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The End Of An Era - OCN


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  On 01/02/2023 at 14:18, Alex said:

I need to join the HWbot events, never even knew they happened to be honest. The F@H I generally don't join as I only have a single computer right now that is somewhat okay for it, and my 2500k+GT1030 is basically burning money folding lol

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Yeah, until I get a dedicated computer room/lab/workshop space, F@H is not going to happen for me. This thing throws off enough heat in an hour gaming session. 😅

 

HWBot has been a lot of fun. Really teaching me about how to tweak my RAM and really helping me learn all the OCing tricks with Zen 3 and my Asus Dark Hero board. The Dynamic OC Switcher feature was particularly interesting.

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Despite all of the circumstance with the downfall of OCN, I am really happy with the community that we have established here on EHW and I look forward to being able to actively participate in the forum now that I am moving to a new job which is primarily telework.  Would love to get back into F@H once my income begins flowing again, though I know my hardware is so severely outdated being matched to the old OCN TC categories.  I really need to get caught up on the happenings in here lol

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I will try to drum up some activity on my side. 

 

I transitioned to OCN from a dying forum at a time I wanted to dive more into enthusiast personal computing. I had built my first CAD X79 rig with the help of many others and had fun doing mods. 

 

Over the years, that knowledge share helped in more ways than I can count on one hand. While the knowledge didn't always directly apply to technical skills in my career; I wasn't building water cooled rigs at work... I would like to believe the community helped support and fuel passion projects that have improved hard and soft skills. 

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  On 01/02/2023 at 16:16, Slaughtahouse said:

I will try to drum up some activity on my side. 

 

I transitioned to OCN from a dying forum at a time I wanted to dive more into enthusiast personal computing. I had built my first CAD X79 rig with the help of many others and had fun doing mods. 

 

Over the years, that knowledge share helped in more ways than I can count on one hand. While the knowledge didn't always directly apply to technical skills in my career; I wasn't building water cooled rigs at work... I would like to believe the community helped support and fuel passion projects that have improved hard and soft skills. 

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100%. Pretty soon, @Bastiaan_NL and @Avacado going to have me learning how to volt mod.

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  On 31/01/2023 at 18:45, acoustic said:

Honestly, the forum has become less and less enthusiast based and more of a cess-pool since even my participation began on OCN in ~2019 or whatever it is. I have no clue why community reps stick around or use OCN when the average person there is terrible at OCing. The 13th generation OC thread has disgusted me, and we have people creating over 700 posts in one month, half of which are questions that have been asked forty times over.

 

It's sad. The thread now is just about people buying binned chips, running auto voltages, and then gloating about it every three posts. Zero skill, zero passion for OCing. Just ego, and money to burn.

 

I hope this site takes off. I've found myself posting far less on OCN because it's just.. low quality. Maybe that's what happens when a site grows to the size of OCN, I don't know.

 

Thanks for all you did during the glory days that I missed out on! 😛 Here's to EHW succeeding

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Interesting. I found in the last few years the community actually grew to be pretty helpful and support centric. People would PM with advice and tips. I took a break from the forum for yeeeears because the mods were toxic as hell and would basically wait to jump on anything they could to punish you. Is that Vampire jackass here in this community cause that idiot pushed me away from wanting to go back to OCN for like a decade. 

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  On 01/02/2023 at 17:08, VoidTheWarranty said:


Interesting. I found in the last few years the community actually grew to be pretty helpful and support centric. People would PM with advice and tips. I took a break from the forum for yeeeears because the mods were toxic as hell and would basically wait to jump on anything they could to punish you. Is that Vampire jackass here in this community cause that idiot pushed me away from wanting to go back to OCN for like a decade. 

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I don't think that person is here, no.

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  On 01/02/2023 at 17:08, VoidTheWarranty said:


Interesting. I found in the last few years the community actually grew to be pretty helpful and support centric. People would PM with advice and tips. I took a break from the forum for yeeeears because the mods were toxic as hell and would basically wait to jump on anything they could to punish you. Is that Vampire jackass here in this community cause that idiot pushed me away from wanting to go back to OCN for like a decade. 

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Welcome to EHW! I believe I know who you are referring too and no, he is not around.

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  On 01/02/2023 at 17:03, Sir Beregond said:

100%. Pretty soon, @Bastiaan_NL and @Avacado going to have me learning how to volt mod.

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Soldering is fun t. retard pepe - 9GAG

 

  

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  On 01/02/2023 at 18:35, The Pook said:

 

join us

 

Soldering is fun t. retard pepe - 9GAG

 

  

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OMG YAAAAS!!!

  On 01/02/2023 at 18:36, Bastiaan_NL said:

I never liked any of you guys, I just came here to copy @Avacado...

Just kidding, ❤️ you all 🙂 

 

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OMG NOOOO!!!

