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......when your gaming rig puts out more heat than your wood stove, rofl :rolleyes:
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.....when you have a desktop, laptop, and a pocket pc so you are no where without a computer no matter where you are!! :D

.....when you compare everything in your life to the specs and speed of your computer.

(i dont know if this counts or not) .......when your daily conversations to people include the words, el o el, oe em gee, lawl, roffle. 100% guilty :oops:

......doing plans of making your car a mobile WAP, complete with webcam and gps.

.....when the word balls(bawls) is no longer a potty mouth word!
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to quote Mr. Sebben from Harvey Birdman: "haha! Bawls!!"

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...when you pass mile marker 222 on the freeway and start thinking about RAM :rolleyes:
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....when you think 420 is a dream OC on your Northwood P4, lol
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... when your idea of fun consists of treasure hunting at your local PC "junkyard" store and find great joy in discovering something usable. (True story. :lol: )

50mm Panaflo for $0.50! Whoo!
Found it in a giant bin of crappy heatsinks and fans.
A little isopropyl alcohol cleaned it up real nice. :rolleyes:

Damn this thing is quiet even on full blast. :mrgreen:

Well... not like I have a choice really, it has no ground wire. :P
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wish there was a local PC "junkyard" here, lol :(

we can't scavenge in the junkyards down here in SC, dunno why except maybe a safety hazard....oh well, I just scavenge my friend's old stuff.....got a working E-Machines monitor, keyboard, an old (2001 model) E-Machine with an AMD 1800+, but it's dead, and an old (2000) Compaq 7000T case...can't beat best friends to scavenge, lol :)
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.....you accidentally say computer instead of the actual word that starts with a "c" like car. "we were in my computer last night and got pulled over"
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...When you set up a windmill in your hallway to take advantage of the thermal gradient generated by the computers in your room. This also has the sideffect of providing extra power to run the USB fan on your desk that keeps you from dieing of heat.
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.....When your beer keg and cooling system are the same thing, lol :rolleyes:
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When you get in a fist fight with a friend when arguing about who's gaming rig is better!
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You "upgrade" your DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR to a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert

When all your cpu can do is a ~450Mhz OC!!!!



When your sitting in work "talking" to a customer, and all you can think about is Dram drive strenght, Tref, Max async lantency etc.... Then the first thing you do when you get home is gain 25 3dmark pts......and you call that success!!! LOL
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:prayer: :prayer:
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.....When you are with a group of people and feel lonely because your computer isnt with you.

.....when you bring your computer to work because the work computer isnt fast enough.
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When you're still posting on forums half an hour after you've supposed to have started work 5 miles away.
Riding reliably on a secondhand 1GHz Athlon for five years.
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When your daily essentials consist of: a watch with a pda built in, an internet enabled cell phone, an ipod(with video no doubt), a laptop, multiple thumb drives, and all the cables to hook them together and charge them.
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when you get home you hug your computer
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When your daily essentials consist of: a watch with a pda built in, an internet enabled cell phone, an ipod(with video no doubt), a laptop, multiple thumb drives, and all the cables to hook them together and charge them.
No doubt!! No watch like that, but i do have a ppc. and my nextel has intarweb, but i dont know if that counts. LOL

topsub wrote:when you get home you hug your computer
AMEN!!!

Before your better half right.... LOL
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...when taking a break from doing office work on a PC you go to the same PC or another and play games or start overclocking!
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Apoptosis wrote:...when taking a break from doing office work on a PC you go to the same PC or another and play games or start overclocking!
So true.........
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