...you think about hiring somebody to upload your scores...

 

...you have more hardware on the desk than friends on facebook...

 

...you are not sure anymore how many SandyB1tches you have binned...

 

...you beat Andre Yang in Pro-OC league on a saturday afternoon...

 

...you feel like hwbot-moderators are your friends

 

...you have Christian Ney in your hwbot-forum-friendlist :celebration:

You benched too much when you're sat alone on Valentines Day evening with a hot air station, but you are happy with that decision

...Christian Ney deleted from friends list...

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X

 

Oh no..

Edited February 14, 201213 yr by SF3D
oh my dear.. C.N is not on my friend list :(

...when your browser crashes you automatically take a glance at a near-monitor shelf where you usually place the Fluke while benching

 

...when you know so much about hardware that you always get rejected for any sort of hardware-related job

 

...when pouring tea out from a thermos, you're pretending to look as if you're pouring LN2

... when the first thing you check on a event demo-system is the bios.

 

... when you can troubleshoot a hardware-related problem so fast, you feel the need to prolong the analysis to not make it look too easy.

 

... when you open a closet and find stuff you didn't even know you benched before.

 

... when a blue-screen error doesn't make you angry, but falls within expected system behavior.

...where is clr_cmos

--- When Massman deletes your score you made on Valintines Day!!!

Love you too, Team Captain! *kiss kiss*

... when a blue-screen error doesn't make you angry, but falls within expected system behavior.

 

 

...when aspects that parents go for a walk outside to get all the available Kw meter to test the 4 way no surprises. (over 3Kw in Italy is for Paperon de paperoni budget)

 

...when looking for the button clr_cmos but the mobo has a jumper, and when looking for the jumper and the mobo has the button.

 

...when you find an occasion used some interesting hardware and you put in the queue and then IMMEDIATELY once purchased and arrived home to keep for months in the closet and forget about it.

 

...when the new GPU is available the first page you read is the PCB screen for estimate the VRM max power.

...recalculating your submissions makes HWBot get really laggy for 1h+ (and it's still not finished)

... when there is no overclockers league anymore !!

 

...when boxes gat their own room and no hardware to fit with.

 

...when your irl friends call you for party on the week end and only ear the "Benching atmo, do not disturb!" message on your cellphone.

 

...when you're recalculating SuperPi's loops before you get asleep.

When....after 24 hours straight benching you fell asleep while running 3D'05 with DI and wake up with condensation everywhere:)

Edited February 16, 201213 yr by dumo

... when you got Massman on speed dial.

... when buying old shitty hardware, just to bench it because the topscore isnt high.

Or N/A (@ the last one:D )

Or N/A (@ the last one:D )

 

loool

when you short the wrong pins and kill your motherboard

when you short the wrong pins and kill your motherboard

 

Surely that wasn't a UD9

you know UD9 needs no f(l)ucking pins not even caps around the socket to work

If you short the wrong pins on a UD9, the board doesn't die, but the user might.

 

 

 

 

Maybe I should have this shirt made for the next time I see Sergio?

Edited February 21, 201213 yr by K404

You know you benched too much when...

 

(Mean Machine going all in at MOA 2011)

Edited February 21, 201213 yr by ME4ME

If you short the wrong pins on a UD9, the board doesn't die, but the user might.

 

 

 

 

Maybe I should have this shirt made for the next time I see Sergio?

 

lol that's the best t-shirt ever

 

it should say instead "killed with ease by UD9"

 

i remember how the UD9 killed 2 GPUs and the PSU when we tried to go 4 way SLI

 

-UD9:

chepo PSU detected, these noobs are going to learn the hard way

 

fortunately non of us touched the board while the execution, otherwise we'd still being suffering the casualties

 

 

news: "here lies the noob who tried to kill a UD9"

Edited February 21, 201213 yr by Predator

You know you benched too much when...

 

(Mean Machine going all in at MOA 2011)

 

That was MOA 2010, EU finals. The nosebleed helped me finish second.

"In Soviet Russia, mobo kills you!"