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  On 01/02/2023 at 17:08, VoidTheWarranty said:


Interesting. I found in the last few years the community actually grew to be pretty helpful and support centric. People would PM with advice and tips. I took a break from the forum for yeeeears because the mods were toxic as hell and would basically wait to jump on anything they could to punish you. Is that Vampire jackass here in this community cause that idiot pushed me away from wanting to go back to OCN for like a decade. 

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I absolutely DO know who you're talking about, and no he's not here as Andrew and E said earlier.  I was a senior mod over at the place that shall not be named for years, and yeah I agree with you on that complaint.  It wasn't just him (although he was the worst for it), it was also a HUGE lack of communication with the mods starting with the switch to Huddler.  When nobody is talking to each other, you end up getting those hard handed mods sneaking in.  I always operated on the whole, "treat others how you want to be treated" principle.  *shrugs

 

Welcome to all the new (to EHW) guys!  As you can probably tell, yeah its a TAD slower around here, and a lot less questions, but we're ALL here for anyone that needs help.

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He pretty much got bullied off OCN around 2015/16 after getting a little too trigger happy with the threadban button in the off topic section.

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Hi there,

 

thanks for the hard work and thanks for a place to be. Not much experience and many questions, but hope i can take some advices 👍 :drunk:

 

and ONE BIG THANK YOU for the original OCN emoticons, omg i have missed them:naughty_devil2:

 

keep up the good work :music_rock:

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  On 01/02/2023 at 22:47, Memmento Mori said:

Hi there,

 

thanks for the hard work and thanks for a place to be. Not much experience and many questions, but hope i can take some advices 👍 :drunk:

 

and ONE BIG THANK YOU for the original OCN emoticons, omg i have missed them:naughty_devil2:

 

keep up the good work :music_rock:

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You're always welcome to ask questions, so you're in the right place.  Collectively we have decades and decades of knowledge around here. 👍

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  On 01/02/2023 at 22:47, Memmento Mori said:

Hi there,

 

thanks for the hard work and thanks for a place to be. Not much experience and many questions, but hope i can take some advices 👍 :drunk:

 

and ONE BIG THANK YOU for the original OCN emoticons, omg i have missed them:naughty_devil2:

 

keep up the good work :music_rock:

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Welcome to EHW broteinshake!

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Unfortunately, I never really took to OCN as much as I probably should have.  In recent years, I haven't found much value and the constant talk on binned chips and raving reviews left me on the outside.

 

I was trying to think back at all of the computer forums I have been apart of since the 90s...  It's sad how some are leaving my memory, as they were some of the best connections I had.  It truly felt like a community.  I want to say I started out at 3DFiles, but then as that dissolved, moved to Hardware-Pacers and somewhere else...I know I'm forgetting a few key ones.

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  On 02/02/2023 at 18:49, underest said:

Unfortunately, I never really took to OCN as much as I probably should have.  In recent years, I haven't found much value and the constant talk on binned chips and raving reviews left me on the outside.

 

I was trying to think back at all of the computer forums I have been apart of since the 90s...  It's sad how some are leaving my memory, as they were some of the best connections I had.  It truly felt like a community.  I want to say I started out at 3DFiles, but then as that dissolved, moved to Hardware-Pacers and somewhere else...I know I'm forgetting a few key ones.

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Sad to hear that. Glad you found your way here though. You should join the discord too. 

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  On 01/02/2023 at 17:08, VoidTheWarranty said:


Interesting. I found in the last few years the community actually grew to be pretty helpful and support centric. People would PM with advice and tips. I took a break from the forum for yeeeears because the mods were toxic as hell and would basically wait to jump on anything they could to punish you. Is that Vampire jackass here in this community cause that idiot pushed me away from wanting to go back to OCN for like a decade. 

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Sir you made me laugh out loud.

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still trying to figure out who "that vampire jackass" is 🤔

 

only mod I ever bumped heads with was BigVal but that was more by association when a few OCNers split into BlazingPC 🙃

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  On 02/02/2023 at 21:31, The Pook said:

still trying to figure out who "that vampire jackass" is 🤔

 

only mod I ever bumped heads with was BigVal but that was more by association when a few OCNers split into BlazingPC 🙃

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You're so old....I remember BigVal, but I bet most people don't because he was done right after I became manager, which was like 2010....lol.

I am sure they are talking about bitemarksandbloodstains, who was very black and white, he wasn't a bad person at all, but he was a strict guy and there was no wiggle room.

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  On 02/02/2023 at 21:36, lemans81 said:

You're so old....I remember BigVal, but I bet most people don't because he was done right after I became manager, which was like 2010....lol.

I am sure they are talking about bitemarksandbloodstains, who was very black and white, he wasn't a bad person at all, but he was a strict guy and there was no wiggle room.

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Hey, I remember BigVal too. 😛  

 

Yeah, its bitemarks he was referring to.  "Vampire Jackass".....yup, bitemarks.  You're not wrong either, he's a good dude.....just really strict.  Nice to see you lemans!  👋

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