when did you build your first computer?

I never built a computer from scratch. Only replaced components.

>>62348602
2008

real late to the party, but prior to that I wasn't particularly interested in PC games. I played nothing but console games during the 90's and early 00's.

>>62348602
6 months ago.
Made dimensional criteria mistakes that will no going to happen again...

>>62348602
Around 2001-2002 I guess. Not sure anymore, my father taught me how to bulild a pc back then.

10 years ago. I basically replaced all the initial parts. Only the case and power supply are left. Can I still call it my first built PC?

i think i was sixteen, not sure on the age

When I was 11 but no one wrote an article about it

>>62348868
Shame on (You), dude. You're nothing but a loser.

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>>62348602
never, daddy built it for me

>>62348602
Roughly six years ago.

>>62348602
>built
Use "assemble"; suit yourself

Litterally yesterday

When I was 5, I'm a really Cool Cid. But my first w/out help from my dad and completely by myself was when I was around 7-8

I've replaced all the components in my PC with new ones. Is it still the same PC?

>>62348602
Just over two years ago, it was a piece of shit, fx300 with r9 270, coming from integrated graphics I thought I would be fine with low settings but really I want all the pretty I can get. the only thing left from that build is my hard drive and psu.

Maybe I'll start from scratch when the 9th gen consoles are out. mmm, maybe more cases won't have shit airflow, ssd's will be more affordable and miners will be six feet under, one can only hope.

>>62348602
2008.
>i7 920
>6gb DDR3-1600
>GTX260
>500gb WD Caviar Green
>NZXT Shitbox case

I loved that damn thing. Got super confused when it came to the graphics card, for a little while I thought you *had* to plug the molex->6-pin connectors in, since they came with the GPU.

Ah, memories.

>>62348618
Same here.

Bought my first and only PC 24 years ago.
Been upgrading it ever since.

Probably some time in the 90s. I think maybe around 1996? My family got our 486 from QVC or some shit since PC were quite rare in the late 80s. There was no ordering online back in the mid 90s so I had to read magazines and talk to people on IRC to even understand what the fuck each component did. Shit like Math-co processors got merged into the CPU itself so my understanding of what was required dated from the 80s when 90s was much more modular setup. It still fucking sucked compared to now and the cases didn't seem to improve until the late 2000s. Something as simple as rotating the HDD cage 90 degrees so they face the side wall isn't exactly rocket science but it took 30 years to do it.

>>62348602
I started when you couldn't just build one, you needed to buy a barebone at the very least. In the 80s.

2005
>athlon 64 3400+
>two gigs of ram in fucking dual channel
>radeon x800 xt
what a beast it was

>>62352156
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro VIVO
1GB DDR40RAM
40 GB Samsung HDD

>>62352245
*DDR400
No idea what I've pressed instead of space

2008ish?

8800GT SLI
2GB DDR2 800
Q6600
850 watt Antec semi-modular (literally why?)
Antec 900 (fans all set to max, all the time)
80+250GB HDD

The GPUs got heavily throttled due to a PSU issue (either the PCI slot or the actual PSU) so framerates were god awful until they pushed a BIOS patch. Thing lasted me forever, eventually I ended up replacing the MoBo and decided to switch to micro ATX and threw everything into a cube case.

>>62348602
2015

>>62348602
'95

>>62348602
is that nixia?
akane kyoto look alike

>>62348618
this

also since about 2008 I only owned laptops

>>62348602
Sometime in my mid-teens. My dad helped, but it was his first PC build too. We forgot to set the jumpers - took us a few hours to find the problem. Good times.

>>62351932
>gtx 260

Dumb fuck. I had an hd 4870 then. Way better

2013.

I cried.

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Was playing games on a Compaq PC till like 2005. Finally decided to go build a PC for GW1. Spent weeks looking through Frys ads to buy parts on sale.

Still have it, but it no longer works. Kinda want to use the case for something.

Every time I try to install a CPU cooler I have to press down so hard, I'm afraid I break the whole thing. That's the only reason why I don't like building computers.

>>62348602
I was 8, I used xubuntu as my first OS ever then moved to winXP to play battlefield 2/ QIII with my friends.

~2000
Abit KG7-Raid, Athlon XP, Geforce 3 TI.

