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I'm around the same age and started reading Anandtech when I was a high school teenager in the late 90s.

We scrounged together cash to play the latest version of Quake, upgraded to the latest 3dfx Voodoo cards, and overclocked our Celeron 300A chips till they burned out. Most of the info on what to do came from Anandtech and associated forum discussions.

Thanks to you, Anand, you'll always be a legend for our generation.

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Ahh, the 300A. I remember being blown away by the results people were getting with that. I didn't manage to get my hands on one for a few months, but when I did I lapped the heatspreader (the only CPU I ever lapped, thanks HardOCP!), and ran it at ~540 for several months. It did get unstable and had to be dropped down after that, but it was still >500. As much as the actual performance was awesome, the important thing for me was really the achievement around it. I was just some kid in my parents basement, and through some reading and a little elbow grease, I was able to match the performance of the most expensive CPUs in the market. I was empowered, thanks to Anand and his ilk.

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