20 Years of Anandtech - 20 days of Giveaways

[RLGL]

It's the link in the article. Hell if I'm signing in with that crap. https://gleam.io/oACOD/the-anandtech-20th-anniversary-amd-giveaway

Looks like a way to get a bunch of unwanted advertising etc pushed

 

[Doctavian]

20 years D*mn!

 

[John Connor]

Looks like a way to get a bunch of unwanted advertising etc pushed

Pretty much.

 

[Ne0]

You can substitute 1999 with something else. 1998 should definitely be Celerom 300A. It's the CPU that got a lot of people into overclocking and building powerful computers.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/174

My first rig I built in middle school, the good ole' Celeron 300A (66mhz to 100mhz FSB) and that 450mhz overclock. For nostalgia, I visited my parents house a few weeks ago. All my old rigs (Celeron 300A, Pentium 3's, Pentium 4's, AMD Thunderbird, XP Athlon, Barton, AMD64, AMD64 x2) that were stored in the storage room in the basement were all thrown out unfortunately.

 

[Newbian]

Pretty much.

Between that and needing a 2nd account for being able to post on the comment section I remember this was an issue for awhile now also when they did this before.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Only US Residents....Sad. It is what it is, I suppose.

I blame Trump for this.

 

[Kaido]

Nice, I don't like the iPhone, but I wouldn't mind having the 7S.

I've gone really simple with my tech: iPhone, Chromebook, Roku. No fuss, just lets me use them without tinkering.

 

[Kaido]

So being the kitchen overlord really just means you get instant pot duty every day?

ftfy

 

[BoomerD]

Yes, they did fail quite often, the infamous "click of death".

I had 2...Zip Drive 100 and Zip Drive 250...Woohoo! Neither one ever died.

 

[Shawn]

Oh god, this brings back nightmares. I had a zip disk that contained a school project that had been written on by a bad drive. Well when a good drive tried to read from the disk it caused the heads to go out of bounds and it killed the good drive as well. I think I tried to read my project of 5 or 6 zip drives at school wrecking all them as well as the drive I had at home.

 

[Thebobo]

NM

 

[stormkroe]

You can substitute 1999 with something else. 1998 should definitely be Celerom 300A. It's the CPU that got a lot of people into overclocking and building powerful computers.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/174

Cachez? We don't need no steenking cachez!

 

[slag]

Cachez? We don't need no steenking cachez!

I think the Celeron 300a had like 128kb of cache or something, but the original celeron 266 was the real workhorse. I overclocked that baby to 448 mhz months before the 300a was out and it just flew. I only gamed, so it had no issues playing games all decked out with a Riva? 128 card or possibly a 3dfx card at the time. the extra 12 mhz of bus speed made an improvement.

 

[manly]

Logged in via Twitter to get spammed by some app.

Can't even login to post a comment to the Giveaway article even though I can login to AT forums. I could've sworn it's the same user database?

 

[Crono]

Logged in via Twitter to get spammed by some app.

Can't even login to post a comment to the Giveaway article even though I can login to AT forums. I could've sworn it's the same user database?

No, it's not the same database (unfortunately), at least not as long as I've been here (since 2005 - ignore my join date).

 

[Paladin3]

Nice of anandtech to do this for us. Thanks and congrats on 20 years.

 

[manly]

No, it's not the same database (unfortunately), at least not as long as I've been here (since 2005 - ignore my join date).

I guess I'm imagining that I've posted on AT for a contest before, but I must not have.

Not to mention no TLS on Anandtech.com, not even for login? And this is a fucking (high) tech site?

 

[zinfamous]

I guess I'm imagining that I've posted on AT for a contest before, but I must not have.

Not to mention no TLS on Anandtech.com, not even for login? And this is a fucking (high) tech site?

you probably shared password and username, but likely updataed the forum password some months ago due to the hack and increased security, and did not do the same with the main page comments. They have long been separate databases.

So....we register for this thing only once, right? each day we get x number of draw chances for x number of registrations each reward, after registering only the one time?

 

[highland145]

So....we register for this thing only once, right? each day we get x number of draw chances for x number of registrations each reward, after registering only the one time?

Along with the last 4 of your SSN and Mom's maiden name.

 

[zinfamous]

Along with the last 4 of your SSN and Mom's maiden name.

I'm sure you probably already have those, so if you could go ahead and register on my behalf, that'd be great. thanks.

 

[highland145]

I'm sure you probably already have those, so if you could go ahead and register on my behalf, that'd be great. thanks.

Done. Always happy to help.

 

[HiredGun001]

Nice Giveaway.

 

[manly]

you probably shared password and username, but likely updataed the forum password some months ago due to the hack and increased security, and did not do the same with the main page comments. They have long been separate databases.

So....we register for this thing only once, right? each day we get x number of draw chances for x number of registrations each reward, after registering only the one time?

Thanks zin, that explains it. So I do have a regular AT account as well. But with an old potentially compromised password? And they don't use TLS on the main site? Is it 2017 or 1997? Lol...

You have to register for each day's contest, as you are inviting different companies to spamvertise to you.

 

[bigboxes]

Damn! Anand sure lost his hair rather quickly in life.

 

[Madakish]

Happy 20th Anniversary Anandtech!