How old were you on your first build?

i was 12 my first time, upgraded plenty of packard bells before that time. you all remember those multimedia kits. :D
 
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it all just blends together into one big ball of ESD damaged parts. :)
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Word... I cost my poor mother so much in those early days. Ahh, trial by error...
 
8 years old. 80286. Later got a math co-processor. w00t!

13 years old. 486 DX2 and later upgraded to a SoundBlaster AWE32 with attached Creative CD-ROM.

I know, I missed the Pentium train and didn't pick it up till about 1996/97 with a P100MHz Packard Bell which was the first bought system I DIDN'T build.
 
14

Duron 1Ghz
Jetway mobo
256mb DDR! <- New Technology
40Gig WD HDD <- This thing was HUGE
32mb Tritient Video card <- this thing kept crashing in Red Alert 2, so i replaced it with a GF4 MX440
200Watt PSU
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1


Oh that thing was a beast :D
 
15, while building my first real custom system of a: Celeron 700 OCed to 892 (945 doable, but the mobo sucked hard), 256mb of ram, and a voodoo 3. The next month later, I went with a Geforce 256/1 LOL.
 
13....would have been 12 but i had a shortage of funds....glad i waited because i would of had a AXP and a 9600xt instead of my now A64 @ 2.5ghz 6800gt...man im glad i didnt have the funds
 
Well, I put the parts of my current rig into a new case, that was when I was 12 - 13

Self-bought parts I'm putting into a secondary rig (Celly 466). I had a P233 running as a secondary rig but I demoted it to router for obvious reasons. I never realised how much I used the damn thing :S
 
I'm 23 years old when i first build my own computer. Mind you, i'm 31 now ;)
 
16 or 17 when i built mine just last year i cant remember exactly when it was i built it but it was inbetween the two.
 
Built my first comp when I was 17. Two years later, it's still going strong. Specs for it below
 
17, didnt know much about computer had afull time 9-5 job @ a telecommuncations company - built a 486 system, really that was my first but i was screwing around, after about 2 months decided i wanted to build a high end system! - system final cost was about $2k canadian - my 40g harddrive was $500CAN! my 19" monitor was $600! and i borrowed 256mb of ram from work everyt night cause this was when ram was expensive as hell!

bought na AIW 128 32mb AGP2x card, PIII 533 (fastest out at the time, was intels new 133FSB chips) - man the things rocked! my mother now has the system and it still works great, all original parts except for a new harddrive. - system is now 9 years old!
 
first build was in 93 i belive. maybe 94.

my dad did most of it but taught me a lot

i was 8 or 9.. then aroudn 12, 96? maybe earlier, whenever the 300a was the big thing, i did my own complete build.. 300a@ 480 i think. couldnt get 504 as i didnt get the malaysian chip..

TRIED to get networking to work so i could play my dad in Warcraft 1.. never happened. what a f'ing PITA networking computers used to be.

then boom.. win95!! ugh, win3 was so terrible.

this was primarily monkey island, DOTT, sam and max hit the road, kings quest, heroes quest. .police.. all the sierra greats..

played tons of ultima online, the realm...

completely hated anything RTS snice everyone just rushed you within 5 minutes..

i'm 21 now. actually hvent built a computer in YEARS.. pretty depressing. college, joblessness, 3 year girlfriends, back to being done with college, single, and in a brand new state working full time.. big changes.

im going to start crying. hold me.

foudn memories back then; Chatting with PowWow before ICQ became popular. ICQ used to be HUGE!! Noone used aim but kids in middleschool..

haha, and geocities/timesquare/xxxx/ addresses! we used to sit in the geocities chatrooms and wait for them to open up new "cities" so we could get the LOWEST address number.

funny how i dont remember one thing about HTML now.

oh man, computers were so new and spiffy back then.. :( now it's like an MMOG you've played for years, no new tricks..well, i guess learning linux was an experience.. and ios..
 
I was 17 when i did my first complete built, though i had a lot of experience with upgrades nad trouble shooting.. etc..
 
very first build was probably when i was 10-11, but that was with my dad. my first build done completely by me was probably when i was 13 when i built a new computer for high school.
 
I was 16 or 17 when I first put mine together, learned as I went.

Oh yeah about networking in Windows 95, oh yeah it sucked.

Back when hubs were still relatively expensive my friends dad bought him a hub, and 4 nics.

We sat down and tried to lan some old games like Warcraft 2, Quake, Duke3D and the like.

Complete POS, never worked right. If we started the "lan" at 7 pm by midnight we might have 3 of the 4 people able to see each other and don't even get me started on file sharing lol
 
does taking apart an ATARI then putting it back together count ? :D i was about 10 then...

first proper build wasss...lesse...around 16 or 17...
 
My dad part owns a company that builds custom computers. When I was 5 or 6 I started installing the software for him. By 6 or 7 I put all the components on the mother board: cpu ram, (had to switch a few jumpers around back then) and by age 8 i fully built the computers for him. Im 16 and im still doing it.
 
ok, a dell got me all into it. a friend of mine showed me some modded computers, and i modded my dell p4 with a window and some lights i thought it was so cool so i sold it and built a new rig with a premodded case lol it wasnt very hard i was 13 at the time, and now i'm 16 hehe.
 
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