PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp My Rig Contest Winners

Staraway · Oct 3, 2011

fake score lol :mad:

just poor people and not honesty :mad:

a Ati radeon HD 5770 is more powerfull than a Ati Radeon HD 5450.
POWER UP! admin should see the score better and delete the fakes

angry about it :mad:

NO CONGRATS TO POOR AND NOT HONESTY PEOPLE

:mad:

Staraway · Oct 3, 2011

RejZoR said:
There was a contest? I could run the GPU-Z inside virtual machine that i run using emulator on Commodore II. I bet i'd win with that score...

this is real score :rockout:

Arctucas · Oct 3, 2011

Maban said:
Orb was changed to show <1FPS like September ~18-19. Submissions after that date showed values.

Grats to the winners. My lowest was a valid 5 with my current rig minus one 470.

Yes, it was unfortunate for me, as I spent so much time trying for 129, and then suddenly zero became the goal.

I was so close, I had the first three tests down to giving zeros, were it that I had all month, rather than two weeks, I am sure I would have achieved a valid zero.

Oh well, that is life I suppose.

erocker · Oct 3, 2011

Congratulations to the winners! :toast:

Arctucas · Oct 3, 2011

And the winner is not even a TPU member?

Shameless!

EDIT:

Maybe he/she is, I looked for Sheng, but it appears it is vavyn.

vavyn · Oct 3, 2011

Arctucas said:
And the winner is not even a TPU member?

Shameless!

EDIT:

Maybe he/she is, I looked for Sheng, but it appears it is vavyn.

Yes it is. I posted a couple of times during the contest. Maybe I should hide my score from now on.

@Arctucas
what was your lowest score?

Arctucas · Oct 3, 2011

vavyn said:
Yes it is. I posted a couple of times during the contest. Maybe I should hide my score from now on.

@Arctucas
what was your lowest score?

Three, because I kept getting .1 on GT4, all the others were low enough to give me zero.

Enjoy your card.

stinger608 · Oct 4, 2011

A big congrats to the winners!!!!!

Surfin · Oct 4, 2011

Arctucas said:
Yes, it was unfortunate for me, as I spent so much time trying for 129, and then suddenly zero became the goal.
Oh well, that is life I suppose.

Me too, it took me 2 weeks and a half setting up an old Athlon Classic, with Windows7 and a Radeon 3450agp, then downclocking it.

Well... that is life I suppose[2]

kohan69 · Oct 4, 2011

Arctucas said:
Yes, it was unfortunate for me, as I spent so much time trying for 129, and then suddenly zero became the goal.

I was so close, I had the first three tests down to giving zeros, were it that I had all month, rather than two weeks, I am sure I would have achieved a valid zero.

Oh well, that is life I suppose.

I got a valid 126...

deleted · Oct 4, 2011

http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6434889

So sad, I wish I had known ORB was changed.

disturbed117 · Oct 4, 2011

Figures

, anyways congratz to the c... eh Winner of the 6990 :laugh:

back to overclock.net for me.

Helltech · Oct 4, 2011

I don't see how it is cheating when W1zzard said day one we could do what ever it takes to bog down the machine.

catnipkiller · Oct 4, 2011

Yeah i find this to be a shitty contest. What it should of been is unmoded cpu and gpu clock and the lowest score on unmoded pc. The two winners have better pcs then most of the people on the fourms.

Jack Doph · Oct 4, 2011

The winner played by the rules.
Build a bridge and get over it.

Congrats mate. Hope you have fun with your new 'toy' :toast:

jewie27 · Oct 5, 2011

There were a lot of us that actually used old computers such as Pentium 4's or older that ran the benchmark legitamately with AGP 4x cards without any background programs running. The winner most likely bogged down their system with Furmark and other high resource intensive programs while running 3dmark. unfair contest if you ask me... The rules were not specific enough and did not outline exactly what could and could not be used. If I had known it was allowed to run all these background programs while the benchmark was running, I would have had a better chance since my computer actually is 12 years old and runs on IDE hard drives.

There is no way a Phenom II X6 system can legitimately be slower than a Pentium 4 system.
Just my 2 cents. Thanks for running the contest but next time please improve the guidelines other than just saying "no laptops".

jewie27 · Oct 5, 2011

Staraway said:
fake score lol

just poor people and not honesty

a Ati radeon HD 5770 is more powerfull than a Ati Radeon HD 5450.
POWER UP! admin should see the score better and delete the fakes

angry about it

NO CONGRATS TO POOR AND NOT HONESTY PEOPLE

I agree it was poorly constructed and very irritating for someone with a newer system (hexacore for that matter) to win this contest. I used a Pentium 4 system with a AGP 4x Geforce 6200 gpu. If people had run the benchmarks as intended, I guarantee they would not have a lower score than those of us with 10 year+ old systems.

numaru7 · Oct 5, 2011

if you guys would have read the rules you would have known EXACTLY what is and what is not allowed.