The legend of Abit motherboards is true, had to RMA that bitch 3 times.

>>62348957
Lol nigger

>>62348618
I've never built a computer from scratch either, only put preasssembled pieces of hardware together.

>>62348957
You must have invented a new type of time machine too since you've aged 3 years since 2016.

I never built it... I'm new in here btw, it's my first reply!!! :D

>>62354427
but is that really necessary?

When Rose made a video about it.

>>62348602
Not yet, hopefully soon.

>>62348602
give me a gf

>>62348602
2009 since I heard pirating games was real easy figured the pc would pay for itself and it really did.

>>62348602
Within the next month or so, when I have the parts.

>>62348602
In college, when I was 17 yo. My shitbox had 2 gigs of DDR2, Q8200 snatched from a home PC (I replaced it with a Celeron), 9600GS also from a home PC, some old case and 20GB Maxtor HDD. I installed Windows 7 on it and had immediate regrets since it took like 10GB and I couldn't install anything except a web browser. Probably the only time when I unironically used ReadyBoost because USB 2.0 flash was faster than that Maxtor. At least I could play GTA IV from the external HDD.

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>>62354695
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>>62348602
1994. It was a 486SX33. Later I upgraded to a DX4-100.

>>62354457
Kek

3 months ago

>>62348996
Where is this from? ive seen it quite a lot but never found a sauce

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>>62348602
three weeks ago.

>>62354695
Tu debils

After being forced to use a Mac my whole life, I finally bought parts to build a pc, built it yesterday.

1922

Isn't assembled a better term?

>>62348633
Same here 2005 was my first build, all consoles before that.

>>62348602
in 2032 , when my quantum computer broke and I needed an alternative to fix my time machine.

>>62348646
>that will no going to happen again...
please...

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Mid 90's, when my Amiga wasn't cutting it anymore :(
Whish I kept it and sold it to retro idiots now.

>>62348602
1994, worked the whole summer and blew all the xmas money to buy it.

>Intel i386 33 MHz
>4MB RAM
>50 MB PATA HDD
>Matrox or ELSA graphic card (don't remember)
>Sound Blaster Pro (8bit, Stereo)
>14'400 USRobotics modem (external)

>>62348602
Before most of you pups were sliding out of your daddies dicks.

>>62348957
>14
4chan is 18+. Enjoy your ban.

2005
AMD with a shit tier onboard graphics on Windows vista beta. Goddamn I loved it.

>>62348618
This. My first PC was a second hand P4 xeon atx server platform. I replaced any part at least once and ran multiple types of configs but never built one from scratch. I built one for my father in law late '15 on his budget. Was really fun to do.

When I was 13. Got into age of mythology beta and needed a better computer.

>>62356247
Falling for bait so easily jeez, not him but im disapointed anon

>>62356288
Not them, but I remember one time I gave my age as being under 18, and someone reported my post. 10 minutes later I was banned for a week.

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>>62353716
>4870
how did you survive? that shit ran at sun surface temps

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>>62354997
it's me

>>62348602
2010 I believe. Second hand C2D E2160, some kind of Gigabyte board I can't remember, 4GB of RAM and HD3870 from my old PC. I was 14 at the time.
I still have the same exact case. Never really build a PC from scrath (for myself), just upgraded it.

>>62348996
Post feminine penis

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>>62356322
>that shit ran at sun surface temps
I had two GTX480s in SLI.
AMA

>>62348602
I was around 8 I think I don't quite remember

Built a PC for my moms office with my dad

>>62356343
Cases lasts an eternity. I've remodeled my rig completely at least 3 times before I upgraded the case.

>>62356382
>Cases lasts an eternity
Pretty much. Especially since the one I have is still in decent condition and pretty spacious, I could fit massive dual-GPU cards without any problem. Airflow is decent too.

Incidentally on my 3rd system in this case now. First Athlon64 prebuilt from local shop, then the C2D I built, and now 2500K. I'm probably also going to build a Ryzen system in it some time in the future.

>>62348602
2011

Got cheap parts and haven't upgraded past an SSD last year

>>62348602
2010, when I was 16. Built two more for school and three for other various purposes since.

