How it all Began...

Late in 1997 three guys, thousands of miles apart, started to have some very ambitious plans for Real World Benchmarks using the coolest real time graphics and cutting edge Demo scenes!

From their "virtual" garage, with business plans and program specs being digitally transmitted between countries, they began to find more and more people who shared a passion for this kind of enterprise.

And then it happened! In October 1998, the first in our series of world-famous 3DMark benchmarks was released. As with all of the benchmarks in this series, it measured the ability of your PC to process cutting edge graphics and compared your results against thousands of others, allowing you to make upgrading decisions that were right for you.


But we were sure that there could be more, that we could deliver more!

In December 1999, MadOnion.com introduced 3DMark2000, the first of its internet-enabled benchmarks. While measuring the 3D gaming performance of your PC, it also allows you to compare your results online against tens of thousands of others. With these quantitative and qualitative results, you can make informed PC hardware upgrade decisions.


To date, with a distribution list exceeding 17 million, 3DMark has become the global standard in benchmarking 3D technologies.

In February 2000, we introduced Video2000 to make upgrading your PC even easier. As the name suggests, this benchmarking tool allows you to test the video stream pipeline of your PC and assess your systems ability to run applications like DVD Playback and Video Editing & Conferencing.

And we're just getting started!


MadOnion.com has plans to become the definitive source of personalized PC hardware performance information, in order to empower and educate our users so that they can make the decisions that are right for them!

As a new kind of application services provider, powered by a series of internet-enabled benchmarks and a performance database that encompasses information from around the globe, MadOnion.com remains passionate about these goals!


Be sure to visit MadOnion.com regularly over the next few months. You'll see even more exciting new web services that thrill, delight and provide you with the information you need to upgrade your PC.



Stay Tuned ! ! !.....