Favorite enrgy drink

freakdiablo · 11-01-06, 10:45 AM

I doubt a mod would want to make an official poll for this, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Post your favorite energy drink. I go first BAWLZ 4 LIFE!!!!!

freakdiablo · 11-01-06, 10:46 AM

oops, wrong forum, can someone move this or delete it?

OniKoroshi · 11-08-06, 02:03 PM

For those late nights in the lab, Monster seemed to work the best for me. But you still cant be good ol fashion coffee.

benbaked · 11-08-06, 02:16 PM

liquor.

Slaps · 11-08-06, 02:55 PM

Jack and Coke always work.

FudgeNuggets · 11-08-06, 03:40 PM

Nothing like sucking down some bawlz to get a boost in energy, eh???

Seriously,
My favs are fresh brewed Green Tea with Splenda and Vault Zero.

David · 11-08-06, 03:43 PM

Moved to GD.

PM me poll choices and I'll add a poll if you want.

sno.lcn · 11-08-06, 03:46 PM

TILT! Then rockstar.

jack222 · 11-08-06, 04:28 PM

Monster or a screwdriver.

ziggo0 · 11-08-06, 04:30 PM

Monster for me...but I've stopped with the energy drinks and caffine. Good ole Propel and h2o for me.

IWasHungry · 11-08-06, 04:40 PM

No thanks. I'll get my 60g of sugar throughout the day gradually.

drenader · 11-08-06, 04:50 PM

Rockstar is good, but a tripple expresso is much much better

b1029384756 · 11-08-06, 04:55 PM

Sparks...but if we're only talking non-alcohol, Amp is pretty good, especially now that they sell them in 24 oz cans.

trueplaya4ever8 · 11-08-06, 06:00 PM

Been dying to get my hands on some cocaine

hainer36 · 11-08-06, 08:01 PM

hmmm lets see here, after trying:
red bull, jolt, rockstar, full throttle, bawls, cocaine, tab energy, sobe arush, pepsi, dew fuel (mountain dew, but supposedly now with more caffiene), hansens energy, guru, hype, AMP. no fear, pimp juice, speed, tnt, YJ stinger, dark dog, and a few other that are at local 7-11's, avondales, gas stations and wherever i travel

i must say, Jolt Blue is the best, some say it messes with your stomach (mostly the back end of the course), but thats only if you manage to drink wayyy too much. that coming from someone that goes through (or used to, now i cant afford it) this much Jolt in a couple of days

and i did in fact add pepsi in there, as a 2L bottle usually costs less than a bottle of any energy drink (at least a good one) and if u drink 2L as fast as a energy drink, its honestly about the same, except the sugar content (probably)

Angry · 11-08-06, 08:40 PM

Sparks and Jolt, any flavor but the diet. Dont ever drink 2 of each. Trust me.

techun · 11-08-06, 08:50 PM

monster for flavor/energy
full throttle for full out energy, i start twitching when i drink them..oh i havent had an energy drink in a while..

Cyrix_2k · 11-08-06, 08:51 PM

& Coffee. For strict energy drinks, I prefer Monster.

Oni · 11-08-06, 09:11 PM

Just out of my own curiosity, I did a bit of research (not much) and found out something interesting.

Now, most energy drinks around here advertise on the cans that they contain the following ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, and Creatine. Now, we all know where caffiene comes from, but the other two always mystified me. What do they do? Why are they in there? What benefits does that chemical have that they decided to put it in my beverage?

Well, I did a bit of research the other day. This thread reminded me of it, 'cause whenever I have a can of Full Throttle (it's abysmal, but better than half of the other drinks out there) or Sobe No Fear or Adrenaline Rush (not much better, but a bit), I always read those and want to know what they do, but I'm never near a computer.

Creatine was first discovered to be produced by the liver. Yes, it is an excretion from an organ in the human body. It aids the muscles, in that it helps supply energy to them. The human body actually produces more than enough creatine for normal daily life, so there is really no need for more. Bodybuilders use it almost religiously.

I'm sure it's synthesized now, but back in the day, they extracted it from the liver. Nice, eh?

Now, on to taurine. This one was always a mystery to me. I kinda knew what creatine did, but taurine? That's a new one. Upon further investigation, I discovered that taurine is actually a product of bile. Bile is also a liver excretion, and aids in the emmulsification of fatty acids so the nutrients can be extracted by the small intestine. It was originally separated out of ox bile. All it adds to the mixture, is that it allows the eyes to focus, and reduces blood pressure.

