PC Pitstop Digs Up Fastest PC in the Land in 'Top Dawg Challenge'

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, [phone],





Web site:  http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/maxpc/challenge2.asp 

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