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Futuremark have been creating leading PC benchmarks for many years and with the imminent release of 3dmark 11, news has just reached us that there will be a free edition available with unlimited runs.
Thanks to sponsorship from MSI – Futuremark can offer a free version of the benchmark with advertising placement – this isn't a cut down version either, it offers unlimited runs to the user. Those of you old enough (like me) will remember 3dmark 01 and the Falcon Northwest ads. It seems to be a very similar principle – in that we will all end up subliminally wanting a new MSI motherboard by the time we finish benchmarking. Thank god I lived in Ireland or I would have bought a Falcon Northwest machine to try and get 2,000 more points in 3dmark01.
Right now Futuremark are keeping 3dmark 11 tests rather hush-hush, but more information will be fed to the press before the official release later this year.
KitGuru says: We would love a new DX11 version of the ‘Max Payne' benchmark from 3dmark 01. How many times did you watch the pillars being shot while you tried to get another 100 points?
A round of appaulse for MSI there I think 🙂
Yeah… Well Thanks MSI.
This is good.
It is going to take out a huge chunk of Futuremark’s Actual sales though
3dmark hasnt been good for a long time. the last 2 or 3 have been terrible. I dont think these are really exciting anymore. 2001 was great, ill always remember it. But that last one with the chick getting into the sapphire boat. the graphics in that were shocking bad, looked like a kid drew the people.
People love these, comparing scores and seeing performance benefits. They are useful though, cause you can measure how ram changes or system bios alterations have helped the system.
looking forward to seeing it. Free is even better 🙂
Free you say? sign me up !