You are all evil

[Nilonym]

Here I was, planning to build a new system, and maybe tweak it, you know, just a little. Nothing that would require any real time or energy. Just something easy and safe.

And today I look up and realize that I have probably spent 50+ hours reading these forums over the past three weeks, have three oc'd systems on my desk of various stripes, understand the difference between 2.5-6-3-3 and 2-5-2-2 (and what CAS stands for, for that matter), and have spent the last few hours doing research on the best way to lap my heatsink to ensure optimal thermal transfer properties after I apply some arctic silver 3.

I used to have a life. Thanks. A lot.

Nilonym

 

[THUGSROOK]

what? you didnt wire mod it yet? :Q

 

[Nilonym]

...and say the word "thugsrook" in whispered, reverent tones...

 

[kursplat]

don't worry.evntually yu will knot evAN care ABoutt fooood Ore sleepe or......
ummm ughh ahh. whta whasss i
oh coooul treed subsripsion updtats.....
lattter

 

[Technonut]

Ain't it cool?.....

 

[Kaervak]

and have spent the last few hours doing research on the best way to lap my heatsink to ensure optimal thermal transfer properties after I apply some arctic silver 3.

I used to have a life. Thanks. A lot.

Nilonym

And that right there ladies & gentlemen, is my doing.

 

[Tates]

Congratulations, you are now a card carrying technogeek

>>secret handshake (No, not the one where you tickle the palm with your middle finger,eeeeuuuuuwwww)<<

Welcome Brother

 

[MoFunk]

What no case mods to allow for maximum airflow? Blow holes? Window to show off your computers inards? You better get cracking if you want to get all that done and still enjoy a little bit of the summer months.


welcome fellow geek. Do not try to resist!

 

[SSXeon5]

Yup it sucks you in like a RPG ..... so addicting ...

SSXeon

 

[THUGSROOK]

hehe, yea these poor n00bie overclockers come in here - and they dont realize weve been modding our cases/systems for years!

they wanna learn it/do it in a week

 

[Jeffwo]

Nilonym

Man, can I relate to this topic!

Two years ago, I was in total bliss, completely oblivious to the world of high powered computers.
My daughter, 9, at the time, had a P150 (she lives with her mom) and she kept messing it up
and I had to keep calling a tech to come over and fix it. $50, $40, etc. so I told her and her
mom that I had paid my last money for someone to keep this kids computer running. Bring
it to my house and I would get it fixed and supervise the child so she wouldn't get it
screwed up again.

I watched a guy format and install Win95, I said, "hmmm...I could do that!" So, I came to
Anandtech.com to study up a little, just to get ready in case I had to do something else to
the P150...BAD MOVE!!! Within 3 months I had bought myself an Antec 1030 w/300w
PS, a 600 Duron (Unlocked), a 32 mb video card with it's own cooling fan.

Well....needless to say, the rest is history, the real life that I once had is only a fleeting
memory and today I am sitting here with a T-bird at 1125mhz and trying to figure out what
all I will need to reach 2.8 g. stable.

Jeff

 

[SSXeon5]

Originally posted by: Jeffwo
Nilonym

Man, can I relate to this topic!

Two years ago, I was in total bliss, completely oblivious to the world of high powered computers.
My daughter, 9, at the time, had a P150 (she lives with her mom) and she kept messing it up
and I had to keep calling a tech to come over and fix it. $50, $40, etc. so I told her and her
mom that I had paid my last money for someone to keep this kids computer running. Bring
it to my house and I would get it fixed and supervise the child so she wouldn't get it
screwed up again.

I watched a guy format and install Win95, I said, "hmmm...I could do that!" So, I came to
Anandtech.com to study up a little, just to get ready in case I had to do something else to
the P150...BAD MOVE!!! Within 3 months I had bought myself an Antec 1030 w/300w
PS, a 600 Duron (Unlocked), a 32 mb video card with it's own cooling fan.

Well....needless to say, the rest is history, the real life that I once had is only a fleeting
memory and today I am sitting here trying to figure out what I will need to reach 2.8 g. stable.

