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  • You might be an OC Junky if:

    You know you are an overclocker:

    1) If the screws holding your case together have been stripped out.
    2) If your case has no cover.
    3) If you need replacement jumpers.
    4) If you have more than two hard drives.
    5) If there is a fire extinguisher beside your PC (take note Brendan and Darren).
    6) If your rent was ever late so you could pre-order a 3DFX card.
    7) If you have rhtermal grease under your fingernails.
    8) If the word "Anand" has become part of your vocabulary.
    9) If you buy all the components to build a new computer and you start thinking about upgrading before your finish assembly.
    10) If three or more of your friends or relatives are using one or more of your "old" systems.
    11) If you have never done a "typical" installation of software.
    12) If you've removed all of the smoke detectors in your house.
    13) If you you know all the multiples of 66, 75, 83, 100, 112.
    14) If you can hold your own in an argument over Intel and AMD's floating point units versus integer processing power.
    15) If you give people advice on which case fans to buy.
    16) If you're on a first name basis with the head of your work/universities help desk and it's because they called you.
    17) If the notion of undocumented jumper settings seems perfectly natural to you.
    18) If you have a "square floor fan" sitting next to your uncovered case.
    19) If you have tried to manually shorten your windows startup time.
    20) If your house lights dim when you power up your computer.
    21) If you walked to work for a month so you could afford that new Voodoo2 card.
    22) If you use the weather forecast to predict tomorrows bus/multiplier settings.
    23) If your employers know you are a crank but this doesn't worry them as long as you turn up to fix things.
    24) If your wife/partner has to close the door to the "computer room" when guests come over.
    25) If your monthly computer upgrade budget is greater than your mortgage payments.
    26) If you bought Quake 2 just to run the timedemo.
    27) If you know the Quake 2 fps of your current setup and how it changes with at least two other pieces of hardware not currently in your computer.
    28) Every time you upgrade your system, you build an entire new system around the old part(s).

    This from:

    http://www.techwatch.com.au/articles...n_overclocker/


    Mark F.


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    OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
    and burped out a movie


    Mark F. (A+, Network+, & CCNA)
    --------------------------------------------------
    OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
    and burped out a movie

  • #2
    All true so very TRUE. (it's SAD really)

    A-Trend Mobo 6240 V2
    Custom Heatsink/Globalwinfan setup
    128MB/PC133/PC100 Combo
    I-Will Slocket2
    PIII Coppermine 500e@690 FSB 138
    Windows98SE
    Matrox G400 32 D/H (Latest drivers)
    Soundblaster 1024 Live @3.0 drivers
    8.4 West Dig (ATA 33)
    6.4 Fugitsu (ATA 66)
    MS Intell/Explorer USB
    Pioneer 6/32x DVD
    Memorex 48X CD
    Altec lansing Sub + 2 satelite speakers

    Golden Orb (www.plycon.com) being installed soon


    Old Joes's Going for IT!!!

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    • #3
      LOL ... nice one, Mark !

      Let's see ..

      1) If the screws holding your case together have been stripped out. ... true
      2) If your case has no cover. ... true
      3) If you need replacement jumpers. ... true
      4) If you have more than two hard drives. ... true
      5) If there is a fire extinguisher beside your PC (take note Brendan and Darren). ... LOL ... nah
      6) If your rent was ever late so you could pre-order a 3DFX card. ... ROFL ... ain't that far (yet)
      7) If you have rhtermal grease under your fingernails. ... true (after each increase in cooling)
      8) If the word "Anand" has become part of your vocabulary. ... Anand ... errm - true
      9) If you buy all the components to build a new computer and you start thinking about upgrading before your finish assembly. ... painfull, but true
      10) If three or more of your friends or relatives are using one or more of your "old" systems. ... true - well not three, but my C64 went that way and my Amiga was lent to a friend for a coulpe of months
      11) If you have never done a "typical" installation of software. ... true ... I didn't even know that would be possible
      12) If you've removed all of the smoke detectors in your house. ... true ... I haven't installed them for that reason
      13) If you you know all the multiples of 66, 75, 83, 100, 112. ... true
      14) If you can hold your own in an argument over Intel and AMD's floating point units versus integer processing power. ... true ... it's always the same old story
      15) If you give people advice on which case fans to buy. ... true
      16) If you're on a first name basis with the head of your work/universities help desk and it's because they called you. ... true
      17) If the notion of undocumented jumper settings seems perfectly natural to you. ... true
      18) If you have a "square floor fan" sitting next to your uncovered case. ... false -... I know how to OC properly ...
      19) If you have tried to manually shorten your windows startup time. ... true -- doesn't anybody do that ?
      20) If your house lights dim when you power up your computer. ... false ... thank god
      21) If you walked to work for a month so you could afford that new Voodoo2 card. ... false ... no DooDoo in my house
      22) If you use the weather forecast to predict tomorrows bus/multiplier settings. ... false
      23) If your employers know you are a crank but this doesn't worry them as long as you turn up to fix things. ... true ...
      24) If your wife/partner has to close the door to the "computer room" when guests come over. ... true ... if there were a door
      25) If your monthly computer upgrade budget is greater than your mortgage payments. ... false
      26) If you bought Quake 2 just to run the timedemo. ... true ... well I didn't buy it, because the free demo is also good for that
      27) If you know the Quake 2 fps of your current setup and how it changes with at least two other pieces of hardware not currently in your computer. ... false, but interesting thought
      28) Every time you upgrade your system, you build an entire new system around the old part(s). ... true ... I think - at least I'd sell the old parts as 'OC-passed'

      ....

