i didn't fully install the heatsink, and used too much thermal paste.

Worked perfectly first try

Everything went really well. No problems at all except for poor cable management due to an old cheap case.

booted on first try
no software issues

didn't do a good job of cable management, though.

Athlon 1800+
MX440
40GB HDD
350w PSU
52x CD

Pretty good. Didn't upgrade for 5 years.

Perfectly because I installed Red Hat Linux on it.

Oh god she left the PSU plugged in.

No one has ever

>Fried anything with static
>Permanently broken anything while building
>Got a windows bluescreen
>Had a good reason to not use Windows

>>23731952

Yes, it keeps the computer grounded, eliminating the need for a wrist strap.

Have you ever repaired a computer?

>>23731996
that computer doesn't have a master switch, meaning it's still powered
it's safer to risk the shock

>installed heatsink wrong (one clip not attached)
>no case fans, cause I didn't have fan screws, only regular screws
>couldn't put the case cover back on or it'd crash
>wrong RAM speed, wouldn't boot till I bought new RAM
>Got a P3-933 instead of a half-the-price and faster Athlon Tbird
>got 768MB of replacement RAM, at great expense, to run Win98

I was a fucking retard

I learned not to cheap out on your motherboard or PSU.
Yep. Random crashes and exploding caps everywhere.

>2012
>conducting static electricity

i srslysrslysrsly

My first PC.... stopped working after I re-assembled it for no reason. I may have been 7 years old at the time.

Fine. Mostly. I sort of dropped my psu on the corner of my graphics card. I slowed the fall but it impacted pretty hard. I think it was ok.

Also, after I finished building it

>hit power button
>nothing happens
>"FUCK...oh wait, I forgot the flip the psu switch"
>hit power button again
>nothing happens
>"FUCK, oh wait, I didn't turn the power outlet on.

I forgot to plug in the 8-pin cpu power connector....

>all went fine
>hit the power button, nothing
>had a "fuck, fuck, fuck" moment
>i hadnt plugged the power button in

i was working at a small office that was doing computer builds and had a lot of customers ... i had small hardware experience when i started ... fucked up 3 or 4 builds `till i learned how to correct plug the pins for reset sw and leds and shit ...

>>23732094
FP connectors are my mortal enemy.

>>23732109
LEDs can go either way.

>>23732079 I forgot to plug in the 8-pin cpu power connector....

i used too much of my white paste

>>23732118
no they can't. It's the power and reset that can go either way.

>forget 8-pin connector
>doesn't work
>take out several parts
>oh wait...

Worked fine.

But I failed at selecting parts so that my system bottlenecked quite badly because of a shitty CPU.

>>23732130
Oh, right. I knew it was one or the other.

>>23732077
Haha.

>built pc
>goes fine
>plug everything in
>press power button
>nothing happens
>shit bricks
>check everything
>light on motheboard
>shit even more bricks
>wait for my friend to get off work and come round straight after
>tell him what happen
>looks in case
>plugs in 8-pin CPU connector
>it fires up
>offer to suck his dick

It was a 486DX2-66, upgraded with a K6-2 motherboard plus a whole 128MB of RAM. It already had a 1.6GB upgrade hard disk alongside the original 340MB job, and kept its shit sucks 1MB 2D acceleration and ISA SB 16 + 2X proprietary CD-ROM.

It was always very, very slow to load as it ran Windows 2000. However, it was also stable and had reasonable performance for the money. It served as a primary machine for a few more years, eventually seeing a cast-off 8Gb MP3 hard disk from a friend along with an old Riva TNT.

Went perfectly fine. I had my dad to help me out.

>>23732158
Why is this so common?

>phenom II x4
>shitty stock heatsink
>antec 300 illusions case
>asrock mobo that came fucked up, replaced with msi
>8 gigs of ripjaw ram
>xfx radeon hd 6670, was using onboard for a bit
>500gig hd with a 2tb external plugged in
>$18 dvd burner
I made it a while ago and I had a lot of trouble at first but its working fine now and its the only desktop I have. I don't do anything too intensive so it works fine for me.

