What was your age when you built your first PC?

linkin

linkin

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I was 14 when i was fed up with my HP Slimline desktop... then it totally kicked the bucket :P If you guys can remember my old POS "modded" case with blue cathodes and a "circle" modded into the side panel :D Don't have the pics any more :o

Still, i consider the computer i have now to be my first real computer. :)

What about you guys? (you know who you are... ;))
 
I was 15 when I built my first computer :) Specs were

AMD Sempron 2800+ S754
768Mbytes of RAM
80GB HDD
Windows XP Home
GeForce MX440 PCI 128MB graphics

back in 2005 :)
 
i think i was 16 yrs old,Yeah must have been cos it was near when i was leaving high school so around 16-17 yrs old.

Specs

AMD Sempron 2800+
1.25Gb ram (1gb +256mb) Pc3200.
120Gb IDE Seagate HDD.
Radeon 9600 Pro (256mb) loved that card back then...
400w cheap psu :P

I still have this system in the attic,works fine :P

I tried windows 7 RC on it,Suprisingly it ran very well considering....Aero worked too.
 
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About 23.
Imsai, digital group PDP11 and a TRS-80 Z80 with 4k of memory i paid a thousand dollars for in a kit. all the parts had to be soldered on all the boards. i think i spelled the imsai right. think that was a 8080 processor. long time ago.
 
Pretty sure I was 13, turning 14 that year. I remember my specs too:

MSI K9N4 SLi nForce 500
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ 2.6Ghz, later OCed to 2.7ghz (wannabe overclocker :P)
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz
8500GT 256MB GDDR2
80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA (still have it too...)
Raidmax 420W PSU (21W 12V Rail)
Raidmax Scorpio (Black)

Cost me like $360 bucks, and then later I added a wireless card. A Rosewill POFS. I even remeber why I added it later, cause my dad said I wasn't allowed to spend 1 penny more than I got for the laptop I sold lol...
 
my first "build" was more of a take apart to have a look and clean, put back together when I was 12

My first full build though was 13.

I'm sure I've seen this identical, or remarkably similar, thread before
 
13.5
AMD Athlon 3000+
256Mb DDR RAM
Asus motherboard
Onboard 32 MB graphics
LG 17 inch CRT monitor\
no speakers
TVS gold Keyboard
Intex Optical mouse
80GB hard drive
 
16ish

Saved up money and built this

Celeron 300A
Asus 440 BX motherboard
256MB SDRAM
16MB Nvidia TNT card (though I had other cards before that)
4gig HD
Some sort of Creative Sound card, a lower end one
windows 98se but was I think originally Windows 95
 
I had a TNT2 card before. wouldn't even play command and conquer generals :P

Infact, that's when a boug an FX 5600 and got into computers (~2006 ish)
 
17 (last year actually). you might even be able to find my first thread where i was asking about my onboard gpu (thanks bomber, i think you were the only one to respond :P).
 
I was 14 or 15 when I built my first computer. But I had been toying with my old Dell for two or three years before that.
 
Age 14,

Specks,

AMD Duron 1.8ghz

80GB HD

1.25gb DDR ram

DVD-RW ( was like $100 at the time )

Windows 2000 & XP Dual boot

some nvidia 32mb PCI video card


First pc at age 11 was:

Gateway 2000

Pentium 133mhz

80MB ram

2.4gb hard drive windows 98se

cd-rom

56k data fax modem, 10mb nic card

( still have this computer, runs fine no problems with it hardly use it tho in storage )
 
I'm too lazy to actually figure out my age (14 or 15) but I started building with BBSK's assistance at the date of my joining the forum! :D Thanks BBSK, you've started a river out of my wallet ;) .
 
20....I'm actually still building it. All I lack is the CPU, Mobo, and RAM to get it functional. Still need more RAM and a better GPU later on though.
 
tlarkin said:
16ish

Saved up money and built this

Celeron 300A
Asus 440 BX motherboard
256MB SDRAM
16MB Nvidia TNT card (though I had other cards before that)
4gig HD
Some sort of Creative Sound card, a lower end one
windows 98se but was I think originally Windows 95
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linkin said:
I had a TNT2 card before. wouldn't even play command and conquer generals :P

Infact, that's when a boug an FX 5600 and got into computers (~2006 ish)
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The first card I had was a 32mb ATi Rage 128 Pro. I've still got it, but I doubt it still workss, my sister managed to spill wine over it a few months back :mad:
 
Damn, I cannot believe some of you built your first when you were 14! I was busy trying to find out what sex was like and what weed was like...
 
Does it count if you bought all the bits and never got around to doing it,if it
does then i was 64yrs last march.:)
 
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