TBCS New Members Introductory Thread

[TheGreatSatan]

I love your wood

[TheMainMan]

^Can I sig quote this?

[kailee]

Hello everyone, Here I am new so please every one do help me in my any prob.

[guoting]

hello everyone!
I'm new here ,nice to meet you !
Here good ！

[yougaram]

hey guys ...this is my 1st post.....im new here...so nt much i can post...niway...i hope u guys can help me ..i ned help.....tc yar....

[Silver~Phoenix]

Allo!
One of the turning points in my life was when I was in 11th grade, my grandparents computer died, my mom's computer died, and my dad had a dead computer. For some reason everyone gave me their dead tower. Two of them were the old Packard Bells. 166mhz processor, 8-16 mb ram, and a whopping -8X- cdrom drive! That's when I discovered I'm pretty intuitive with electronics. Having never opened a computer before, I took those three computers and mixed the working parts together to create my own. Of course, I had a lot of incentive. This was back in the Gateway days, where a personal computer wasn't in every home, and most people who had one leased theirs (aah, moo-cow box), so the idea of me having my own computer in my room was intoxicating. I took my first computer apart on my bedroom floor, carpet, without a static bracelet. (Didn't have any issues.) A little while later, I had my own computer. I even got my own ISP since I had a job. (Yay Earthlink!)
I've been taking computers apart ever since, and as technology has advanced, I've learned about it from taking it apart. "Oh, so that's what a SATA connection looks like."
I have four computers currently, 3 of which work. Two laptops and two desktops. I bought one computer in my entire life. A $1700 laptop in june, 2001. Two weeks later it went flying off the roof of a car doing 45 mph. (thank Machina credit cards insure your purchases for 30 days!) Went through a couple of free replacements my first year of college (I actually went through five computers my first year. Every time I got stressed I blew the motherboard) but after that, it's all been cast-offs as people I know replace theirs.
My most recent acquisition came from PA's "State Surplus Store." It's a Dell Optiplex GX520. Cost my room mate (it was a b-day present) $35. All it needs is a new hard drive (since it was gov't they screw the hard drives or whatever) and some upgraded RAM. I've already got a killer graphics card. So it's at this point in time that I'm thinking of custom building a case for the components.
So yea, that's my techo-life story. I have a tendancy to over-think things, which kind of messes up my "just go for it" intuition, so I might be asking a lot of questions, mostly about heat.
So yea. Thnx for the read!

[Fuganater]

Welcome Silver! Hope to see a worklog of your project.

[berrymaniex098]

hi

[JaredG]

Hi there, newby here. Thought there's a lot of interesting stuffs here so I decided to join in on the fun. Nice to meet you all.

[Chrommis]

Hello All,

I just joined and wanted to say hi. I have been building/rebuilding PC's for awhile now, but always in their original cases, and am wanting to start getting creative. You guys have so many awesome mods, I hope to add to the awesomeness soon.