I only joined this website because

[clamum]

My brother had joined in 1999, a few years before I ended up joining. I'd see him on it a lot and thought it (the forums mainly) were interesting/funny so I eventually joined.

 

[rudeguy]

I joined to get laid.

Worked great.

 

[lozina]

I joined to get laid.

Worked great.

:hmm: Is your ass still sore?

 

[rudeguy]

:hmm: Is your ass still sore?

what kind of sick fuck are you?



(you busy later?)

 

[02ranger]

I just had a computer problem and a friend of mine used this forum a lot. Now I read ATOT just about daily, even if I don't post that often..................

 

[Jaskalas]

PC hardware reviews.

 

[Miramonti]

Back in the day, I'd switch my browser to anandtech.com when someone walked by so they wouldn't catch me looking at porn. :sneaky:

What's your story?

I joined because at a job a while back, I'd frequently pass this guy in the office that was always browsing the forums. He seemed so excited in the process, almost drooling on his keyboard, that I thought they must be some great forums so I joined.

 

[rudeguy]

I joined because at a job a while back, I'd frequently pass this guy in the office that was always browsing the forums. He seemed so excited in the process, almost drooling on his keyboard, that I thought they must be some great forums so I joined.

Then you found out he was only looking at the forums because you came by and he had to hide his porn?

 

[Ken g6]

I was looking for Distributed Computing help, and this site's forum was nicer than the 3DNow! forum.

 

[natto fire]

hot deals circa 1999.

Forgot about Hot Deals. There was a time when every single T-Shirt I owned was from a free giveaway, the good old days...

 

[iGas]

<-- was interested in OSes, OCing, and ran into a nice kid (Anand) that needed some help with OCing in 1997 at The Brother Hood of the CPU.

 

[Humpy]

I joined the forum as part of a plot by another forum to scat porn bomb ATOT. The conspiracy was exposed before it happened but I realized this place was even more decrepit than the other so I stayed.

 

[norseamd]

my computer blew up

 

[Miramonti]

Then you found out he was only looking at the forums because you came by and he had to hide his porn?

Yes! The guy eventually got caught looking at horses being compromised by really short nude people and got fired. Sometime in the last year or two I heard he showed up on these forums again as a wwybywb but can't confirm that.

 

[SlickSnake]

Because I had just bought a Voodoo 5 5500 and installed it in a new MOBO, and the POS video card immediately burned out my MOBO. I replaced the MOBO and video card, and the same exact thing happened again. So I came here first, to presumably get advice and report the problems, and then got called every conceivable name in the PC nerds playbook by a bunch of utter morons who camped out in the video card forums, and still seem to camp out there to this day.

So I went over to Tom's Hardware, and basically cut and pasted the same exact post I used here that enraged all the mentally challenged drooling fanboys so much, and Tom himself took an interest in my post, and proceeded to duplicate my results burning out several MOBOs and video cards several times.

I still wonder where was ANAND at the time, and why was he completely ignoring his tech forums and leaving all the rabid fan boy trolls in charge while he spammed his paid glowing reviews of the very same video card. Unless that explains why the trolls were in charge. And it seems some things just never change around here. Which is also why I still never go into the video card section and post, and I completely ignore most of the other hardware areas, as well.

So I didn't post here again until 2007 when I was bored one day. And the rest as they say, is history.

 

[pete6032]

Futuremark forums died.

 

[MongGrel]

Have a few places I visit.

I like the people here in general good enough ?

 

[DT4K]

I was building a computer and needed help. I didn't touch the social forums for years

This.
I was in my first year as a CS student. Some friends had introduced me to Quake and a couple other FPS's and my old Compaq wasn't cutting it, so I decided to build my first computer. One of my CS teachers was a hardware enthusiast and listed anandtech as a good place to look at hardware reviews. Before that, I had no idea there were websites dedicated to stuff like that.

My Join Date says 2002, but I actually joined in 99 or 00. I can't remember why my date changed. I'm pretty sure I didn't get banned for asking which video card to buy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Wanted a new computer. Took me two years after joining until I finally built it. Stopped caring about hardware and started using this place as a primary off topic foruming source shortly later.

 

[Markbnj]

Back in the day, I'd switch my browser to anandtech.com when someone walked by so they wouldn't catch me looking at porn. :sneaky:

Back in the day, lol. I joined in 2005 and the 1999ers still won't let me in the secret forumz.

I signed up because I was building a new system for the first time in a few years. I didn't leave because I'm lazy and this beats work.

 

[Paratus]

Decided to build my first computer at the ripe old age of 29.

Been looking at computer parts and sites for the last couple of weeks and thought I join Anand as it looks like an excellent site

I've been getting away from big corp built computers for awhile now, started with a Dell 486 and P90 in college and went to a little shop built PIII 500 100FSB with 384MB ram, 32MB ATI Rage Fury, 10G WD HD, and both a DVD Rom, and CD-RW drives back in Jan 2000 which is still my current desktop. Needless to say its time to upgrade and I think I can do a better job putting together a computer than Dell or others. (ex my PIII blew a capacitor out of the PS)

I need a new machine for web surfing, e-mail, office stuff,image editing, the occasional game (when I'm not busy with my honey do list), and I liked to get into some video and multimedia stuff. I'm aiming for around $1000.00 of hardware.

So without further ado here's what I found at newegg and searching places like Anand, THG(don't shoot please ), Hexus, Sharkey, and others:

Chip: Intel 2.8C HT 800 FSB
MoBo: ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe - finally found a review of this new board here
Case: CoolerMaster Praetorian Black PAC-T01-EK
Video: ASUS ATI Radeon 9600XT TVD (comes with VIVO)
PS: Coolmax 400W Black CX-400B Taurus Silent Power Supply
H WD 120GB SATA 7200RPM, 8mb Cache
Cooling: Stock Intel HSF / Arctic Silver 5 / Vantec Nexus NXP-201 Fan Controller
OS: WinXP Pro
Memory: 512mb (256mb x 2)Geil Golden Dragon PC3500/DDR433
OP Drive: Lite On Black 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive
Thats about $1000 on newegg minus the OS

I'm looking for some recomendations on the whole thing and also specifically the ram and optical drives.

I'd like 1GB or at least 512mb of decent high speed ram with good (not necessarily great timings) so I can do some small overclocks . If for budget reasons I only get 512 now, (256 x 2) can I get another 2 sticks for 1 GB latter and still do at least %10 overclock?

With the Optical drives I'd really like a cheap DVD ROM and decent 8x DVD burner with dual layer support but its probably not in the budget right now. I'll most likely get the combo drive and get the DVD burner later.



Your thoughts would be welcome.

Thanks,
Paratus

Ended up with 3.2 GHz Prescott. 1 GB of Corsair 2-2-2 DDR 400

I'm still using the case

 

[RossMAN]

Hot Deals when the forum was actually thriving, miss the good 'ole days.

Does anyone remember this fiasco? http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=510689

 

[Mai72]

I wanted to make friends and to be part of a loving family.

 

[alkemyst]

Work Safe Forum is all. Now not so much, but I don't need to worry since I work out of my home office and consult now.

 

[Mixolydian]

I joined for ATOT only.

Stumbled across it in a google search and liked what I saw.