introduce myself also want to say sorry in advance for the stupid questions I may ask

[amancalledoss]

Hi everyone , my names mark but I've been called Oss most of my life .

So here's my story , from leaving school in 1987 I went straight into welding/fabrication mostly on structural but eventually went into making boats , it was a job I truly loved a hobby I got paid for was how I described it to people , until 9 months ago when I managed to have a heart attack at the top of 48 stairs (which may I just add is'nt the best place to have one , I don't reccommend it).

After a short stint in hospital I was released to go home but as I had managed to destroy my right knee and my left ankle , Im having to have plenty of trips back for various opperations which will eventually get me back up on my feet and back into work (seriously that day cannot come quick enough),so that being told I'll stop waffling and tell you what Im up to now with all this glorious free time I have .

I was sat on the sofa one day expecting a call from my sister who lives out in Australia on Skype with my trusty old laptop which was as much as I had ever really done with computers , while waiting I put YouTube on for a bit of late 60s rock music to while away the time then just left it running , I have no idea how it went from Hendrix to Linus but there he was super excited about some box with fans on it and copper pipes and his enthusiasm was a bit captivating so I watched on this started at 9pm GMT on a Wednesday evening and I was just clicking on every video I could find until I realised it was 11am on Thursday but by then I was hooked !

I immediately got up and hobbled to bed but with a new found interest and the words "tomorrow I will build a computer" buzzing through my head , I laid there for what felt like forever but couldn't sleep , I got up told the wife to get in the car we're going shopping (first time she's never argued) and off we went .

Three hours later we came home she had gone mental at the prices of everything I had wanted to buy so to save on being further in the doghouse I had just agreed and come home empty handed , thats when I recalled watching Scrapyard wars , I opened up an Ebay account and a PayPal account and set to buying what I could on the budget she had allowed me which was exactly £200 I bought an old 600 watt cpu no idea of the make , an Asus M5A78L  motherboard , an AMD FX 4100 cpu , a Seagate 500gb HDD , a 60gb OCZ SSD , a random biggish heatsink and a Corsair Carbide case and 8gb of DDR3 ram .

Within a week all the bits had arrived and so I set about building my first computer 6 hours later (yes I know) it was done I had even managed to put an operating system onto it myself and the best bit was I still had £70 left so I would be able to get a GPU which was just killing me , I had to have one !

I bought what I could afford which was a Asus GT 660 , I put it in and found that I really had no idea if my build was good or bad as I had never played a game on a computer before , the only game I had really heard of was World of Wsrcraft and so I signed up , I downloaded the game on my new computer and my laptop to compare , and in my eyes it was like day and night the difference I was the happiest man alive I had created a beast as far as I was concerned !

As I got to making friends on WoW they introduced me to other games on Steam and found that the beast was lacking so I put it up for sale with offers and within a day I was offered £280 the deal was done and I set about getting the parts for a new build , its gone on from there Im still no expert and I still havent been able to afford my dream build or even close but I have at least got a capable computer now , its still made from second hand parts but Im more than happy with it for now .

Like I said though Im still learning so if I pop up and seems like Im asking an obvious question , I am truely sorry but I have got a great deal of enthusiasm 

[DocSwag]

What's in the pc that you have now?  

18 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

-Rude comment-

Maybe it's just me, but these life stories always interest me.

 

If you want a tl:dr...

 

tl:dr OP built boats for a living and loved it, got a heart attack one day at the top of some stairs and it was really bad, was stuck to bed for a long time, one day was watching videos and a video of Linus showed up, op was captivated by his enthusiasm and went out and built a pc.

[FloRolf]

Now that i read the whole thing, welcome to the community and the #PCMasterRace!

Not everyone around here is a little bitch so i hope you still stay.

 

Awesome how you got into the whole thing tbh  

[TAHIRMIA]

Glad to see your interested in the PCMR and the LTT community.

However stupid the question most people will help you, although you may come across a few dicks occasionally. 

 

Enjoy it and we hope you stay 

[ImperialSteele]

Welcome to the LTT/PCMR community! Don't feed the wild @Slick 

[Blackhole890]

50 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

What's in the pc that you have now?  

Maybe it's just me, but these life stories always interest me.

 

If you want a tl:dr...

 

tl:dr OP built boats for a living and loved it, got a heart attack one day at the top of some stairs and it was really bad, was stuck to bed for a long time, one day was watching videos and a video of Linus showed up, op was captivated by his enthusiasm and went out and built a pc.

if that's the case, im sorry of my rudeness @amancalledoss

[TheRandomness]

2 hours ago, ImperialSteele said:

Welcome to the LTT/PCMR community! Don't feed the wild @Slick 

Top tip, please don't enrage the already small community of moderators @amancalledoss. (Welcome to the forums :P)

[amancalledoss]

Hi again , 

well the build that I have now is the bottom picture , like I said its still not fantastic but I manage quite well ,

MSI 970 Gaming motherboard,

AMD FX 6350 cpu

16gb Hyper X fury ddr3 ram,

evga 750 GQ psu,

Cooler Master Seidon

120gb toshiba SSD,

1TB segate HDD,

MSI Radeon RX 470 gpu

and all wrapped up in a Kolink Punisher case.

It does me fine for now but as and when I can it'll keep evolving .

Also I promise to keep it much shorter from now on

 

 

[Carlospuron]

man I'm a Pipe fitter, and to be honest the one time I was playing (working) around boats, I noticed how easy you can get hurt there, plus a heart attack wasn't like the most helpful thing around the story, welcome to the forums and to the #PcMasterRace, anyway I can tell you that most of the people around here will hep you every time you need, don't be afraid to ask, they have done that for me, just like you I didn't know anything about this whole new world and the more you know the more you want to build, your actual Pc seems pretty good. welcome again I hope to read from you soon. 

[yathis]

Oh dont worry, there are countless absolutely stupid questions asked at Linus Tech Tips.

I on the other hand, only ask great logical questions, no debate there. Plus I add intuitive and informative responses to most of my replies.

[DocSwag]

9 hours ago, yathis said:

Oh dont worry, there are countless absolutely stupid questions asked at Linus Tech Tips.

I on the other hand, only ask great logical questions, no debate there. Plus I add intuitive and informative responses to most of my replies.

Great intuitive and informative repsonse, yathis!

 

I can guarantee you, all of my responses ALWAYS are intuitive and informative, as evidenced by this comment!

[Salacious B Crum]

Don't worry I got you covered with my less than skilled questions