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Round 3 Editors Challenge Sponsored by Intel
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Created: 74 months ago by Dant (697) My Xfire username is: wanchaiwarrior Talk with this user on their Shout Box
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Round 3 Rules
Posted 74 months ago

You've all done a terrific job promoting yourselves in the Challenge Round, but now it's time to get serious. Following this round we will be chosing the top 2 finalists. Each will receive brand new computer equipment that they will need to assemble and test and provide full reviews and analysis of their hardware within the given time restraints of the contest. The equipment for the 2 finalists will include, cases, power supplies, motherboards, memory, cpu's, cpu coolers, and of course video cards. We'll provide the full specs of these systems soon.

We've seen exceptional writing from everyone, but for this season, the contestants with a strong technical ability are obviously at an advantage over those who are stonger game reviewers. That is going to continue into this round and into the finals.

For round 3 you must prepare an mblog that provides a performance analysis of either a CPU or a GPU. Your analysis must include an introduction, critical analysis, ballistics report and a verdict. As usual, use the multimedia features of the system to support your articles.

You are not required to buy anything new. Just use the hardware at your disposal. We're not looking for the person with the best hardware, but at who can provide a logical and narrative analysis that accurately describes the hardware under investigation.

As usual, email if you have any questions or need help. The judges are here at your disposal, so don't hesitate to reach out to them.

Dates:
Cluster freezes midnight Wednesday April 4th.
Voting ends midnight Monday April 9th.

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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» Hardware Sneak Peek for the Finalists (19)
by Dant (697) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» Old School Gaming: Geforce 6600GT still falls short (14)
by OldFriend (178) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» Flashing a greeen[GeforceFX 5200 for Mac (4)
by Power666 (25) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» $50 Gaming CPU: Athlon 64 3200 "Venice" (6)
by darrellwu (24) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» INTEL P4 1.8A -- A 2007 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (18)
by kevinSpiess (156) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor - Still Capable!? (4)
by Droniac (114) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» Value Processor a Diamond in the Rough. (47)
by CanadaDave (303) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core: Golden to the Core (13)
by OgreFade (150) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Review (11)
by jacobvandy (1636) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» ATI Radeon X800XL – Hanging Tough (18)
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» Please rate this		Read this Media-Blog entry!» NVIDIA 8800GTX EXPOSED AND EXPLOITED (25)
by indigo196 (258) Talk with this user on their Shout Box (My other blogs) Edited 74 months ago

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Click to view Dant's User Page Dant (697)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Click to view Dant's User Profile Talk to Dant in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 11, 2007 - 04:00 pm | Edited on Apr 11, 2007 - 04:06 pm
» Final Round Details
For those of you following the contest, we're making a couple of changes to the master calendar. First, we are not going to announce the rules for the final rounds until next week. We have 1 contestant in Canada (you'll never guess who that is) and one in the United Kingdom (making a solid showing for Queen and country). Since the hardware has to clear customs in both of these fine countries, we may need to delay the contest a bit. From my experience, shipping packages through Canadian customs is more difficult than smuggling a container full of illegals into the US.

The hardware has already been shipped to our international contestants. The remaining 2 US based finalists (you know who you are) will have to wait another week before we ship those. We want to try to keep the amount of time between the contestants as equal as possible.

I'll keep you all informed as we move forward.

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Click to view CanadaDave's User Profile Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 17, 2007 - 05:41 pm
Mine are in, waiting to be opened when the rules are announced. :)

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Click to view CanadaDave's User Profile Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 14, 2007 - 04:01 am
FYI - I should have mine on Monday, or Tuesday at the latest.

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Click to view hipcheck's User Page hipcheck (301)  Click to view hipcheck's User Profile Talk to hipcheck in the Shout! Box Apr 12, 2007 - 10:23 pm
btw - I am not sure if this sucker has cleared customs already, but I am willing to hang onto the stuff unopened until Yoda gets his, if it looks like there will be a time gap.