>>23732127
Yup that right, Casing fan on but there is no indication that my computer is ready by referring to the display. Turn out that I forget to plug in the 8-pin CPU connector, but at that time I assumed that 12-pin ATX connector is sufficient.
These /g/entlemen had similar awkward experience as mine I presumed.

>>23732158
>>23732140

Fine.

>>23732140
This, except I just didn't push it all the way in.
Everything else was good to go.

Except the HDD made an awful sound when it started, so I sent it back and got a new one.

I sill use the same computer today 5 years later.

>Building PC
>Worry that I won't have enough power to run the games I want
>Strap two 560tis together
>i7
>300 dollar motherboard
>Spend way too much money on superfluous shit
>5 fans to cool everything
>Only play ten year old games

HNGH. Cost 2500 and for all I use it for I could have bought the /g/ standard. Should last a few years, though.

>>23732170
I once did that. Friend asked me to see if his system could be upgraded, and so I popped to case to take a look. It was a knuckle-busting small/proprietary case, so I unplugged wires so I could pull a memory module and check the speed rating. Naturally, I forgot to hook up the motherboard power connector, and so the system just sat there stupidly upon powering up. Yes. He freaked.

>build pc
>put everything in the case
>try to turn on
>nothing works
>uhhhh
>realize i havent plugged anything in

>>23732215
>dual 560s
>2500 build

wat

my first computer "build" was a franken-computer from junked prebuilts off of the side of the road

I didnt even keep it in a case, literally just hanging out everywhere
I got my mom to buy AOL for me so I had internet in my room (only computer in house)
Newgrounds and stickdeath were my favorite sites

Those were the days man

My friend built his first PC the other day. The first thing I told him was don't forget then rear IO shield.
Later he called me to come around and check it. First thing I noticed was he forgot the IO shield.

>>23732234
>stickdeath

I didn't properly place the stand offs and fried my mobo. Fun times.

Made an embarrassing mistake despite my supposedly thorough research. Ordered an H61 mobo and thus couldn't overclock the 2500k. Hardest part was trying to get bios to recognize my Win7 usb stick as a bootable device.

Definately investing in modular PSU next.

Worked great except for a DOA hdd that I was really confused about for a couple hours.

>>23732264
Ma Nigga's Nigga

>people who got i5's and shit as their first pcs

what the fuck i'm 21 and my first pc was a
celeron 1.6ghz
512mb ram
Geforce 5950GT (blew up (literally))
and a 20gb hdd

>>23732234
>Stickdeath
>Laughing at the archery one for literal minutes, replaying it over and over

http://www.stickdeath.com/jetpak.htm

>>23732234
SHEEEIT. them feels, man.

>>23732311
Hello.
>>23731938

shitty P4 cobbled together from salvaged parts from thrown out school computers and a computer thrift store

put in more standoffs than I needed, so the motherboard would short out randomly or when I applied pressure to the CPU, heh

I thought I needed to put in as many standoffs as I could because the case came with a big bag of them, and I thought they propped up the motherboard from the underside so it wouldn't flex if I had to use force to push in something like a video card

>>23732234
That's a step up from what I had. At the time, I had a 10Mhz 286 w/ Hercules, 640K, 2.4/9.6k Courier, an Epson FX 100 column printer, 720k 3.5 + 1.2 5.25, and a 20MB stepper hard disk. It eventually saw VGA for a dual-monitor system, a several hundred megabyte IDE hard disk plus controller, and Ethernet. I wish I still had it, but I sold it as a collectible a few years back. Still worked.

It was enough to connect to the Internet via dial-in > telnet, do school work, view the odd porn image, print porn stories to read curled up in bed, and play some decent if already "abandonware" vidya once I picked up a VGA display for it.

>>23731910
like so
>cable management...

>>23732311
started with a k6/2 450 mhz if i remember correctly ... them kids nowadays ...

