We’ve levelled up! Overclockers UK Turns 25 This Year!!
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Officially making me feel old now !!
Soldato
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21 years ago I joined the forums.
18 years ago I started working at OCUK
Almost 11 years since I left OCUK as an employee.
I was there for almost 8 years myself in the purchasing team.
How things have changed during that time.
Gibbo left, Gibbo went to a competitor, and then to another competitor, Gibbo came back.
Slackworth left.
Mark sold the business. Caseking took over.
I left the business.
NathWrath left the business.
Sadly Mark passed away.
RJKoneill left the business.
18 years ago I started working at OCUK
Almost 11 years since I left OCUK as an employee.
I was there for almost 8 years myself in the purchasing team.
How things have changed during that time.
Gibbo left, Gibbo went to a competitor, and then to another competitor, Gibbo came back.
Slackworth left.
Mark sold the business. Caseking took over.
I left the business.
NathWrath left the business.
Sadly Mark passed away.
RJKoneill left the business.
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Caporegime
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I was there in '99, Pete Radford and Mark Proudfoot who founded the company. Was tucked inside Millennium Computers (Pete's company) at the Fenton Retail Park and just grew and grew from there
Walked through the door on the opening day and bought this for £450 and a £150 SCSI card to control it - https://www.anandtech.com/show/240/2
Funnily enough I can remember it as fields, I used to live in Mason Street and there is still a part of it there.
When I was about 9 me and two cousins accidentally set fire to the fields and five Fire Engines attended.
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Woof, site must've been under a year old when I first started lusting after components for my dedicated Counterstrike pc build all the way back then. I think I even got my Voodoo3-2000 from Overclockers, although I can't remember if that was AGP or PCI at the time. I do remember scrounging all the other parts from old PC Markets up near Tottenham Court Road when those markets still had some great bargains to be had. Like so many others, feeling old now!
Level 24: Save Big and Upgrade in the New Year
I want to save big at OCUK. Show it to me
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Congrats, been 18 years since I joined the forums and I think I had used the site previous to that. Just as I really got into online gaming (and earning my own money to spend)
Interesting rides at OC Ace Modder...what's with all the leaving and some returning?
Thanks for sharing.
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Only Gibbo left and came back, I think most people on this forum knows about that, but I guess for the reasoning that's not for me to discuss, Gibbo if he wishes can answer.
Cheers Ace Modder. In retrospect I should not have asked.
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It's cool, no problems
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I remember the early cpu offering of a celeron 300 clocked at 450.
My first cpu from ocuk was an Athlon slot A
My first cpu from ocuk was an Athlon slot A
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Had one of those, a 300A. Great cpu!
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I remember running wintune at a Lan party and it was as quick my pals Pentium 2 450.
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