Considering that the sugar and caffiene would probably raise the user's blood presure greatly, I'm sure this comes in handy.

I just found it interesting that 2/3 of the concoctions we drink to stay awake, and help us keep gaming into the wee hours, were originally extracted from the liver and digestive tract of large mammals.

I've also made another discovery! I picked up a 4-pak of Adrenaline Rush before my last LAN party, and noticed a new chemical called Inositol. I did some quick research, and this is actually a chemical I like to see! Beyond doing all kinds of good things for your body, it also regulates serotonin activity, effectively making it a mood elevator, similar to an SSRI like Celexa or Zoloft, but without the nasty side effects. Now that's cool!

Malpine Walis · 11-08-06, 09:17 PM

Evidently none of you has ever been to a Thanksgiving weekend gaming con.

What you do is get a cooler large enough to bury a body in and load it up with like three cases of jolt, two huge jars of instant coffee and a couple of gallons of buttermilk (so that you don't rot out your stomach lining). Add two full boxes of power bars (you can eat those all weekend and never have to do #2) and like 12-15 of the largest size bottles of spring water so that you do not dehydrate.

After an 80 hour marathon of gaming, you will be a stinky, sweaty mess but then so will everyone else. And if you meter yourself carefully, you will never have to leave the table, even to sleep.