21, first computer of my own was a custom build (I was heavily into electronics)

Athlon XP 2400
Radeon 9600XT
Asus N7S (I think that was the name)
60GB hard drive
512MB RAM

Went flawlessly because I read many guides before hand.

>>23731910
first computer I ever built had an AMD Duron @ 1.8 GHz, an ATi Radeon 9200 (128 glorious megabytes of VRAM), 512 MB of RAM, and some shitty cheap motherboard because who pays for motherboards, right?

I kept it running as NAS for a while after it became obsolete and then tucked it away for years.

>mfw the damn thing booted up today with no problems

>>23732389
My first computer had a turbo button, 1GB HDD and windows 95. Interestingly, the last game I bought was for that computer, DOOM.

>My face when I discovered strafe

never had problems until i bought more ram (something with hiberfile/pagefile spamming my ssd, still have no solution) and a gtx570 (says something like"not enough system resources for aero" while playing bf3

Went perfectly.

like this. only problem i had (and one i repeated on many builds) was i forgo to put in the mobo i/o shield until the build was almost complete. using a new build now but i did carry over the 460 and HD.

>failed to put mobo standoffs
This was back in 2006. I knew nothing about hardware then. It was immediately rectified and everything worked.

I was 12ish and my dad supervised me. I have been watching him do it, and put in the occasional part for him before hand. He let me do the entire process myself, with out saying a word. It worked perfectly fine. I installed the OS, got all of the updates, and everything was good to go. The first thing I did after was play Age of Mythology.

>>23732479
you should have read the manual

>know nothing about it
>try to put it together anyway

>>23732490
i was putting together machine before then, and none of my family besides me could into computers, my dad is a carpenter

Built my first computer with my dad. It was one of those father-son bonding kind of experience.

Radeon 9600 or something like that. A 30 gb hard drive, 256mb RAM, some shitty mobo. Cant even remember the CPU.

A few years later i build a proper gaming rig by myself. 8800gtx, AMD Athlon 3.0ghz Dual Core, 2GB ram etc etc.

I bought the cheapest chink-brand ATX case with crappy PSU that died a few years later, color-changing LEDs on the front. Pretty much every edge of that case was razor sharp, I was working on it then suddenly "WTF where did all this blood come from!?"

There was a really cheap P4 MATX mobo with ATI Radeon 9100 IGP at the PC store so I bought that instead of the AthlonXP build I was planning and just used the integrated video. Dat hyperthreading.

>that feel of relief when you push the power button and everything works.

>>23732461
excuse my retardness, but, is using mATX for good builds good nowdays?

I have only had one problem and one that I wish I had listened to you guys.

>Buying parts for new pc
>"I dont think I need an aftermarket heatsink fuck /g/"
>Finish building
>Fire up some games
>OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE AI suite pops up a warning that my cpu is at 89 degrees
>Order new heatsink five minutes later

I shat some bricks there.

>>23732596
don't see why not, it's not like you need expansion slots much beyond a gpu nowadays

maybe a better soundcard, maybe a raid controller, but that's about it, everything else is integrated

>>23732596
Depends on the goal of your build. If you're looking to build a home theatre pc inside your NES console then mATX will do perfectly. Alternatively if you don't have a sound card or don't plan to use those extra slots then mATX is a cheaper alternative (note: some cases/accessories may not fit mATX boards).

>>23731910
is this a scene from a commissioned snuff film?

>>23732629
aye, im actually trying to upgrade my old rig
Q6600
9800GT
shitty intel mobo

to maybe a i5-3470 when they're out
but my problem is selecting a mobo for it, because i WANT to cheap out, and because i know i wont be installing another shit beyond a gpu.. so i was thinking, if maybe i should think about a mATX.

i do plan to keep the 9800GT for a while so im only saving budget for a processor/mobo/ram

>>23732682
inb4 bottleneck etc etc
i play tend CPU intensive games, where my 9800GT doesn't really get to do much, so grafix card isnt an issue for me at the moment

It went OK. I built an HTPC using an integrated motherboard/APU and a second hand case I got off eBay.

