OC Trash CUP 2026
OC Trash CUP 2026 Roadmap
A Low-Budget Benchmarking Competition for the Most Cursed of us ![]()
1) BUILD a TERRIBLE (but Perhaps Oddly Nostalgic) PC in the style of 2000s - 2010s POVERTY RIGS
2) MOD that HEAP - Custom AIRCOOLING, Ancient OC Lore, Hardmods, & COOL + SILLY AESTHETICS
3) TELL us the STORY of your Build- WHY those Specs? Does any of the Hardware have an INTERESTING or FUNNY History?
4) COMPETE the BEST you CAN on CLASSIC BENCHMARKS while making a SPECTACLE for your Fellow Participants
Think 24 Hours of Lemons C Class but for Dubious PC Hardware of the 2000’s and early 2010s.
Due to the Highly Customized Trash Cup Scoring System, this is an "Unofficial" HWBot Competition This means Submissions Will Not Recieve HWBot Competition Achievements and Boints, only regular HWP
Also due to it's specific nature of the above point attribution, the final ranking at Azalea site, will be different from the ranking at HWBOT
More information can be found at the HWBot Forum or Azalea Computers Discord channel
Hardware Limitations:
DDR3, DDR2, DDR1, RDRAM, or SDRAM - NO DDR4/5
32nm Intel CPU or OLDER
28nm AMD CPU or OLDER
28nm Via CPU or OLDER
Four THREADS or FEWER (SMP Allowed within Thread Count Limit)
ATI / AMD Radeon 6000 or OLDER, 800 SP or FEWER
NVidia GeForce 500 or OLDER, 240 CUDA or FEWER
AMD Radeon GCN 1.0, 768 SP or FEWER
NVidia GeForce KEPLER, 576 CUDA or FEWER
NON-NV/ATI/AMD GPU,
Any DX10 or OLDER
Any iGPU That Meets Other Restrictions SLI/CF Allowed within Shader Count Limit
OC TRASH CUP 2026 AWARDS
- First Place in Points - "Trash Cup Grand Champion"
- Second Place in Points - "Trash Cup Runner Up"
- Third Place in Points - "Trash Cup Podium Finish"
- Best Case Mod - "Trash Cup Modder Extraordinaire"
- Best Non-Case Build - "Trash Cup Cursed Creative"
- Fastest OEM System - "Trash Cup Office Manager"
Prizes Will be Given out as either Hardware or Equal Value Currency at Organizer Discretion
Prizes Will Cap at $25 USD or Less
Winners will be Announced and Contacted by 1 June, 2026
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