11-01-06, 10:45 AM	Thread Starter #1
freakdiablo Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Here	Favorite enrgy drink I doubt a mod would want to make an official poll for this, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Post your favorite energy drink. I go first BAWLZ 4 LIFE!!!!! __________________ Main: MOBO: MSI P67A-G45, CPU: i7 2600k w/ VenX (4.4ghz @ 1.33v), RAM: 2x8gb Kingston HyperX Blu Red Series DDR3 1600, GFX: Galaxy GTX670 GC, PSU: OCZ 1250w ZX, CASE: Corsair 500R, HDD: 120gb Samsung 840, Samsung 2TB EcoGreen F4 Quick, Cheap, and Dirty NAS: Sempron 140, Hyper 212+ with 800RPM Scythe Slipstreams, 4gb ram, 5x2tb Hitachis in RAID5, Seasonic SSR-360GP, Antec 300, Biostar Tpower motherboard, APC BR700G UPS, Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H router Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X220 HTPC: Zotac ZBOX AD04-U w/ 4GB Samsung 1333mhz, 64GB Adata Premier Pro SP900 Sandbox: Q9550, DFI Lanparty Jr. P45-T2RS, 3GB mismatched ram, 1TB Samsung F1, Antec Neo Eco 400w, cheapo case Lanbox: APEX TX-381-C case, MSI 760GM-P34 w/ cheap MOSFET heatsinks, AMD PII 965 BE, 8gb Corsair XMS3 1333MHz, 120GB OCZ Vertex 3, CM 212 Evo, MSI 5850 OC Project 1UP Bored of games? Nothing good on internet radio or youtube? Dont waste your GHz, find them before they find us. SETI
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freakdiablo Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Here	oops, wrong forum, can someone move this or delete it? __________________ Main: MOBO: MSI P67A-G45, CPU: i7 2600k w/ VenX (4.4ghz @ 1.33v), RAM: 2x8gb Kingston HyperX Blu Red Series DDR3 1600, GFX: Galaxy GTX670 GC, PSU: OCZ 1250w ZX, CASE: Corsair 500R, HDD: 120gb Samsung 840, Samsung 2TB EcoGreen F4 Quick, Cheap, and Dirty NAS: Sempron 140, Hyper 212+ with 800RPM Scythe Slipstreams, 4gb ram, 5x2tb Hitachis in RAID5, Seasonic SSR-360GP, Antec 300, Biostar Tpower motherboard, APC BR700G UPS, Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H router Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X220 HTPC: Zotac ZBOX AD04-U w/ 4GB Samsung 1333mhz, 64GB Adata Premier Pro SP900 Sandbox: Q9550, DFI Lanparty Jr. P45-T2RS, 3GB mismatched ram, 1TB Samsung F1, Antec Neo Eco 400w, cheapo case Lanbox: APEX TX-381-C case, MSI 760GM-P34 w/ cheap MOSFET heatsinks, AMD PII 965 BE, 8gb Corsair XMS3 1333MHz, 120GB OCZ Vertex 3, CM 212 Evo, MSI 5850 OC Project 1UP Bored of games? Nothing good on internet radio or youtube? Dont waste your GHz, find them before they find us. SETI
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11-08-06, 02:03 PM	#3
OniKoroshi Member Join Date: Aug 2006	For those late nights in the lab, Monster seemed to work the best for me. But you still cant be good ol fashion coffee.
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11-08-06, 02:16 PM	#4
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11-08-06, 02:55 PM	#5
Slaps Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sconsin	Jack and Coke always work.
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11-08-06, 03:40 PM	#6
FudgeNuggets Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gone Racing	Nothing like sucking down some bawlz to get a boost in energy, eh??? Seriously, My favs are fresh brewed Green Tea with Splenda and Vault Zero.
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11-08-06, 03:43 PM	#7
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11-08-06, 03:46 PM	#8
sno.lcn Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA	TILT! Then rockstar.
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11-08-06, 04:28 PM	#9
jack222 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Stamford, CT	Monster or a screwdriver. __________________ Intel Core i7-2600K @ 4.5GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked @ 860/2025 ASUS P8Z68-V PRO G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB CM Hyper 212 EVO ASUS VH238H 23" Crucial M4 128GB SSD + 2TB storage CORSAIR 750TX
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11-08-06, 04:30 PM	#10
ziggo0 Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: La Porte, Indiana	Monster for me...but I've stopped with the energy drinks and caffine. Good ole Propel and h2o for me. __________________ My Heatware
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11-08-06, 04:40 PM	#11
IWasHungry Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, WA	No thanks. I'll get my 60g of sugar throughout the day gradually.
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11-08-06, 04:50 PM	#12
drenader Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Austin	Rockstar is good, but a tripple expresso is much much better __________________ "Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred" -50 Cent
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11-08-06, 04:55 PM	#13
b1029384756 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trenton	Sparks...but if we're only talking non-alcohol, Amp is pretty good, especially now that they sell them in 24 oz cans. __________________ Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel P4 2.6C@3120, Thermalright SP-94, Vantec Tornado 92mm@12V, Swiftech MCX-159R, Microcool southrbidge/PLL/MOSFET sinks, 1GB OCZ PC3500 Plat. Ltd.@5:4, 2-2-2-5, Super Talent memory cooler, ATI Radeon 9800XT@415/370, ATI Silencer 3, Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, SB Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro, US Robotics 5610B, 3Com 3CRDAG675, TT Xaser III V1000A, Antec TrueBlue 480W, Thermaltake LED Smart Fans 80mm * 7, WD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA & 36GB Raptor * 2 RAID 0, Vantec HDC-502a * 2, Coolermaster Cooldrive 4 & Musketeer 1, Sony CRX320E & DW-U18A, Teac floppy, ATech Flash Pro9, Viewsonic P225fb, Logitech Z-680, APC Smart-UPS 1500
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11-08-06, 08:01 PM	#15
