What made you build your first pc?

[neutralizer]

I bought a cheap @$$ comp from Ubid (look at the specs below as the Coppermine). It suxed with games, and the it was the crappiest video card ever. Not to mention everything was built in. The video card was soldered onto the agp slot and it blocked one of the two pci slots. The speakers suxed @$$, it was one of those $.99 that you get at Fry's. I got fed up because it couldn't play SNES games without lagging. At least, it wasn't a celery, oh and couldn't oc it and the mem suxed @$$.

The computer was getting so slow, I was missing out on all the games. It could barely run Worms Armaggedon and MM1 and MM2 skipped frames. So I decided to build my AXP 1600+ with 8KHA+, Audigy, Ti200, and nice Inspire 4300 speakers... hehe... Not to mention building my own was cheaper. All of my stuff costed under $1000.

 

[macwinlin]

My first taste was when my former employer built the computer (AMD K6-2 300 Mhz) I had before the one I'm using this very moment (Athlon XP 1700+). I don't think I did a whole lot except put a few screws in and align the drives in their bays. And I did a few minor upgrades such as getting new video cards and hard drives.

When the first computer wasn't enough to play the latest games (this was roughly one year ago), I decided to build my current one myself after going on Anandtech and other web sites for advice. So I got most of the parts from a local retailer and started building. As I recall, no serious problems occured and so far has been running w/o problems.

 

[mpitts]

When I realized that my Packard Bell 486SX-25 was a complete piece of intergrated crap.

I built my own 486DX2-66. That was a LOOOOONG time ago. I have probably built about 50 or so computers since then.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: lnguyen

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Yeah, for bottom rung internet/word processing appliances the OEMs just can't be beat. But if you want a middle/top of the line machine, building it yourself saves 30-50%.

good point. I guess i'm too used to the low budget... 1) i'm a poor college student, 2) anyone who ever asks me to build something always has a low budget (i generally tell them to get a dell or gateway so i don't have to bother w/ support, unless it's family or a good friend).

Yeah, I used to be a poor student. It sucked But for some reason, I had so much more fun back then.

Many of my extended family members have been wooed by the loss leaders advertised by the OEMs. If they're lucky (and I'm not ), they come to me for advice, and it often turns out their kids want to game, or they'd like to edit home movies or something. That's when I tell them the loss leaders just wont cut it, and a middle of the line computer will do the things they want while giving them the best bang for the buck.

Yet again my honesty costs me

 

[DanFungus]

Because we had an emachine which sucked @$$, and I had gotten a gateway not that long ago, so I figured that if I gave my parents my gateway, and I built a new computer, I would learn a lot (key thing here...this way they can't say no, they want you to learn! ) and it was fun. And I love this computer.

edit: just used the nifty spell checker thingy

 

[hoihtah]

money... and speed.

 

[WTT0001]

Got sick of trying to upgrade my compaq (propriatary JUNK) and after hanging out here enough I decided to build my own and now am running my nice, new and very fast (compared to the compaq K6-2 380) XP 1800+ system

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: LANMAN

Originally posted by: Evadman
I wanted to learn how to solder.

:Q







--LANMAN

Seriously. It was a HeathKit. Man, that was a long time ago

 

[DDad]

Ah, Packard Bell strikes again......

Started working on them with my wifes PB 486 sx 25
Gradually worked up to building my own- mainly when i started playing with O/Cing

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

because my first computer was a MAC