First Time PC Building Experiences

[legend8887]

I plan on building a PC for the first time ever (excited) because I have a a cheap-o Alienware. And I was just wondering what your experiences were when you built your first PC? Thoughts? Feelings? Explain.

[upliftsleet1974]

To tell the truth it was not as hard as I was ready for!

 

You should have no problum but if you do you always have all of us

[Andrew0472]

getting the box of parts was amazing then i just took my time step by step. It seems harder than it really is

[Panda of the Shadow]

I plan on building a PC for the first time ever (excited) because I have a a cheap-o Alienware. And I was just wondering what your experiences were when you built your first PC? Thoughts? Feelings? Explain.

took me like 5 hours... (fully watercooled...) I was so sure that i was going to screw up but no. It works. Then i did an air cooled one for my mom and it took less then 30 minutes. 

[WoodenMarker]

Thoughts: "Darn these small pins and tight corners. **** it came off"

Feelings: Excitement, nervousness, some sort of comfort, and a hint of paranoia 

[SAV1OUR]

i was scured but i felt like a was a badass when i had finished  

[old reece frost]

I got lazy at the end with the cable management as I wanted to play PAYDAY with friends.

[Tmh85]

putting on the cpu on and thinking holy crap I think I might have just bent a pin...

[legend8887]

Come on...

[Amanaman83]

I don't know what it is,  but since I built my computer every time I open it and do some work I get super sweaty and nervous. This happened again yesterday when I was installing new fans :mellow: and once sweat fell from my face right onto the motherboard, I had a mini heart attack

[zip2k4]

biggest fear first time i build pc was putting on coolers...

 

i honestly thought I was going to break the IHS or the CPU as a whole

[LifesCompanion]

The only scary part was putting the CPU in the CPU socket since it's such a fragile component... 

To be honest, even after building a few PC's, I still get anxious when putting in the CPU... 

[Cwazywazy]

My first "build" was moving parts from my PIII computer with a broken case to another cheap tan case with the help of my dad. That was in 2006 or 07. My dad had this fancy new Core 2 Duo system with a Geforce 7600GS and all that. He kept it until 2011. (I got the 7600GS)

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Mistakes: Got my motherboard screwed in and then realized I forgot the I/O shield

Thoughts: Damnit, the Prodigy M is a bitch to build in

Feelings: FINALLY. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 8 MONTHS

[TechTheWorld]

I spent three months studying on forums and watching how-to videos by linus, newegg and logan on how to build one, so I was pretty confident. Everything went great! It was so awesome finally getting all of the parts together and booting it up!

[Snapy1]

Well I ordered all my parts off Amazon, a week later I got them all in the mail, so, I went over to my Grandparents house to do it, because they have a big working environment. First my hands were shaking sooooooooo bad I mean I didnt even finish connecting all the front panel connectors from my hands shaking so much, but anyways back to the story. I was putting the motherboard in the case and I used the fan screws for my motherboard screws, after like 20 minutes of trying to get them to fit then I gave up on it, tried different screws and they worked, I was worried that I kinda killed the motherboard. So a little bit later I put on my heatsink (Corsair 60i) and I spent a good 20 minutes trying to mount it, because its hard as **** trying to mount it on a AM3+ socket. Then after everything was connected the PSU everything, I went to boot it, nothing booted up, had some help from the forums here, and it turns out nzxt gave me a dead PSU, so after a week of my laziness I returned it, and ordered a corsair PSU, installed it and everything booted up fine.

[danerobert14]

"where the hell do all of these little wires (case wiring to motherboard) go?!?!" back in the day before it was all on one connector. lol

[FireViper015]

It is all fun except for 2 things: Cable management, and plugging in the 24 pin power. Cable management depends on how much stuff you have and the case you use, but that power is so annoying the first time. The power doesn't like to go in so it bends the board quite a bit, but thankfully pcb is pretty sturdy.

[calarahil]

First building experience was with a socket 939 dual sata 2 by asrock

http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/939Dual-SATA2/

 

Using a San Diego CPU AMD 64 3700+.

 

And I want to say I was using a FX5200? I can't remember

 

First time using newegg as well.

[-iSynthesis]

It`s quite easy to be honest, there are some points where you think: Well, i fucked up, for example while installing an Intel CPU. It only took me about 1.5hours to build my first system and haven`t had any problems getting it running

[Almercenary]

Only think I stuffed up on my PC was plugging the monitor into the Mobo when I installed a new GPU, really, its quite easy, just looks hard

[Calidus]

I was 12 and really excited as it was my first PC, the cpu was probably the most nerve wrecking part but hey i had my dad guiding me.

 

This was 1998 btw and the specs were: CPU: AMD K6 II 350Mhz GPU: Nvidia Riva TNT Sound Card: Aureal Vortex, everything else i cannot remember exactly, ram was some sort of SD-RAM though, had a 60Gb HDD as well. Believe it was Fujitsu, not to sure.

 

First post woo, been watching Linus for many years but finally decided to join the forums.

[Cwazywazy]

My first real build was when I got my motherboard, CPU, and RAM as a Xmas present from my dad back in 2012.

 

I had to keep the case, PSU, etc. Since the HDDs in my old system were IDE I had to use a near-death 1TB that my dad had recently replaced until my 500GB arrived. I bought Windows 8 for 15 bucks and installed it. The problem after that was that the WiFi adapter on my old computer had broke which meant I had to use a cheap Chinese "wireless N" adapter that does 0.5MBPS. (Not MBS)

 

I eventually used two old ethernet adapters with a female-female adapter running through the basement to my room. Later I bought a 50 foot ethernet cable which was long enough that I could move my desk back to the other side of my room.

 

Now, the only part in my computer that is the same is the PSU. Only because it's a decent 500w that works just fine. (I still use the same screen because it's a pretty good screen. And I can't afford a new one.)

 

Right now the next upgrade I want to do is a mechanical keyboard to replace the Apple keyboard I'm using now, or replacing the CPU and motherboard.