      Looks like I'm an OC Junky ...


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      Cheers,
      Maggi

      Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...
      Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

      ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional
      Intel Core i7-3930K@4.3GHz
      be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 2
      4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX PC3-19200U@CR1
      2x MSI N670GTX PE OC (SLI)
      OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
      4x2TB Seagate Barracuda Green 5900.3 (2x4TB RAID0)
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      • #4
        Do NOT show this thread to my wife!
        chuck

        ps. Is there a way to overclock a NIC?
        Chuck
        秋音的爸爸

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        • #5
          1,2,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,17,19,28 (three major upgrades).

          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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          • #6
            oooh, this is the one that really hurt:

            28) Every time you upgrade your system, you build an entire new system around the old part(s).


            Is that wrong??? It's such a shame to leave good parts lying unused around the house...

            ---------------------
            Holly

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            • #7
              LOL

              (1) What case screws????

              Vacuum Cleaner got em months ago.

              Good stuff Mark!!!
              Greebe's juiced up Athlon @750 on an MSI Irongate Based M/B Marvel G200 TV with HW/DVD Daughtercard,
              CDBurner, Creative DVD, two big WD Hdds, Outboard 56K modem
              Parallel Port Scanner, Creative S/B AWE 64 (ISA), and a new Logitech WebCam (My first USB device)

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              • #8
                Case Screws? Case?

                Heeeheh

                Is is bad when you strip out your fans, so that you have to buy nuts and blots to hold the fans on the case. Screws dont work anymore, all the plastic is gone...

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                PIII 450 @ 504
                generic BX motherboard
                G400 MAX : )
                Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
                Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
                Creative 36x CD-ROM
                HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
                64 megs PC100 RAM
                128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
                NetGear 10/100
                Soundblaster 32 AWE
                Diamond SupraExpress 56k
                Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
                1 92mm Sunon Fan
                4 80mm Sunon Fan's


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                • #9
                  2 Cousins, 1 brother, 3 upgrades for my parents, 1 uncle and 3 co-workers - all upgraded their systems with my old "stuff"...

                  Is that wrong?

                  Guyv!
                  Gaming Rig.

                  - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
                  - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
                  - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
                  - 6.1 Digital Audio
                  - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
                  - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
                  - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
                  - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
                  - LS120 IDE Floppy
                  - Zip 100 IDE
                  - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
                  - NEC FE950
                  - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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                  • #10
                    Guyver,
                    Only if they are not running SETI WUs for you.

                    Glad everyone enjoyed that.
                    Kind of scary ain't it!

                    Sat was my GF's brothers B-Day. He came over and started looking around with this strange look on his face. Then asked "why is the cover off everything?"

                    Mark F.


                    [This message has been edited by Mark F (edited 22 February 2000).]
                    Mark F. (A+, Network+, & CCNA)
                    --------------------------------------------------
                    OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
                    and burped out a movie

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                    • #11
                      I think I pass most of the questions, so I guess I am an overclock junky. I can almost build another computer with my spare parts. Just missing a case, a sound card and a motherboard.

                      Jammrock

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                      Athlon 650, Biostar board, 128 MB PC133 (Crucial), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, 10/100 NIC, lots of case fans, etc...
                      “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                      –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                      • #12
                        Now, if I can just put fans on my keyboard and Trackman Marble FX.

                        Paul
                        "Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself"

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                        • #13
                          Careful with the fan on the marble fx...

                          You get it blowing to hard on the ball and it may have an accidental discharge

                          Guyv!
                          Gaming Rig.

                          - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
                          - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
                          - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
                          - 6.1 Digital Audio
                          - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
                          - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
                          - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
                          - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
                          - LS120 IDE Floppy
                          - Zip 100 IDE
                          - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
                          - NEC FE950
                          - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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                          • #14
                            well, my brother and i have tons of stuff lying around...we were doing nice and fine, but we has two extra processors kicking around so we decided to make another system...so for everyone whos interested, that is 1 for me, one for my brother, one for my brothers son( my nephew), one for serving up the internet and one for burning...that alone may not be that big a deal, but all but one of the computers are amds, all k6's, the one that isnt a k6, is a k5-120!

                            Anyways

                            Frankfurt
                            Here is my system config:Athlon XP+ 2000, 1024MB SDRAM,EpOX EP9XA (or something)<b>Matrox Parhelia </b>
                            WinXP Professional SP1
                            Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1
                            3COM 905C

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                            • #15
                              ummm.....
                              my old computers keep getting passed around at work...LOL.......Thanks for the insight!
                              gobrob

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