How did you first hear about Icrontic?

[DexterHolland911]

How did you guys first hear about icrontic? For me it was way back in the Apu's hardware days, Fu actually told me about it. This thread also serves as research for how to attract new members.

[stoopid]

Tex's posts on xtremesystems.

[Cool Canuck]

Found APU's Hardware searching for info on Abit KT7 mobo.

[karatekid]

Also back in the days of Apu's Hardware. For me it was Paul's FAQ on the KT7. Ah, those were the days.

[Massive_gas]

saw a friend come here. I didn't remember the whole name, so it took me a few tries to find icrontic.

[dydx]

Ive been a regular visitor since the apus hardware days.



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[Plec]

Same as Cool Canuck - the ABIT KT7-R was a bitch until i found some decent forums. Multiple posts & multiple replies later I finally had the thing running smoothly. Nowhere near as smooth as my present system but that was the joy & the pain of the KT7-R.

I think Cool Canuck was one of the first to give me advice too :) - (I've shortened my name since then, it was Plectr@m.)

Great board - glad its back to life.

[dydx]

I never had any trouble with KT7-RAIDs, those boards kicked ass back in the day.


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[Cool Canuck]

Originally posted by Plec
(I've shortened my name since then, it was Plectr@m.)

Great board - glad its back to life.
I remember that handle. Good to see you're still around.

[Plec]

Originally posted by dydx
I never had any trouble with KT7-RAIDs, those boards kicked ass back in the day.

Fortunate you, & yes they did. :)

I had to up all my voltages to get the board stable (3.8 for the i/o :o ) & also the USB ports never gave out enough juice. Plus, a dodgy ide port, Soundblaster Live problem - i could go on :)

I had an early revision but it seemed there were a lot of bad boards out there when i bought mine - as a lot of threads reflected.

Admittedly, some boards were just set up incorrectly; but there were also just a lot of tempremental boards which didn't warrant an RMA but just needed careful tweaking - mine being the latter by choice but on reflection should have been RMA'd.

The KT7-R was only my second build & mine was tempremental so i kinda hit the ground running. I learnt way more about computers than i ever intended due to that mobo.

Like you said, it was a great board when its stable - but a complete bitch to set up if u had a fussy board/rev - wouldn't have had it any other way though :) (However i love my low maintanence ASUS now.)

Plec

[Plec]

Originally posted by Cool Canuck

I remember that handle. Good to see you're still around.

Cheers, & likewise - I'm glad to see there's still a lot of experience on these boards.

[XZGohan]

Reading CSCrossfire about Mortin being raided by the feds for hosting a CS mirror :P

[ktulu_tco]

Friend showed me the news site, when I was planning to buy a new computer... the forums just followed naturally. :)

[skidrowrocks]

Links to the ghetto articles from other sites.

[Ladypcer]

I heard about quite awhile ago in another forum.

It piqued my interest but I never really checked it out until the new Icrontic appeared, and I know a few peeps that post here.

[Jimborae]

First found it when building a comp with a KT7A-Raid, got some help from a few stayed, left, came back. :)

Jim

[TBonZ]

Like so many, when the hotrod KT7 series came out and I needed direction, icrontic.com was the first link I clicked after doing a search on google.

[FoldingAddict]

Res0r9lm told me about the old folding team....the rest is history.;)

~FA

[JPP]

I made a search via google and ended up at apushardware.
During my membership the name was changed to icrontic.
JPP

[Enverex]

As Icrontic was changing from being Apus.

Looking for a fix with Write enabling on a Voodoo 3 on a k6-2 processor mobo.

NS

[Black Hawk]

The infinity loop thread. Past forum had a problem with a company and I got bored of that sh!t and decided to start in someplace new where nobody knew me.

[CCW]

after a thread at XS saying it had been hacked and then a thread by Tex saying he was now running the joint

Craig

[Enverex]

rofl, did anyone see what happened to the RAID Strip thread before Icrontic went down?

NS

[dydx]

LOL :D

[drowd]

i used to come here way back in the day just for hardware news/reviews. i always knew about the forum, but never joined. anyway, i told a friend that it was a great hardware site, he started coming here and joined the forums, and had been trying to convince me to join. last summer i finally joined, and its been grand ever since . . .

[danball1976]

I first heard about it at the MaximumPC forums in Jan 2001. Someone had posted a thread about it I believe.

