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What Do You Guys Think? - Plan On Building It

A budget PC build thread that ends in a full-on GPU-brand meltdown.

Member Jack Daniels posted a Newegg parts list for a sub-$800 gaming PC and asked the board for feedback, then iterated through several revisions over two weeks chasing a better price-to-performance build. Regulars like Jack Bauer, HaSh, minitureman, and DJSketch chimed in with friendly tweaks on GPU, RAM, and OS (with a nod to the site's warez section for a 'free' operating system). It stays chill until c0rpsegrinder repeatedly pushes Jack Daniels to ditch his 8600GT for a pricier card, sparking an all-caps rage-quit reply about being lectured in his own thread.

budget pc awayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!1!!!!— Jack Daniels

im fuckin raged because you come into my thread telling me garbage and acting lik your smarter than me. fuck off man— Jack Daniels

dude, i know more abotu gfx cards then you.— c0rpsegrinder

The "What Should I Get" Topic: fkn0wned's Long-Running PC Build Advice Thread

The forum's go-to build advice thread — from budget rigs to Alienware bragging rights, running from late 2006 into 2007.

A long-running catch-all thread in the Computers General section where members asked for PC building and buying advice — budgets, CPUs, motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, even mice and keyboards. It stretched over nearly a year, with regulars like J3DAH (who started it) and Jack Daniels/olie22 trading back-and-forth on motherboard brands and GPU pricing gripes. Pretty standard tech-help fare for the era, sprinkled with typical forum banter and at least one all-caps Alienware flex.

ALIENWARE MUTHERFUCKERSSSS THATS WAT I GOT WOOT— euphoria

yer it is nvidea is just ripping us off— olie22

Whos got the meanest machine?

The classic 'rate my rig' thread — dxdiag copy-pastes and dial-up-era bragging rights.

A Computers General thread from July 2006 where members compared PC specs, kicked off by founding user c0ke admitting he'd sold his own PC and was slumming it on his dad's machine. The OP walks newer members through pulling up their specs via dxdiag, and the thread spirals into the usual forum ritual of posting hardware lists to see who had the beefiest setup. Early database manager KZA jumps in quickly, giving a glimpse of the site's small, tight-knit early membership.

I sold my PC so now I use my Dad's. Nothing special really just does the job.— c0ke

Hidden Trojan/Virus Thread Turns Into a Months-Long 'Unhide' Spam Fest

A guy posts a hidden 'trojan/virus' download and half the forum spends months just typing 'unhide' to see it.

A member named prinz opened a thread in the Technology > Computers General board offering some kind of hidden trojan/virus content for anyone who wanted to 'control your own trojan or virus', hidden behind forum spoiler tags. The thread ran for months (Jan-Oct 2007) and stretched across multiple pages, but almost the entire reply chain is just members posting 'unhide', 'thanks', or one-liners to unlock the hidden content rather than any real discussion. A few posters (conTagious, frozenfire, 'lol') were skeptical or called it out as sketchy/low-effort, and one coder ([FkN] Coders member Gate Guardian) accused it of being a copy-pasted tutorial.

probebly sux but hey.. *edit* yep it sux. crapwar...— conTagious

Awesome how you didn't give any info— lol

Your tutorials are epic copy&pasta— Gate Guardian

No More Proxies Needed

A late-2007 thread where half the forum just showed up to say 'thx' and unhide the goods

A long-running Computers General thread on Fkn0wned.Com offering some kind of proxy-related resource, judging by the title and the wall of one-line 'unhide'/'thx' replies needed to reveal hidden content. This page captures the thread's tail end (posts #41-56, spanning October to December 2007), packed with the classic forum ritual of members posting throwaway thanks purely to unlock a hidden download or list. The replies are mostly noise — Xfire handles, joke locations, random one-liners — rather than substantive discussion, giving a good snapshot of the low-effort 'unhide' culture common on cheat/warez boards of that era.

this is pretty much like "your freedom"— Paws

but proxies are our friend— slingblade

DANG DUDE LIKE SMOOTH— zubetube

Technical Issues catch-all thread

Broken PCs, cracked Windows, and 'ban dis geezer' — the fkn0wned tech support dumping ground.