The hardest part was getting the part of the motherboard with the sockets to fit through the gap in the case. Only other slight issue was when my Dad came over and helped and installed the Blu-Ray drive upside down.

my first real build didnt come till 2010, but i had a scrapped 2.7ghz celeron with a 128mb 6800gt pci card and 1.5 gigs of ram that i kinda scrapped together.

my first real build was a phenom x4 with a 9800gt 4gb ram and a bulldozer case

i have since doubled ram, got a 6950, upgraded cooling, got the fractal r3 case, and a bluray drive

and a few terabytes more storage

>>23732691
tend to play, sorry, 3 am here

>>23732596
The only reason to get a full ATX mobo is if you need to triple-card SLI (pretty much never good value) or double-card Asus 3-slot heugcard SLI (IMO you're better off going 2-slot MSI cooler)

Mobo sound quality isn't bad and you'd be better off using digital out to a home theater receiver/headphone amp if you need better. Soundcards don't reduce CPU usage any noticeable degree nowadays.

Wifi can be done just as well over USB if you aren't hardwired master race.

Ram was faulty, got new rams they worked, no other probems, used maybe a touch to much thermalpaste

>>23732490
Such a good game. I'd hoped for a second AOM but.. nothing.

>>23732706
hardwired master race here bro.
fuck wi-fi.

that's it, im considering mATX's, thanks for it

oh, and my first build was
>>23732682
from 10 of february 2008.
still kicking and running.

it's got a 650w psu
good air flow, with easy cable/hdd management HUEG FAN in the main cover case
320+160gb caviar black hdd's (not much of a mass storage guy)
4gb ram etc etc.

at first build had a shitty case and a shitty pc tho, i ended up replacing up them in the next year, so lesson learned, do not cheap up in psu's.

Went without a hitch. Shame it wasn't my own. The person I built it for probably stopped using it after I stopped associating with them because they lost their free tech support and all they used it for was Facebook, Gayman and inadvertently collecting malware.

>>23732746
psu.
fuck the 3 am.

My first build went pretty well. I struggled with the heatsink a bit and the RAM put up a fight for some odd reason, but it powered up just fine on the first attempt.

I had to get a sound card not too long afterwards because the onboard sound was incredibly shit. The mic got a horrible amount of interference and the audio quality was ass. Got a cheap Xonar card and that fixed that.

I'm actually still running it, more or less.

Bought too little RAM, shitty case, and went with a poor choice for AMD, but other than that, it's still going strong.

>>23731910

Still running it actually.

>Budget 20 dollar Kingston ddr3 ram
>Phenom 955BE
>M4a87td evo

Biggest surprise was the HD. My old 2TB WD external stopped working, popped open the case, plugged it straight to my built to test it out and bam. Free 2TB Caviar Black.

Why do those two computers behind her have BSoDs?

>>23732930
Looks like BIOS, not BSoDs.

>>23732930
>BSoDs

Looks like MemTest to me.

My first build ran fine until a storm blew it up.

Then I replaced the PSU and it was fine.

Then I went to visit a friend for a few months and got back and mice had made a nest inside my computer and destroyed it.

Now I'm trying to scrounge up $35 so MSI will RMA my mobo. Feels bad.

Builded my first desktop in 2005, using parts of my old, pre-build desktop from 2000 and some new hardware. Over time I got rid of the old components and it's still up and running, though nowadays I use my laptop mostly.

first one was in IT class, went well, installed unbuntu because it was free. played solitaire for an hour.

>>23732415
>Radeon 9600XT
had it too in my first build (in addition to glorious onboard Nvidia MX420)

It went well. almost forgot the spacers between the mobo and chassis. That would have been BAD.

the thing is we all make a fuck up along the way. Either way we learn something when we do... hopefully

>>23731952
GOOD EYE! hahaha women...

