..Explaining to your non computer-geeky friends that benching is a legitimate hobby.

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

 

I am married and its still like this, though in my defense my wife is not at home for a couple of weeks,

When you open all windows and turn on AC (in your benching room) in the middle of February winter...Your neighbor think you're crazy

Edited February 27, 201213 yr by dumo

...when you go on a LAN party like that...

 

...when you go out on Friday night to the mall, but to search for a bigger stainless steel thermos so you waste less LN2, after you gave it enough thought you realized you would save more LN2 if you opened the top and poured it into a larger container that would stay colder, thus less dewar exposure.

 

...When you regularly go to an art store to find a specific brand of eraser, and the lady asks "are you an artist?" and you say hell no. And she doesn't give you a weird look.

 

...When your benching rig is 10x more expensive and better than your main rig, yet you spend 1/5 the time on it.

...when you go on a LAN party like that... no games but 3Dmark suite...

ROG is built for gamers Chris ? isn't it ?

 

 

Agree with you Sin0822, but that's when you don't have no box for your main rig imo

 

 

 

 

...when you spend more time on HW's sites than Pr0n's ^^

ROG is built for gamers Chris ? isn't it ?

 

Well I doubt any of these nubs has ever seen a Matrix live, that's what I am there for :banana:

 

...when you go on a LAN taking a (top-notch) wheel with you just to pretend you have a wheel which is (top notch)...actually you never intend to use it ^^...

Edited February 27, 201213 yr by SoF

You bench too much when you switch your thermal paste to one that is 8x more expensive and consider the 3% MHz boost totally totally worth it.

i concur mr 8ghz lol

I know how you feel, I have 2315 messages in my ebay outbox and only 327 in the inbox

 

You bench too much when you NEED a copy-paste set of questions to send to Ebay sellers.

 

 

 

Hi. Please can you tell me the batch code for this CPU? It's the bottom line of numbers on the surface of the chip.

 

Thanks!

 

Kenny

 

 

Hi. Can you tell me if this card is a revision A2 or A3? The info is available through GPU-Z software, if you have the card installed.

 

Thanks!

 

Kenny

copy-paste is way too much manual labor, I have a bot

...when you spend more time on HW's sites than Pr0n's ^^

dammit I've failed this one.

 

 

When you know all CPUs that are installed in the computers at work. And their steppings. And you definitely have checked their overclocking potential months ago.

 

When you're angry that there aren't any nasty D9 chips in these computers as well.

You bench too much when you NEED a copy-paste set of questions to send to Ebay sellers.

 

 

 

Hi. Please can you tell me the batch code for this CPU? It's the bottom line of numbers on the surface of the chip.

 

Thanks!

 

Kenny

 

 

Hi. Can you tell me if this card is a revision A2 or A3? The info is available through GPU-Z software, if you have the card installed.

 

Thanks!

 

Kenny

 

 

hahaha close enough but yeah same dialogue hahahha

I just realized a thing that might fit while packing my bags for my two-week vacation...

 

...when you think "how did this bag get so spacious all of a sudden?" "Because there's no hardware in it."

...when you keep bricking bank accounts because of "unexplained transactions" count

 

(had to open my fourth bank account today )

... when you realise that you've become a narcissistic bastard.

... when you realise that you've become a narcissistic bastard.

 

No mate, that's just you. It has nothing to do with OC at all

No mate, that's just you. It has nothing to do with OC at all

 

WHAT!?!?! I am MUCH better than everyone else

...people prefer referring to you by your online handle rather than your real name, even in person.

---When they change your name to Flank3r!

...when you burn your finger on the mousepad while doing the mouse tweak for PCMark05

 

°True story°

... when Christian Ney ask for your ram

... when M.Beier gives his D9s to Christian Ney

 

...when you save screenies on desktop and stop the single stage before copying them on an USB key :lameasshowwwwl:

...when you save screenies on desktop and stop the single stage before copying them on an USB key :lameasshowwwwl:

 

...when you eventually remember to copy them, but get the usb-stick out before the save operation is complete..and then find out half of the screens are corrupted

...when you discover your milling machine at work has windows ce editon and you run super pi on it.