Karllen
New member
Hi All,
I am originally from West Sussex, UK but moved to the arse end of the world, Wellington, New Zealand nearly 8 years ago... but it's a beautiful arse
My first ever computer was a Commodore VIC20 followed by an Atari 520ST and then a Commodore Amiga 500. I ventured into the mainstream PC space with a Packard Bell 486 DX2 from PC World. This turned out to be a complete mess, what with being a display model and the tons of junk software eating up 75% of the disk space. Any how it didn't take to long before I became peev'd enough to start pulling the damn thing apart, reading books like Upgrading and Repairing PC's and roaming through online tech sites (seems to be a history of helpful dude's online called Tom, but not so many back in the mid 90's). Armed with my new found knowledge and belief that it's only expensive lego I changed the 500MB HDD and max'd out the memory too... wait for it... a whooping 32MB Wahooooo!
This lead to further upgrades and the inevitable advising, repairing and upgrading of friends family and friends of there's PC's as well. I continued to build PC's through the days of Cyrix, AMD and Intel. Individual 2D and 3D graphics cards and somewhere along the line started working in an internet cafe eventually becoming an IT Engineer and Infrastructure Manager oh and somewhere in between an IRC chat host!
Today I still build my own PC's as well as servers and datacentres. However although I saw bits and pieces about moding and overclocking and thought "that looks interesting" I never really got into it, most of my PC's were good quality and high performing but conservative and simple in appearance.
My last two custom builds for myself have been...
CoolerMaster CM-690 II (VMWorkstation & Gaming)
ASUS Sabretooth X58
Intel i7-960 3.2GHz
Corsair H100
24GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
Seasonic X-Series 850W Gold
128GB Samsung 840 PRO SSD
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
1.5TB Western Digital Black SATA3
2.0TB Western Digital Green SATA3
CoolerMaster Elite 335U (Windows Server 2012R2 Hyper-V Host)
ASUS Sabretooth 990FX R2.0
AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz
16GB Kingston Value RAM - 1333MHz
Nvida Quadro 600
Seasonic X-Series 650W Gold
120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
-- Tiered Storage --
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
4x 3TB Western Digital Red SATA3
-- --
I recently started upgrading the VM and Gaming system which is how I came across TTL and OC3D.
CoolerMaster CM-690 III (VMWorkstation & Gaming)
ASUS Sabretooth X99
Intel i7-5930K 3.5GHz
Corsair H100
16GB Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-2666MHz
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
Seasonic X-Series 850W Gold
128GB Samsung 840 PRO SSD
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
1.5TB Western Digital Black SATA3
2.0TB Western Digital Green SATA3
Anyway here's the short version...
Hi everyone my name is Karllen (not really
) however I am pleased to have found such an informative, helpful and entertaining community that doesn't feel like a TV infomercial, has some real character, believes in voicing personal beliefs and the truth and not so much about being PC correct (thats PC, not PC you know what I mean... hopefully 
). After seeing some of the custom PC's on OC3D I am now looking to make current upgrade into something a damn sight more exciting. Thanks for the inspiration, reviews and help so far and hope to see you around the forum's.
I am originally from West Sussex, UK but moved to the arse end of the world, Wellington, New Zealand nearly 8 years ago... but it's a beautiful arse
My first ever computer was a Commodore VIC20 followed by an Atari 520ST and then a Commodore Amiga 500. I ventured into the mainstream PC space with a Packard Bell 486 DX2 from PC World. This turned out to be a complete mess, what with being a display model and the tons of junk software eating up 75% of the disk space. Any how it didn't take to long before I became peev'd enough to start pulling the damn thing apart, reading books like Upgrading and Repairing PC's and roaming through online tech sites (seems to be a history of helpful dude's online called Tom, but not so many back in the mid 90's). Armed with my new found knowledge and belief that it's only expensive lego I changed the 500MB HDD and max'd out the memory too... wait for it... a whooping 32MB Wahooooo!
This lead to further upgrades and the inevitable advising, repairing and upgrading of friends family and friends of there's PC's as well. I continued to build PC's through the days of Cyrix, AMD and Intel. Individual 2D and 3D graphics cards and somewhere along the line started working in an internet cafe eventually becoming an IT Engineer and Infrastructure Manager oh and somewhere in between an IRC chat host!
Today I still build my own PC's as well as servers and datacentres. However although I saw bits and pieces about moding and overclocking and thought "that looks interesting" I never really got into it, most of my PC's were good quality and high performing but conservative and simple in appearance.
My last two custom builds for myself have been...
CoolerMaster CM-690 II (VMWorkstation & Gaming)
ASUS Sabretooth X58
Intel i7-960 3.2GHz
Corsair H100
24GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
Seasonic X-Series 850W Gold
128GB Samsung 840 PRO SSD
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
1.5TB Western Digital Black SATA3
2.0TB Western Digital Green SATA3
CoolerMaster Elite 335U (Windows Server 2012R2 Hyper-V Host)
ASUS Sabretooth 990FX R2.0
AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz
16GB Kingston Value RAM - 1333MHz
Nvida Quadro 600
Seasonic X-Series 650W Gold
120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
-- Tiered Storage --
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
4x 3TB Western Digital Red SATA3
-- --
I recently started upgrading the VM and Gaming system which is how I came across TTL and OC3D.
CoolerMaster CM-690 III (VMWorkstation & Gaming)
ASUS Sabretooth X99
Intel i7-5930K 3.5GHz
Corsair H100
16GB Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-2666MHz
Sapphire Radeon HD 6970
Seasonic X-Series 850W Gold
128GB Samsung 840 PRO SSD
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
1.5TB Western Digital Black SATA3
2.0TB Western Digital Green SATA3
Anyway here's the short version...
Hi everyone my name is Karllen (not really
) however I am pleased to have found such an informative, helpful and entertaining community that doesn't feel like a TV infomercial, has some real character, believes in voicing personal beliefs and the truth and not so much about being PC correct (thats PC, not PC you know what I mean... hopefully ). After seeing some of the custom PC's on OC3D I am now looking to make current upgrade into something a damn sight more exciting. Thanks for the inspiration, reviews and help so far and hope to see you around the forum's.
