers to be one of the fastest, most tweakable graphics cards. There's just one prototype on the planet that's fully finished for the consumer, and you stand to win it! All you have to do is get the lowest possible 3DMark 03 score in default settings (of 3DMark), submit the validation link of your feat along with other details in the "PowerColor Giveaway" tab of GPU-Z 0.5.5. That's right, you don't need the fastest hardware to win this contest, just your skills.
For more information, download GPU-Z 0.5.5, and click on the "PowerColor Giveaway" tab. Good luck!
191 Comments on PowerColor and TechPowerup Present Pimp My Rig Contest
You are right some people can't read.
I don't know if its good enough to run 3dmark 03;)
Here is a link to the proper place for discussion
Minimum System Recommendations
x86 compatible processor, 1000MHz
256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
1.0GB of free hard disk space
Windows® 98/SE/ME/2000/XP
DirectX®9.0c or later
DirectX®9.0 compatible graphics adapter that has 32MB of memory and is fully DirectX®7.0 compliant
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
I don't think anyone is excluded anyone who have a desktop can participate, even you can do underclock, I though at first that was forbidden :)
oh well ill run it on my current pc to at least have a shot at the 6870x2. I don't have any older hardware ATM.
No need to thank me. I honestly just can't run 3Dmark on my phone so... well I can't enter the contest right now.
Plus, GPU-Z won't start on my AMD E-350 laptop (Lenovo S205 + W7U64). I get the splash screen just fine, but it stays there and keeps eating CPU time.
as such, don't bother reducing the processors clockspeed unless your really sure it could affect the measured speed of the graphics card your using (EG:Act as a bottleneck), but from my experience, even a 10% reduction in graphics card clockspeed will have a bigger affect then a 50% CPU reduction
The benchmark will also take a very long time to load when you lower the CPU
overall, lowering your CPU to values of less then 1ghz is a thing i would only reccomend if you have a very long time to do the benchmark or want to leave the PC on overnight
Nevermind. :laugh:
PS. you were right...I can't read...
I have a felling that 6k is to high.
also for those just looking through from TPU the rules and regs site is here:
www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/contest5.php
no netbooks or notebooks :(
3dmark.com/3dm03/5771751?show_ads=true&page=%2FresultComparison.action%3FcompareResultId%3D5771751%26compareResultType%3D10
:D