Maximum PC

Okay, so I admit it. I'm a bit of a hardware freak. I know I have a problem and I can accept it. That being said I have to say that I love the smell of new hardware. Perhaps it is just part of the excitement of putting the latest upgrade in my rig or maybe it is because I know the smell all too well.

As I unwrap a new vidcard or mobo, there is a distinctive smell that permiates the computer room where all computers co-exist. The smell is a combination of PCB, soldier and new microchips burning in. To me it smells like "new computer smell". Someone should bottle and patent the smell.

Anyway like I said I'm an addict but I just can't help myself.

The smell of an extra Christmas.

I think your hardware has been laced...

How about the smell of burnt hardware? Uh huh.

I like the smell of new hardware, but it's never gonna last long. Are you building a computer because I think the smell has filled your room and needs adequate ventalation.

New Hardware (specifically PCB's) smell like a really good high quality Gin I've noticed, like Bombay Sapphire. Myself being both a geek AND a lover of Gin (especially teh Sapphire), just, F**king w00t!

You know your a computer geek if your smelling your new hardware. Your really a top notch geek if it turns you on.


Bunch of sick Os

Whoo hoooo I have over a hundred post.
All right, now all I have to do is find a really annoying avatar.

I snort my hardware, I literally sniff the chips right off the card and they get stuck in my nostrils.

post somewhere else

There's always the obvious choice (slightly modified):

They the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Well I love the smell of new hardware too, but i don't think its a problem. So where does that leave me?

Extreme geeks would make cologne out of it to get 1337 chicks.

Hmmmm.... we could call the cologne "PCB...pour homme" or eau de Geek. Hmmm... now the brain is working, funny it smells like new computer hardware. Damn, I do have a problem...

Not sure where that leaves you james, but I'm glad to know there is someone else out there who likes the smell of new hardware. I'm not alone, I can sleep safe in the comfort of that knowledge tonight. Or I could game until I fall asleep... I'll take the latter thank you very much!

i love the smell of new products as well as hardware...just got my arcticlean today and man does it smell good...mmm oranges.

i got a 6800gt and ocz pc3200 VX ram and im all over it like a drug addict, even tho i dont have all the compnents i couldnt help opening the packaging more than once, o damn! i just got the urge to spend alot of money on computers AHHH!



just imagine the type of people who would need to go into a hardware rehab clinic tho, makes u want to laugh, and if you laugh your one of thoes people 1 day admit it now!

LOL Thats prettey good One4u2c I just mite have to use that as soon as the adminastrators give me an option in my profile of using one. thanks.

Dammit I laughed, I'm one of those ppl. Hmmm.. I think we should start building the rehab clinic now to cure our own addiction. What do you say?

hmmmm if it smells good and it certainly looks good than maybe it TASTES GOOD! anyone ever ate a video card?