What was your first visit to OcUk for?

Heard about overclocking, wanted in. Joined quite a few sites (The Overclocking Store was one of them as well before they closed), bought from OcUK ages ago now!
 
I use to go down overclockers a lot when it was in Fenton I think it was for a Radion 9800 pro. Man it was a huge leap in graphics for me back then.

I don't go the new store much now as it's out of the way if your a walker.
 
Building my first gaming computer and getting advice and reading about various PC related stuff. Now I just browse GD, Sports and Music/TV/Books.
 
Dunno about my first visit, but from my Joined date, I figured that my first post must have been something to do with my 939Dual-SATA2 build. That motherboard lasted me from 2006 to 2010 and I would have probably still been using it now if it hadn't been for its BIOS chip size limitation not allowing updates for 45nm CPUs. Single best piece of PC hardware I have ever purchased.

Anyway - it's relatively easy for most of us to see our first few posts. Just do an advanced search by your user name and set post date to ascending order.

Here was mine:

Uriel said:
Hello all, have been lurking a while. Finally upgraded my box with one of these motherboards and an DH-E6 venice 3000+ at the weekend.

So far, very pleased. My old motherboard (or maybe CPU) had become nightmarishly unstable. It was one of the pre-400fsb nforce 2s, an MSI K7N2G-L. I'd been running it with an XP3200+. It had been fine for a few months but I think the motherboard just wouldn't take it in the longer term. I ended up having to run the CPU at XP2500+ speeds just to get something approaching stability.

Anyway, have been running everything at stock so far. It's rock stable and I'm very pleased. All my directx games used to crash regularly but no crashes so far. Prime 95, looped 3dmark01 and media player looping through all my mp3s overnight didn't cause any problems either. A few things that I didn't realise were hardware problems are now fine (e.g. the KotOR2 patching process, which always used to freeze on me, now works).

Just one query: I'm getting a score of about 3000 in 3dmark 05. Is that normal for my rig? I think I used used to get about 3500 in the old setup but it's been a while since I ran it.. I'm sure it's not the AGP drivers, as there's no problem with framerates in games. Specs are below (old rig was as below but with XP3200+@XP2500+, MSI K7N2G-L and 2x512 Crucial single sided).

ASROCK 939dual SATA2
A64 3000+ DH-E6 'venice' bios rev. 1.2
Inno3D 6600GT AGP 128mb
2GB RAM (2 x 512mb single sided Crucial PC3200 + 2x512mb double sided Crucial PC3200)
Audigy 2
Hiper Type R 480w psu
WinXP Pro SP2
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Back in 2004 an old work mate of mine pointed me to the forums, after I'd shopped here. He was most uncomplimentary about the place... At the time, he may of had a point. :p

Things seem to have calmed down in the last couple of years though.
 
For me, it was advice on an overclocked AMD K7 Athlon slot A build with an Abit KA7 motherboard...

Somehow I'm still here 11 years later....
 
A friend bought a custom machine from the shop, so I went a bought a load of components, the forum just happened in-between
 
I was trying to get a build ready, although I was unable to raise enough cash and even now a year later, I still haven't brought a new computer :p

Although I only really found GD recently, so my post count is fairly low.
 
I'm pretty sure it was to ask advice on upgrading my Athlon XP, could be wrong though. :cool:

Uriel said:
Anyway - it's relatively easy for most of us to see our first few posts. Just do an advanced search by your user name and set post date to ascending order.
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Searching for my first post only goes back to 2006, I'm guessing anything prior to that has been wiped/archived. Any way to find what your first post was if you joined up in say 2004?. :confused:
 
Dunno - I joined in 2006. Figured there would have been upheavals before that though - hence "most of us".
 
Unfortunately it isn't possible to do a search for the really hardcore members, we've had god knows how many nukes of vBulletin, and I seem to remember OcUK using something like phpBB before that.
 
BloodyL said:
Unfortunately it isn't possible to do a search for the really hardcore members, we've had god knows how many nukes of vBulletin, and I seem to remember OcUK using something like phpBB before that.
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Wayback Machine might have something, although it would be quite tricky to find and obviously searching would be out of the question.
 
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