You know you Overclock too much when....

[Gillbot]

you pay more for a chip that can oc to 3g over a chip that runs 3g stock.

 

[bharatwaja]

...... When you think your FM Radio sucks cause it wont work past 108 MHZ

 

[aigomorla]

... when all you need to do is lick your finger and point up to get an accurate ambient messurement..

When you try to overclock a 89 dollar budget board with 300 dollar h2o cooling...

... when you have an overclocking, or a cooling sticky on a forum

... when numbers like LGA775, T7700, E6600, Q6600, SLACR, SL9UP are no longer codes but real products in your head.

... lastly for me, when you BSEL mod a XEON on a LGA771 Server platform.


I think i qualify for all this. :X


Hello! my name is aigomorla, and yes im an overclocking junky!

Oh hi Mark and JAG i know you guys a belong here too with me. ROFL...

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I just had an empty motherboard, and it needed something to protect the pins.....

Add that one to the list...

You buy a cheap CPU to "protect" the socket of a spare motherboard.

Dayam im guilty of this too.. As i said, Mark you know you belong in this group.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
You build a new system, set the bios on the first boot to ~max OC, it works fine, and you install the OS at that speed !

lol before I clicked on this thread, I thought to myself,

You know you Overclock too much when.....

you are MarcFW900!

 

[aigomorla]

AHHHHH

the most important.

Im suprised no one said this.


... When you get a cpu, the first thing you look at is the batch/bin code:

L721B066 <--- is no longer just a series of numbers an letters to you anymore.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
AHHHHH

the most important.

Im suprised no one said this.


... When you get a cpu, the first thing you look at is the batch/bin code:

L721B066 <--- is no longer just a series of numbers an letters to you anymore.

Dayam im guilty of this too.. As i said, Mark you know you belong in this group.

And a proud member too ! and in good company !

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: konceptz
When it's cold outside you think, "what great ambient temps!"

That one made me laugh

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Zap
You think Futuremark is the greatest game publisher ever.

You watercool your game console.

Your parent's computer doesn't have FSB controls in BIOS, so you increase the Typematic Rate setting to give a semblance of increased speed.

http://www.frozencpu.com/produ...ml?tl=g30c83s404#blank

I had one of those. It was very very nice, and quieted my 360 down a lot.

 

[jdogg707]

When you leave work early because you can't take the anticipation of waiting to get home to make sure Prime is still running with no errors.

 

[mh47g]

When you look at this thread and say .. "I've done just about every single one of these..."

 

[JAG87]

when you laugh at BSODs instead of getting pissed off

thats when you know you crossed the line

 

[spinejam]

when you wife explicitly tells you: "don't mess with my computer" and you find yourself o/c'ing and stress-testing her 'puter late night while she's sleeping!

 

[Team42]

...when you use SuperPi as your time reference for EVERYTHING!

 

[Zenoth]

-When you got some something cooking and you try to OC the oven to get your food faster.

-When you look at your freezer and think "what a nice cooling solution!".

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Zenoth


-When you look at your freezer and think "what a nice cooling solution!".

actually its more like, you look at your Fridge, and think... mmmm can i recycle that compressor for a phase unit?

LOL...

 

[Modelworks]

You start wondering what the water bill will be if you just ran the garden hose into the waterblocks on your pc.

You run dedicated power lines to your pc power supply.

You have to go the emergency room for losing half a finger, from 'checking' the temps on the heatsink... bad fan bad fan

You find the noise from fans comforting, the more the merrier.

You hear about stocks crashing on the news and instantly think about how they shouldn't be crashing at stock settings.

 

[Zenoth]

You hear about stocks crashing on the news and instantly think about how they shouldn't be crashing at stock settings.

BWAHAHA!!!

That's the best for me.

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: Zenoth

You hear about stocks crashing on the news and instantly think about how they shouldn't be crashing at stock settings.

BWAHAHA!!!

That's the best for me.

That was good! :laugh:

 

[tranceport]

You have a costa rica cel 300 with fanless running at 450 stock.

 

[zorrt]

thread makes me feel sad....

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: mh47g
When you look at this thread and say .. "I've done just about every single one of these..."

:laugh:

When you install a "Clear CMOS" switch on the front of your case, right next to the power on button.

You think to yourself, where can I get liquid nitrogen in a thermos! :shocked:

 

[tigersty1e]

Instead of brushing your teeth or going to the bathroom, the first thing you do when you wake up is to check to see if the stress test is running.

There are days when you'd rather see a nice lap job than a nice lap dance.

You compare the speed of your processor to the stock speeds of other processors and figure out how much money you're saving by overclocking.

AS5 has a totallly different meaning to you than to your friends.

You know 4-4-4-12 has almost (probably none) no real world performance gain over 5-5-5-15, but you'll speed countless hours trying to go to 4-4-4-12 anyway just because.

You've once imagined how cool your temps would be if your computer were outside in the cold.

You used to think windows on side cases were cool, but not anymore.

To outsiders, only geeks and nerds overclock... but the funny thing is that to us, only the cool kids overclock.

 

[Regalk]

You compare the speed of your processor to the stock speeds of other processors and figure out how much money you're saving by overclocking and use the savings to buy a next rig and a next rig etc etc until your wife leaves you

Your house is an electroden

The power company sends u cookies for helping them

your house is blue instead of green

You get to dis Anand and Best buy salesmen

You stop what you are doing in bed when you hear the beep - oh$hit

you can sart a flame war

When you prime over and over until you are weak in the legs

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: zorrt
thread makes me feel sad....

why cuz most of it applies to you as well?

welcome to the club!

 

[Team42]

Your local chemist gets his supply of Isopropanol alcohol from YOU!