For me I was mighty impressed with the reviews and the articles. Not to mention this was one of the few places that ever reviewed NEC monitors... As for the forums after lurking a while, I discovered that most of the members were surprisingly and genuinely intelligent, not just raving lunatics. I mean a few glances at the serious threads and that's pretty much what won me over. Oh yeah, and the amazing mods.
this most hardware forums are full of fan boys constantly arguing the merits of red vs blue and red vs green. and flaming each other at any given opportunity. at bit-tech i know that if i get advice it is usually without bias. and people are able to have a conversation without flipping out at each other and hurling abuse. its like a gentlemans club on teh internets. more brandy anyone? cigar?
I keep looking for the bunnies!! I think i joined for the same reason, back all those years ago other foums were just packed with mindless pricks that never based there arguements on any facts. The fan boy 'ism' seemed to be kept low over here with bindi's ban hammer, altho when i first started here, they did lean alot towards ASUS motherboards which i still hate, but at least there moer open minded now.
I started reading because of the quality of the reviews. I joined the forums as I felt compelled to add no two penneth, whether anyone wanted to hear it or not.
Because OCUK forum mods are like dragons and I can get much better help and info here without having my head bit off.
In truth, i was on a Quest in search of the Holy cheesecake. Until bold knight bindi showed me the light and hence fourth all cheesecakes are holy!
I needed some help with my first real build, an Athlon XP system. Couldn't get it to POST but after asking here I got it sorted. Think I was linked from Google...
I started lurking after I stumbled across the watercooling section (probably through google) and quickly realized that BT was not the typical internet forum. Even in the most spectacular of builds, advice is given and received well, as opposed to the usual "OMGee 7h@7 iz s0 l33t!!!!11!one!1eleven" or absurd internet fighting. Indeed we are the gentlemen of the internet. Although I agree with crompers on the "smoking room" feel, I always think of J.W. Bottomtooth III when I try to imagine it.
