Hmmm.. I honestly don't remember. I started reading the reviews, and then found my way into the GH forums..
Not sure how I initially found it though.
Not sure how I initially found it though.
DivideBYZero
Lifer
- May 18, 2001
- 24,117
- 2
- 0
was looking for a good preview of a radeon 9700pro.
just after anand's review was written, i was so impressed, i bought it nearly a week after it was launched, when i still had the 1ghz pentium 3 - VERRRRRRYYYYY proud with it. Twas the 1st model to arrive in Malta (i was in NY on holiday, and just as the store had stocked them, i went for it. I had beat shipments to Malta by 3 weeks
)
just after anand's review was written, i was so impressed, i bought it nearly a week after it was launched, when i still had the 1ghz pentium 3 - VERRRRRRYYYYY proud with it. Twas the 1st model to arrive in Malta (i was in NY on holiday, and just as the store had stocked them, i went for it. I had beat shipments to Malta by 3 weeks
)I found this site through another forum which ceased to exist a few years ago. It was just after the Hitachi monitor fiasco at buy.com and the advent of the WMC.
I, too, have been around for a while........I've got an apostrophe in my nick which you cannot do any longer.
I, too, have been around for a while........I've got an apostrophe in my nick which you cannot do any longer.
moshquerade
No Lifer
- Nov 1, 2001
- 61,504
- 12
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It was highly recommended by Jean Andrews, in her book, Upgrade and Repair.
ISBN 1-59200-112-2, I would recommend this book to any other newbie.
I read Anand's story about this sight and was impressed, as if that means anything.
Me being impressed that is!
ISBN 1-59200-112-2, I would recommend this book to any other newbie.
I read Anand's story about this sight and was impressed, as if that means anything.
Me being impressed that is!
Found mine from a poll at newegg asking which review site you go to. I saw Tom's Hardware(knew about it) and Anandtech and wondered how it was. Liked it and chose to stick around.
i was on the crappy forums over at cnet.com , askin about vid cards, someone pointed me in the direction of a video card line up review. ithen made my way over to general hardware and got some more opinions [better then cnet] then i kind of stayed here, and ventured into OT about a year later
I want to say the Fortune magazine article, with Anand, his gf and the BMW. I think so at least, I don't remember.
I was chilling out when a troublemaker wouldn't leave me alone. I later learned he was an AT member. :Q Hehehe! I'm kidding!
Really though, a classmate introduced me to the hot deals forum during class. I was in my CS/Maths class. It was usually boring, and I did my work by myself. So I usually used the chance to navigate the 'net. I was in search of hot deals at that time, but I never visited forums. I just used sites that listed coupon offers. I mean, I had seen the "forum" option on Anandtech.com, but I wasn't on AT's main site to do some chatting or posting. I was there to see reviews of computer hardware and how to build a PC. I had no idea that they also had hot deal sections. So one day, I noticed that my classmate was navigating AT forums, hot deal section. I asked him what the site was about. He explained to me. Then I started to lurk, since I really hadn't seen deals I was interested in at that time. Suddenly the Bolt fiasco happened. So I registered and chimed in. I have my skateboard reward still sitting in my garage (Bolt had given us credits to be used toward a purchase). Other members who bought the product said it was inferior and overpriced, so I'm a little reluctant to try out with the skateboard. My preference would have been for the cd player instead (they had overpriced and too few items), but it's all good since I later got a cd player for free from OfficeMax.
Anyway, that's how I found the AT forums. I eventually branched out of the hot deal business, since I got all of the parts I wanted at really cheap prices. Now I just participate in OT for the most part.
Really though, a classmate introduced me to the hot deals forum during class. I was in my CS/Maths class. It was usually boring, and I did my work by myself. So I usually used the chance to navigate the 'net. I was in search of hot deals at that time, but I never visited forums. I just used sites that listed coupon offers. I mean, I had seen the "forum" option on Anandtech.com, but I wasn't on AT's main site to do some chatting or posting. I was there to see reviews of computer hardware and how to build a PC. I had no idea that they also had hot deal sections. So one day, I noticed that my classmate was navigating AT forums, hot deal section. I asked him what the site was about. He explained to me. Then I started to lurk, since I really hadn't seen deals I was interested in at that time. Suddenly the Bolt fiasco happened. So I registered and chimed in. I have my skateboard reward still sitting in my garage (Bolt had given us credits to be used toward a purchase). Other members who bought the product said it was inferior and overpriced, so I'm a little reluctant to try out with the skateboard. My preference would have been for the cd player instead (they had overpriced and too few items), but it's all good since I later got a cd player for free from OfficeMax.
Anyway, that's how I found the AT forums. I eventually branched out of the hot deal business, since I got all of the parts I wanted at really cheap prices. Now I just participate in OT for the most part.
I had a smokin 486 running at 25mhz, and wanted to upgrade it so my son could play educational games with it. Stumbled across the link to anandtech in the newsgroups. Anand was 15 years old at the time.
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