[Solved] Where do old Tom's hands live?

Define "real tech stuff".

Oh, I agree that we're clogged with simple questions. That's for sure. I've just only been on here for something like nine months, so I don't know what "real tech stuff" went on in days of yore.

Previously, in the good old days, Tom's had previously used liquid nitrogen to on a, I think it was P3 maybe? to over clock the hell out of a processor. They also used various water cooling techs, including putting an entire computer in vegetable oil sans hard drive to see how the performance was and to what temp it would maintain. They used to cover how to use the over clocking kits to physically over clock a processor. Today, we have BIOS controlled over clocking, etc.

Tom's used to get into the real details about how the hardware worked, how the platters in a hard drive operated, giving a real technical edge to the site. Now, it is all about fan boy ravings and people who think they know what they're talking about because they setup the 'optimal' computer because some third party app wants to benchmark the system.

Most of the old hands left and went off other places.. hardware is kind of a joke. It changes so often that if you want to get up to speed on it today, sit down for an hour, read up and you know as much as anyone else. Yet, it seems to be the biggest debate today on the forums.

Back in the day when we have a Pentium running 100mhz, OC'ing it to 120mhz was significant. Today, people are overclocking as a hobby without really seeing any gains as the CPU may no longer be the bottleneck. Show me someone who can overclock a hard drive and I'll be impressed again.

And boom goes the dynamite.

Hey I pin modded a E4300 from 1.8 to 2.4 and a E4500 from 2.2 to 2.93
actually writing the cpu pads with a circuit writing pen
http://www.overclock.net/t/341123/ [...] -mod-guide

also froze a dead mech hard drive in freezer and was able to get about a half hour to get docs off

and now I am tempted to bake my GPU in the oven

some of us are still alive and kicking out here

I even still go out in CPU and OCing forums
I need about 25 BAs for my gold CPU badge
so slowly working on it
(silver GPU,silver CPU,and my Hammer )

haha the old freezing the HD drive. That's worked well a few times.

I don't have time for it these days.. as it provides nothing really useful today. Back when OC'ing a P1 was worthwhile, sure. Nowadays, a waste of time and OC'ing often causes stability issues in some applications.