Futuremark Announces Over Twenty Nine Thousand Contestants Try, But Only 7 Score Perfect 10K 3DMarks
Saratoga, California November 23rd, 2009 - Futuremark® Corporation today released results for the first two weeks of their OverclocKing 2009 contest. Thousands have entered but only 7 contestants have managed to score perfect 10,000 3DMarks. Futuremark's 3DMark® 10K Challenge is the newest addition to the wide array of skill base challenges that test the abilities of overclockers worldwide.
Using Intels latest i7 and i5 CPUs, current record scores have been recorded on the latest P55 platform out of over thirty-two hundred entries thus far.
Current Top P55 3DMark Scores
| 1st | Backspace | 35628 3DMarks P55-UD6 |
| 2nd | Tonis | 31154 3DMarks P55-UD6 |
| 3rd | DRACO | 31076 3DMarks P55-UD6 |
Current 10K 3DMark Scores
| 1st | Phil | Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor |
| 2nd | Goddy | Intel i7 870 Processor |
| 3rd | Stabias | Intel Core 2 Duo Processor |
| 4th | Wes Jordan | Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor |
| 5th | Tsujimoto | Intel i5 750 Processor |
| 6th | Chi-zu33 | Intel i7 860 Processor |
| 7th | Pavel | Intel i7 975 processor |
Random prizes (Shattered Horizon Zero-G FPS game) are awarded daily to contestants who enter the 10K 3DMark Challenge as well as all contestants who score a perfect 10K 3DMarks.
http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/gigabyteoverclocking/
Twitter updates: http://twitter.com/yougamergirl
The contest continues through November 30th 2009. Futuremark expects the total number of entries to exceed 35,000 worldwide. There is still one week of the contest left, so get overclocking!
Contestants are competing to see who can achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark06 edition is currently the worlds most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free from the Futuremark website. http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/
About Futuremark® Corporation
Futuremark® Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark® is known around the world for its benchmark products, including 3DMark® (with more than 45 million copies distributed worldwide), PCMark®, SPMark and VGMark and value-added services powered by the ORB, an online database of over 30 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit http://www.futuremark.com/
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Company Contacts
North America:
Oliver Baltuch
President, Futuremark Inc.
Phone: +1 408 517 0910 (PST)
Email: ollie@futuremark.com
Europe and ROW:
Jukka Mäkinen
Vice President, PC Products and Services
Phone: +358 20 759 8250 (GMT +2)
Email: jukka@futuremark.com
