What was your first visit to OcUk for?

Aliboy · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:32

It has just dawned on my that my first visit to these delightful forums was to get some techie help after being recommended by a friend and I've found myself coming back ever since. I don't even visit the cooling section anymore

. God I loved all that geeky talk. For a while I was actually learning about stuff

I'm not sure how to do a poll but I reckon that would be the easiest way to do it if someone could point me in the right direction

Al

OriginalJonty · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:33

My housemate was always browsing these forums so I decided to see what the fuss was about.

Meatball · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:34

Advice on a computer spec

. Since then I've been hooked.

OriginalJonty said:
My housemaid was always browsing these forums so I decided to see what the fuss was about.

You should have attended the needs of your housemaid first

Brian8bit · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:34

Someone said it was full of racists and circle jerking. So I jumped right in.

Aliboy · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:35

OriginalJonty said:
My housemaid was always browsing these forums so I decided to see what the fuss was about.

You mean girlfriend really don't you OJ

Margaret · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:35

Aliboy · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:37

Margaret said:
Porn

You didn't see the letter 'L' in the forum name at first did you Margaret

OriginalJonty · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:40

Aliboy said:
You mean girlfriend really don't you OJ

Typo fail. Meant housemate. If he was my girlfriend then there'd a lot of questions! Don't think his girlfriend would appreciate that.

TFleming · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:43

The old random picture thread i'd seen at a mates

Biohazard · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:43

Not sure if it was members market, a gold finger, or it was to look at a thread with a watercooled Geforce 256 (or 2) including memory waterblock - rare or first at the time iirc. Actually I think that was off another forum, HWC, not sure. Which by the looks of it has totally died given it was busy place at the turn of the century.

Lopéz · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:45

To the Forum: Looking for advice on overclocking a Duron 800

To the shop itself: A meal with Spie and the other Dons. It was a bloody awesome night to be honest :cool:

Cosimo · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:50

It happened to be to guess what, the overclocking forum looking for advice then quite a few years of lurking and finally I joined.

RJC · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:54

Joined after some one asked a question regards lagging on there chilled system.

Previously just looking around.

RDM · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:55

I have absolutely no idea.

Pawnless Endgame · 18 Jan 2011 at 18:58

Seems like everyone replying here have used the boards first. I used the shop first, brought a Shuttle rig in late 2003. A few more visits, then I saw a hyperlink to the boards, then first involvement here was some time in the middle of 2004.

BloodyL · 18 Jan 2011 at 19:00

I found the shop before the forum, bought an OcUK Duron 650@900 / Asus A7V kit and haven't looked back since!

sven256 · 18 Jan 2011 at 19:04

I was on another forum and they had a joking link, to a advert on the ocuk shop site.

In the time of 56kbps internet, they had a memory advertisement on saying in effect memory as fast as the internet.

Charlie Bravo · 18 Jan 2011 at 19:06

The Overclocking Store forums were closing down so I needed somewhere to reside.
The OCS and OcUK lot didn't get along but we got a warm welcome when we became homeless

arc@css · 18 Jan 2011 at 19:08

A PC shop I used to go for my parts had an account iirc with these guys and I think one of the engineers knew someone in an OCUK clan, remember having a brief chat with him, whoever he was, on de_port. Anyway, years went by and one day when I was getting ready to upgrade my rig and I thought 'I know!'.

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2011 at 19:09

Before it was OCUK it was called Millennium and I was one of the first people through the door.
I bought a 4x Yamaha SCSI CD writer that cost £450 and a £150 SCSI card to go with it.
I bought 10 disks at £5 each.