?America?s Fastest Geek? crowned

[bonkers325]

The competition was fierce. The crowd large. The contestants focused. And in six-and-a-half minutes, there was only one geek left standing ? ?America?s Fastest Geek? ? the quickest to build a computer from scratch.

Link

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah, I wish I could have been there, would have been fun.

 

[Killbat]

Yea, yea, gimme a second to search for my thread...

 

[bonkers325]

<< Yea, yea, gimme a second to search for my thread... >>



was this posted

 

[Killbat]

&quot;was this posted&quot;

No. I timed myself doing this a few months back.
I don't remember the time, but it wasn't as low as 6:00. Then again, I've got WAY more components than is needed to load a webpage.


[edit] Well I'll be, I just found it.
http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=38&amp;threadid=315354

 

[Flat]

Hey! Its a publicity stunt for a competing website of anandtech!

 

[MichaelD]

Cool post. Thanks for sharing it. This reminded me of when I built my GF's computer and she was standing over my shoulder the whole time asking &quot;is it done yet?&quot; etc. I told her &quot;do you want it now, or do you want it done right?&quot; That shut her up...for 3.2 seconds.

 

[BillClo]

Well you know, most women can go from zero to bitch in 3.2 seconds, so your GF was about par for the course, it appears. No offense intended.

 

[bonkers325]

<< Cool post. Thanks for sharing it. This reminded me of when I built my GF's computer and she was standing over my shoulder the whole time asking &quot;is it done yet?&quot; etc. I told her &quot;do you want it now, or do you want it done right?&quot; That shut her up...for 3.2 seconds. >>



LMAO

 

[bigd480]

the rules were kinda cheesy... why would they need the CD-audio cable to get to a website? and obviously the HD was already formatted and had an O/S... I think I could do it in that time too...

 

[MichaelD]

You know, I was thinking that too! &quot;How the heck do you build a system AND format AND load an OS in six minutes? Sheeeet, just rebooting alone between things takes up more than six minutes! Unfair! Re-open the competition to AT Forum members! Talk about some gurus!


...and MichaelD from the Anandtech Forums put his Athlon system together in two minutes flat. He was disqualified though because of excess smoke coming from the mobo/ps area....he also burned down the building....&quot;

 

[arod]

I could do it in about 10 mins. Just think of all the little things you have to do to get it completly built... screw everything together takes a bit.. I would have been cool to try though

 

[Helznicht]

Yeah, and give them ZERO driver disks and a second PC connected to the net to get the proper drivers. That would have been Better

 

[GL]

Pretty cool. I heard ExtremeTech's very own website was also done in 6 minutes At the rate they're going, they'll be the try-hards of the hardware sites.

 

[MichaelD]

GL ----> DOH! LOL! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

 

[murdock2525]

Killbat...Yer a trip !!!!!!

This other guy (below) needs some serious file management and registry lessons :::: Formatting is for new disks !!!!!

You're definitely way better than I would be at disassembling/re-assembling. I'd still be here scratching my head wondering why I had all these parts left over

I'm better at the dreaded reformatting than I am with the hardware. Of my two PC's, I've reformatted both probably 5 or 6 times apiece. I just got done reformatting my little 386 again. Re-installed DOS 5.02, upgraded to DOS 6.22, re-installed Windows 3.11 (without any frills - it has precious little hard drive space), reloaded WinZip 16-bit so I could get Internet Explorer 3 (has its own dialer + small download), complete with WinZip &amp; Flash plug-ins installed, re-installed Calmira so I could have the look and feel of Win95/98, and re-installed MoreSpace 16-bit, so I could get rid of duplicate files from the DOS upgrade Then I ran DRVSPACE to compress everything, and MEMMAKER to optimize the memory, and I'm good to go Connected to the internet when I was all done, came here, but because I couldn't see half the text and it was slower than snail sh*t, I didn't stick around

I need a way to speed that d*mned thing up


It works though....... -kd5-

 

[bonkers325]

<< Killbat...Yer a trip !!!!!!

This other guy (below) needs some serious file management and registry lessons :::: Formatting is for new disks !!!!!

You're definitely way better than I would be at disassembling/re-assembling. I'd still be here scratching my head wondering why I had all these parts left over

I'm better at the dreaded reformatting than I am with the hardware. Of my two PC's, I've reformatted both probably 5 or 6 times apiece. I just got done reformatting my little 386 again. Re-installed DOS 5.02, upgraded to DOS 6.22, re-installed Windows 3.11 (without any frills - it has precious little hard drive space), reloaded WinZip 16-bit so I could get Internet Explorer 3 (has its own dialer + small download), complete with WinZip &amp; Flash plug-ins installed, re-installed Calmira so I could have the look and feel of Win95/98, and re-installed MoreSpace 16-bit, so I could get rid of duplicate files from the DOS upgrade Then I ran DRVSPACE to compress everything, and MEMMAKER to optimize the memory, and I'm good to go Connected to the internet when I was all done, came here, but because I couldn't see half the text and it was slower than snail sh*t, I didn't stick around

I need a way to speed that d*mned thing up


It works though....... -kd5- >>



haha 386
wth

 

[damocles]

That's pretty impressive stuff

 

[Budman]

<< When asked what he?d like to do next, he said, ?A job would be nice.?
Well, being ?America?s Fastest Geek? can?t look bad on the resume.
There was no official word when or if Abreu will have to defend his title. >>




[*]America?s Fastest Geek doesnt even have a job.

 

[dowxp]

'course not. =)