when did you 1st use ocuk....

[bigmike20vt]

and why did you stay with them?.

i must admit i dont get all my stuff from here, however i *think* 1st used them back in late 99 i think it was for a then brand new cutting edge geforce 256DDR , it was after *competitor!* had peed me off.

the thing which made me use them (they were not the cheapest) was that i had initially phoned their tech support asking about some other piece of hardware - dunno what it was - and i kid you not, the guy on the phone said

actually i know sod all about it, but my mate works at a computer shop down the road, so he puts me on hold for 5 mins, and then comes back with the info i wanted, even tho they didnt sell the product.

I must admit, i know people who claim to have issues with ocuk tech support, but i never had (but then i REALLY rate *competitor!* as well so go figure )

*its possible i am confused on that but i would say 80% sure*

 

[bigmike20vt]

Back when i bought an AMD Duron... was it duron.. i cant remember. but it was about 800mhz anyway

i got a duron 750 off them.

guranteed to 950mhz!!! wooooo cutting edge stuff.

ps sorry for mentioning that "other" company.

 

[bigmike20vt]

I shopped at ocuk before it was called ocuk!!!!!

me to i just cant be ar$sed typing overclockers

 

[bigmike20vt]

no I mean when it was millenium computers, prob about 10 years ago!

oooooo before my time then.

 

[bigmike20vt]

That musta been what i was thinking, im sure mine was Guaranteed to 1ghz or something. I might be wrong.

Either way, that was a long time ago!, was in a Bundle with an Asus motherboard

prolly was 800 > 1ghz, my mate got the 800 > 1ghz in the same order i got the 750.

there was a BIG price jump to hit the highs of 1ghz and i didnt think i needed it. (was to upgrade my trusty celeron 366 on my dual cpu BP6 mobo - total waste as never used the 2nd chip)

i got mine with an abit board..... it was in the era of the "bad caps" i dunno if you remember that cockup (nowt to do with ocuk) but after 2 years or so, the board failed to to all the caps leaking.

spoke with abit who offered to fix for £40 + vat which narked me somewhat as it was clear all over the web that they were substandard parts. i HAVE used abit stuff since but no where near what i used to.

incidently it seems my memory may have been wrong. Just read an interesting thread on the history of ocuk / millenium computers (waiting for a couple of dl dvd to burn hence my mass of posts at mo)

but it looks like 99 was before overclockers were actully overclockers.

 

[bigmike20vt]

i think it was a celeron 300 that was overclockable to 500mhz - something like that - was that this place? i can't remember.

ahhh the good old days of the celeron 300 - 450mhz

happy days (mind you i guess the core chips are not a million miles from that if you are lucky)

according to google that is the chip that got the ball rolling for ocuk.

 

[bigmike20vt]

Twas back in the day. Like a few others I bought a bundle containing a 800Mhz Duron overclockable to 1Ghz. It came with a Abit KT7A-Raid mobo and a Thermoengine heatsink - that thermoengine was a beast!
Although if anyone else remembers the thermo was one of the ones that didn't have the drilled out core (unlike the early ones - mine just had a stamp to make it look like it was drilled) so my cooling performance was not as 1337 as it should have been!

KT7a raid, that was my board i got with my D750 > 950 as well.

how long did it last? am guessing it would have been from the same era as mine with the crappy caps onboard

 

[bigmike20vt]

cool, it seems they wernt all so bad then. it wasnt just 1 cap which leaked on mine, iirc 9 were eitehr leaking or very swollen....

but i digress.

i hope to be making a new order from ehre soon, as soon as i have my edecorating done