A general help thread in the Computers General board where members brought their PC problems: StyleXp headaches, a dodgy DVD-RW drive, a new ATI GFX card, CS:S crashes, and even a member openly running a cracked copy of Windows. Responses were casual and often unhelpful or half-joking, culminating in one poster getting called out and told to be banned for spammy repeat posts. Spanned from Christmas Eve 2006 into mid-2007, a low-key but very of-its-era slice of forum life.

fuck sake ban dis geezer, hes been postin these li...— laptops

well then your not gonna get it done. repair repai...— k0rn_h0li0

ive got a cracked version of windows about 40 syst...— jcomp6

Ultrasurf: Getting Past School Filters

The old trick every bored kid on a school computer needed — one link, one bump, job done.

A short thread in the Computers General section where member Jack Bauer shares a link to Ultrasurf, a tool circulating at the time as a way to bypass school and network content filters and proxies. He bumps his own post later saying others might need it, and fellow member cedars chimes in with a quick thanks. It's a tiny, low-drama utility-sharing thread typical of the era's 'get around the school firewall' genre.

Gets past any school filter, blocker, and/or proxy. Works great too.— Jack Bauer

ka bump YOU PPL may need this eventually gotta keep this going— Jack Bauer

Nice find. Thanks.— cedars

Graphic card question! — SLI, DX10, and a slow-burn tech beef

A dude asking about dual 8600 GTS SLI turns into a slow-motion DX9-vs-DX10 nerd fight, complete with a gravedig correction ten days later.

A member called fatsanta asks a basic hardware question about running dual graphics cards on his NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard, and whether he needs dual monitors. Regular Jack Daniels steps in as the resident self-styled hardware guy, giving advice on chipsets and weighing DX9 vs DX10 cards, only to get corrected and mildly clowned by another poster ('lol') over the meaning of 'utilized' and DX10 adoption timelines. The thread drags on for a couple weeks, ending with 'i dont hack' pointing out that a single 8800GT beats dual 8600 GTS cards in SLI — a correction Jack Daniels grudgingly accepts in a late reply, admitting he'd never even heard of the 8800GT before. Mundane but a good time-capsule of period PC hardware debates (Vista skepticism, DX10 hype, SLI chipsets) and the forum's typical bickering-but-helpful tech culture.

do you not know what utilized means? ... we all know its being used right now tard.— Jack Daniels

dopnt even get thse 2 8600gts's there waste of money! get the 8800gt, its performs better than 2 8600gts and is cheaper— i dont hack

kind of a gravedig but oh well. sry before now i havent heard of the 8800gt before.— Jack Daniels

The Old GeForce 6200 FPS Drop Thread

A guy's frames tanked from 100 to 20 in CS:S, and half the forum showed up with overclocking advice and a 'buy a new card' intervention.

A member named Cud posted a basic tech-support question about a sudden FPS drop in Counter-Strike: Source after updating his NVIDIA GeForce 6200 drivers. The thread is a small, friendly back-and-forth typical of mid-2000s PC gaming forums: other members chime in with driver links, overclocking tips (with the usual caveats about doing it carefully), and blunt hardware opinions like '6200 = pure shit, get 8 series.' It wraps up with a member sharing a specific driver link and a CEVO config file that supposedly boosted his own framerate, plus the classic fallback suggestion of just checking Newegg.

6200= pure shit get 8 series— olie22

The original NVIDIA drivers are the only way to go, the new ones are complete shit— Legit_Hacks

don't try and overclock anything that's just stupid... I have the GeForce 6200 256 MB and I get 140+FPS not overclocking shit— Jack Bauer

A Bit of Help: School Blocks

Kid tries to remote into his home PC from class after the school locks down LogMeIn — 2007 tech-support nostalgia in full effect.

A member named darkmagi1509 posts asking for help getting around his school's internet filters, hoping to remotely access his home computer via LogMeIn now that the site itself is blocked. He mentions already knowing some basic command-prompt and batch-file tricks and is looking for an alternative method or site. The thread gets a handful of replies ranging from a suggested tutorial to a dismissive jab, ending with a workaround being tossed around and a mention that the teacher pushed students toward Firefox instead. Classic small-scale tech-help thread typical of mid-2000s gaming forums where kids traded workarounds for locked-down school computers.

i dont hack UR SCREWED— i dont hack

lol i can tell you ^^ download the FlashStick vers...— 3dstz

Need Help - HTML Over Images

A 2007 coder's dilemma: how do you lay text over a picture without it looking like garbage?

A member named SpaceOddity09 asked for help figuring out how to overlay HTML text on top of images, referencing a sponsor layout on an external site as an example and even sketching a crude diagram to illustrate the question. A few members chimed in with basic pointers, from linking W3Schools to explaining table-background tricks, in a low-key, helpful exchange typical of the Technology > Computers General board.

I can't remember how to put html over actual images.— SpaceOddity09

The way i do it is by creating a table, then setting the image as the background for the table.— miLLer

How Does One Hack Into A Myspace Account?

A total noob asks the forum's dumbest, most 2007 question — and gets a two-word answer.

A brand-new member with all of 7 posts wandered into Computers General asking, in classic naive newbie fashion, how to 'hack into a myspace account.' A veteran member with nearly a thousand posts replied tersely, and the thread died there with no further discussion. It's a tiny, dated snapshot of the era when Myspace was still relevant and forums like this fielded constant low-effort requests from newcomers.

How can i hack into a myspace account? im a total noob so please bring it down a notch for me... lol THANKS! =D lol— mind_ninja

Just set up a fake login page.— _

nasty cunt of a virus (Trojan Vundo help thread)

Downloaded some shady .exe, got wrecked by Vundo, and the whole Computers General board piled in with fixes.

Member |-noodle-| admits to running a sketchy executable and getting hit with the Trojan Vundo, complaining about recurring popups and repeated Symantec detections despite trying Spybot, Ad-Aware, ZoneAlarm, and Registry Mechanic. A handful of regulars chime in with their own go-to removal tools and suggestions, while the OP explains they can't just reformat because they've got 200GB of personal files with nowhere to back them up. It's a classic late-2000s tech-help thread: everyday malware problems, a stack of well-meaning tool recommendations, and someone weighing a risky non-destructive format against losing their whole media stash.

ok, so like a total fucking idiot i downloaded shady software and activated the exe. BAM infected!— |-noodle-|

i would love to reformat, but i have 200 gigs of personal files...and nothing large enough to back it up on.— |-noodle-|

Proxy List for Warez Downloading

A guy named 'Afteryou' drops a proxy list and someone immediately asks if it's good for pirating warez

A short, low-key thread in the Computers General subforum where a member (posting under the handle Afteryou) shared a list of proxies. Replies were sparse and casual, with one member noting they could be used to download warez, and another popping in with a generic response. Nothing dramatic — just a typical early-2000s tech-help/resource post of the kind that filled out the Technology section.

Nice one, can use these to download a shit load of warez— havok123

Microsoft Word

Guy's Office trial expired, asked for a crack, got told to use the search bar.

A short, forgettable thread in the Computers General section where a member named brian965 asked for a crack or key for Microsoft Word 2003 after his trial expired. He got no response for a day and bumped it with 'hello?', prompting two replies pointing out the request belonged in the Appz section and mocking him for not checking there first. A minor, mundane exchange typical of the forum's day-to-day tech requests and low-effort ribbing between members.

