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.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!
191 Comments on PowerColor and TechPowerup Present Pimp My Rig Contest
Anyone know why I can't manage any submissions at all? Even my stock, baseline score won't submit thru 3dmark03. I've made an account on the Results website.
The system profiler thing in 3dmark03 also seems to have trouble with my hardware, it doesn't want to see the RAM frequencies at all... might this have something to do with it?
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 got the perfect rig :)
underclocked cpu to 1ghz
ram forced to 512mb
regular HDD
X1270 mobile
3dmark.com/3dm03/6434753
I did not save it, though, because I believed unless you have scores for each individual test, it would be invalid.
EDIT:
How about this?
All desktop systems are welcome to submit their entry (no notebooks, netboooks, tablets or other such portable systems).
number 4 of the rules for this one. well so much for my laptop then... now to dig out an old rig lol
EDIT: i just noticed that my Rag Troll is marked as N/A i guess ill have to do it again ... sigh... this is becoming really hard LOL ...it is fun tho
not great, but maybe i can get in on the random.
3dmark.com/3dm03/6434833
I'm guessing this doesn't count? It actually did run all of the tests, with 5-10 frames rendered for each one. Took 11 hours.
Edit: Just looked it up, apparently it was a butterfly. Half the textures were missing since it's running from an JABOD volume of ~200 MB IDE drives, though.
So how do we determine the results' validity?