Lenovo partners with Epic to offer powerful prizes

[FPgundam]

Exciting news for Phase 3 as some wicked prizes are being offered for Phase 3.

Lenovo is the exclusive Phase 3 hardware sponsor of the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. Prizes include Lenovo's brand new ThinkStation S20 and D20 workstations, which deliver ultimate performance for game developers, high-end ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations and stylish L215p widescreen HD LCD monitors. Click here (http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase3_hardware.aspx) for more details.

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[evilmrfrank]

Awesome :D are these prizes only for 1st place wins or do some of them go out to 2nd and 3rd place wins as well?

[Cr4zy]

HOW MUCH RAM o_o

Damn, 192Gb is, a, a.. LOT.

So 4 prizes, or 1st/2nd/3rd/4th places, or something else?

Would be nice to know :p

[Hourences]

Same question, how are these distributed over the winners? Who gets what?

[Remus]

HOW MUCH RAM o_o

Damn, 192Gb is, a, a.. LOT.

A lot, is an understatement, considering that I currently have 2Gb RAM, that is almost 100x more powerful...



So 4 prizes, or 1st/2nd/3rd/4th places

That would be my guess as well, but still I would like an official word on this.

[_N_]

Holy crap! That laptop is insane! I must have it! If I don't win it, I'm gonna have to buy one :eek:!

[bazzwano]

CTF-Stratus... Do me proud ..... Please :D

[ambershee]

Not to be too callous, but these workstations aren't all that suitable for working with games or Unreal? It seems like a really peculiar move.

[Remus]

Not to be too callous, but these workstations aren't all that suitable for working with games or Unreal? It seems like a really peculiar move.

Might I ask why they are unsuitable?

[Phopojijo]

Might I ask why they are unsuitable?The point I think he's trying to make is that they're obviously awkwardly slanted towards more video-editing. The GPUs will be your major bottleneck... though dual Quatros are nothing to sneer at.

After all, you can always swap them out when they get obsolete in a few years... unless you want to use them.

[Cr4zy]

Rendering/video-editing/etc They won't exactly struggle with UnrealEd

[Angel_Mapper]

Hmm, I'm kind of confused as to what the computers actually have in them.


Memory:

* 12 DIMM Slots
* Up to 24GB of 1333MHz DDR3 ECC UDIMM
* Up to 96GB of 1066MHz DDR3 RDIMM
* Up to 192GB* of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM

Supported OS:

* Windows Vista Business 32
* Windows Vista Business 64
* Windows XP Professional
* Windows XP 64
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

Graphics:

* NVIDIA Quadro (Dual Graphics Support)
* NVIDIA SLI on Select D20 Configurations
* ATI FirePro (Dual Graphics Support)

HDD Support:

* 5 HDD Bays
* 7200rpm and 10000rpm SATA, 15000rpm SAS
It says up to such and such, but doesn't specifically say what's in these ones. Am I just missing something?

[Phopojijo]

From what I understand it's built-to-order... but if not that's cool because I'll probably not win ANY prize anyway :p

[MozI]

As mentioned before, be nice to know how these are handed out when the winners are announced.

Also curious on when the finalists are being announced...it has been a while. But then again there were a lot of maps this time around compared to Phase 1 and 2.

Good luck to everyone who is in this phase.

[Phopojijo]

They already said a while ago -- sometime in August... I believe they said NOT early August.

[ambershee]

The point I think he's trying to make is that they're obviously awkwardly slanted towards more video-editing. The GPUs will be your major bottleneck... though dual Quatros are nothing to sneer at.

After all, you can always swap them out when they get obsolete in a few years... unless you want to use them.

Yeah, they're damn nice machines and anyone here would be lucky to have one, but they're geared towards rendering and CGI, not real-time and games. We had difficulty getting UE3 to run on Quadro based machines back at my last work place - and ended up using normal quad-core / 8800 based setups instead.

[Drummer.unr]

Rendering and CGI sounds good to me xD

[MozI]

They already said a while ago -- sometime in August... I believe they said NOT early August.

Cool...thanks.

[Remus]

but they're geared towards rendering and CGI, not real-time and games.

Good, since that's exactly what I want.

[foultzy]

Ambershee is right, though also consider how many even hobbyist designers are picking up more than just level design and moving towards that direction. It's a little bit less powerful in games (it does fine, it's just worthless if gaming is all you're looking at because you're wasting money) though so much more powerful in complex rendering where the top consumer components can't even come close.

I've been eye-ing up that W700 for a long time--Lenovo makes the best-quality PC laptops, plus it's features are just awesome. (Wonder if those ones have the color calibrator or the second screen) Ah well, I'm not getting anything this round, haha.

[Spoondog]

I could really do with a laptop... especially one of those ones! Too poor to buy one myself so here's hoping! ;) (*cough* much cheaper to send across the world than a PC too *cough*).

[unreal_man]

i could use these laptops for multimedia type enhanced stuff....maybe not gaming. probably rigging 3d models or something or using unreal engine.

[Phopojijo]

The laptop would be a great teaching tool for my highschool physics class... but if given the choice I'd totally pick up the huge workstation :p