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Don't worry if you toast the cpu, there will be a free circus show with fire, sparkles and smoke. Just enjoy it! (and don't forgot to write down the story here )

Grats starting young. Thats really the way to do it.

I recomend building it and then right away putting adds in the paper and sell it for more then you payed (not much, but you could).

I started building selling when I was 8 and thats the best way to get the amount of experience you need if you think this is something you want to get payed doing.

Pluss you get endless free upgrades by selling your comptuer and buying a beter one.

It happen to me too, but with a tbird 1Ghz, it worked overclocked , but too hot, I opened the case, spun the heatsink, but broke the central hold of the heatsink(it has tree on each side). I don't know why, but I decided to hold the heatsink with the hand to see if the computer still worked. Smoked and ready the toast.

HAHA LOSERS!

Joking of course.
New one for me. One of my co-workers just cracked the mobo trying to install the CPU. Pushing too hard, and forgot some of the support stand-offs.

I have never seen that happen. Well I guess I should be more carefull myself.

My worst screw up was breaking the PCI-E clip off the slot. But I glued it and it's fine. I forgot it locked. :-P

NNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Not the inquirer

I was only joking around. No need to be all defensive about it.

Hey, I had nothing to do with this *rumor* I was only guessing where it came from. Wonder where the linux dude gets his info from...

I liked your yarn up top the point of it being a carpeted shed. Tapping into free beer was the giveaway.

That and the fact that there is no S.A. Brewery in NM.....

He would have been better to say that it was a microbrewery, although the tap line also made no sense (if you have been to a brewery, you will see that is it not an easy thing to do...)

And the icing was the "national Emergency". Prime rib BS man!




My screw ups?

I had one a few years ago, I believe it was with an athalon 1G TB. I was sitting there dissasembling a machine. I believe I was frankensteining it into another case as I got some upgrades. For some strange reason, I decided to turn the machine on, without a heat sink, just for a second or two.

My common sense kicked in about 3 seconds after I powered on, but it was too late. I turned it off and could not figure out why I had done that. Then I smelled the burnt hair smell.

Yep, slightly smoked, and totally dead. DURF! (And I was SOBER too!!!!)

First blunder was the classic no standoff installed on my first DX50. It would not post. I would get a repeating warning beep, and that was it. Took 3 hours, and calling a friend of the family over to help. I felt like such a dufus!

Others were having a monitor cable that was missing a casing screw, so the housing was loose. Going to plug it in, one pin got bent, thus squishing all images on the last 1/2 inch of the RHS of the monitor.....

Lots of other little minor stuff (Like printers and shared devices dissapearing from networked machines although nothing was changed...) but all looks good now....

You lose valuable points for the soberness.

I prefer more fluid arts, like northern shaolin or capoeira.

Me no entiende. ¿Habla espaniol?

wait it still works?!?!?! you ripped the cpu out leaving the pins in the board so you just put the cpu back, i cant beleive that, amazing. even when your drunk!

So it's there where intel took the idea of his pinless 775. 8O

Or you're underage without false ID.

Reading nanotext is really hard on the eyes...

You guys just need to get a 92" LCD screen and sit 6 inches away. I hit the quote button so I could read it, but I'm still not sure what it said. :-D

A few months ago now (has it been that long already) I got this new sexy computer, the one in my siggy. When I first got it I had the stock heatsink, but after a while, I decided to get an aftermarket because I really wanted to overclock past 2.2GHz from 2.0. I got my new heatsink and I went and spread arctic silver on my proc with a razor blade.

Turn my computer on and look at the temps. It's almost the exact same temps, which confuzled me greatly. I just worked around that for a little while, about a week, I got to 2.25 GHz, but the temps were really high (54C load). I eventually found out from a friend that unless you've got a bare core processor, you're supposed to put on a blob and smash it.

I turn off computer, look at heatsink, only about a third of it has paste on it, the rest I can still see myself in it, and the part that was covered was all the outside part.

Clean it up, blob, smash, turn on. Instant deliciousness. Now sitting with a 30% overclock. Eventually looking into a water cooling kit, because for some reason I'm unhappy with 30%. Then again, that same friend has a 45% overclock on his athlon 64 4000+ bare core. A bit rediculous I might say, but damn, I wish I got that high an overclock on mine!

Oh and I heard something... I heard from somone, heard that you like mudkips. is this true?

It's not totally that bad but I'd kill for a kicka$$ screen like that. Anyhow, I have only about 47% sight in my left eye and can only go for an operation when I'm 24 (doc's orders, one of the best in SA). The other eye is still fine so untill it gives me problems or untill 24...GAME ON!!!!!!!!! 8)

I don't know. I've asked that lots but no answers. At first they said 16 then 21 and when I was there after my 21st birthday they said 24 to be safe, so I'm waiting another 2.5 years still. Eye's don't grow so it can't be that. I'll ask him again when I go see him in a while. Nothing I can do till then, I guess.

Hmm, must be a Canadian thing...my girlfriend and I have no clue what that is.

I read somewhere once (several years ago so this data is suspect) that most martial arts are in themselves dances, albeit ones that can turn incredibly deadly incredibly quickly.

Must be fun choreographing when the 'dancers' are annoyed...

Correct.

Is there something wrong with your post count? Cause I can't do anything about that. You'd have to PM a mod. If you're joking, then you aren't using the useless threads to your advantage.

..... meh.

O.o, a standoff problem I presume?

Not as bad as shooting your case with a 12 gauge, AR 15, and .50 AE all in the name of better ventilation. 8)