Jeff

lol same .... cept it was my old 533 p3 HP that messed up ... after we took it back to bestbuy just so that a$$hole could reformat I went insane. Never got an OEM machine again

SSXeon

 

[ShadowDJ]

I've been researching PCs for a while now. I officially know more than even the Microsoft employees in my family about harware and programs. I'm still trying to convince my parents to get a desktop. Poor old me is still stuck with a remnant of a school laptop program. Well, I'm graduating this year, but whatever. I'm in eigth grade, and my school has a stupid mandatory laptop program that has left me desktop-less and in the PII range for three years now. Time to move up to my Athlon XP and Xtasy 5632. Kewl.

 

[Jeffwo]

ShadowDJ

Maybe you would have better luck trying to convince the parents to upgrade your lappy.
Say, maybe to a 1 gig with a good video card!

Jeff

 

[gsethi]

lol same thing here......

My first computer was a generic P166 that i got from my cousin's friend. Never cared to open it and look up what was inside it. As long as t worked, i was happy with it. I knew when the CD-Rom drive stopped working on that thing and i had to send it to my Uncle's house for it to get fixed and was computer less for 1 week.

After that i bought a HP PIII 500 Mhz w/ 128 MB Ram and 4x CD-RW drive about ~3 years ago. Top of the line at the time. I decided to stay away from all generic stuff and stay with brand name. I just upgraded the memory on that thing (was very very scared and took me about 3-4 hours to pop in a memory stick after several calls)....LOL.
That was the time when i decided to explore more on this computer stuff. I decided to take risk and work on my HP computer whenever i could find time. First step was to replace video card with the latest one (vanta with TNT2) and then the drives and then finally the CPU. That was the higest upgrading i ever did and was always afraid to take out the motherboard or build a new one of my own.

Then i found this site and that changed it all. I really mean......it changed the way i look at computers now. I have decided to stay away from brand names now and am always gonna build my own computers and overclock them to the max with the best possible parts.

Thanks you all you guys for helping me. I have become from a newbie to a pro (not a premier so far ) in less than 2 months..........thanks to everyone who helped me.

i prolly spend more time on Anandtech now than with anyone else..................

thanks

 

[WarCon]

Anandtech is a gateway drug to overclocking......

 

[Haunter9X]

oh ya it is...

I found this place back in the day of hitachi monitors on sale at buy.com, something like 185 bux for one. After that, I hung around and ended up with a celeron 300a, my first oc... I come back here and within a month and a half I've got a 1.6a sitting in a motherboard to be installed in the morning. It's amazing how quickly one slips back into the habit..., umm... I mean routine, yes routine, of course it is.
Anyone have speed guesstimates on corsair xms 3000, cas2 of course?
-Haunter9x

 

[THUGSROOK]

400+ DDR

 

[clille]

yep, computers suck your brain out and make you forget why you have a dick !

If I could overclock my girlfriend I would, but I cannot even get her to run stable ..... and I don't think watercooling would make the difference here

 

[dajeepster]

clille
If I could overclock my girlfriend I would, but I cannot even get her to run stable ..... and I don't think watercooling would make the difference here

I beg to differ... wet t-shirts are always fun

 

[DimZiE]

yes we are !!!!


Deep Inside ....we're partially evil...


duh!!! why does i even bother ...

 

[Thor86]

Try building a 486 and configuring DOS to work with all your app/games using 640k HIMEM! LOL!

 

[Nutzo]

My first 286 system (at work) was an IBM AT demo unit with the clear plexiglass cover (I managed to keep it because it couldn't legally be sold since it wasn't FCC compliant with the plastic cover)

After a few months I pulled out the 12 Mhz crystal &
put in an 18 Mhz one I had laying around to overclock it to 9 Mhz :Q

I had the fastest system in the office for the rest of the year.......

Then there was my home systems, 386-25@33, 846SX25@33, 486/33@40, 486/75@100, Pentium 90@120, AMDK6-2/333@375, K6-Celeron 300a@450, Athlon 700@934, a couple Athlon SlotA T-birds 750@979, P4 1.6a@2.2

The only CPU's I haven't overclocked where a Cyrix 166 & an AMD 300, and that was only because they wouldn't run any higher :frown: