Reputation from GhettoDetonator

GhettoDetonator got a reaction from minibois in Youtube green screen? July 6, 2015

you could try using the html5 player

GhettoDetonator reacted to Semper in Get a Fireman Pole June 23, 2015

By poll, i'm assuming you intend to say Pole?

As someone who did not take a liking to Vessel, I did not continue my free trial, and have stuck to YouTube.

GhettoDetonator reacted to Mattrixx in Stories with people who claim they know everything about PC's? June 5, 2015

Did he upgrade to Gaming Dial-Up? With overclockable RGB LED internets, and ultra high pings?

GhettoDetonator got a reaction from Mattrixx in Stories with people who claim they know everything about PC's? June 5, 2015

I had a friend who claimed he overclocked his internet, and it was MAD fast!!!

GhettoDetonator got a reaction from GodSpoon in HP 23xi power adapter April 30, 2015

Sorry i should of said, available to buy from UK

GhettoDetonator got a reaction from XplosiveNoctua99 in What OS is the best OS for me? April 18, 2015

For gaming windows would be the best imo more games etc

GhettoDetonator reacted to Arct1c0n in You kids have it so easy these days in building a computer.... March 7, 2015

You kids these days have it so damn easy in building computers. It's utterly amazing how much has changed when 14 years ago at this time, I was spending hours and hours between my college IT classes figuring out why the hell Intel was getting its ass kicked by this "AMD" company and why spending the money on this new "Geforce 3" was such a big deal compared to previous versions that ran Quake 2 just fine but Unreal squashed that.

Back when I wanted to build my first computer in late 2000/early 2001 as a young lad of 20 *God I feel old now* I had to go through a rirtual only other old, get off my lawn farts can understand now

1. There was no Youtube, social media, flash art to give you visual refrences on how to put stuff together. You went and got a "Build Your computer Bible " Version 28 book from Barns an Noble and marked pages

2. You didn't have price search engines, you opened up multiple WINDOWS of etailers and compared prices side by side

3. You spent SLOWLY modem dialing across forums for hours on end dealing with "veteran builders" who kept ignoring you

4. You had to still learn to use jumpers on your IDE drives correctly, or no booting for you. And God forbid if you bend one of the IDE pins

5. Make sure you didn't crush your new Athlon GPU die by putting too much pressure on heatsink

6. USB was VERY MUCH "Plug and Pray" back in those days...

7. Driver downloads took half an hour on times on dial up modems

8. BIOS'es were still big Blue and white screens of fear. Good luck configuring boot up devices if you didn't understand with the included manual

9. LED lighting? Hah, didn't exist. You spent good money on a cold cathode to show of your pimped rig through the window YOU YOURSELF cut and installed

10. Dual CPUs? On a single die? NO no, they had their own sockets. If you had a dual cpu setup, you were a farking god among men

11. Overclocking was a true russian roulette game, with a mis firing gun. You would spend hours on forums trying to get detailed information on what BIOS settings to tweak and NOT to touch. There was no preset and "forget" oveclocking, let alone Windows versions

12. Boot to windows over USB? Whats that?

13. If your Windows key didn't take for whatever reason, have fun spending half an our on hold with microsoft.

14. Is your Soundcard or add on NIC card *most mobo's didn' thave onboard LAN* not working or crashing system? You got to play the PCI slot swapping and reinstalling gaming to find which one was the culprit

15. All in one, prebuilt water cooling kits for $100? Pffffaa bwaa haa!! You had to spend $300 or more from DangerDen on DIY kit with tubing like garden hoses and pray to god your seals held on your waterblocks and self made reserviors.

16. Downloadable ISO's? Hah, you went to the store and bought your copy of Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 if you were a really rich pimp and prepared for hours long install with the CDROM drive spinning away

17. Pre painted and sweet looking cases with good airflow? HAAA!!! Nope, you broke out the spray paint cans, the dremel and jigsaw and MADE your case look good and cool well.

18. 24-30 inch flat screen LCDs? Oh no, you were a pimp if you could afford a quality, 20" flatscreen Sony Trinitron that weighed 40 pounds that you lugged to LAN parties. If you were poor, you bought Viewsonic 19'' CRT monitor.

19. If your dial up 56k modem was getting you downloads speeds of around 33 kbytes a second, God was smiling on you.

20. Was your case getting to hot with that AGP graphics card and multiple hard drives? You had to make your own blowhole, jigsaw style! Or get real creative....

21. Presleeved power supply cables and SATA cables? Haa!!! What are those?

22. If you couldn't afford a $300 CD burner, you got a Iomega Zip drive.

23. You wanna listen to your Blink 182 music CD in full digital? Be sure you have this cable installed

So be thankful you little digital rascals of what you have today. Now get off my lawn....

And after some googling, I actually found a archieved image of my VERY FIRST computer build back in May of 2001 with my very first case modding project based off the Enlight 7237 case which was vey popular back in the day. Wow....the feels....