When was your first computer build?

[Martin]

Built one in 2001, but I don't remember its specs (AMD 700ish with a radeon of some type). That one got old so last year I built myself a nice little shuttle mini pc.

 

[FeuerFrei]

First built my system back in 2002. Then built another just like it for my wife.
Built my current system last year.

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
Asrock 939Dual mobo
1 gig Corsair RAM
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT w/ 256 MB
Silverstone TJ04 case
OCZ Modstream 450W PSU
Hyundai L90D+ 19" LCD display

 

[TheSlamma]

386 SX 16mhz with 1meg of RAM I think it was like a 20 or 40 meg drive.

 

[Lumathix]

A P2-300 Klamath. Around '98. Overclocked to 450mhz 🙂

 

[microAmp]

Celeron 400 MHz Slot 1
AOpen AX6BC motherboard (I think that is the right model)

Rest was ripped from my refurbed Dell computer.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

P2-233
not sure about RAM
2x8gb Bigfoots
Voodoo 2

oh that gaming machine was sexy. Yay Glide.

 

[aphex]

Circa 1998

AMD K6-2 300mhz

I was about 16.

 

[Lonyo]

March/April 2003.
XP 1900+/1GB RAM/Ti4400

 

[sniperruff]

2002

AXP1700+
soltek KT333 mobo
256mb kingston valueram PC2100 (eventually up to 768mb after a couple FAR deals 😀)
MSI gforce 3 Ti500
salvaged philips 8x CDRW (then a 40X liteon, then a 52x liteon, then now a NEC 3520A)
antec SX830 with a 300W smartpower. stable as hell PSU
a 15-inch CRT, then a 17-inch viewsonic, then a 19-inch dell, now a viewsonic VA902b LCD

i don't plan on changing anything unless anything breaks. i hope not!

 

[Megatomic]

It was a shuttle mobo with a K5 chip and like 128MB of RAM. That's about all I can remember of it right now, it was so long ago and I've had so many computers since then.

 

[PricklyPete]

1998ish

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

two years ago this october, an a64 2800+, 512mb RAM, 80GB HDD, Radeon 9800Pro 128mb

still being used as the home computer 🙂

 

[E equals MC2]

AMD Slot A Thunderbird 700mhz. I don't know what the point of slot A was.. the process looked just like a NES cartridge

RAM was probably 256 or 512

 

[E equals MC2]

BTW, is it me or 512 mb of RAM was the sweet spot for the LONGEST time? from early 2000 to even now. 512 is still the norm.

all other numbers- 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 were rather phasing out fast.

 

[flyboy84]

I've upgraded machines to the point that there is not one screw from the original machine, but I've never sat down and built from scratch...one day...

 

[91TTZ]

My friend and I used to build computers starting in 7th grade. That was in 1988. There were only 386's back then. Later on we would build people 386's that easily outperformed Intel 386's. Cyrix had a 386-40 that was a screamer for the time.

I also built myself a Pentium-60 when it came out, then a Cyrix 6x86-166, then a Pentium Pro 200, then a Pentium 2 400, now an Athlon XP 2000.

 

[homestarmy]

I'm suprised more haven't or haven't built them earlier.

I built my first around '98 when I was 16.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: LSUfan
I have rebuilt many computers but I am actually buiilding my first one now. LINK When did you first actually build one from scratch?

edit for spelling

To the OP,
Just to tell you, that processor will not fit on that motherboard. You need either a socket AM2 motherboard if you have a socket am2 processor or a socket 939 processor if you have a socket 939 mobo. Not a socket am2 processor and 939 mobo.

 

[Juno]

i have been upgrading but my first build was back in summer '03 was a xp2700+ with a cheap fx5600.

now, i'm sporting a x2 3800+ with w0wz3rz 7900gtx.

 

[jadinolf]

November 1995. DX4/100
16 megs of memory
1.2 Gig HDD
2X CD ROM
1 Meg of video
14.4 Modem

Cost was roughly $1600.

I still have the case and PSU. Everything else has been replaced but it's still in working condition.

 

[LSUfan]

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp

Originally posted by: LSUfan
I have rebuilt many computers but I am actually buiilding my first one now. LINK When did you first actually build one from scratch?

edit for spelling

To the OP,
Just to tell you, that processor will not fit on that motherboard. You need either a socket AM2 motherboard if you have a socket am2 processor or a socket 939 processor if you have a socket 939 mobo. Not a socket am2 processor and 939 mobo.

Thanks. I was able to change it before they shipped.

 

[imported_fallen]

Memory is fuzzy but I think Early 95:

Pentium 90
Extra 256 L2 Cache was actually a seperate stick, cost a ton at the time.
8meg ram
850mb hdd
Ran windows 3.11 or I think, upgraded to win95 around october.

Previous Comp was a pre-built 386.

 

[Josh7289]

I built my first July 3, 2005. It's the PC I'm using now.

 

[Raincity]

Some 486 kit I bought around 92. I had a Soyo board and a Conner hardrive and both floppies where Teacs thats all I remember.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: LSUfan

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp

Originally posted by: LSUfan
I have rebuilt many computers but I am actually buiilding my first one now. LINK When did you first actually build one from scratch?

edit for spelling

To the OP,
Just to tell you, that processor will not fit on that motherboard. You need either a socket AM2 motherboard if you have a socket am2 processor or a socket 939 processor if you have a socket 939 mobo. Not a socket am2 processor and 939 mobo.

Thanks. I was able to change it before they shipped.

What did you change, the motherboard or processor? if you changed the motherboard to AM2 then you need ddr2 ram.