How long did it take you to build your first system....

[IanUK]

...and if you`ve built many how long does it take now?

I`ve only built the one and being Captain Careful, from first unscrewing of the case to hitting the power button for the first time six hours disappeared somewhere

 

[BoberFett]

First one probably took a few hours, now hardware wise they're down to 45 minutes or so. Add another hour for OS installation and driver configuration.

 

[Buddha Bart]

right now about 2.5 hours

my first took me 3 hours just to get the case open. (of course the "how to open your case" pamphlet promptly fell out when i got it open)

bart

 

[Zalen]

About 3-4 hours. Most of that time was spent trying to figure out why my keyboard didnt work. Turns out I turned the keyboard lock on...duh

 

[Deeko]

Hour and a half....built one since then, took about an hour.

 

[zippy]

Gimme a full tower and I'll have one up and running Win9x in about an hour.
Gimme a mid-tower and I beat you to a bloody pulp! I have biggish, clumsy hands...long fingers, but not fat. I built my friend's in a midtower in about an hour and forty five (not including a few ridiculous pit stops we had to do for ridiculously dumb things...the HS/FAN wouldn't go on...i hadda do a few things i've never had to do before...arg!). :disgust:

 

[JaiKnight]

Only done one so far, and it's still chugging away on my desk! Took me about an hour, but I had most of the mobo taken care of already I dunno about doing the mobo by myself, I have this really bad feeling I'll forget something and then smell burnt plastic the first time I turn the thing on....

 

[Windogg]

First one took me about 6 hours. First 3 hours were spend messing with the onboard ATA66 on the Abit BE6. Now it takes anywhere from 30 minutes (highly integrated system) to 2 hours (server).

Windogg

 

[odog]

with me, it depends how neat i am.... if it's super neat with all the cables tie wrapped and everything aerodynamically good it's ~ 1 hour... messy as hell i can do it in 30 minutes... this is just a mobo, cpu, ram, 3 cards, floppy, cdrom and a HD..

my last build(not really a build just a case transfer) took me about 1:15 but that was a mobo, cpu, 3 sticks of ram, 5 cards, floppy, 2 cdroms, 4 case fans and a HD..

 

[zippy]

Woops, my first one took about 2 hours...I was EXTREMELY careful! (including OS installation btw)

 

[odog]

ohh you were looking for the first build... that was about ~1:30 hours... but that was with 2 others guys building rigs right next to me... i must have asked a question every 30 seconds.... and in the end... i put the floppy cable on backwards and set the HD and cdrom jumpers bass ackwards

 

[astroview]

Took me a while, I couldn't figure out how to put the floppy into the case. It had the weirdest way of putting the floppy drive into the case. That alone took me 30 minutes.

 

[snow patrol]

The first system I built was a 486 DX2 66. It took me about a day or so (hey I was new! )

 

[kami]

my first build took about 2 hours including OS installation. now I can have it together in ~30mins and then however long it takes to install a copy of win98 or whatever's going on.

 

[Spoooon]

My first one took a little less than an hour. I just had to install the mobo, cpu, ram, cards, and drives. And a hard drive that already had a drive image on it, so no messing with OS stuff. After that first one, I had my time down to about 30 minutes, and none of my computers ever failed QC. As for my first computer, I spent about 2 hours on it. The longest part was installing the OS and then tweaking it to hell and back. Fun stuff!

 

[urbantechie]

When I was 8, about a day. Now, 1 hour i'll have it ready and packed back in the box .

 

[tonster]

I personally have a hard time with anyone who said they did their first puter in under 2 or 3 hours. Maybe I was extremely green when I built my first one, but it took me forever. I built one with the first SDRAM available, and it wasn't compatible with my mobo, which was not posted anywhere on the net. First things first-took me 2 hrs to figure the mobo attachment to the case, then everything went pretty quickly I guess. Without the sdram problem, it prolly took me 8-10 hrs. I have only built two or three new systems since then, but I have rebuilt many, many machines. It almost always takes me an hour to assemble (I recheck everything...sux when you get it together and it doesn't work) and an hour for OS install (including getting drivers I need and such). But reinstalling an OS on my personal machine takes 4 hrs minimum, cause I always get certain proggies, all the newest drivers, and have to back up stuff I want.