My trial ran out and I need Microsoft Word, I had 2003, anyone know any cracks/keys?..— brian965

whata lmao where do u think its gonna fucking be?— olie22

C++ and C#

A three-post thread that settles the great C++ vs C# debate in classic forum fashion: 'C++, much more modern.'

A short, quiet thread in the Computers General section of the Technology board where a member asks about the difference between C++ and C# and whether hacks could be coded in C#. Two replies followed, offering brief, casual opinions favoring C++ as more powerful and reliable for that purpose, with a nod that C# was technically possible too. It's a small snapshot of the site's programming-adjacent chatter rather than any major event or drama.

c++ is newer language and more powerfull i think you can code hack in c# but better if you code in c++ much more modern— minitureman

C++ is much more reliable and efficient to code hacks with. Yet, it is possible to code them in C#.— DCLXVI

Question: How to use a proxy?

A noob just wanted to know how proxies work — two vets showed up, one staffer called it pointless, and that was the whole thread.

A short, low-stakes tech-help thread in the Computers General board where member qwerty54 asked how to use a proxy. Staffer miLLer and 1000-Club member Jack Bauer each dropped a quick proxy-service link and moved on, while fellow staffer HaSh chimed in just to dismiss the thread as pointless. Classic filler-thread energy typical of a mid-2000s gaming forum's tech section — mundane, brief, and mildly self-aware of its own unimportance.

I dont know how to use a proxy.— qwerty54

Theres a few ways you can use a proxy, but if you just want to use a proxy while you surf i suggest going to...— miLLer

Computers General - Forum Rules

The one where a mod named 'n00b' laid down the law on spam, flaming, and double posts

A short housekeeping thread in the Technology > Computers General subforum, posted by member J3DAH in August 2006, laying out basic etiquette rules: no low-effort spam posts, keep flaming minimal and justified, don't double post (use edit), and search before starting duplicate topics. Signed off with the handle 'n00b', it's a classic slice of mid-2000s forum moderation culture rather than any drama or event.

No spaming: Make posts that have a point.— J3DAH

Keep flaming to a minimal— J3DAH

Rate My PC - MicroUltra's Rig Check

A banned member named 'Teh Hax' asks the forum to rate his PC — because nothing says 2007 like flexing your specs.

A short-lived thread in the Computers General subforum where user MicroUltra (tagged as 'Banned' with the group title '~Teh Hax~') posted photos of his desktop and a screenshot of his PC specs asking for ratings. Supervisor Janza replied early on, but the thread doesn't show much beyond the opening exchange. A pretty typical low-key 'rate my rig' post from the Technology section of the old fkn0wned.com boards.

Good AGP Video Card

One guy's quest for a cheap AGP card, answered five days later by a guy hanging out in de_dust2.

A short, low-key tech help thread in the Computers General subforum where user DJSketch asks for recommendations on a good AGP video card for a budget build. The thread sat for five days before MicroUltra replied, though the actual suggestion content wasn't preserved. A pretty mundane, ordinary slice of forum life from the hardware-help corner of the site.

Computers General — Fkn0wned.Com Technology Board

PC specs, virus fights, and 'rate my rig' threads from the depths of a 2008 hacking forum's tech corner

This was the general computer-help subforum of Fkn0wned, a gaming/cheat-scene community active in the late-2000s. Threads cover the everyday tech-forum staples of the era: rate-my-PC specs threads, help buying graphics cards, virus and password-reset questions, proxy and wordlist discussion, and a heavily-viewed pinned 'Hacking.. All your needs here' megathread. The tone is casual and DIY, mixing legit PC troubleshooting with the site's edgier cheat/hacking culture, moderated by staff like DCLXVI and [SuperMod]NoNamE!.

We Moderate Your Fun!

My new sex machine :)— Stev0

RATE MY PC =D ( post specs + pic of your own )— Devlin1991