>Dad's work throwing out PCs that don't work
>pick up a bunch of them
>take bits out of each of them
>suddenly have a working 486 100MHz?, 8MB RAM
>shitty case power button suddenly doesn't work properly, sparks and shit
>get scared and never use it again

>>23732617
you probably tint your heat sink or used too little/much thermal compound.

Mine worked fine. But I built mine in a class so I guess I cheated to some extent.

Worked fine, but the cable giving power to the graphics cards fan came out for some reason; I was like fuck why is it overheating, oh right no fans spinning.

>>23732164
this!
but i went from that 486 for a Pentium 166 then Celeron 400 (362, not the Slot1 no cache)
also
>>23732490
this, exactly 12yo too
setting bus/multiplier/vcore through jumpers
dealing with IRQ conflicts
finding out drivers by reading chips on cards/mobos

newfags underage everywhere

>>23733326
Yep. IRQs really were irritating, and also the source of most Windows 95 plug and play explosions. They were really ugly in the eighties, however, where sorting them out involved a flashlight, chopsticks with which to flip switches, tweezers for jumpers, manuals for your cards + poss. your XT motherboard, as well as a copy of Norton Utilities or equivalent. Yuck. 'course, those were the days where hard disks and floppy drives could be plugged in backwards, jumpers could be incorrectly shorted, floppy drives had their own jumpers and split cabling, one had to deal with upper memory blocks if blessed with a 386, IO bases and DMA channels could also clash, many hard disks called for annual Spinriting, modems and printers often had to be programmed with command strings, joysticks needed regular calibration, .etc, .etc

Computers sure are looking rather appliance-like these days!

First build after using a notebook for too many years.

>Secure 2500K with the mounting bracket to a symphony of crunching noises.
>Use too much TIM, apply it wrong as well.
>Cable management isn't great due to cable sleeves being rigid as fuck.
>Negative pressure fan config in a case that's all mesh.
>BIOS giving me shit for CPU fan not running as fast as it would like.

All in all it works great, though it's in need of an overhaul to tidy things up.

>>23731910
>fumbling around with the wires while the PSU is still plugged in...

I'm posting from that computer right now. It's had some minor issues along the way. but it's doing just fine.

I ended up buying a passively cooled 7600GT.


How the fuck do you think it turned out.

>>23733395
oh anon you just brought a shit ton of memories long away buried.

first build went perferctly except I didnt get a post beep which made me nervous (turns out the speaker wasnt plugged in).

>forgot the stands for the mobo
>comp wouldn't turn on
>realized i needed to install the stands
>mobo was DOA
> didn't know
>thought there was an incompatibility issue with the RAM
> sent back the RAM
> got new RAM, PC still wouldn't post
>sent back the mobo
> got it back
>success

we learn from our mistakes, right?

>>23733562
your mistakes was buying PCChips and Kingston?

I plugged in the heatsinks fan in the wrong position so the fan didn't turn on.

I also didn't secure the hard drive in the bay securely, so it made a vibrating noise.

Other than that, everything else went fine from POST to boot.

>>23731910
Quite well, only these problems:

>Fucked up PSU (one molex plug had loose pins) so once in a while it would short circuit.
>LEDs everywhere (had a new gpu cooler with blue lights, front fan had blue lights)
>LOUD as fuck
>Bought to cheap, had a AMD Phenom X3 8750 and an Ati HD Radeon 3870, I was probably better of with the intel choice (I didn't pick the parts, someone else did it).
>Spaghetti wires.

>>23731910

posting from it now. everything went fine.

terrible pic related (nokia 6600i slide). fuck you if your first thought is to greentext >gx

forgot standoffs

turned it on a few times, instant short, put standoffs on.

worked fine for 3 years.

>>23731991
I've never managed to fry anything with static ever.

Gonna build my first computer soon.
What are some do's and don'ts?

Worked fine. P4 2.8 GHz, noVidya 7600GT and 768 mb RAM. Installed crysis on it!

>>23733712

do install standoffs

do not cheap out on the psu

>>23733712

don't buy this case or psu >>23733672

DO buy a 212+ evo

personally i fount the tiny single-pin plugs for connecting the power LEDs etc at the front of the case the biggest headache.

just play it safe, read the manual and wear a static strap just on the off-chance.

