Monday, December 15th 2008
Futuremark ''Life of a Benchmarker'' Video Contest Begins
Futuremark Corporation is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its 3DMark benchmark suite with a video contest for gamers and overclockers everywhere. Fans of the popular benchmarking program are invited to show the "Life of a Benchmarker" in an original video with great prizes awarded to the best entries.
"We're launching this contest as a thank you to all our fans who have helped 3DMark become the number one PC gaming benchmark," said Dr. Jukka Mдkinen, VP and General Manager at Futuremark.
The "Life of a Benchmarker" video contest celebrates the world of benchmarking and overclocking. Contestants are asked to create a video illustrating what benchmarking means to them. For example, they could record 3DMark running on their systems, or show what happens when benchmarking is taken to the extreme.
Top prizes will be awarded to contestants who impress the judges with their originality; prizes include an HDTV, MSI Eclipse motherboards, MSI R4870 graphics cards, Enermax Revolution85+ power supplies and special 3DMark 10 Year Anniversary Collectors' Edition bundles.
More information on the contest can be found on the Futuremark website: www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/10yearanniversary/introduction/
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Futuremark
"We're launching this contest as a thank you to all our fans who have helped 3DMark become the number one PC gaming benchmark," said Dr. Jukka Mдkinen, VP and General Manager at Futuremark.
The "Life of a Benchmarker" video contest celebrates the world of benchmarking and overclocking. Contestants are asked to create a video illustrating what benchmarking means to them. For example, they could record 3DMark running on their systems, or show what happens when benchmarking is taken to the extreme.
Top prizes will be awarded to contestants who impress the judges with their originality; prizes include an HDTV, MSI Eclipse motherboards, MSI R4870 graphics cards, Enermax Revolution85+ power supplies and special 3DMark 10 Year Anniversary Collectors' Edition bundles.
More information on the contest can be found on the Futuremark website: www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/10yearanniversary/introduction/
19 Comments on Futuremark ''Life of a Benchmarker'' Video Contest Begins
I've got a friend that took two years of video production in high school. Too bad none of my friends around here are serious benchers :ohwell:
The only reason it seems like 3DMark is the only competitor is because it's so popular that people tend to overlook, or not even care about, other graphics benchmarks; which is kinda stupid to do, since benching within games will always be the most accurate way to benchmark gpus (for gaming).
Now thats got me thinking lol what could ppl come up with. :p
They are such posers.
Real nerds respect geek culture. Overclocking used to be for the zainy, the brainy, and the downright 'r< turbomem' nutjobs. They knew it, everyone else knew it. You didn't mess with overclockers.
Now everyone and their brother bumps their vcore, flashes their GPU bios and voila!
Even the geeks have sold out.
I can see the vid now, fog pouring out of my DICE pot, a couple Jacob's ladders, a pair of goggles, crazy Einstein hair, maniacal laughter, etc., etc.
man, those were the days :toast:well - there's still the extreme cooling for extreme OCs . . . but let's not forget those that set up high-OCs (50% +) to run 24/7 without issues . . .
I backed mine down from 3.8 to 3.6 just so I could OC the DDR3 . . . although, I'm looking forward to attempting a 75% 24/7OC on this quad once I finish getting my HOH setup installed . . . but we'll have to see how that goes.
Anyhow, if I had a spare camera to send yer way, man, it'd be in the mail! All I can picture is Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein as he's reviving the creation :laugh: