Wednesday, June 24th 2009
TechPowerUp and HIS Design Your HD 4890 Contest: Here Are The Winners!
Earlier this April, TechPowerUp and HIS announced the "Design Your HD 4890 Contest", to celebrate the launch of AMD's flagship Radeon HD 4890 graphics accelerator. The contest involved designing the accelerator's body graphics, an important ingredient in making the product. The winner receives a free Radeon HD 4890 accelerator with the winning design printed on the accelerator. The first and second runners up receive HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ4 512 MB, and HIS Radeon HD 4650 iSilence 512 MB respectively.
Nearly 60 days of contest time, and an overwhelming response of 314 entries later, a panel of 11 judges from HIS, AMD, and TechPowerUp selected the top three entries, along with a short list of noteworthy designs. Here are the winners:
First Place - Winning Design:
By mR Yellow
Second Place - First Runner Up:
By TagoVanTor
Third Place - Second Runner Up:
By fulloption
The judges were taken aback by the quality and quantity the contest produced. Says Simon Ng, product marketing engineer for AMD:
The entire collection of entries can be viewed here.
Nearly 60 days of contest time, and an overwhelming response of 314 entries later, a panel of 11 judges from HIS, AMD, and TechPowerUp selected the top three entries, along with a short list of noteworthy designs. Here are the winners:
First Place - Winning Design:
Second Place - First Runner Up:
Third Place - Second Runner Up:
The judges were taken aback by the quality and quantity the contest produced. Says Simon Ng, product marketing engineer for AMD:
On behalf of AMD, I would like to thank everyone who participated in this TechPowerUp!/HIS/AMD design contest and offer our congratulations to the winners! It was not an easy process going through all the entries, especially since we went through each one in great detail and quite often we were torn between designs. Ultimately, we are very pleased with the total number of quality entries and would like to again thank everyone for your hard work and dedication.TechPowerUp wishes to express invaluable gratitude too all the participants. We will return with even more exciting contests in the future.
The entire collection of entries can be viewed here.
65 Comments on TechPowerUp and HIS Design Your HD 4890 Contest: Here Are The Winners!
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my personal fav was the lightning Green HIS one
One has to keep in mind who the judges are. How old they are, what kind of cars they like to drive, with or without those plastic skirt extenders, etc., how brave they are to choose something very novel rather than just an innocuous industrial/military design. TBH, it looks like some kind of "artists impression of what a futuristic tool/weapon" would look like from one of the cheaper 3D games.
PS. Great design however. Just not "brave" ;)
As taste goes, it's personal preference. 11 judges in total, so i guess they got a wide scope of taste and view points.
Thanx to the ppl who gave positive comments and to those that didn't, well, tough luck.
All i see when i look at it, is a scratched up looking alu cooler :P
Just saying......IDK hard to see that one winning first place to me. There was 11 judges, and I bet the mass production with all the colors had some play in it.
(probably related to a hot video card having FIRE on its cooler too... hehe)
i wish i could win..
but somehow i need the prize.. (for real life needs)..
thanks pal for cheering me up :D:D:D