>>23731932
>>23731935
>>23731936

This.

Alright, I'm using it now.

Did it in 2 hours with 0 knowledge on how to do it. I really learnt a lot buying the components and building it, and since then it's only gone uphill.

I was pre-built mudrace until recently.

>put shit together like I saw done on youtube
>easier than expected
>try boot
>shit, forgot the power switch
>try boot
>bizarre CPU voltages, bios is going mental
>manually adjust voltages to stock
>didn't help, reset to default voltages
>CPU heatsink is kinda wobbly
>jam heatsink harder into the mobo
>works

Like this.

>>23731910
It didn't boot. Then I flipped the switch on the PSU and it booted.

It was all fine, except the heatsink. It was on a LGA775, and if you guys remember the xigmatek s1283, it was one of the best coolers when it released and only $30. Only problem was, it came with push pins. It was heavy too so the two didn't go well together.

>be 14, saved for yonks for a computer
>christmas comes round, more money
>buy a $850 dollar computer off ebay out of my own money
>feel happy, looking back i wasnt ripped off too much
>a month or so after christmas
>buy a new case for my computer
>nervous as fuark, manage to pull it off
>turn it on
>no stand-offs
>no stand-offs
>no stand-offs
>no stand-offs


i didnt want to tell my parents either incase they got mad

>>23731910
Pentium2 400Mhz
20GB HDD
256 MB RAM

no problems

>>23731910
It was a 486SX, 25MHz overclocked to 40MHz, 4MB RAM, 512k VGA, 40MB HDD, a floppy drive, no monitor (you read that right).
I just remembered each program's UI, typed carefully and listened to the PC speaker and HDD crunching sounds. Worked better than you might think.

athlon K6-II
Put together, POSTed, installed windows, booted.
Then moved voltage jumper to max setting to overclock
Mmmmmm fried motherboard, that build lasted 2-3 hours, at best lol.

I was 17. Everything else went fine except I got stuck with small the front panel cables cause I couldn't figure out where to put them on the mobo.

Also the cables were one fucking mess. Absolutely terrible. And the HDD cable was pressed against the case because I mounted it the wrong way there.

Still using the same PC. Not planning to fix the cables though, as it's worked so far just fine.

>works at first boot
>set up OS, everything fine
>use it for a 9 total hours
>suddenly bsod
>start up again
>OS works
>bsods again
>always BSODs randomly after a short time
>suspect the psu, RMA, doesn't fix it
>run memtest, everything's fine
>suspect mobo, RMA, doesn't fix it
>run memtest again, over 9000 errors
>RMA RAM, fixed
It was a terrible experience. The process of fixing it took 10 days.

RAM wasnt put in all the way since only one side had a clip thingy gizmo for some reason

Good for everything I did although I knew fuck all at the time and was full of my self,Up until my first build it was all pre-builts and ex fam
>asus m2n-e motherboard
>2x1gb ddr2 no name ram
>2.6GHz x2 amd cpu
>200GB IDE HDD from old pc
>ATi X1650 pro
>and a flashy case with blue leds

I scored some budgo water cooling kit which run alright

>got shitty Compaq Pressario
>need new case
>already upgraded the HDD and CD drive
>get Antec 300
>dissemble Compaq and install in new case
>won,t turn on
>bring to store
>RAM upside down
I currently run a Medion pre-built but plan to built a PC in the upcoming year.

Dead platter in a hard drive but everything else turned out pretty much perfect. Cable management was nothing though

386 with 12 megs of RAM. I spent weeks waiting until my dad would take me to Active Surplus so I could buy an IDE controller with my allowance to plug in my old-ass hard disk. I taught myself pov-ray on that fucker.

Flawless, actually. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing back then, but I'm glad all went well.


Oh except reading online after the build I learned about thermal paste and since I didn't apply any I thought I forgot it. That's how I learned it comes preapplied with the stock fan.