[NYCDrew]

Someone from ForumOC directed me here when I was looking to mod my BIOS.

[Cool Canuck]

Originally posted by NightShade737
rofl, did anyone see what happened to the RAID Strip thread before Icrontic went down?

NS
"EQuito has attached this image." :D ROFLMAO

[EQuito]

LMAO!

Shorty was in the process of trying to fix the "16k vs 64k" thread when ICF went down.
That was the strangest thing ever around here. The database got all screw up and most of the pics attached to it containing benchmarks got replaced by pics from the babe thread... :D

NS: did you save it? Tex was desperately looking for a copy.

[dellin]

i'm not sure exactly, i think i followed a link to a review. the blue color of the site back then really caught my eye, and the forums were like no other..so i stuck around. i guess that was maybe 1 1/2 years ago, give or take. ;)

[xDeluxex]

...goozeman...

[Red Dawn]

came here following a link proclaiming the ghetto olympics was coming, got sucked in and became a lurker for months. finally decided to start posting.

[Darksword]

Same as many of you. I was looking for ways to overclock my KT7-RAID board, and Apu's Hardware was the only site around that had good info about it.

EQuito and a bunch of the old-timers helped me out a lot to get my system up and running, and Paul's FAQ kept me comming back. After that I kind of became a forum jockey and soaked up as much info as i could on just about everthing. Eventually, Mortin let me help out by being a Moderator, posting news items on the front page, and hardware reviews shortly afterwards.

The rest is history. :cool:

[Nebulous]

Hmmm, Ah yes, I followed the stench to see where it was comming from, and it was stoopid's. Now I'm werking on a spray called "Stoopid-B-Gone" ;)

Actually I followed stoopid. He told me about Icrontic and it's cool members :D

[irajames1176]

I was looking to build my own slut a athlon mobo back in 2000 when i first came here, i think it was october if i'm correct? it's been so long i can't remember to well but i do remember i just used to lurk in the back and read others posts at first, i still have the same mobo and cpu there just on my shelf now collecting dust, saving it because it was my first i built :D many thanks to this place and the community in it i can probably put together a computer with my eyes closed now :) I'm also really glad this place is back up and running with some of the old schoolers in it yet, it's good to be back

[DJ-Quack]

I heard it from the girl whose brother is friends with the physical trainer whose daughter is friends with the one legged hooker on the corner of Mannheim and Irving (I think it was Mannheim and Irving)

[Animal]

Originally posted by irajames1176
I was looking to build my own slut....

you came to the wrong site.

[Epyon202]

m33pins told me about it

[MrBill]

A friend of mine (MBrock) was always talking about Icrontic. So I decided to check it out myself and signed up in March 2002.

[Ageek]

Sheesh-- Slot becomes slut and -animal- acts single minded or else is pointing out the Freudean slip..... :) Good handle.

I read about the auction, glimpsed some of it. Nice site here.

John

[mr.FU]

ah yes..i remember the golden days of apu's hardware...back when things were simpler, and we could all go down to mort's backyard and burn a few pieces of hardware....or set up a lan party with some paper cups and strings :D much has changed since....not to mention the fact that i use a mac now *hides under rock from flack*

here it comes....

[LiLbRo]

i wondered over here from digital ferret... herd it from rob along time ago though, so i dont know.. i really came here because of tex i guess

[Geeky1]

I stumbled across icrontic looking for Rage 128 reviews when I was buying my first computer...

[Animal]

Originally posted by Ageek
Sheesh-- Slot becomes slut and -animal- acts single minded or else is pointing out the Freudean slip..... :) Good handle.

I read about the auction, glimpsed some of it. Nice site here.

John

what? meerly pointing out his amusing slip...

[Nosferatu]

I believe I found the Apu's Hardware Counter-Strike server while searching for servers I pinged well on. I decided to check out the site, and have been trolling since. Well, not really trolling... i did have ~100 posts, I'm just not the most active member on the Icrontic forums. :)

[Shorty]

Searched the web for help with a RAID controller. A guy in AMDmb told me I should follow a link he posted and ask for a man called Tex. I never really left.

EQ.. I never managed to finish resolving that db problem. I was searching high and low for those attachments! Still, the thread make interesting reading ;)

[Nolf-Job]

A guy at Best Buy told me about it when I was trying to figure out how to get my all my files off of a corrupt hard drive. Never figured any of those genius salesmen would have ever been any help to me.