16

>>62354457
my nigga

>>62348618

Me, too, only because I'm a poor sap

>>62348602
6, with the help of my friend's father.

>>62356382
Not true, depending on what case you got.

Factory cases were often built to fit specific company products. HP/Dell are notorious for this.
Old full towers are a fucking pain in the ass to work with. Sharp edges all over, no cable management, everything is screw in, i/o slots break off.

Considering how cheap modern cases are you'd be mad not to be using one.

>>62348996
>>62356338
NNNNNNNNG.

In 2002, was an Athlon XP 2000.

>>62356382
If they're made of steel, yes. The aluminum ones are hit and miss, it depends on the gauge of metal used.

>>62348996
What keyboard is that

>>62356638
>factory cases
Invest a few bucks more in a good case first time you build a rig and be happy for years to come. Screw that proprietary factory bs

>>62356682
logitech g15

>>62348602
In 1996, I just got out of high school and took a year off. Spent the summer working at the local mine and making awsome money.

Spent 5k on the best motherfucking thing I could buy, which was way more than I should of spent and way more power than I needed. Spent a week putting it together, and actually manged to do it right.

Loved the computer, and even if it wasnt too hard to build back then it was nowhere near as easy as now.

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2004
MSI K7N2G nForce2 (first motherboard support dual channel).
AMD Athlon xp +3000
3gb ddr ocz platinum
Geforce 5200

good times :')

>>62348602

2011. I got the now legendary 2600K and still run it as my main machine to this day. I NEVER imagined it would still be useful in 2017.

I don't know if I'll stay Intel, go AMD or wait for the modular Mac Pro's glorious return for my next PC.

Around 1992. Didnt build it from scratch but rather replaced individual components. I ordered in a sound card and a hard disk from a mail order magazine.

Hard disk was around 300MB and had to setup heads, sectors, etc in the BIOS manually.

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>>62348602
Not sure but I think around 2001 or so.

I remember my graphics card was an AMD Radeon 9500 and I tried to do the firmware hack that transforms it into a 9800. Didn't work sadly. Was still a bomb ass PC back then and lasted me many years. I remember getting high as fuck and playing Vice City on it. Good times.

That was also the point where I consciously started to save and archive pictures for fapping purposes.

>>62348602
1995

AMD K7 Thunderbird, yeah first one was a long time ago. I'm almost 30....

>>62348602
1993, Pentium MMX.
But my best build around that time was a dual PIII with an ePox motherboard, it was the shit.

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>>62348602
2007.

I won my first video card in a random Nvidia contest I entered, so I figured I'd build a computer after that.

Fucking MSI 8600 GTS, with this big fucking passive cooler wrapped around it to the back, shit looked so weird.

About 2 days ago actually

>>62348662
I built mine around 2013 or something. Thank goodness we had father's into computers.

>>62348602
My uncle worked at a recycling center and he would get a shit ton of computer parts and build $1000 PC's for free. One day he asked me if I wanted to help him build one so I said sure, and we collected parts for about 2 days before we actually assembled it. I was so stoked when he told me it was mine. It wasnt that good of a pc desu, rocking a quad q6600 and 1 GB amd gpu. However it still made for one of the best christmas presents ever. I replaced it eventually with an Alienware Alpha Console and then built my current pc.

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In 1999, when I was 11. My dad was lecturing physics at an Ivy League university and their store room was full of computers nobody used, so they let me come in and tinker with things. All of the fans were missing or fucked (one had a crayon mushed up in it, even though the case was closed and a crayon wouldn't have fit through the air filter, so somebody must have opened the case up, shoved a crayon in there and then closed the case again). I brought the computer home and jury rigged a water cooling system using a pond pump. Two years later the hose came loose and drenched the inside of the case, and it sparked a bit and died.

>tfw you remember playing Doom II on your first build

>>62356322
>that shit ran at sun surface temps
Bullcrap. Sapphire Vapor-X chamber cooling on the card and it wouldn't go above 69 °C. Stop buying shitty brands like Powercolor, those are hot as the sun.