/g/ has helped me immensely. My next build will be glorious, and flawless.

MoBo was dead, returned it then everything worked like a charm

PIII 500mhz with 128mb ram (should've gone for 256 but it was expensive as shit and I was young) and a voodoo 3 3000. Assembly was fairly easy and my dad helped me, so nothing went wrong. Thought that something broke after I moved the PC and got a black screen but the graphic card just wasn't pushed in completely in the AGP slot, so that was a quick fix.
I was amazed that I could install Baldurs Gate II completely (like 7 CDs) on the HDD which had a 20GB capacity, our PC before that only had a ~3GB HDD.

I put the DVD burner upside down.

>>23734654
Hacked.

Lol, you know how we do. In your shit like xxxpr0h4x0rwit0u7qn7u1710n. Now get yo shit straight b4 ma crew d0z it 4 u? ok.

never built one
though i fap to the thought of it

Like so

>>23734750
Have you ever heard of this... mm.. small little concept known as...


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>I read up on it
>made sure I knew specifically the knack for my parts
>put it together and it worked perfectly

Shit was so cash. I've only been getting better at it.

>>23734750
>ft02
>shitty corsair CPU cooler
Then again, seeing your resizing skills, I'm not surprised.

>>23734675
>4320x3240

>>23734798
Not that guy, but it's not a BAD cooler. It's a mediocre, overpriced cooler that looks awesome.

It's the Mac of coolers, essentially.

I got a Athlon xp 3100+, a Radeon card (dont remember model) and a pc chips mb really cheap at a local dealer.
Had no clue about hardware back then.

I put everything Together and it booted.

Week after that I noticed the am athlon xp 1000 mhz line at startup and went panic mode.
I searched like a Truffelpig for information about that damn Processor but literally found nothing.
Already was thinking about some scam shit i.e. a shitty copy of a processor and so on.
I earned comments like gtfo dont trolololol there aint such a thing like a 3100+ on some boards.

After a lets call it decent time of searching I found out about this oem piece of glory
Its a 3200+ with half disabled cache.
As rare as this thing was my shitty pcchips board just wont Identify this thing and ran it at 1000mhz.
So I changed fsb and clock to 3200+ values and everything went fine.
Startup now told me athlon xp 2200mhz.

Now I was really getting into it. On my search for the origin of this processor I also found a guide telling me that the disabled cache not necessarily was broken, but one has a chance to reactivate it by scratching a bit and bridging a bit.

I was nervous as hell even if i got this thing pretty cheap i was still a student and couldnt afford blowing up this thing.

But in the end the scratching and bridging went successfully and the poor student ended up with a startup screen that said
Athlon xp 3200+.
I was proud as the fucking last unicorn owning the top of the line processor and having it upgraded myself.

That btw was the initial event for me to get interested in tech stuff.
I just digged searching like mad to get things running.

I know fire and explosions would be more entertaining.
But with a tragic ending you probably would have never read this story and I would have studied some arts stuff instead of science.
This damn oem Processor probably changed my way of live immensely.

>>23734769
>>23734800
use a better browser that allows resizing with the click of a button

Shit, because I let a "friend who's good with computers" decide for me.

A 64-bit processor in 2004, never used with 64-bit OS.
DDR, soon after obsolete.

>>23734830
What if I use 4chan X, asshole?
Do you think this is funny to open your shit in a new tab, retard.
You are everything wrong in /g/. I hate you, please die.

>>23734750
>>23734769
>>23734800
>>23734851

i don't give a fuck for that resolution, using 4chan X to preload images is the truly "everything wrong in /g/"

but that fucking noise and compression why the hell did you took a picture at a fuckass resolution and set JPEG to compress it to 50%?

>>23734844
I know that feel

>>23734814
Well the cooler in itself, like you just stated, isn't that bad, no it's more the combination that sucks banana dicks.
The whole point of getting an ft02 is the airflow and low noise, which you pretty much give up while picking up one of those Corsair coolers.