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
Btw, btarunr, Powercolor lists an 990FX Extreme 3, in the prize list, not an Extreme4.60MHz, 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.
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.
it should be limited to off the shelf-hardware that is running at the rated clock speed
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?
Definitely going to need a lame GPU for this. I assume that in order to win, yes.