hainer36 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Niagara, ON	hmmm lets see here, after trying: red bull, jolt, rockstar, full throttle, bawls, cocaine, tab energy, sobe arush, pepsi, dew fuel (mountain dew, but supposedly now with more caffiene), hansens energy, guru, hype, AMP. no fear, pimp juice, speed, tnt, YJ stinger, dark dog, and a few other that are at local 7-11's, avondales, gas stations and wherever i travel i must say, Jolt Blue is the best, some say it messes with your stomach (mostly the back end of the course), but thats only if you manage to drink wayyy too much. that coming from someone that goes through (or used to, now i cant afford it) this much Jolt in a couple of days and i did in fact add pepsi in there, as a 2L bottle usually costs less than a bottle of any energy drink (at least a good one) and if u drink 2L as fast as a energy drink, its honestly about the same, except the sugar content (probably) __________________ ________________________________Heat _______________________Shipping to Canada? READ THIS!
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11-08-06, 08:40 PM	#16
Angry Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bluefield, WV	Sparks and Jolt, any flavor but the diet. Dont ever drink 2 of each. Trust me. __________________ Main Rig.......................Game Server.........................Media Server..............Untangle Core i3 2100 ....... ........Phenom II X4 965...................Athlon II X4 620....... Athlon X2 2350-BE 2.1ghz MSI P67A-GD65 ..............Asus M4A79XTD........................GA-890GX.................MSI 785GTM-45 G.Skill 1333 4x2gb............16gb Partriot S5 DDR3 1333.......4gb DDR3 1600...........4gb OCZ DDR2 1066 EVGA GTX 670 FTW SLI........2x EVGA GTX 550Ti.........................Onboard 890gx 60gb OCZ Summit.................4x250gb WD RE Raid0 ViewSonic VX2453mh-LED
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11-08-06, 08:50 PM	#17
techun Member Join Date: Jul 2004	monster for flavor/energy full throttle for full out energy, i start twitching when i drink them..oh i havent had an energy drink in a while.. __________________ Sugo SFF cube case 4850 45W 4 gigs ddr2 800 7200.11 500gig
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11-08-06, 08:51 PM	#18
Cyrix_2k Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: College Park, MD (School) - Westminster, MD (home)	& Coffee. For strict energy drinks, I prefer Monster. __________________ ASRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen3 2500k @ 4.9ghz Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO vCore 1.287 \|Idle: 33°c \| Full load: 68°c 16gb Corsair XMS 3 \| Sapphire 6950 2GB UNLOCKED F O L D For Team 32!! Black belt Ubercloxx0r Audio Technica ATH-A900's "yet another issue with the R-series. If I actually use it on my lap, I can feel my sperm count dropping."
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11-08-06, 09:11 PM	#19
Oni Oni-ni-Kanabō Ninja Hippo eater Moderator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Canada	Just out of my own curiosity, I did a bit of research (not much) and found out something interesting. Now, most energy drinks around here advertise on the cans that they contain the following ingredients: Caffeine, Taurine, and Creatine. Now, we all know where caffiene comes from, but the other two always mystified me. What do they do? Why are they in there? What benefits does that chemical have that they decided to put it in my beverage? Well, I did a bit of research the other day. This thread reminded me of it, 'cause whenever I have a can of Full Throttle (it's abysmal, but better than half of the other drinks out there) or Sobe No Fear or Adrenaline Rush (not much better, but a bit), I always read those and want to know what they do, but I'm never near a computer. Creatine was first discovered to be produced by the liver. Yes, it is an excretion from an organ in the human body. It aids the muscles, in that it helps supply energy to them. The human body actually produces more than enough creatine for normal daily life, so there is really no need for more. Bodybuilders use it almost religiously. I'm sure it's synthesized now, but back in the day, they extracted it from the liver. Nice, eh? Now, on to taurine. This one was always a mystery to me. I kinda knew what creatine did, but taurine? That's a new one. Upon further investigation, I discovered that taurine is actually a product of bile. Bile is also a liver excretion, and aids in the emmulsification of fatty acids so the nutrients can be extracted by the small intestine. It was originally separated out of ox bile. All it adds to the mixture, is that it allows the eyes to focus, and reduces blood pressure. Considering that the sugar and caffiene would probably raise the user's blood presure greatly, I'm sure this comes in handy. I just found it interesting that 2/3 of the concoctions we drink to stay awake, and help us keep gaming into the wee hours, were originally extracted from the liver and digestive tract of large mammals. I've also made another discovery! I picked up a 4-pak of Adrenaline Rush before my last LAN party, and noticed a new chemical called Inositol. I did some quick research, and this is actually a chemical I like to see! Beyond doing all kinds of good things for your body, it also regulates serotonin activity, effectively making it a mood elevator, similar to an SSRI like Celexa or Zoloft, but without the nasty side effects. Now that's cool! __________________ Mama, put my guns in the ground. I can't shoot them anymore. On Indefinite Hiatus Asus P6T SE Intel i7 930 @ Stock 12GB Corsair DDR3 9-9-9-24 XFX Radeon 5830 @ Stock Corsair 750 Watt PSU
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11-08-06, 09:17 PM	#20
Malpine Walis Disabled Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Banned Camp	Evidently none of you has ever been to a Thanksgiving weekend gaming con. What you do is get a cooler large enough to bury a body in and load it up with like three cases of jolt, two huge jars of instant coffee and a couple of gallons of buttermilk (so that you don't rot out your stomach lining). Add two full boxes of power bars (you can eat those all weekend and never have to do #2) and like 12-15 of the largest size bottles of spring water so that you do not dehydrate. After an 80 hour marathon of gaming, you will be a stinky, sweaty mess but then so will everyone else. And if you meter yourself carefully, you will never have to leave the table, even to sleep.
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