Can you remember where you were when you joined OcUK?

Pickers · 16 Sep 2023 at 21:30

I think I wanted help with a computer upgrade... then had shut downs playing doom 3... I was at uni with a comparative abundance of free time!

McBain · 16 Sep 2023 at 21:51

In my bedroom

Vidar · 17 Sep 2023 at 11:54

I was in golden hotpants and wearing nipple clamps

jklc · 17 Sep 2023 at 12:00

Not doing uni work and poking about an Athlon XP system.

RxR · 17 Sep 2023 at 12:08

Vidar said:
I was in golden hotpants and wearing nipple clamps

! ???

brummie · 17 Sep 2023 at 12:32

Researching PC components in my bedroom in 2000. Still have the receipt

Switched from Intel to AMD Athlon

Not sure what happened but i had to rejoin again later

adam cool dude · 17 Sep 2023 at 17:11

On my Tiny PC looking for GPU's. Also looking at that Pentium 3 1133 MHz CPU like it was some sort of god chip.

Super Tigers · 17 Sep 2023 at 21:51

I was looking to buy some memory with the fabled Winbond BH5 memory chips and my first purchase from OCuk was a stick of Cosair XMS 3500. I saw a link for the forums and signed up.

West · 3 Oct 2023 at 18:55

DanTheMan said:
I would have been 15 or so, living at home with my parents. I imagine the majority of my time would have been spent on MSN and playing The Myth of Soma mmo.

I originally signed up and shared the account that @West now has, back in the days when you needed an ISP email and I didn't have one.

I doubt things would have changed much when I signed up on this account a bit later.

Total thief :cry:

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Oct 2023 at 19:34

adam cool dude said:
On my Tiny PC looking for GPU's. Also looking at that Pentium 3 1133 MHz CPU like it was some sort of god chip.

Bill Gates said in the 80s that 640K was enough for anyone, so the P-III 1133 MHz was indeed a god chip

secretspy · 3 Oct 2023 at 22:03

2002, wow I'm old

(I was registered under a different name back then)

I remember OH at the time saying "you should join the forums it's brilliant"... yeah still on the fence about that

certainly not like it used to be
Was sat in our room at my parents house looking over his shoulder at the camel spider threads.
Those were the days of ICQ, playing snake on my Nokia 3310 (Which I still have at my mums somewhere) and going to rent a movie from Choices on Friday night. Ahh memories

Who was the user who used to be really good at the drawings in Paint?

BEN_UK · 3 Oct 2023 at 22:12

Pre the nuke.

2001 or maybe 2002

At college browsing the Hercules web site looking at the Geforce 2 MX cards getting ready to buy one.

There was a link on that Hercules website to OcUK and that was my first time here.

Gixer · 4 Oct 2023 at 06:20

I don't recall what my first post was however I will have joined up whilst at home probably to ask some questions about building my first PC as the PC bought from Time (think that's right ashamedly), that my brother and I bought between us, wasn't that great.

RevBillyG · 4 Oct 2023 at 07:43

I can barely remember yesterday never mind 2 decades ago.

Terminal_Boy · 4 Oct 2023 at 07:53

It was a Saturday, so I would have been sat in front of my PC in the box room of my old house in E18.

ZXSpectrum · 4 Oct 2023 at 09:13

Pre Nuke member as well.. I used to use the forums and buy from Overclockers when i worked at my old job so probably about 2000. We used to go over to the Fenton place in the tunnel. I still remember buying i believe Athlon XP 1700 (I believe that was the one that you had to drill into the top of the substrate) And an Akasa Silver Mountain cooler..

SexyGreyFox · 4 Oct 2023 at 11:08

ZXSpectrum said:
I still remember buying i believe Athlon XP 1700 (I believe that was the one that you had to drill into the top of the substrate)

There's an whole generation of users who don't know that to make chips go quicker we either drilled into them, drew on them with pencils or soldered pins together

ZXSpectrum · 4 Oct 2023 at 11:13

SexyGreyFox said:
There's an whole generation of users who don't know that to make chips go quicker we either drilled into them, drew on them with pencils or soldered pins together

Yup, now its just all "alter these settings in the bios and make sure your cooling is good enough" ... *Old man hat on* Back in the day you had to drill into the CPU to cut a tract that limited the multi or like you said use a pencil/metalic pen to get it to overclock.. Oh and on top of that the Delta Fan on the Silver Mountain cooler made ears bleed..

I guess the only comparative process now would be delidding CPUs.

RevBillyG · 4 Oct 2023 at 11:49

I remember using one of these on my Athlon

Think I bought it from OcUK.

HangTime · 4 Oct 2023 at 12:11

Kinda - I can't remember where I was when I originally signed up, but I do remember where I was when I had to re-signup following the 2002 nuke. I was in the dining room at my dad's house and getting annoyed that it kept rejecting my email address. Basically they had some policy whereby you couldn't use 'free' email addresses to signup, at the time my main email addresses were @barrysworld.com and @softhome.net which were free services. What made it worse was I don't think it even told you up front, you'd register and then get rejected hours/days later or something?
That's why my join date is a week later than most, because it took a few days of faffing about before I found an email address that was accepted.