Dell Performance Shoot-Out and Giveaway

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, January 15, 2007, 09:30 PM EDT

Dell sent over the following email about an online performance shootout and giveaway, and we thought some of you might be interested. Take a look...

Dell, in partnership with Futuremark, is hosting an Online Performance Shootout and Giveaway. Contestants will have the opportunity to win the grand prize, the new Dell 3007 WFP-HC 30" LCD, by running 3DMark 2006 and posting their scores via the Futuremark Online Results Browser. In addition to prizes being awarded for the top three scores, 5 NVIDIA 7900 GT graphics cards will be given away by a random drawing of all participating entries. For more information, and to follow who is winning the performance contest, please visit this site. The contest can be found directly at this site as well.

Although Dell is not participating in the contest, our engineers have been able to post a score of 17,694 3D Marks. This score was obtained with an XPS 710 which can configured identical to the reference system and can be purchased today at Dell.com.

The contest is open to legal residents of the U.S. 13 or older. It started on 1/10 and runs to 2/10. Good Luck!

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com