Monday, September 3rd 2012
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
65 Comments on TechPowerUp & PowerColor "Pimp my Rig" 2012 - Details and Goodies for our Readers
edit: I believe that Rage II is in fact a dedicated card. It doesn't use the cpu for the rendering as far as I know. Just because its not easily removable doesn't mean it isn't dedicated. I do recall having a Packard Bell with a Rage II DVD+ that had 2MB of memory soldered onboard with it. but the gpu has to be dx9 so it doesn't really matter i guess. though the requirement for 3dmarck2003 is a 32mb dx7 capable card.
Edit2: thought I'd throw this out there... one of the minimum system requirements for 3Dmark 2003 is..
"Intel or AMD compatible processor that achieves a PCMark2002 CPU score over 2500 marks (corresponds to 1 GHz clock speed on some CPU architectures)."
Or I could just watch, and that takes less effort..........
DX9 guys, ATI 9XXX series is the lowest you can go. Otherwise I have a PCI Cirrus card, or a Rage card, or a 7500, or a 7000....
This is about skills. The either unlucky kind, or just being that good.
:shadedshu
^ Why did that fail? Firewall blocking it? ^
Since I mainly listen to electronic music the slowed down temp and distortion created by the low clocks and high stress on the CPU has been super amazing. :D
OR that could just be cause its an FX CPU XD
But anyways, I got the same results if I use my amd system. score of 1 :)
Also tried my x1600pro, got a score of 2 or N/a.. just can't get it to 1.
Anyway I won't be competing in techpowerup. Going to other community.
(I don't understand why it is. It's an AMD release driver from a few months back.)
www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6478017
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Hi guys,I've been following and reading TPU for few years now. Great site.
Thats my score from 3rd attempt. What I did use , just to give some perspective:
8800GT underclocked to 330/475 (660/950). Furmark program, folding at home, vlc with 1080P playback, media player classic with 1080P playback, cinebench 11.5 (pitty it crashed, would be lower score) firefox with about 15 tabs, Prime 95 torture test, Sniper Elite v2 on ultra quality paused of course, Nvidia control panel for maximum possible image quality and AA. and maybe few more programs.
good luck to all the participants.
You have to submit them here btw: www.powercolor.com/event/PimpMyRig/submit.asp
One of the other community's admins are saying that you're allowed as many entries as you like, too, so no reason to hold back with whatever you have now.
Scored 251. :\
I don't think I can go any lower...not with the laptop anyway.
I'll try my AXP machine later.
If you not the fastest you lose
I'd have a better shot at winning the lottery :banghead: