You know you're a techie when. . .

[shadowblitz3]

When you have eyebags as dark as dan auerbach's

[MeltyMoon]

When you have a bin full of spare parts...

 

When you have the never ending urge to overclock everything...

 

Having people who'm you've never met come up and ask you for pc related advice

[Sauron]

When you run debian with xfce sharing the linux kernel with android and get 100% of your tablet's performance unlike vms

[mrmonmon2]

Having a ram box like below, hoping this works off mobile

[Lazlex]

When your 13 years old and have a hold of computer engineering textbooks from university.

[randy hutajulu]

When u say this to your friends "i always put every single of graphic options on the right side!...... U don't?"

[mrmonmon2]

when you have and absurd amount of ram in a box, mind you this is just ddr2, not to mention the couple of adapters underneath the ram

[elecxonica]

Same here, especially if its a gamming rig that's more expensive then my own-saw a rig at the shop I bought the parts for my computer, it had an i7 with a 750W PSU and a gtx 650 and 16GB of RAM for $1700, while mine which has an i5 with a 500W PSU, the same drives and addons, 16GB of RAM plus a gtx 650 ti boost only cost me a little over $1000, with windows 7 pro included.

To be fair, they need to make a profit on a product that not a lot of people are purchasing, and even fewer people would be purchasing from them most likely.

[Fgtfv567]

MUST NOT LET THREAD DIE!!

[Dabombinable]

To be fair, they need to make a profit on a product that not a lot of people are purchasing, and even fewer people would be purchasing from them most likely.

That's just it, they were the same people that built my rig-which ended up needing thermal paste on the cpu heat sink as somehow the stock cooler had none, all I need now for it is an explanation to its 1.774 vcore, its not like the cpu even overclocks (i5 4440).

 

And this is another sign-loads of very old pc parts:

http://prntscr.com/55v34r

http://prntscr.com/55v2ds

http://prntscr.com/55v3co

http://prntscr.com/55v3ix

http://prntscr.com/55v3p4

http://prntscr.com/55v3wh

http://prntscr.com/55v426

http://prntscr.com/55v2p6

http://prntscr.com/55v4jv

 

Note: I can make a computer with all of the mobo that will turn on and get to the MS-DOS screen with the 85MB HDD, only the lack of a serial keyboard is stopping me from using them.

[-ism]

When you are the last one to start playing at you and your friend's LAN

[Dragoneye3769]

when your schools IT guy is one of your best friends

 

when your dad is also an enthusiast

 

when your class is filled with console peasants and you show them the heaven (#PCMasterRace)

 

when every teacher begs for your assistance

 

when you build your friends computers and teach them about them

 

when you get mad when your friend buys components without asking your opinion

 

when you get all the old computers from school or from your parents work

 

when you have a wall of old computer cases in your room/house

 

when your mom says to get of your ass and do something else

 

when your friend brings his laptop to school and you get cancer from all the shit in it

 

when you demand that your friend reinstalls windows

 

when you slap your friend when he buys an AMD gpu

 

when you kick your friend in the face because he decided to buy a mac

 

when your friends start to slowly understand your tech language

 

when you make a necklace from an old pentium 4 

 

when you have a shitton of old 128mb ram 

 

when you make mirrors/frisbees out of your old harddrives

 

when you make a full format to your thumbdrive

 

when you call your thumbdrive something cool

 

when you bring a presentation to school with a 128 gb thumbdrive

 

when you clean your friends computer everytime you visit him

 

when a girl starts to talk about computers and you understand that she is completly wrong, but you don't correct her because she might think you have no life

 

when you brag that you can play crisis on ultra

 

when you still play CS 1.6 after all these years

 

when you tell your friends that you have a life but actually you don't

 

when your mom starts to yell at you because your room is filled with too many computers

 

when you say to your friends that you're going to buy 2x 980

 

 

I think i'm a bit techie and I have a life (no i don't)

[Nickolas47]

when you stop using an optical drive

[Crossfire100]

When your parents never know what the hell you are talking about and just nod as you speak.

This is so true!!

[FluffiestPond]

when you stop using an optical drive

What's an optical drive?

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

when you get irked when somebody refers to a USB flash drive as a "zip drive" upon which you wish to slap them with a floppy disk and explain that it is a 100MB+ floppy disk in a zip drive, not a USB flash device.(this was today)

when you believe that any computer without at least 2 USB 3.0 ports, a Displayport 1.2 port/thunderbolt port, and a gigabit ethernet port is severely defficient in I/O, as that with a few usb 2.0 ports and audio jacks is really all you need in life.

you actually know what lightpeak is (precursor to thunderbolt that was originally designed for use with optical cabling.

spotting a OnePlus one in the wild gets you excited to meet another person who is an android enthusiast.

whenever you see or hear of a new tech gadget you consider whether or not you need one.

anything electronic needs to run faster than standard, as any engineer worth their stuff overengineers everything a little bit. CPU, GPU, RAM, Monitors, and even Cell Phones are all fair game.

[JAW96]

When you have a box full of VGA, DVI, HDMI, power calbes, sata cables, molex adapters, and other assorted cables.

 

When you have a closet full of cardboard boxes from past purchases.

 

When you own multiple cans of compressed air.

 

When you have a bag full of zip-ties and screws for multiple parts of your PC.

 

When you're on the LinusTechTips forum instead of working like you should.

I have the issue that my closet is not that big, so all the boxes are slowly bleeding into my room... I think I have a problem...

 

When all you think about in your spare time is working on tech

 

When windows you start feeling the limitations of windows (experimenting with zorin 9 distro liked it for the 20 mins I had with it)

 

When you take a old PC, and the previous owner asks "what are you planning to do with it?" and you lose them after one sentence.

 

When the idea of having to use a program just to transfer over music onto a phone angers you

 

the moment you know the names of PC parts

 

the moment you know what a BIOS is

[WhisperingNarwhals]

when you have a PC with no crapware/malware...

 

 

when you get pissed if you don't have full control over a machine...

 

These two are critical to me. My younger siblings have an old hp pavilion that I slapped a GT 740 into and they download stuff without even thinking. Now, they get popups to download "java" on certain sites and it pisses me off because they treat personal information and computers like junk. Viruses are not a joke.

 

The second one makes me a little less pissed. I am currently on the macbook air that my high school gave to each of the students. I personalized it, but to a certain extant. I can't even get steam because the firewall blocks it from accessing the internet, even at home. LTTF and youtube are the only things I can use on this thing. 

[Toltar]

When you bring to school:

 

A laptop

A mechanical keyboard

A expensive gaming mouse(just because)

A tablet

3 USB drives

A USB key

A External SSD Drive with multiple Linux distros

A Nintendo DS(If you consider it)

A LED Flashlight

Magnetic screwdrivers

A power strip

A external battery for your phone

Millions of chargers

Earbuds and Over The Ear Headphones

and to fit it all I have the Targus Drifter 2 backpack

 

Sound like me 

[XVariety]

When you think abbreviations that arn't tech related are Then argue they are to the none techies....

[IronSoldier]

You automatically wake up during the early hours to remove the babaji spam from your forum. :wacko:

[Lord Gaben]

You have used multiple Linux distros

[AcupunctureSoup]

When someone suggests that you get on a bus and you wonder how one would get on a motherboard bus...

[Pugs501]

I just took apart my Teachers old hunking laptop (I swear, it must be 15+ pounds and it had XP) to find the reason that she couldn't connect to the internet.

All it took was connecting a Ethernet cable to it.

[Destroyer]

When you read through this whole thread and agree with mostly everything!