>>62348602
2002

>>62348602
I think it was 2004 or 2005.
AMD Athlon 3000+
ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 (set up the TV function and then never watched TV on it again)
1GB RAM
60GB HDD
802.11b/g WiFi card that got incredibly shitty reception, I have no idea how I put up with it, then again I didn't game online and video streaming was nowhere near as prevalent as it is now
Windows XP

Motherboard broke like two years later. Got a new one, but both my graphics card and Windows wouldn't work.. Installed Ubuntu for three months or so until I got a MacBook Pro for college. God damn I loved that laptop. Laptop broke in 2011, used an incredibly shitty laptop (must've been ~8 years old at the time) until I built a new system in 2012 or so. Been using that ever since, only things I've upgraded are the CPU, added more HDD's, got an SSD for OS/programs, and GPU. Am currently itching for a new system, will probably get an i7 and hopefully a 1080Ti.

>>62348602
senior in hs since i had to pay for it myself.

>>62348602

2003

P4 2.4C
P4P800 DX
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
ATI TV Wonder
80GB HDD

Eventually upgraded to 3.2C, 2 GB RAM, 160GB HDD, and 6600GT. Everything still works before it was donated to charity last year

>>62361637

>set up the TV function and then never watched TV on it again

kek

2009

Amd Phenom II x955
2x HD4890
4gb ddr3 1333mhz
1tb Samsung hdd
Some shitty antec case

>>62348602
How many ethers to have this goddess

>>62356874
Them IRQ and DMA settings to get shit actually running

2011 when i was 17 paid for it all myself

2500k + Radeon 6950
Nice computer for the time

>>62348602
A Z80 compatible board that you could hook up via serial when I was 16.
Also restored some old computers with replacing most of the mainboard.
Else >>62348618 >>62354457

>>62348602
2012, aged 20. Had my first laptop around 2008 and gradually became more competent with computers over time. It was a Lenovo 3000 N200 which wasn't really designed for vidya. I wanted something better and I heard about how easy building your own computer should be. Did some research, interrogated some experienced friends, picked up parts that were apparently way over what I first intended in terms of performance. I ended up with a machine that was relatively cost-efficient that was somewhat over the intended budget, but it was done and it worked. I improved it since, and gave it an upgrade after the MoBo failed. It's my baby.

>>62356338
I appreciate that you've saved my pictures, but that picture is 7.5 years old...

6:30PM

>>62348602
Whenever the last of the parts I ordered arrive. Hopefully before the end of the month.

>>62348602
sometime in middle school. I had put in a discrete gpu and swapped hard drives before, messed with slave/master jumpers on IDE drives, etc. but had never really touched cpu, ram, fans before that I remember.

had a lot more experience since then, but have calmed down again and just use a ThinkPad as my main machine now. Waiting on X220T libreboot support and then I'll avoid using anything without libreboot in the future, unless I can get something like the Talos II with a POWER CPU.

>so much 2008
What the hell happened in 2008?

Around 2003 for Doom 3.

>>62364618
>long time fan of Diablo 2
>blizzard announces Diablo 3 in 2008
>run to buy new PC
>Blizzard releases Diablo 3 in 2012
>game is shit
>PC outdated
Never again.

>>62348602
oh god, like 98? whenever that Celeron 300a came out.

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First timer here. I am looking at purchasing this build, thoughts? Primarily going to use it for gaming, Autocad and some photo editing but nothing outrageous. Just fucking tired of my toaster not running any new games and lagging like a geriatric.

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2013
A long night of pain and suffering along with some chipotle.
FX8350
8Gibbers o ram
AMD 7870
1TB HDD

I should have gotten an i5 back then holy shit.

>>62366843
looks about right

>>62366972
Thanks, I'm a bit worried the GPU won't have much of a useful lifetime though. Should I go ahead and go top of the line straight away or is it not worth it?

>>62356338
post your dick and ass, faggot

>>62367062
The more you spend, the more it will feel like a waste when Volta comes early next year. It's your choice, but I wouldn't go for any more than a cheap 1080.

>>62367164
Hmmm, ok thanks for the information will keep it as is.

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>>62348602
When AMD released it's K6-2.

It still makes me giggle thinking about that rig. What a beast.

>>62368803
*its
fuck English

>>62348996
cute! (male)

>>62348602
1863

2004

Socket 939 days + opteron 175, what a life it was

>>62348602
when pentium 3's came out