Hi, Welcome to Evga-Forum 
 
(New pictures and editing done by rjohnson11 on 12 September 2015)
 
This is a thread containing the most basic skills which you might want to learn to be able to properly build up your profile on this forum. 
 
1. Terms Of Service [TOS]
2. Structure of our Evga-Forum
3. How to post a new thread
4. How to post a picture
5. How to quote a message
6. How to post a youtube-video
7. How to post a link
8. How to setup up your modsrigs
9. Milestones
10. Blue Ribbons
11. Account info
12. Folding for team Evga
13. How to send a Personal Message
 

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1.  Terms Of Service [TOS]
It is very important to follow the EVGA-TOS. You can read about it here.
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=4682
 
 
2.  Structure of our Evga-Forum
As soon as you click on the indicated area you enter the  All-forum section of EVGA.
 

 
 
Here you'll find all the sub-sections. Each sub-section contains several sub-sections. The subsections are: (Click to visit each subsection)
EVGA Graphics Cards
EVGA Motherboards
Other EVGA Products
EVGA General Forum
Computer Hardware/Software
EVGA Gaming
Distributed Computing
EVGA Marketplace
 
 
3.  How to post a new thread
Let's say I would like to post a new thread in the General Discussion area of the EVGA General Forum
 
 
Click Post New Thread as shown
 
 
Type your subject and body of your post

 
Now I just click the "Submit post" - button. The Thread/Post is now started.
 
 
4.  How to post a picture
It is quite simple to post a picture in a post.  
a) You can attach photos to your post by clicking on the box as shown. The link to paste in the box should be a direct
link from a picture hosting site like photobucket for example:
 
 
 5.  How to quote a message
First click "quote" as shown
 
 
Once you click the quote you will see something like this:
 

Start typing any text below the last quote. Usually your cursor is blinking at that point already for you.

6.  How to post a youtube-video
To insert a YOUTUBE video into a forum post you must be using the Full version of the forum reply. If inserting a video into an
already existing forum thread click "Open Full Version" in parenthesis as shown. If you are starting a brand new thread the
initial forum post will be in Full Version mode already.
 
Then click here on the box that says Special PGDCode when you hover your mouse on top of it.
 
Now you will see this box as shown
 
 Now click on YouTube Video Embed
 

This is now copied into your post as shown which says "[tube][/tube]"
Now paste your youtubevideo-URL in between the [tube]insert Youtube URL here[/tube] 
Now just click "unlink" (The icon shown in the screenshot below)

and then "Post Message"
It should look like this.

 
7.  How to post a link
Lets say I would like to post a link to one of my profile. 
Then I find the URL to my profile. http://forums.evga.com...file.aspx?memid=852128
Now I would like to replace that long link with "link to my profile". 
I copy the whole link and then type "link to my profile. Now I mark the "link to my profile" and then click on the "link"-button.
 
The result:
Link to my profile
 
8.  How to setup up your modsrigs
a) Create a profile
b) Create a build
c) Upload pics (max 500kb each and file-type: Jpeg)
d) type your specs
e) Upload your 3Dmark/3Dmark11/Vantage-score to be able to win. I've shown an example below.. This is with my score, 13701 3DMark Fire Strike
e,a)  1. Insert your score.. (only digits) so for instance you have to write "13701" in the field right to the line marked with red. 
        2. Insert your link, "http://3dmark.com/3dmv/2562847", into the correct field
        3. Make sure your rig is public.
        4. Click Create New Rig
 
 
9.  Milestones
Copied from rjohnson11's thread
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Milestones: 

1000 Posts
2000 Posts
3000 Posts
4000 Posts 
5000 Posts
6000 Posts 
7500 Posts
10000 Posts
12500 Posts
15000 Posts
17500 Posts 
20000 Posts
22500 Posts
25000 Posts
27500 Posts
30000 Posts
32500 Posts
35000 Posts
37500 Posts 
40000 Posts
42500 Posts
45000 Posts
47500 Posts
50000 Posts
52500 Posts
55000 Posts
57500 Posts
60000 Posts
62500 Posts
65000 Posts
67500 Posts
70000 Posts
72500 Posts
75000 Posts
77500 Posts
80000 Posts
82500 Posts
85000 Posts
87500 Posts
90000 Posts
92500 Posts
95000 Posts
97500 Posts
100000 Posts


