How did you find Anandtech?

[amcdonald]

I used AT for hardware advice for a while... when I had more specific questions I joined the forum to ask them after lurking for a bit.

 

[dquan97]

My brother (millionairenextdoor) suggested this and FW. Been lurking a while too

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: edro13
HardOCP banned me for saying a bad joke, so I searched Google for "Computer forums".

somehow this freak of nature got me hooked. the freak of nature part is explained in my sig...

 

[Kenazo]

I came here when some other forum went belly up. can't remember the name though. something about gamer, or gamers or something. This was back in 1999

 

[gistech1978]

i was troubleshooting my first build and a friend recommended i look around on AT.

 

[jaynonymous]

A friend recommended that I check it out, so I did.

 

[markjrubin]

Buy.com Hitachi monitor fiasco.

 

[datdamkid]

My bro

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Someone on the hardocp forums mentioned it...so I came here. They deleted their off-topic and P&N sections, so I have stayed here and only go back there for hot deals.

 

[rh71]

IIRC, Hardwarecentral forum members.

 

[azazyel]

I was taking a A+ cert class and we had a guest speaker who mentioned the site so I came here for advise on building my first computer. Been off and on ever since.

 

[aolj]

Originally posted by: markjrubin
Buy.com Hitachi monitor fiasco.

Also from reading on articles from agn3d.com

RIP agn3d.com

 

[saxophonoia]

one of my friends told me about it

 

[Shivatron]

Looking for info on a Compaq 2800 notebook (the first notebook to ship with a Radeon 9000 FWIW).

 

[Squisher]

USENET, where it really is where it's at.

'96, I read Anandtech for almost a year and then was shocked when Anand posted he was going for his driving test.

 

From the VWVortex forums...people kept mentioning it for computer questions.

 

[Aharami]

found it thru word of mouth in fall 2001, when i was asking my friends where i can research on how to build a computer

 

[maziwanka]

found it when searching for hot deals via a friend.

 

[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. . .)

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: edro13
HardOCP banned me for saying a bad joke, so I searched Google for "Computer forums".

somehow this freak of nature got me hooked. the freak of nature part is explained in my sig...

pwned.

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

my RA (siberiantiger) suggested this. I didn't believe it at first so I lurked for a while before coming out.

I wonder where he is now..

-MiND

 

[CraigRT]

Friend linkified me... was looking at hardware reviews for something and ended up on the forums

 

[MartyMcFly3]

FallenHero told me about it

 

[Ausm]

Found it in '98 after Tom's Hardware website pissed me off

Sysadmin

 

[Sid59]

read an article about two ATI graphic cards. one was OEM rebadge built my ATI and the other built by ATI .. it was a revelation.