You know you benched too much when...

[Massman]

... when you start using a coaster to put your cold beverage on the coffee table because you know the dangers of condensation.

[crustytheclown]

^^

true story

[Jimba]

- When still learning how to submit your score from the 3Dmark11 air run you did the night before you accidentally improve your score so much you go from been a nobody to been in the top 3 in your county and beating andre yang for the top spot in the GPU world rankings..

[El Gappo]

  just_nuke_em said:

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

 

lol that's nasty.

[dinos22]

....when you responsible for 50% of entire traffic to HWBOT on your continent (i'm pretty sad )

 

...when you get an electrician to add a few dedicated 20A breakers directly to your benching room

 

...when you book your flight back home from OC competition the morning you start work and proceed to look like a zombie

 

...when your vocabulary narrows down to 2 or 3 words which you repeat endlessly (EE THAI DHAN)

Edited February 24, 2012 by dinos22

[K404]

.......when you set your alarm for 5AM for benching.

 

 

Did that this morning.

[M.Beier]

  dinos22 said:

....when you responsible for 50% of entire traffic to HWBOT on your continent (i'm pretty sad )

 

...when you get an electrician to add a few dedicated 20A breakers directly to your benching room

 

...when you book your flight back home from OC competition the morning you start work and proceed to look like a zombie

 

...when your vocabulary narrows down to 2 or 3 words which you repeat endlessly (EE THAI DHAN)

 

You Aussies got regular 13A too^^

(Installed 4x 13A 2 months ago, 3 dedicated to hardware... 16A is possible, but by law requires thicker 'more expensive' cables for home usage, in industry there is a different standart)

Edited February 24, 2012 by M.Beier

[Eeky NoX]

...when you dream of M. Beier all night long (dedicated to Jonas ^^)

[jjjc]

-When you can relate to most of the things said in this thread.

[IanCutress]

- You plug in a GPU and it whines because you forgot to put in the power connectors

[Christian Ney]

  Eeky NoX said:

...when you dream of M. Beier all night long (dedicated to Jonas ^^)

 

Jonas or not jonas ?

[dinos22]

  jjjc said:

-When you can relate to most of the things said in this thread.

 

:ws: haha

[sin0822]

when you move your benching area to the biggest room in your house b/c you ran out of room in your usual place.

[wesjuhdabomb]

When you are getting dizzy, but not realising that it can be because of an overdosis nitrogen

[TaPaKaH]

...when you never feel alone while benching as you have Mr. Toiletpaper, Mr. Fluke and Mr. (Mrs) Cat to talk to.

[dinos22]

'nuff said

 

[Mean Machine]

That's just sad.

[SoF]

...when you can't get massman in a global benchmark after almost 20 hours straight benching...

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2258753_

[Massman]

  SoF said:

...when you can't get massman in a global benchmark after almost 20 hours straight benching...

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2258753_

 

fehlgeschlagen ...

[Predator]

when you have enough junk on your bed to build at least 6 computers but you still sleep in the border (instead doing a clean-up )

 

edit: happend to me only when i was single

[Predator]

  dinos22 said:

'nuff said

 

 

unlocked performance

[Jimba]

When trying to sleep you try counting sheep..instead you count the number of SB CPU's your team has benched..

[SoF]

...when you only have socket 2010 anymore because the pins quit their work due to heavy benching...

 

[knopflerbruce]

Lol, my socket 1207 board is a socket 1198 atm Everything works, except pcmark vantage and 7:p

[just_nuke_em]

...when need to replace your keyboard because it melted when you dumped acetone on it