Arctucas · Oct 5, 2011

numaru7 said:
if you guys would have read the rules you would have known EXACTLY what is and what is not allowed.

No, not really.

The official rules page was missing several addenda and clarifications.

Completely Bonkers · Oct 5, 2011

What's that expression again? "Lessons will be learned" LOL

Let's hope the next competition is either "random" or "simple rules stated up front and gives a chance to people with older rigs in need of an upgrade to win".

I find these competitions don't do the due PR value when Mr Deep Pockets with the latest gadgets wins.

Like I said before, no knocking THIS winner, let's not go back on his legitimate claim. But let's set it up right next time round. Let'shave a nice healthy spirited competition where we are all happy to cheer the winner :toast:

Helltech · Oct 5, 2011

This isn't the first set of these contests, there was another before this, won in a similar fashion.

doveman · Oct 12, 2011

Congrats to the winner and please stop the whining. He won fair and square (i.e., within the rules of the contest). He deserves some credit for having the skillz needed to get such a low score (I wasted too much time trying, before realising I didn't know what I was doing and wasn't going to get anywhere, so I just submitted my score for the second prize).

You could never ensure the prize went to someone with a crappy system, as anyone could have just dug out/bought/borrowed an old PC to use for the contest, whilst their super computer sat next to it :rolleyes:

EpidemicOfHate · Oct 24, 2011

jewie27 said:
.............There is no way a Phenom II X6 system can legitimately be slower than a Pentium 4 system.
Just my 2 cents. Thanks for running the contest but next time please improve the guidelines other than just saying "no laptops".

Actually the CPU doesn't matter in this benchmark, the final result is calculated like this:
3DMark score = (GT1fps * 7.3) + (GT2fps * 37) + (GT3fps * 47.1) + (GT4fps * 38.7)

Arctucas · Oct 24, 2011

EpidemicOfHate said:
Actually the CPU doesn't matter in this benchmark, the final result is calculated like this:
3DMark score = (GT1fps * 7.3) + (GT2fps * 37) + (GT3fps * 47.1) + (GT4fps * 38.7)

Actually, loading the CPU does bottleneck the GPU.

de.das.dude · Oct 24, 2011

seems legit /sarcasm

System Name	It's just a computer
Processor	i9-14900K Direct Die
Motherboard	MSI Z790 ACE MAX
Cooling	4X D5T Vario, 2X HK Res, 3X Nemesis GTR560, NF-A14-iPPC3000PWM, NF-A14-iPPC2000PWM, IceMan DD
Memory	TEAMGROUP FFXD548G8000HC38EDC01
Video Card(s)	MSI 4070 Ti Super w/Alphacool Eisblock Aurora RTX 4070TI Ventus with Backplate :13724
Storage	Samsung 990 PRO 1TB M.2
Display(s)	LG 32GK650F
Case	Custom open frame chassis
Audio Device(s)	Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 2G/Z-5500
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime PX-1300
Mouse	Logitech MX700
Keyboard	Logitech LX700
Software	Win11PRO

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS TUF x670e-Plus Wifi
Cooling	EK AIO 360. Phantek T30 fans.
Memory	32GB G.Skill 6000Mhz
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090
Storage	WD/Samsung m.2's
Display(s)	LG C2 Evo OLED 42"
Case	Lian Li PC 011 Dynamic Evo
Audio Device(s)	Topping E70 DAC, SMSL SP200 Amp, Adam Audio T5V's, Hifiman Sundara's.
Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk V3 Pro
Keyboard	Epomaker 84 key
Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	It's just a computer
Processor	i9-14900K Direct Die
Motherboard	MSI Z790 ACE MAX
Cooling	4X D5T Vario, 2X HK Res, 3X Nemesis GTR560, NF-A14-iPPC3000PWM, NF-A14-iPPC2000PWM, IceMan DD
Memory	TEAMGROUP FFXD548G8000HC38EDC01
Video Card(s)	MSI 4070 Ti Super w/Alphacool Eisblock Aurora RTX 4070TI Ventus with Backplate :13724
Storage	Samsung 990 PRO 1TB M.2
Display(s)	LG 32GK650F
Case	Custom open frame chassis
Audio Device(s)	Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 2G/Z-5500
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime PX-1300
Mouse	Logitech MX700
Keyboard	Logitech LX700
Software	Win11PRO

System Name	It's just a computer
Processor	i9-14900K Direct Die
Motherboard	MSI Z790 ACE MAX
Cooling	4X D5T Vario, 2X HK Res, 3X Nemesis GTR560, NF-A14-iPPC3000PWM, NF-A14-iPPC2000PWM, IceMan DD
Memory	TEAMGROUP FFXD548G8000HC38EDC01
Video Card(s)	MSI 4070 Ti Super w/Alphacool Eisblock Aurora RTX 4070TI Ventus with Backplate :13724
Storage	Samsung 990 PRO 1TB M.2
Display(s)	LG 32GK650F
Case	Custom open frame chassis
Audio Device(s)	Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 2G/Z-5500
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime PX-1300
Mouse	Logitech MX700
Keyboard	Logitech LX700
Software	Win11PRO

