PC Pitstop Digs Up Fastest PC in the Land in 'Top Dawg Challenge' DAKOTA DUNES, S.D., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Pitstop today announced the "Top Dawg Challenge," its online PC performance contest to find the fastest PC on the planet. Sponsored by Western Digital, the contest features a series of PC Pitstop's standard tests, including a suite of memory, disk, graphics and CPU benchmarks. The "Top Dawg Challenge" is open to any PC user. Contestants simply run PC Pitstop's automated full suite of tests and diagnostics and the results are automatically stored on PC Pitstop's servers. The final score is a function of the PC's score in a series of benchmarking tests including memory, disk, CPU and graphics. For more details and full contest rules, please visit http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/maxpc/challenge2.asp. "WD is a natural sponsor for this event," said Rob Cheng, chief executive officer of PC Pitstop. "During last year's challenge, the winning PCs all had WD Raptor hard drives, the 'de facto' standard hard drive for PC enthusiasts. WD's involvement in this year's contest makes the Top Dawg Challenge even more exciting." "As the world's fastest SATA hard drive, WD Raptor is perfect for PC and gaming enthusiasts," said Hubbert Smith, WD's director of enterprise marketing. "No other hard drive comes close to WD Raptor, making it the clear choice for Top Dawg challengers." The contest will be held April 18, 2005 through May 17, 2005. The grand prize is the award-winning WD Raptor 10,000 RPM 74 GB SATA hard drive. Runners up will receive a WD Raptor 36 GB. Additionally, several random drawings will be held throughout the contest so everyone has a chance to win prizes. About WD Raptor WD Raptor is the world's fastest, most reliable SATA hard drive with 10,000 RPM, 1.2 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) and as low as 4.2 milliseconds (ms) average seek time. WD Raptor drives carry a five-year warranty and are offered in capacities of 36 or 74 GB. WD Raptor drives feature Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) technology, which increases random I/O performance by as much as 30 percent, and Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF(TM)) technology, which maintains hard drive performance in server environments where hard drives are subject to vibration. About PC Pitstop PC Pitstop LLC is the web's largest PC diagnostics site. Our online and free diagnostics test a wide variety of performance, security and system stability issues. PC Pitstop has also grown to be a very strong on line community of users and PC technicians. PC Pitstop is a trademark of PC Pitstop. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. DATASOURCE: PC Pitstop LLC CONTACT: Keith Linden of PC Pitstop, +1-443-472-4130, Web site: http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/maxpc/challenge2.asp

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