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
3dmark.com/3dm03/6434753
remember, most of us are running the free version, and therefore we can't change any settings anyway
so, from logic, it has to be a valid 3d score (if one of the tests doesn't complete the futuremark page marks it as invalid anyway)
and it has to be done on a DX9 card for the program to run a full test (DX8 and 7 cards will run a reduced version of the benchmark)
Now I have flashed it, so it is running at 35/40.
I have some conclusions:
having the cpu at full speed helped me getting a lower score
The memory clocks is what is limiting the results the most
As well as getting it to show up on the leader boards officially you need approved drivers as well.
Scratch that, I just found the link for 3dmark scores and leader boards. Problem is how will you know a score is valid unless its post on the future mark leader boards.
www.3dmark.com/support/troubleshooting-my-results/
We can complete all the gpu tests with 0 and get away with N/A's on the cpu stuff. And it still will give a 3d mark score...so is that technically valid? I will post this in the other post for this contest as well.
i've varied my CPU speed between 200mhz and 1ghz and its made no difference whatsoever
Then, i ran Furmark and OCCT Linpack test @ the same time and got this:
Looking good, i thought ... then, i ran Furmark, Kombustor and OCCT GPU test for good measure and got this:
Better, but still isn't nowhere near enough :( Let's see if i can add something: the previous run with prime95 and Intel Burn Test added to it and got this:
Argh :( What i's giving me such a high score? these are the details of the previous run:
17.5 FPS @ best and i still get over 2K points? Where can i reduce? Do i really need to mess up my underclocks (CPU and GPU) for this?
I'll try something else i thought of which may or may not help: dunno, yet.
Reckon I can get under 10 on the next run!!! :cool:
I'm currently running it on Athlon XP @ 1Ghz, 512Mb DDR1 Ram & a NVidia 5200 card.
Its a sod trying to get it stable at low speed & several times I thought I would have got less then 10 but the driver keeps bombing out with errors.
Plus it takes about 1 hour to run all the way through!!
i'm running a phenom ii x2 550, 4GB of 1600mhz ram, and an nvidia 7025