What brought you here?

[Solaris17]

Well i just want to see what brought all of us here....i remember a long time ago i had my 1.2ghz margan core duron. i came here because i think i was having a problem with a 512 stick of sdram. thats my stroy anyway been here eversince ram turned into other problmes other problems turned into preformance tweaks those turned into new parts problems tweaks more new parts and here i am a mod and a totally new rig who else?

[Grings]

atitool, a long time ago, along with every time i googled a problem, this place had the most relevant answers

[xman2007]

softmod my 9800se to 9800pro last year, been lingering like a bad smell ever since :p

[oily_17]

Only had my puter a few months and read about the dark art of overclocking,a quick google and here I was.
Havent looked back since!!

[p-jack]

when i built my current rig i was looking for a graphics card cooler, and ended up in the reviews section here at tpu. i kept stumbling across the site and found that "X800GTO pipe unlock" article which excited me quite a lot (see specs :rockout: :rockout: :rockout: ).
i´ve been a daily visitor since these days, and the forums are also a nice place to hang around on the net...

:toast:

[Random Murderer]

atitool, back in the day of the 9250:p
in fact i have said card sitting next to me and it STILL pisses me off to see that a radeon 9250 has ALL solid caps and not even new cards can say that...

[cdawall]

i joined many moons ago looking to learn how to oc my t-bred A 2000+ on an MSI k7n2-delta good time good times and here i am now with a 3000+ running @ 2.45ghz :D and ram @ ddr500 :D

[DaMulta]

Bios collection/ Then I asked for help with a x1600pro

[Solaris17]

Bios collection/ Then I asked for help with a x1600pro
why dont you have yoursystem specs posted ~2400 posts and no one knows what your running

[Taz100420]

I heard that you can flash a 9550 to a 9600 and googled it and found TPU and my friend says Oh yea I go there all the time for help and I ended up becoming a member

[Solaris17]

I wonder what w1zz's take opn this is? i mean this place was up around the athlon 2000+ series i thought it was younger than that. i also wonder what made w1zz make this site ooo i whanna know the history of tpu. maybe see old screenshots and stuff

[JC316]

The first time I came here, I was looking for the best AGP card and I found the X850 pipe unlocks.

[Darknova]

I was looking to overclock my ATi 9600, found the softmod drivers, spent a long time reading the site to keep up to date with Tech news, and then recently joined the forums :)

[pt]

why dont you have yoursystem specs posted ~2400 posts and no one knows what your running

'cause he has only nvdia stuff :p

j/k

i joined in the times of the 9200se (sold already) and the card was weak, and i heard of overclocking and ATITOOL so i joined to learn how it work:)
the case gallery is also a great thing, and it has a good comunity :) way smaller when i joined last year

[pt]

I wonder what w1zz's take opn this is? i mean this place was up around the athlon 2000+ series i thought it was younger than that. i also wonder what made w1zz make this site ooo i whanna know the history of tpu. maybe see old screenshots and stuff

w1zz created this site after quiting one he had with some other ppl, OCFAQ if i'm not mistaked ;)
w1z was the 1st user, dan the banjoman the secod and etc..

[Solaris17]

w1zz created this site after quiting one he had with some other ppl, OCFAQ if i'm not mistaked ;)
w1z was the 1st user, dan the banjoman the secod and etc..

ooo pretty sweet

[WarEagleAU]

Same reason as to how I stumbled here, check that topic :)
:toast:

[randomperson21]

i came here to figure out how to overclock my olde x300 and to figure out how to use atitool. got an amazing 70% mem o/c outta it.

then it exploded.

but i stuck around.

[Batou1986]

9800 PRO & ATI tool way back in 2003 when that card was new i just didn't join the forums cause i was too noob to post anything helpfull

[Canuto]

I came here because I follow W1zzardism...

Joking aside, i really wanted to know more about PC's and stuff so i joined and been postwhoring since then :)

[PyroInc]

I had a problem with something.... I dont remember what it was but after I fixed it with information from this site I had to stay to contribute and learn

[DaMulta]

why dont you have yoursystem specs posted ~2400 posts and no one knows what your running

:laugh: I know

[lemonadesoda]

Looking for FireGL X2-356 BIOS

[Zero Cool]

Casheti is the one to blame for me joining :)

[Murasame]

I found TPU from a review link at insanetek while it was still at its height of popularity. Its pretty quite over there now though.

[Alec§taar]

Saw an article on another site regarding hardwares (not sure about WHAT piece of hardware exactly though anymore) that was done @ this site.

I read it, it was SOLID, so I decided to take a peek around here... then, when I got my new machine, after reading the forums here for a bit, just lurking around, not as a member? Well, it was time to learn to "O/C" an AMD product...

The guys here (and, you KNOW WHO YOU ARE, that helped me (Ketxxx, Tatty One, & a few others too))...

They took me thru SUCH a 'trial' on that once I joined up & starting asking questions on it, I was impressed by their "know-how" in that area & patience w/ my "hardware noobishness" for lack of a better term w/ current hardwares...

Fact is, that thread where they helped me thru it to LEARN it above all else, has to be one of the LONGEST & MOST COMPLETE OVERCLOCK THREADS THERE HAS BEEN on this forums... benchmark tests & all.

Hey, they got me working (AND, UNDERSTANDING) how to do it... when I did not before on AMD stuff.

It turned out to be such a great overclock (STABLE being the keyword) I have been running for nearly a year now and no hassles/breakdowns, that I decided to 'stick around' after that...

Heck, the results (nothing is as good imo) proved guys here KNEW THEIR STUFF TO ME @ LEAST, mainly hardware-side (which I have let 'atrophy' over time, it no longer being my specialty/focus in this field & has not been since the mid 90's really (I only research hardware when I go buy every 4 yrs. or so)).

Glad I did join here as a member above all else (& not just for tech know-how, but because it's full of neat/good folks imo)...

It's one of the best, IF NOT THE BEST, forum I have ever been a member of online, & I have been "knocking around" quite a few since 1997 or so online.

APK

[ex_reven]

i was referred by a mate while on school computers
and i got hooked :D

[v-zero]

I have been around about since ye olde days of yore when W!zz came up with the 9500 soft mod... Loved that 9500>9700...

[Lazzer408]

alcohol

[TangoFish]

Wanted to learn to clock my AMD and was referred by a mate.

[bhaskar15]

aah, the first time I researched to know about pc hardware and in-parts, and then upgrade my aged pc into a gamin rig. I had many confusions about the intel c2d vs x2, and gpu choices, whenver i googled got this site at the top most. this forum is undoubtedly the best of all, and also its nice members, admins, mods. Long! Live! TPU!!

[Random Murderer]

Long! Live! TPU!!

HERE HERE!
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