New to OC and looking for help

Samantha1968 · 21 Nov 2014 at 04:35

Im new to the forums and also new to Overclocking in general. i have a thread in hardware Overclocking and cooling so any help would be great.

im 46 and retired early. i was a programmer and used the older languages of cobol , pascal and standard basic. wrote my first program at the age of 12 . started work at age 18 as a computer software support person and self taught hardware support.

Now age 46 and old age and bad memory caused me to forget most of my programing skills. still tinker with laptops and pc's and do repairs for friends.

Looking to learn about overclocking as i have a old system and not ready to buy a new one yet so want to push my old lga775 motherboard/processor and graphics to its limits.

so thats the basics on me and look forward to reading forums to learn and hopefully get some answers to my questions.

Sam.

DaleTheWhale · 21 Nov 2014 at 16:21

Welcome, Welcome.

Be wary of General Discussion.

AshenEdge · 21 Nov 2014 at 18:16

Hi Sam, you've come to the right place

I'm sure you'll find the answers you need on the forum! The collective knowledge here is amazing just it occasionally requires filtering

user100monkey · 22 Nov 2014 at 10:03

welcome

I got to comment on the fact that your retired at 46!
congrats man!
very jealous!

ccorey · 24 Nov 2014 at 06:43

Welcome

russell664 · 25 Nov 2014 at 16:44

Welcome.

Yes, be very wary of General Discussion.

rickjames · 26 Nov 2014 at 11:01

46? You're so lucky.

emmalopez · 26 Nov 2014 at 13:45

Welcome Hope you can get what you are looking for

Samantha1968 · 7 Feb 2015 at 00:51

thanks for welcome. will be needing help to get me back upto speed on IT available. i am planning on building a second PC system and have made a poost in hardware general forum. so far been given a couple of specifications to work with.

Yes retired early , health reasons but it ,means time at home to learn about overclocking and best pc structure to build and learn from everyone here. more i learn the better.

Swagger187 · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:20

Welcome to the forums. 46 should be my target. Got 22 years to work my butt off then

FishPolice · 20 Mar 2015 at 21:24

Retired at 46? Wow, you must be a damn fine programmer!
45 yrs old here and not even bought a house yet, let alone set up a pension...

Samantha1968 · 23 Mar 2015 at 13:55

FishPolice said:
Retired at 46? Wow, you must be a damn fine programmer!
45 yrs old here and not even bought a house yet, let alone set up a pension...

was a good programmer. started writing programs at age of 12. first day at university they said try anything on the terminals of the mainframe. i crashed the entire mainframe within ten minutes. lol stupid system was such a simple modem request that had not been blocked to new users.

i forgot most things now but would like to re-learn them all just need to get editing and compiler software.

retired due to health not wealth unfortunately. lol
but im doing fine.