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When was your first computer build?

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LSUfan

Golden Member
I have rebuilt many computers but I am actually buiilding my first one now. LINK When did you first actually build one from scratch?

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March of last year

sempron 3100+ paris
2x 512 mb DDR 400
6600 256 mb agp
biostar mobo sock. 754
Asus quiet drive CD-R/RW
Cheap case with cheap psu (lol all for 30 bucks)
Maxtor Diamond drive 80 Gb HDD ata 133

.....then the upgrades !!!

a better psu !!!
x850xt agp
2 x 1gb Mushkin XP4000 DDR 500
Lite On DVD/CD-R/RW combo drive
Coolermaster Centurion 5
2 x 120 mm fans
2 x pci exhaust fans
Motoral Wireless G pci adapter
Chaintech AV-710 sound card

:3
 
October '04. XP-M 2400+, Shuttle AN35N Ultra, 512MB PC3200, cheap Antec case, CDRW pulled from an old Dell, and other useless crap
 
Built my first machine back in September: Silver Windowed XQPack w/stock PSU, Lite-On DVD/CD-RW Drive, Seagate 7200.7 80GB, MSI RS480M2-IL (XPress 200), Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939, 2x512MB DDR400. I later upgraded it to an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, PNY 7600GT, and Enermax Noisetaker 420W.
 
I have never built one from scratch, but I have replaced most of the parts from the one I bought from Best Buy around Christmas.
 
Originally posted by: Nohr
Around new years of '99 when I built my Celly 300A.
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same here. wow! I can get a 3000 dollar computer for 1500 bucks!!!!

I forget, but somethinging like a 200 Mhz celeron processor and you could push it to a whopping 300 mhz!!!! Unreal and quake ran really well on this new fangled graphic card that owned the market called 3dfx.

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I remember now. a 300 mhz cheap processor that easily ran 450 mhz. mind blowing speed.
 
1996. Pentium 100 MHz.

Bought a Dell in '98. Pentium-2 400 MHz.
Bought a Dell in '01. Pentium-4 2.0 GHz.

I added components to and upgraded those over the years, but now I'm building my second computer ever, 10 years later.
 
Originally posted by: LSUfan
You actually built a 486 from parts?
I remember talking on prodigy chat with one of those.
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i think it was a 486. i was 20. i'm now 27.
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yeah, to play 486 games.

mind you, the p3-700 or 800 was out at the time i built that thing. i got most of the parts at the sidewalk sale in dallas. cost $40 or so. the used hard drive i bought already had dos on it.



i don't think i ever used it and i left it under the sink at my last apartment. according to my old roommate it is still sitting there.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: LSUfan
You actually built a 486 from parts?
I remember talking on prodigy chat with one of those.
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i think it was a 486. i was 20. i'm now 27.
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yeah, to play 486 games.

mind you, the p3-700 or 800 was out at the time i built that thing. i got most of the parts at the sidewalk sale in dallas. cost $40 or so. the used hard drive i bought already had dos on it.



i don't think i ever used it and i left it under the sink at my last apartment. according to my old roommate it is still sitting there.
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The ghost under the sink will be playing tetris soon......
 
my first build was in 2003 in 7th grade. the parts were crappy:

specs were:

Amd Athlon XP 1700+ (it's still in use!)
this crappy DFI mobo
768MB of PC133 SDRAM
a crappy 80GB maxtor
and some generic stuff.
 
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
my first build was in 2003 in 7th grade. the parts were crappy:

specs were:

Amd Athlon XP 1700+ (it's still in use!)
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Still works? Even after 3 whole years? 🙂

 
My first build for myself was in 2004 (brother built me my first one)

Specs were:

A64 3000+ Clawhammer!
Crappy S754 FIC board
2x512mb CH-5 HyperX
9800AIW
Generic case and Aspire 500W
 
Originally posted by: Rob9874
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
my first build was in 2003 in 7th grade. the parts were crappy:

specs were:

Amd Athlon XP 1700+ (it's still in use!)
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Still works? Even after 3 whole years? 🙂
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some stuff even even works after 4 years (believe it or not)
 
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