How often do you abuse your PC?
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 6:13 am
Well? The name of the site is PC Abusers.
PCA Forums
Where the old farts gather
https://www.pcabusers.org/phpbb3/
How often do you abuse your PC?
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Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:11 am
I define abuse = clear cmos
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 8:30 am
I'm an ex-abuser.
Used to do all kinds of fun things. My favorite was swapping out the caps on motherboards and making changes to the voltage regulation(things that SHOULD have been done by the maker in some cases).
Lit a V5 5500 on fire cause i wouldn't display a mode I wanted once, redid some of the contacs a week later and it still worked....smelled terrible though. Another 5500 is in the woods somewere behind my house(vidman knows about that one).
Out of cheapness I never bought a watercooling setup, so i decided to run a line from the air compressor(250gallon) into the computer room, rig'd up an adjustable outlet over the heatsink. I figure i had maybe 4000cfm? I had got a slotA 1ghz athlon before they were availible outside of OEM's with a huge(almost 3 times the size of the slotA athlon cartridge) OEM heatsink. Using the compressor i almost made it to 1.2ghz. It was short lived due to the noise and the "dew" that came with the compressed air.
Many stories, but that was in my youth. I no longer do such things
. Wish i had a digital camera.
Besides, the name is cool
Used to do all kinds of fun things. My favorite was swapping out the caps on motherboards and making changes to the voltage regulation(things that SHOULD have been done by the maker in some cases).
Lit a V5 5500 on fire cause i wouldn't display a mode I wanted once, redid some of the contacs a week later and it still worked....smelled terrible though. Another 5500 is in the woods somewere behind my house(vidman knows about that one).
Out of cheapness I never bought a watercooling setup, so i decided to run a line from the air compressor(250gallon) into the computer room, rig'd up an adjustable outlet over the heatsink. I figure i had maybe 4000cfm? I had got a slotA 1ghz athlon before they were availible outside of OEM's with a huge(almost 3 times the size of the slotA athlon cartridge) OEM heatsink. Using the compressor i almost made it to 1.2ghz. It was short lived due to the noise and the "dew" that came with the compressed air.
Many stories, but that was in my youth. I no longer do such things
. Wish i had a digital camera.Besides, the name is cool
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:24 am
The biggest abuse we have done to this comp is to run XP Pro on 64 mgs of RAM.
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:26 am
The biggest abuse we have done to this comp is to run XP Pro on 64 mgs of RAM.
Thats more abusing yourself then the pc i think :laugh
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 12:21 pm
I'm with John everytime i've had to clear CMOS mines been abused. Thats about once a week if i get bored and start tweaking the ram or uppin' the voltage to get 10 more mhz out of this chip... lol I won't be happy till i'm at 2 gig on this 1600+ and i've got 100Mhz to go
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 2:25 pm
If you consider increasing the fsb and multiplier setting as well as tweaking the memory and video clock speeds as "abuse", then I'm guilty.
Though I prefer to look at it as, maximizing the return on my investments.
Though I prefer to look at it as, maximizing the return on my investments.
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 3:20 pm
Oh boy. I am embarrassed to see that the first choice isn't at 100%.
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 5:20 pm
Hehehe, you have a point there.Originally posted by cak
Thats more abusing yourself then the pc i think :laugh
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 5:24 pm
the only abusive things Ive done to my computers were
-cut 2 blowholes on a server case
-cut out the obstrutive basic grills on back of a case
-installed aol on another system
I am about to do some more abuse though......very soon
-gonna install a window
-gonna install a cold cathode, with switch on front of case
I am still thinking about installing a glo-wire into my keyboard and I want to put a 4" cold cathode or glo-wire in my ps2 and cut out some holes
-cut 2 blowholes on a server case
-cut out the obstrutive basic grills on back of a case
-installed aol on another system
I am about to do some more abuse though......very soon
-gonna install a window
-gonna install a cold cathode, with switch on front of case
I am still thinking about installing a glo-wire into my keyboard and I want to put a 4" cold cathode or glo-wire in my ps2 and cut out some holes
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:02 pm
Is o/cing a celery 533m to 1.14 abuse? if so every day.LOL
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:16 pm
thats a Nice OC man.
got my one 1g tbird at 1.55 now...was at 1.5 but that wasnt enough.
Greg
got my one 1g tbird at 1.55 now...was at 1.5 but that wasnt enough.
Greg
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 10:56 pm
XP 1600+ (1.4Gig) @ 1.9 Gig 181 FSB i'm pissed i can't get another 100mhz out of it... poor little chip just can't do it 
lol
i'm pissed i can't get another 100mhz out of it... poor little chip just can't do it lolPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:25 pm
*looks a 2 19" monitor boxes full of dead and abandoned components*
I'm working on building a fulltower completely out of pcb
I'm working on building a fulltower completely out of pcb
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 1:51 pm
I run a P3 700E. Needless to say, I'm not much of an abuser.
JMan
JMan