PowerColor Announces PIMP MY RIG Competition

[Monkeywoman]

TUL Corporation - a leading manufacture of AMD graphics cards today announces Pimp my rig competition that will begin today and ends on the 16th of March where the users from all around the world can join to compete for the slowest computer in the world.

Who manages to make the slowest 3Dmark 2003 score will be pimped with the fastest upgrade on the planet, PowerColor HD3850 PCS AGP featuring ZeroTherm GX810 cooler, support for DirectX® 10.1, Shader Model 4.1 and Universal Video Decode.


"With "Pimp my rig" competition, PowerColor offers the fastest AGP product in the world to save the lowest computer, let the winner experience the most exciting gaming performance and PowerColor's stunning graphics solution. "says Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation.


source, http://www.powercolor.com/Global/3Dm...am/3Dmark.html

GET GOING!!!

[Kasparz]

I'm already doing this, waiting 15mins for loading GT1.

[[XC] gomeler]

Oh man this could be fun but I'd have to find a way to cripple my current PC as I don't have anything older than Wolfdale/Yorkfield. Guess I'll have to start checking the orb to see what people are posting.

[AnXioZ]

OMG, I was just looking to replace my old FX5900 on my AMD Athlon 3200+ riggy. God damn, if only I had access to it.
Can we see anywhere previously submitted results?
Can Geforce 2MX run 3D mark 03?

[Kasparz]

Slowest possible card for this is FX5200 64bit 64MB.

[Monkeywoman]

any video card that is DX8 compatible will run 3dmark03. what id like to knoe is how slow is the slowest comp on orb.

[AnXioZ]

Part from the rules: "All tests including nature test must be supported"

[Kasparz]

Read the rules, Nature test must be ran and Nature is DX9.

[TopherTony]

is there a way to undervolt a card and clock it lower than stock, on a 5200 perhaps?

plus a p3 or whatever the lowest that will run 3d mark, with c1 enhanced halt state enabled, or what ever they had back in the paleolithic era lol

[71 (Bryan)]

i betcha im gonna win, my home pc is an old compaq, 256mb of ram, fx5500 (underclocked for this comp lol) and a 1.8ghz p-4 (the very first ones.)

[Kasparz]

I'm already under 40pts mark
1.8GHz Northwood+FX5500 is way too fast.

[Fujimitsu]

LOL their prize is an AGP 3850? It's sad that the thousands of people that really need that card won't get it, because they don't have the knowledge/hardware to tweak this low.

Will be fun to watch, though I don't know what you'll do with the prize...

[BenchZowner]

LOL prize being an AGP card...

Oh boy, I really need a AGP card ( to show it to my kids...in the future )

[[XC] gomeler]

8400GS underclocked + E8400 massively underclocked + 2GB ram underclocked and with looooooooooooose timings + a lot of tweaks.. maybe I can get below 1K? *sigh*

[Jowy Atreides]

i betcha im gonna win, my home pc is an old compaq, 256mb of ram, fx5500 (underclocked for this comp lol) and a 1.8ghz p-4 (the very first ones.)

actually, I have a 500Mhz celeron with integrated


I have a better chance, but i'm not entering

[NickS]

8400GS underclocked + E8400 massively underclocked + 2GB ram underclocked and with looooooooooooose timings + a lot of tweaks.. maybe I can get below 1K? *sigh*

While running orthos in the background.

[[XC] gomeler]

While running orthos in the background.

Orthos? Psh, PSP:S x 16 instances along while transferring a few gigabytes between hard-drives and running a few ram-intensive applications. I'll do this tomorrow, have a date in 1 hour and I haven't submitted a result for the 8400GS competition yet

[NickS]

I'm running it on my 2nd rig right now, with Via Chrome9 integrated graphics. Apparently it is DX9 so it is running nature right now, at 1-2 fps

EDIT: Is 611 marks too high?

[[XC] gomeler]

Hacks

[lowfat]

after 1.5 hours WoF test 1 finally loaded

Poor thing is going to take an entire day to finish if it ever does.

[Zytek_Fan]

I'm running it on my 2nd rig right now, with Via Chrome9 integrated graphics. Apparently it is DX9 so it is running nature right now, at 1-2 fps

EDIT: Is 611 marks too high?

My circa 2001 eMachines with an Athlon XP and some VIA integrated crap will kick your ass when it comes to scoring low

[NickS]

My circa 2001 eMachines with an Athlon XP and some VIA integrated crap will kick your ass when it comes to scoring low

Don't make me downclock this sucker and set graphics mem allocation to 16mb. (its at 128 right now)

[oohms]

You're gonna need more than bad hardware to get a super low score

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8679136

[Zytek_Fan]

Don't make me downclock this sucker and set graphics mem allocation to 16mb. (its at 128 right now)

I've also got a Pentium 3 800mhz with Intel onboard crap that miraculously supports DX9.0b...

edit: Don't make me break out the big guns with my Pentium 2 400mhz and GeForce 2

[Zytek_Fan]

Gonna be a while, I gotta download 3DMark03 :/

edit: Hope my computer doesn't blow up running it