Ranks: 

Ranks: (Based on number of posts)
0-100: New Member 
101-250: Superclocked Member 
251-500: ACX Member 
501-1000: SSC Member 
1001-2000: FTW Member 
2001-5000: CLASSIFIED Member 
5001-8000: CLASSIFIED 4-Way Member 
8001-15000: Omnipotent Enthusiast 
15001: Pick your own title (requires admin approval)
 
Old ranks:
0-100: New Member  
101-250: Superclocked Member  
251-500: SSC Member  
501-1000: FTW Member  
1001-2000: Über Member  
2001-5000: Über Elite FTW Member  
5001-8000: IDDQD Member  
8001-15000: Omnipotent Enthusiast  
15001: Pick your own title (requires admin approval) 
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Dont forget to post a "milestone-thread" when you reach one. Post it in the general-section.
 
10.  Blue Ribbons
A blue ribbon is worth 2EVGA Bucks. You can read about it here. You can read this thread about what it takes to get a blue ribbon (BR) here. You can also recommend a post to a BR. You can do that in Afterburner's thread.
 
11.  Account info
If you enter the Forum-section then you can enter your account info from there by clicking "User Control Panel" --> "Edit Profile". It looks like this.


 
 
Now you're able to enter some personal info. You're able to upload your profile-picture or avatar. You can also post a Signature*. 
* Your signature must not violate TOS.

Signatures - A signature is a limited-sized area for our members to display personal information about themselves and their systems to the EVGA Community.  Your signature is viewable in your profile and on every post you make.  To create or edit your signature, please login to your EVGA forum account, go here (*link*), click on the "Signature and Comment" box, fill in your signature, and remember to save your signature.  In order to provide a quality forum experience for all of our members, signatures are limited in size to 770(w) x 250(h) pixels.  Within that space, you may use any text, link, photo, animation, and/or content so long as it remains consistent with the EVGA Terms of Use and the EVGA Marketplace Rules.  We strongly encourage our members to use this space to express themselves and add to the diversity of the EVGA Community! 
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12.  Folding for team Evga
One thing that we're very proud of in our great community is our demand for helping others. Some of got some hardware that we dont use 24/7, so why not put it into good use? All you have to do to help fighting diseases is to join our folding team. You can read about how to do. If you got any questions or need any help feel free to post a new thread in the Folding-section. We are here to help 
You also get some promotions for folding for team EVGA.
 
 
13.  How to send a Personal Message
From the startpage, www.evga.com, enter the EVGA-Forum.
 
  Then click on the "Private Messages" (PM) as shown in the screenshot
 
 
Now click "send new PM"
 

You can also find a member by clicking the Find Members button next to the "To" field as shown in the screenshot

An alternative way to send a PM is to hover your mouse over a forum members name as shown below, and then click "Send a Private Message"
 
 
 
Link to member-search
Thanks for reading and welcome to EVGA-Forum.
 
Kind Regards,
HeThing
aka Hans-Erik Thing aka =EGC=KiLLingQ
(New pictures and editing done by rjohnson11 on 12 September 2015)

Finally.....

This should get sticky-ed.

enigma442

This should get sticky-ed.

 
indeed! 

This is a very good guide!!!!

+1 for BR

What if you're not new but just want to post something in a thread?
 
Otherwise,
 

 
and to all of the new people I say, "I Love you!"

 
What an obvious attempt at earning a BR!

Cheers for the youtube tags. <3

Feel free to send me a PM if you got anything that I should consider adding. New members deserves the best start they can possibly get