PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp My Rig Contest Winners

btarunr · Oct 3, 2011

Announcing the winners of PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp My Rig Contest. Over September, we ran an interesting contest open to GPU-Z users, in which the one with the lowest valid 3DMark 03 score gets to win an exotic new PowerColor HD 6970 X2 dual-GPU graphics card, and one lucky participant with any valid score, is given a PowerColor HD 6870 X2 graphics card.

And the winners are:

Sheng from South Africa, wins the PowerColor HD 6970 X2 for the lowest valid score
Max from Brazil, wins the PowerColor HD 6870 X2, for getting lucky big time

TechPowerUp and pals will return with more awesome contests.

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mtosev · Oct 3, 2011

No americans or europeans won a prizes

caleb · Oct 3, 2011

lol I forgot to submit for that random win. Gratz to winnners!

RejZoR · Oct 3, 2011

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...

Frick · 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...

Nope, you had to complete certain game runs in 3dMark.

sy5tem · Oct 3, 2011

what was the secret to get 1 3dmark with a 6 core cpu and a 5770 videocard? lol

rpsgc · Oct 3, 2011

sy5tem said:
what was the secret to get 1 3dmark with a 6 core cpu and a 5770 videocard? lol

Core & memory clock = 0 MHz.

Which is bollocks and shouldn't have counted. An actual low score (with a crappy video card) should have won, not this.
Not to mention his rig doesn't need "pimping", but whatever.

-1

the54thvoid · Oct 3, 2011

Does that gpu frequency actually mean it was in his case but not in use? And can a 1090T downclock to those frequencies?

I'm with 'rpsgc' on this. This should have been won by some dude with a 10 yr old rig. Something beige and Bill Gates-ish.

Completely Bonkers · Oct 3, 2011

Congratulations to the winners

Random prize was random prize. Can't argue with that.

Non-random prize... congrats on scoring such a low score... but I thought the competition would have been better using approved drivers and "true working rig". Handouts to the people running the true slowest rig would have been more in the TPU spirit IMO. But I'm not knocking Sheng. He won within the rules of this competition.

But how did he do it? Should be part of the win requirement to reveal all

claylomax · Oct 3, 2011

Congratulations to the winners! ... but not to the judges; a 1090t cpu and a HD5770 card got the lowest score? Give me a break, this is so wrong. :shadedshu

s{orpion · Oct 3, 2011

"1" 3Dmark??? LMAO!

seriously... how the HELL do you get a score THAT low????

He is running a 5770, Phenom II, and 4gig ram... with scores like ".07"???

oh... wait a tick... unapproved driver.

appears he is using a 'special' driver for the 5770.

kudos for duping the challenge with 'tweaks' :cool:

LoL

insane 360 · Oct 3, 2011

i agree with the rest of you...i was looking forward to see what kind of crappy pc one the contest...instead i saw a 1090t and a 5770....

this is much better than my specs, i can't afford them but he can and now has a video card that i can't afford either...nicely done

caleb · Oct 3, 2011

@Wizzard Curious how many 1's were there in valid score submits?

HalfAHertz · Oct 3, 2011

grats to the winners!

uuuaaaaaa · Oct 3, 2011

The funny thing is that fps below 1 won't show on orb.

Like this
http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6436527

http://imageshack.us/f/690/19144623.png/

Maban · Oct 3, 2011

uuuaaaaaa said:
The funny thing is that fps below 1 won't show on orb.

Like this
http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6436527

http://imageshack.us/f/690/19144623.png/

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.

uuuaaaaaa · 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.

lolol, my bad then, i shouldn't have quit the contest then :/

Thank you for the info

Jegergrim · Oct 3, 2011

Congratulations to the winners, thought I should bring it up, whether it was 1090T or Intel Celeron, grats :laugh:

devguy · Oct 3, 2011

insane 360 said:
i agree with the rest of you...i was looking forward to see what kind of crappy pc one the contest...instead i saw a 1090t and a 5770....

this is much better than my specs, i can't afford them but he can and now has a video card that i can't afford either...nicely done

lol, how does it make you feel to see a rig considerably more powerful than yours make the lowest score on record? j/k

:roll:

AlRah · Oct 3, 2011

I got 0 score for this contest. I didn't win though... maybe it was not a valid score? well, congrats to the winners

my 0: http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6442497

Thank you for this contest techPowerUp

[H]@RD5TUFF · Oct 3, 2011

congrats to the winners

kohan69 · Oct 3, 2011

I'm contesting this contest!

Why wasn't ALRah the winner?!

Helltech · Oct 3, 2011

Because he didn't get a numeric result for the GT test scores as the rules clearly stated.

m00nr4k3r · Oct 3, 2011

Congratulations !

Gratz to the winner!

kohan69 · Oct 3, 2011

Helltech said:
Because he didn't get a numeric result for the GT test scores as the rules clearly stated.

I can't see that, when I click Detailed Scores, nothing happens :confused:

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Storage	Kingston 120 3K SSD,WD Black WD1502FAEX
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Case	Chieftec Mesh Midi
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Power Supply	Corsair TX750V2
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Motherboard	ASUS Strix X570-E
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System Name	Black MC in Tokyo
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Mouse	Logitech G602
Keyboard	Dell SK3205
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PowerColor and TechPowerUp Pimp My Rig Contest Winners

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Completely Bonkers

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claylomax

s{orpion

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insane 360

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uuuaaaaaa

Maban

uuuaaaaaa

Jegergrim

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AlRah

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[H]@RD5TUFF

kohan69

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Helltech

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m00nr4k3r

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kohan69

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Case	CoolerMaster Sniper
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Power Supply	ANTEC TP-750 Blue 750Watts
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Case	Asus Prime AP201
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