You know you benched too much when...

[knopflerbruce]

...when you explain to your friends that the toilet paper you keep in your bedroom is for cleaning CPUs, and they believe you.

[Massman]

... when you no longer care about the strange looks you're getting when buying a 1L jar of vaseline.

[Christian Ney]

... when your sheet for CPU list/data/specs/testing is 10 Mo weight

Edited February 22, 2012 by Christian Ney

[SF3D]

...when your wife try to seduce you to bedroom and your answer is: NO, I need to do voltage mods to my graphics cards!!!

[Christian Ney]

...when a girl asks you out by sms and the automatic reply says ''I am still busy on benching, please try again later''

 

works for email too...

Edited February 23, 2012 by Christian Ney

[Massman]

...when your wife try to seduce you to bedroom and your answer is: NO, I need to do voltage mods to my graphics cards!!!

 

That's fine. Worse would be you actually going into the bedroom when she replies "but the graphics card is in here!"

 

[dumo]

When you take your single stage on business trip and housekeeper that clean the room @ the hotel freaked out and refused to come near your benching rig......

[Christian Ney]

... when using shower to cool off

 

true story btw, http://hwbot.org/article/newsflash/1280_

[Massman]

...when you explain to your friends that the toilet paper you keep in your bedroom is for cleaning CPUs, and they believe you.

 

That's not a good moment to inform your friends you're a "masterbencher"

[zeneffect]

That's not a good moment to inform your friends you're a "masterbencher"

 

... when you can come up with witty retorts such as "masterbencher"

 

no sarcasim involved, it is in fact pretty witty.

Edited February 23, 2012 by zeneffect

[M.Beier]

... When you look more forward to -20C winter nights, then sunny summer days.

[M.Beier]

... When you wont have a beer the night before an overclocking event *cough gautam cough*

... When you consider Massman more powerful then the prime minister of your country

... When overclockers use your surname instead of nickname

... When you buy/use more liters of LN2, then all other liquir materials together (gas,milk,soda,beer, water etc.)

... When you actually give a fuck about the European/American bench-war

... When you dont mind if a 'bit' hardware dies in the process.

[oanvoanc]

when you present your new flat to friends this way:

- here is the bedroom

- here is the livingroom

- here is the benchroom

[SoF]

When you take your single stage on business trip and housekeeper that clean the room @ the hotel freaked out and refused to come near your benching rig......

 

lol had that some time ago also but I usually inform them in advance to avoid situations like these

 

...when you go to bed after a long bench night when your gf get's up and goes to work...

[I.nfraR.ed]

... when you realize it's time for work and you've benched all the night long, telling yourself several times "one more run and then I go to bed" ...

... when arriving at the office the first thing you do is open hwbot and upload scores, then thinking all day long what you can do to improve your score in the evening ...

[knopflerbruce]

...when you take the subway home from uni and bring a full dewar with you as if it was completely normal

[Massman]

... when a cardboard box is a worthy alternative for any computer case

[El Gappo]

... When you think OC meme's are funny.

[Christian Ney]

... When FBI knock at your door because your neighbor called the police after having seen you soldering, playing with electonic parts, art eraser, liquid nitrogen and thermal compound

[Hiwa]

... When FBI knock at your door because your neighbor called the police after having seen you soldering, playing with electonic parts, art eraser, liquid nitrogen and thermal compound

 

hahah , but really, happend to me when i was in italy, old neighbor man had told police, there is an iranian guy in second floor made something strange at home....

 

i showed video and pics also Hwbot website to police when they came to control my benchroom...

[M.Beier]

hahah , but really, happend to me when i was in italy, old neighbor man had told police, there is an iranian guy in second floor made something strange at home....

 

i showed video and pics also Hwbot website to police when they came to control my benchroom...

 

In that situation, you should have refused to speak Italian and seem angry, would have been hillarious

[dumo]

When you cancelled boring afternoon meeting and rushed back home......to try D3D9 tweak on '01 that someone just pm you

Edited February 23, 2012 by dumo

[Eeky NoX]

...when you did it wrong! Confusing vCore and vDimm with your f(L)uckin expensive last CPU still alive under water *shame*

 

Maybe it was'nt 'cus I benched too much, who knows :'[

[just_nuke_em]

...when you realize the q-tip you just stuck in your ear was previously used for cleaning ceramique off your cpu

...when the lady at the grocery gives you strange looks when you buy groceries, but not when you buy DICE

[SoF]

...when the company you work for does a little LAN party and you are the only one who is not gaming...