What have you learned since joining the OcUk Forums

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Simple question - What have you learned about computers, that you didn't know before, since joining this forum?

Personally I haven't been here long, i've grown up with computers and have been dubbed a PC whizz but knew minimum amounts about hardware and how things ticked.

I joined at the beginning of April and in that short time i've learnt things that now make me feel confident enough that I could go out and make a working machine out of a box of bits.

Before joining, I didn't know:-

-(I knew what it was but) What watercooling systems really were, how they worked and how they were put together

-The difference between CPU sockets, compatibility of different socket CPUs on different boards

-I didn't know how to overclock, nor did i know the benefits/what actually happened when overclocking (physical changes ie. temperatures and speeds)

-What different parts actually did while working, how they helped performance and what tasks they dealt with (ie graphics cards clocks, ram timings and speeds etc.)

-I didn't have a lot of product knowledge, what's on the market, whats the top end stuff and what's the best value for money per performance margin.

-What cases had cooling benefits, ie airflow and which builds are the best builds



This is just touching on what i've learned so far, and i'd be quite interested to know what you lot have gained from being here as I feel everyone here has had some form of input of teaching one person or another, something that helped them.

Edit: - Even all you pros out there must've learned something ;)
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i ve learnt nothing as i am perfection :P.

Not really i have learnt a huge huge amonut. I went from not knowing anythign basically just presmed the more expensive the better to actually building and overclocking my own machine.

My next build which will be few years yet is going to be watercooled so hopefully i will learn a lot more about it then.
 
Ive learnt that every1 has a different opinion and will call you either an AMD noob or INTEL fan boi :)
Learnt more off here than in the last few years.
 
not to venture too deep in to the console or motors section because some of the regulars are the most obscenely arrogant **** ive ever known!


apart from that, lots. im like a technosponge.
 
Lernt a hell of a lot lol.
If pulled pc apart befor for cleaning and done simple upgrades, ram, graphics, cooling etc, installing os, but ive just built my first ever pc from scratch and im still learning a lot.
Learnt about changing voltages in ram, and how to connect things up, and how not to fear the force needed to get a bloody cpu cooling unit onto an am3 lol.
Hoping to learn about overclocking once my system is 100% stable. I got it running at 32C durring ful on gaming sessions, so hopfuly it will take a bit of overclocking :-D
 
All sorts... helped me solve problems (some I didn't even know I had :)), and I think I know a bit more about what all the different hardware does, and which bits are worth getting.
 
I' m trying not to sound massivly smug and arrogant, because really, I'm not - but as a support tech/rollout specialist/systems engineer/sysadmin/etc professionally I have, it could be said, a fairly good idea of how computers work and what makes them tick ;)

Examples include rolling out over 1000 XP machines at a london council, building custom CAD workstations for 3D rendering, rolling out 600 machines using WDS at a school - having never touched WDS for mass deployment, within six weeks the whole site was finished :eek: - etc etc. Always had a knack for machines.

However, being too busy with work, and not well enough paid, I missed out on a few years of advances in tech lately, so it's not unfair to say that lurking here, then registering and interacting, has helped refine my knowledge of current bleeding edge tech, especially the current top end hardware and cooling solutions, a hell of a lot.

I hope I have popped some knowledge back in return too, because the learning process is always a reciprocal thing - you can't take without giving a little in IT, and we all learn from each other :cool:
 
Not to break the rules or you get in trouble. And although i dont buy much from ocuk anymore this forum helped me discover the world of Custom pcs, overclocking and watercooling. For that im thankful and the main reason im still here is to give alittle back to peeps that are me a year or so ago.
 
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Lots :) Joined up in 2003 for advice about my first self-build, and since then OcUK has taught me pretty much everything I know about PCs. I'd like to think that these days that's quite a lot, and I enjoy passing that knowledge onto others :)
 
I've learnt that I'm the best at pc spec me threads. ;):D

It's a great place to keep up with what's going on in regards to latest tech.

Without it, I would be a dinosaur.
 
loads and loads, i always knew a lot about pc's, but now after joining when i was 14 in 2004 a month later i had acquired the knowledge to buildmy own pc, i did, and now im study for a it degree, if i different join ocuk i probly wouldnt have
 
That the secret to good (air) cooling is cable management. Let's face it, building a PC isn't hard, but overclocking it to within an inch of it's life takes patience, trial, error, more error and finally a large hammer - something else I learnt here :D
 
Learnt enough to home custom build and overclock the thing even though i got a F grade in computer studies a long time ago. A big thanks to all the geeks, nerds and wizards for helping me do that.
 
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