System Name	2023 Ryzenfall
Processor	AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum
Software	Windows 10 Pro

PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp My Rig Contest Winners

Staraway

New Member

Staraway

New Member

Arctucas

erocker

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Arctucas

vavyn

Arctucas

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Surfin

New Member

kohan69

New Member

deleted

New Member

disturbed117

New Member

Helltech

New Member

catnipkiller

Jack Doph

jewie27

jewie27

numaru7

New Member

Arctucas

Completely Bonkers

New Member

Helltech

New Member

doveman

EpidemicOfHate

New Member

Arctucas

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

System Name	Monolith
Processor	i5 2500K, 4.6 GHz at 1.30v
Motherboard	P8Z68-V Pro
Cooling	CM Hyper 212+
Memory	2x4 GB G.Skill Ripjaws 1333 MHz CL9
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 570, 920/1840/2050 at 1.100v
Storage	SanDisk Extreme 240 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display(s)	LG W2363D
Case	Silverstone FT02B
Audio Device(s)	Creative Audigy 2
Power Supply	Kingwin LZG-850

Processor	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @3.40ghz
Motherboard	MSI 890FXA-GD70
Memory	2gb DDR3 @1600 7-7-7-20
Video Card(s)	MSI 6970 Lightning
Storage	Seagate 160gb + WD 500gb
Display(s)	19inch HP + Sony KDL40S5100
Case	Xion Solaris
Power Supply	XFX 650 Core
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate

System Name	INTEL/AMD
Processor	I7 4790k stock / 1100T@3.8GHZ(on air)
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GAMING 5 / GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15 / zalmen 9900
Memory	4x4 GB 1600 / 4x4gb 1600
Video Card(s)	GTX670 x2 / ATI 5870 x2
Storage	2xcorsair ssd 120gb raid0 /2x adata ssd 120gb
Display(s)	55Iinch LCD / 22inch acer
Case	CM 690 II Advanced (USB 3) / Anteck 900
Power Supply	Enermax 800EWT / 750 zalman
Software	Win 10

System Name	Frankenstein v7
Processor	Intel i7 2600K (@ stock)
Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V
Cooling	Corsair H100
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB DDR3 @ 1866MHz
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 7870 WindForce 2GB
Storage	Samsung F3 1TB HDD
Display(s)	Samsung S24C750
Case	Antec P280
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs X-Fi Elite Pro
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Software	Windows 7 Pro - 64-bit

System Name	Corsus 3D
Processor	Intel Core I5 2500K
Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
Cooling	Corsair H100
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance Red @ 1600 Mhz 9-9-9-24
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix GTX 780 OC 6GB
Storage	120GB Corsair Force 3 SSD boot drive and 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Black for storage
Display(s)	Asus VG278H 27" 120Hz 3D LED LCD Monitor with Nvidia 3D Vision 2 Lightboost
Case	Corsair 600T with side window and Demciflex custom dust filters
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Software	Windows 7 64 Bit OEM
Benchmark Scores	The score is too big to fit in this box.

Processor	Mysterious Engineering Prototype
Motherboard	Intel 865
Cooling	Custom block made in workshop
Memory	Corsair XMS 2GB
Video Card(s)	FireGL X3-256
Display(s)	1600x1200 SyncMaster x 2 = 3200x1200
Software	Windows 2003

Processor	Athlon II X4 630
Motherboard	Biostar TA790GXBE
Cooling	TRUE Rev. C
Memory	4GB DDR2
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 6950 2GB (Xtreme Plus II mod)
Storage	Samsung 2TB
Display(s)	HP 19" CRT
Audio Device(s)	on-board Realtek
Power Supply	OCZ 400W
Software	Win7 x64 Ultimate

System Name	Monke \| Work Thinkpad\| J1nnx took Old Monke
Processor	Ryzen 5600X \| Ryzen 5500U \| FX8320
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Extreme4 \| ? \| Asrock 990FX Extreme 4
Cooling	240mm Rad \| Not needed \| hyper 212 EVO
Memory	2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB \| 16 GB DDR4 3600 \| 16GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Pulse RX6700XT 12GB \| Vega 8 \| Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
Storage	Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) \| some samsung SSD
Display(s)	Dell 2723DS \| Some 14" 1080p 98%sRGB IPS \| Dell 2240L
Case	Ant Esports Tempered case \| Thinkpad \| Antec
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 \| Jabra corpo stuff
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e \| not needed \| Corsair GS 600
Mouse	Logitech G400 \| nipple
Keyboard	Logitech G213 \| stock kb is awesome \| Logitech K230
VR HMD	;_;
Software	Windows 10 Professional x3
Benchmark Scores	There are no marks on my bench