Full Feed12th Annual PC building competition to take place at CES 2009
The 12th annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity hosted by TigerDirect, CompUSA, AMD and Systemax is set to take place again from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. on January 8, 2009 at the Wynn Hotel. In case you aren’t familiar with this charity event, basically 30 tech journalists/companies work amongst themselves to design a PC in the shortest amount of time. For first place, $10,000 gets donated to that companies’ chosen charity, second place gets $2,500 to their charity, and then third gets $1,000 for their charity.
To give some perspective on how fast these computers can be assembled, last year’s winner, Maximum PC’s Will Smith, made his PC in 10 minutes 30 seconds.
Some of the companies and tech journalists involved in this competition include PC World, Maximum PC, Gizmodo, Revision3, G4TV, Wired, Computer Shopper, Yahoo! Tech, Seattle Times, Fox Morning News and a few others. Now, each company/person has to build a computer centered on the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core processor in the shortest amount of time possible.
Gilbert Fiorentino, Chief Executive of the Systemax Technology Products Division, had this to say about the competition:
“While the buzz at CES revolves around new products and technologies, TigerDirect.com and CompUSA have been able to use the time over the last 12 years to bring journalists and various technology companies together to raise over $2 million for non-profit organizations and schools around the country. We’re extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished so far and look forward to raising more for charity in the future.”
Lastly, AMD is sponsoring another race that will take place for the first time and it is called the Overclocking Race. Basically, more famous tech journalists are competing against each other to see who can maintain the highest frequency on air and water cooled PCs using AMD’s Phenom II X4 quad core processor. This will take place before the actual PC building race from 5:45 - 6:45 p.m.
Overall, it will be interesting to see who wins this year’s PC race.
Via [PR Newswire]
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10 minutes is not a bad time. My dad would build computers in about 9 to 10 minutes… he would advertise a “used computer” in the newspaper, and when someone called about it, he would tell them to come over, and have it done by the time they arrived.
on January 9, 2009 at 03:05 PM - LINK