How did you find Anandtech?

[TommyVercetti]

Cosmo did a profile on internet hotties, and Anand's site was listed in his profile.

 

[sash1]

my brother

`K

 

[jacob0401]

My FS/FT ventures initally brought me to AT because it had the quickest moving FS/FT forum. I didn't post much for about 2 years even though I had registered. Started posting a lot more about a year ago when I found OT...

 

[stev0]

i was having problems getting my tyan s2460/dual 1.4 tbirds going and a friend directed me to the mobo forum here. i ventured to the case/cooling forum and eventually found my home here

btw that system is still running rock solid to this day

 

[Voip]

Jmmsbnd007 told me about it.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: beyonddc
My friend told me about this board's HotDeals section.
That was probably 4 1/2 years ago.

 

[DT4K]

I was in a computer architecture class when I was going to school for my CS degree. My teacher was really into building his own computers and he showed us AT as one of the places he looked for hardware reviews. After taking that class, and discovering the fun of gaming (Quake 2) from a guy I worked for, I decided to build my own computer and started reading all the AT articles. Didn't even realize there were forums until quite a while after that.

 

[brentkiosk]

Searched for motherboard reviews or hardware reviews or something. Didn't find the forums until months later.

 

[PowerMacG5]

I was reading an article in one of those computer magazines, either PC Magazine, PC World, you get the idea; and it mentioned something about a good website for computer hardware review. So I found anandtech.com, and a few months later discovered the forums and registered.

 

[Jackhammerz]

Minendo told me about it one night while drinkin at the bars. He told me to pretty much join it or call myself a biotch the rest of my life.

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: minendo
Roommate showed me Hot Deals.

 

[magomago]

When I was in 6th garde (I'm a freshman in college now) we got these "time for Kids"...and on the last page there was a "Kid who is really smart" kind of thing...something about how he ran his own site and knew everything about the site. His name was like Anand or something, and he added "tech" to his name. That was the first recollection I have of this site.

Then I remember back in 9th grade wanting to do a serach for my Luckystar mobo...b/c something was messed up with it (500mhz k6-2). I somehow remembered the word "anandtech" and typed it in, and poof! It existed. I registered and asked my question but I never posted beyond the scope of my question

Then 2 years ago I went to build a pc, and thinking I was the greatest at pcs, and I came to this site and I registered and BAM my comp knowledge skyrockted (I initially remembered hearing crap like "northbridge" "kt333" and i was freaked out b/c I had no idea what was going on- its amazing how much you learn by just READING)

so that is it ^^ been here since then...all because of a 5 sentence article in a magazine designed to influence kids to purchase "Time" when they become adults

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Searching for one of the parts in my computer to find an AT review on it

 

[Gravity]

Geek friend pointed me here. I'll never forgive him.

 

[Perknose]

Winding through the web, learning about overclocking the sweet Celly 300 got me started and landed me at the FS/FT forum of the late, legendary and long lamented AGN.

It was a short slide here to Anand's, where most AGN'ers had dual membership anyway.

 

[Taggart]

Bluesnews!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle
I found AT when I was shopping for a replacement for my 'ol 486. I was reading newsgroups and found Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. Both sites were invaluable resources, but AT was more interesting to me because it was US-based and it was all written by a smart 16 year old kid (Anand!) who really understood PCs, and obviously loved to tinker with them.

Thanks to AT, I ended up with the famous Abit BH6 + Celeron 300 @ 450. Later got a 566 + slotket and ran that sucker at 850, but I still ran that BH6 until last spring (when the MB finally died due to some dried/burst electrolytics).

I also suggested the same BH6 + Celeron 300 to a dude at work who was building his first system to play games on. He was happy as hell when it booted up at 450, and thanked me for helping him get an extra $250 worth of performance for nothing more than the slightly higher cost of the BH6 over a different motherboard. (I wonder if that one is still running. . .)

hah, I bought a Celeron 300a BH6 combo, and then a celeron 533a (to run at 800) after reading about them on anand ...

 

[arcenite]

i forget

 

[suklee]

I dont even remember.. it was THAT long ago.

 

[Dufman]

i was looking for proc reviews for a class...at the time it was the 400mhz celery. i started lurking here, then decided to join a little over a year ago.

 

[Ferocious]

Too long ago to remember.

Been here since the old board in 1998.

 

[thomsbrain]

beats me. it was a long time ago. i was an avid reader long before i ventured to the forums.

 

[JoeKing]

I think Tom of toms hardware mentioned him once in an articel a loooooooong (<-- check it out its a long, long)time ago

 

[xSauronx]

i think i followed a slashdot link to some review here, not certain, but im pretty sure it was /.

 

[LordMagnusKain]

a friend named Jay Patel told me about the K6-3 review, I think he liked the idea of another indian techey about our age doint something important.

I think Tom of toms hardware mentioned him once in an articel a loooooooong

that's horible.