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Click to view hipcheck's User Page hipcheck (301)  Click to view hipcheck's User Profile Talk to hipcheck in the Shout! Box Apr 11, 2007 - 11:04 pm
interesting tact -- of course, I'm not complaining, and you're right about shipping to Canadia.

as for queen and country, I'm just an interloper on this island.

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Click to view Dant's User Page Dant (697)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Talk to Dant in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 12, 2007 - 05:21 pm
Interloper from where?

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Click to view hipcheck's User Page hipcheck (301)  Click to view hipcheck's User Profile Talk to hipcheck in the Shout! Box Apr 12, 2007 - 07:55 pm
from the hood, dawg. well, okay, not quite the hood, but the threeoneoh, anyway.

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Click to view CanadaDave's User Profile Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 11, 2007 - 06:49 pm | Edited on Apr 11, 2007 - 06:44 pm
You have experience shipping a container of illegals into the US? :)

Sorry for the delays, guys... will definitely keep everyone posted as to delivery status.

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Click to view Millroy's User Page Millroy (24)  Talk to Millroy in the Shout! Box Apr 13, 2007 - 09:19 pm
Dang. Since we're on the topic and all...
I paid illegal immigrants to write my first article.

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Click to view indigo196's User Page indigo196 (258)  Click to view indigo196's User Profile Talk to indigo196 in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 10:09 am
Suspense... I keep hitting refresh on the front page hoping to see the results. Anyone else doing that too?

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Click to view Knuckles's User Page Knuckles (1565)  Click to view Knuckles's User Profile Talk to Knuckles in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 04:43 pm
Good job jacob & Dave!

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Click to view Knuckles's User Page Knuckles (1565)  Click to view Knuckles's User Profile Talk to Knuckles in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 10:38 am
Hehe, me to and I'm not competing.

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Click to view DaugWok's User Page DaugWok (85)  Click to view DaugWok's User Profile Talk to DaugWok in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 10:32 am
Oh yes. It's all part of the experience.

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Click to view CanadaDave's User Profile Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 10, 2007 - 10:13 am
Yep - often, actually. Lots of work into the contest, and tough competition. Definitely on pins and needles to see the final tally!

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Click to view CanadaDave's User Profile Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 10, 2007 - 05:52 am
*WOW* - what a finish.

127 votes cast in the last day alone - one competitor in particular got like 20 votes in the last 4 hours of the competition.

Congratulations, everyone, on such a strong effort in the end. It absolutely had to be - anyone who didn't give it a 100% effort on the last day would have been left miles behind.

I wish everyone the best during the judging period. May the best articles win!

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Click to view DaugWok's User Page DaugWok (85)  Click to view DaugWok's User Profile Talk to DaugWok in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 08:39 am
Every time I thought I had run out of voters, one or two more trickled in. I never got the concentrated push I would have needed to catch you guys, though. Good efforts.

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 10, 2007 - 08:46 am
Good job to you as well, man! You got a lot of attention yesterday, for sure.

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Click to view indigo196's User Page indigo196 (258)  Click to view indigo196's User Profile Talk to indigo196 in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 06:57 am
Yes great finish everyone!

I kept watching you and I be neck and neck for the home stretch Dave... with you ahead at times and me at others. I simply ran out of people to ask. :-)

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Click to view CanadaDave's User Page CanadaDave (303)  Talk to CanadaDave in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Apr 10, 2007 - 07:12 am
Yep, me too. :)

Well-fought, Sir. Best of luck today - and thanks for helping to make the last day of the competition exciting.

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Click to view indigo196's User Page indigo196 (258)  Click to view indigo196's User Profile Talk to indigo196 in the Shout! Box Apr 10, 2007 - 03:59 am | Edited on Apr 10, 2007 - 04:10 am
Amazing flucuation in the numbers.

Good luck to everyone.

Thanks again to the Firingsquad editors for holding the competition.

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Click to view Palladiuman's User Page Palladiuman (29)  Click to view Palladiuman's User Profile Talk to Palladiuman in the Shout! Box Apr 09, 2007 - 11:51 pm
Good Luck everyone!

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