Your first post on these forums

Feek · 6 May 2020 at 10:39

Kol said:
Weird, mine keeps going and then eventually I get to one with only 14 pages and my oldest posts There must be a better way, Shirley.

OK, I did this and the earliest post I can find is from December 2002. I'd have had earlier ones but my account got screwed up and @2blue4u had to recreate it which meant that any earlier posts were lost. It was a shame because I originally had a nice lower member number.

chris_r · 6 May 2020 at 10:42

I miss how active the forum was. I remember you would post in GD, go back and it was already on page two.

Do we blame Facebook?

Deleted member 77746 · 6 May 2020 at 10:45

chris_r said:
I miss how active the forum was. I remember you would post in GD, go back and it was already on page two.

Do we blame Facebook?

Let’s blame BookFace. It’s terrible n it needs to shut down. I hate that damn place with a passion. Why did Tom from MySpace have to sell up.

Hagar · 6 May 2020 at 10:46

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/monitor-suggestions-300-budget.18120772/

Must be my first post, before I bought my hex core Thuban from here.

bakes0310 · 6 May 2020 at 11:09

should i could i

ive been thinking about overclocking my cpu from a 3.2 to maybe 3.4 or 3.5 but the problem is my cpu gets hot too quickly for example it starts at 58c then say about twenty minutes later it can get to 65-70c. From what i have heard my abit ic7 max3 reads temps 10-15c more than it really is. im an absolute newbie when it comes to overclocking anything so i will make use of the guide. I was thinking about getting the hyper 6 but that dont fit on my motherboard cause of the otes cooling. So what should i do?

December 2004

SexyGreyFox · 6 May 2020 at 11:48

mrbell1984 said:
Let’s blame BookFace. It’s terrible n it needs to shut down. I hate that damn place with a passion. Why did Tom from MySpace have to sell up.

How can you hate Facebook but like OCUK?
Is it because the posters on here are worse?

Nick1881 · 6 May 2020 at 11:54

This was my first post, made a thread for help with a new build. A friend recommended I asked here and I just never left.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/ddr-error.17688499/

Rotty · 6 May 2020 at 12:03

Feek said:
OK, I did this and the earliest post I can find is from December 2002. I'd have had earlier ones but my account got screwed up and @2blue4u had to recreate it which meant that any earlier posts were lost. It was a shame because I originally had a nice lower member number.

where do you find your member number?

i see a 381 after my username, is that it?

Feek · 6 May 2020 at 12:11

Rotty said:
i see a 381 after my username, is that it?

Yup, I was in the low teens as I was one of the team that bl00 pre-registered before the forums were opened to the masses, post nuke.

arknor · 6 May 2020 at 12:18

wont most peoples first posts have disappeared in the great forum purges, many of us have lost tens of thousands of our post count over the years

[FnG]magnolia · 6 May 2020 at 12:31

arknor said:
wont most peoples first posts have disappeared in the great forum purges, many of us have lost tens of thousands of our post count over the years

Doubtful, if I were to guess. There are Rotty and Feek's slightly unusual circumstances (Don and Com, and in from the get-go if I understand correctly) and chris_r talking about how frequent the posting was pre-nuke but he has posted 3 thousand times in 17 years which by today's standards would be a non-interested party. I think there's a mix of "I posted literally thousands of posts pre-nuke" where that is sometimes true and sometimes coloured by fond memories, and I knew it would come up which I find so interesting.

Loving the chat and memory lane walks though, bloody good work gang.

Flaevius · 6 May 2020 at 12:59

Mine is a shocker: on a 'Should I get into mining' crypto thread started by another forum member where the discussion had turned to alternative investment. I suggested looking into peer-to-peer loan platforms as a short-term way to gain some healthy interest, and afterwards cited one platform that I had a little cash in. That platform went kaboom 18 months ago in a scandal and a ton of investors have lost a significant amount of money. :eek:

I did slightly redeem myself with post 2, in the 'Covers better than originals' thread with a Chris Cornell cover of 'Billie Jean'.

Re: searching, assuming this hasn't been mentioned, the quickest way is to click your forum name in the top right > your content > the end page is displayed after pages 1-6

Fubsy · 6 May 2020 at 13:03

My first posts were in great overclocking guide for newbies back in 2004. I'd been reading the forums for a year or so before that, but hadn't become "brave" enough to join until then.

It's embarrassing reading how much of a noob I was. Think I was 16/17 around then.

dowie · 6 May 2020 at 13:05

LOL - my very first post in 2008, straight in with a strong opinion on something political:

dowie said:
I really don't like the way loans have replaced grants & loads more funding has been thrown at former polys

sending 50% of the population to Uni is a waste of time and has just encouraged softer degree courses at places that really shouldn't be allowed to call themselves universities

SexyGreyFox · 6 May 2020 at 13:11

arknor said:
wont most peoples first posts have disappeared in the great forum purges, many of us have lost tens of thousands of our post count over the years

I was one of the very first members. The former owner Pete said that Mark had created a forum and we could ask technical questions in there so I joined. It all went to poop so I rejoined.

Robzere31 · 6 May 2020 at 14:12

Robzere31 said:
Do you happen to have the batch numbers for the sticks that have died??

I RMA'ed a 1GB stick around 3 months ago, now the second stick from the 2*1GB kit seems to have gone bad.
My suspect stick is from batch CL1115J.TQ

From December 2005

Pawnless Endgame · 6 May 2020 at 14:14

My first thread in the search is showing up as a query about using macros in MS Word in 2006.

I definitely had threads and posts before 2006 though. I remember I unintentionally broke one of the house rules early on, late 2004 or early 2005. I made a thread apologising to the Dons about it. It was the rule where you can place a max size 400x75 banner in your signature, but I thought it was 400x80 as that's a more rounded size.

Rotty · 6 May 2020 at 15:08

Feek said:
Yup, I was in the low teens as I was one of the team that bl00 pre-registered before the forums were opened to the masses, post nuke.

I was too I think and i'm sure my number was pretty low too, may be 381 but I though it was in 20s or similar

Some of us were pre regged to make sure nobody tried to nick our user names iirc

Robdav · 6 May 2020 at 16:57

HEADRAT said:
I’ve been here for 20+ years, this forum has had a few incarnations along the way

this

survived the nuke lol

Greebo · 6 May 2020 at 17:12

My first post when I went back on after a break/the nuke

3DMark03 = 13113 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=3616210

I originally posted on the forums with reference to the Athlon 900 xp I bought guaranteed to run at 1.4Ghz back in 2001 I think.