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<blockquote data-quote="sid_donnydarko" data-source="post: 1446994" data-attributes="member: 8511"><p>My 1st PC experience tops just about everyone else's!!!!</p><p></p><p>Parents felt it was time they invested in our first PC in 1999. I was excited and wanted to find out what would be the best rig out there. Asked a coupla friends and one guy happened to be a grade A douchebag. Told me that his computer with a P3 500Mhz was the best and tried convincing me it was too expensive for someone like myself to afford. Well i was young, naive and i didn't realize he was browbeating me. So i spoke to my parents about the douchebag's config that i scribbled on a piece of paper and surprisingly they agreed to get me the exact same config! I was the happiest bugger on the planet when i heard that!</p><p></p><p>Here's the config:</p><p></p><p>CPU: P3 500Mhz Slot-Type Processor</p><p></p><p>RAM: 128MB SDRAM(douchebag's had 64MB)</p><p></p><p>MOBO: Mercury 440BX(Intel 810E Chipset)</p><p></p><p>GPU: Nvidia Riva TNT2 16MB(douchebag's had a 4MB Voodoo)</p><p></p><p>HDD: Seagate 10GB</p><p></p><p>PSU: 150W</p><p></p><p>CD Drive</p><p></p><p>Floppy Drive</p><p></p><p>56.6Kbps V.90 Dial-Up Modem</p><p></p><p>And to make it extra special my mom bought me my very 1st game: Mobil 1 Rally Championship!! :cloud9:</p><p></p><p>So i invited all of my friends over to check out my PC including douchebag who tried his best to beat me down again by complaining about my tacky keyboard and mouse were. Again i didn't understand and thought he was just being himself. Only later on i figured out he was a douchebag. I even lent him my copy of Mobil 1. And turns out his 4MB GFX card was simply not good enough since it lagged. He cried about it to his mom and they immediately went ahead and upgraded his PC's CPU only for Rs.10K. He boasts that his new CPU is much more powerful than mine but skillfully avoids my question if Mobil 1 ran properly on his new PC. At that point i realized he was just putting me down and i felt really bad from that day. What a douchebag!!! I researched quite a bit on CPU's for a month from the day i bought the PC on my new dial-up connection. Turned out there was a multiplier setting in something called a bios and changing this value would allow me to increase my CPU power. I wrote down the instructions on a piece of paper and followed it carefully. Entered bios and then changed the multiplier value to the highest allowing my cpu to reach 750Mhz!!! Restarted and it worked flawlessly while running Mobil 1. I finally got my revenge when i called him over and pwned him by showing how he could've changed his CPU clockspeed without upgrading for Rs.10K!!! He never came back to my house and i didn't meet him until another 3-4 months. I was so proud of myself on that day!!!! Owned you douchebag!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sid_donnydarko, post: 1446994, member: 8511"] My 1st PC experience tops just about everyone else's!!!! Parents felt it was time they invested in our first PC in 1999. I was excited and wanted to find out what would be the best rig out there. Asked a coupla friends and one guy happened to be a grade A douchebag. Told me that his computer with a P3 500Mhz was the best and tried convincing me it was too expensive for someone like myself to afford. Well i was young, naive and i didn't realize he was browbeating me. So i spoke to my parents about the douchebag's config that i scribbled on a piece of paper and surprisingly they agreed to get me the exact same config! I was the happiest bugger on the planet when i heard that! Here's the config: CPU: P3 500Mhz Slot-Type Processor RAM: 128MB SDRAM(douchebag's had 64MB) MOBO: Mercury 440BX(Intel 810E Chipset) GPU: Nvidia Riva TNT2 16MB(douchebag's had a 4MB Voodoo) HDD: Seagate 10GB PSU: 150W CD Drive Floppy Drive 56.6Kbps V.90 Dial-Up Modem And to make it extra special my mom bought me my very 1st game: Mobil 1 Rally Championship!! :cloud9: So i invited all of my friends over to check out my PC including douchebag who tried his best to beat me down again by complaining about my tacky keyboard and mouse were. Again i didn't understand and thought he was just being himself. Only later on i figured out he was a douchebag. I even lent him my copy of Mobil 1. And turns out his 4MB GFX card was simply not good enough since it lagged. He cried about it to his mom and they immediately went ahead and upgraded his PC's CPU only for Rs.10K. He boasts that his new CPU is much more powerful than mine but skillfully avoids my question if Mobil 1 ran properly on his new PC. At that point i realized he was just putting me down and i felt really bad from that day. What a douchebag!!! I researched quite a bit on CPU's for a month from the day i bought the PC on my new dial-up connection. Turned out there was a multiplier setting in something called a bios and changing this value would allow me to increase my CPU power. I wrote down the instructions on a piece of paper and followed it carefully. Entered bios and then changed the multiplier value to the highest allowing my cpu to reach 750Mhz!!! Restarted and it worked flawlessly while running Mobil 1. I finally got my revenge when i called him over and pwned him by showing how he could've changed his CPU clockspeed without upgrading for Rs.10K!!! He never came back to my house and i didn't meet him until another 3-4 months. I was so proud of myself on that day!!!! Owned you douchebag!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: [/QUOTE]
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