what got you into computers and when did you do your first build?

[jake]

what got you interested into computers and when did you do your first build?

[Dr3nz4r]

I just palyed games on my oooollllld pc.... wanted to upgrade it and thats how it went..

[vanwazltoff]

i dont really find this as spam, its definitely more relevant than that what car do you have post. i was into computers very early on, i booted up an old mac when i was about 5, physically built my first computer when i was 11 out of a bunch of old parts and thats what really peaked my interest and i started reading my uncles computer magazines, took off from there eventually i started reading engadget posts in i think 2007 and thats when things really took off and i started fixing computers, ever expanding my knowledge, upgraded a few then i finally built my gaming rig in 2011, i was waiting for a really good processor to come out before i built it and an i5-2500k was that processor, fast forward almost 2 years now i have a beast gaming itx rig

[Fordox]

i bought a pc and realized it was crap. so i was starting to change my components, and then i got an intern place by a pc store and the ball starts rolling...

[TheIceCreamMan]

I suddenly understood the Power of Computers!

[TechFan@ic]

I got into computers because of PC gaming and I did my first build when I was 12 years old.

[Ghost]

I always had a PC from before i remember. I inherited my families desktop and have been upgrading it ever since.

[TechShroom]

I got into PCs because I wanted to play all the great PC games and because even the same games were way more expensive on PS3. I did my first build in July 2012.

[Mindmyself]

Seriously, Linus got me into Computers. I was looking for a good MoBo for my new CPU, so I was searching for some Youtube videos and found his Unboxing Video. I really liked it and then I was watching one Linus video after the other. This awoke my interest in Computer Hardware and bought me here.

[OmarCCX]

I've messed around with builds, and added/removed hardware but I've yet to build a complete rig. Hopefully I get to do so this year.

[Prettyfinej]

My first custom computer was about 10 years ago but I've always been interesting in computers and technology. I didn't building another computer until a few months ago, had been living with a laptop I got for university once my first custom pc was getting a little old.

[kght22]

i got into computers back in the 1st grade in 1992 i think it was. my cousin who had recently moved in with my family was going to school and one of his teachers got him into computers, and as i looked up to him i also got into computers. he got a used 8088 that year and in a couple of months our houshold invested in a 386 with geoworks. the next year we went to a 486 (with windows 3.11), and of course the whole time i was just a little kid drooling over the technology. when in 1996 i screwed up the family computer (windows 95) and reloaded it overnight without anyone in the house noticing anything had changed, i knew what my thing was. (was in 5th grade).

[Reconciliasion]

built my first pc aged 14 i think, started when my old intel single core couldnt keep up with the latest games like pong.

[crispy345]

I started fixing with them when our old P3 was replaced with a brand new P4! The P3 died shortly after the change (which was in 2003), and after that I started opening it up to see what was wrong with it. I didn't throw away the faulty PSU before some years ago. And the Dell P4 and the P3 is still in my computer room, guess who of them is actually working? The P3 :D I can't remember when building my first PC, but I have surely screwed around with computers as long a I can remember.

[Paperchase]

I got into computers back in 97 I still remembering being in 2nd grade waiting to get home, so I could play my games on the computer. However I was more interested in games than the computer itself. I got really into computers when I built my first rig back in early 2004. Those were the days. :)

[skitz9417]

my first build was phemon x4 840 and i got into because of scholl and my mates love building pc

[kght22]

i got into computers back in the 1st grade in 1992 i think it was. my cousin who had recently moved in with my family was going to school and one of his teachers got him into computers, and as i looked up to him i also got into computers. he got a used 8088 that year and in a couple of months our houshold invested in a 386 with geoworks. the next year we went to a 486 (with windows 3.11), and of course the whole time i was just a little kid drooling over the technology. when in 1996 i screwed up the family computer (windows 95) and reloaded it overnight without anyone in the house noticing anything had changed, i knew what my thing was. (was in 5th grade).

also i forgot to mention my first build. the first computer i ever built was outdated long before i built it, but i am still proud of it. in 1998 i built a 133mhz 486 (it was an amd that was supposed to perform as well as a 90mhz pentium) with 16mb of ram and a trio s3 video card that had a whole meg of memory. an a.t. 200w (that is what we used before atx) power supply and 3 200mb hdds (and no, they were not in raid, i couldn't use raid back then even if i knew how, and i didn't learn how for a year after that). a year later i had a cyrix ibm 166+ processor (ran on the intel pentium 1 chipset at 133mhz, did not have mmx) and six months after that i had a k6-2 266 with 64mb of ram and a voodoo banshee (16mb). at the time for all of those builds i had my first job at a computer store.

[MdX MaxX]

Well I've pretty much always been into technology and computers, but I really became a PC enthusiast about 4 years ago when Maximum PC Magazine started showing up at our house for some reason. I was hooked after the first issue.

My first rig didn't come until 1.5 years ago, though, because my parents didn't believe in me having my own PC/laptop/smartphone until I started college. But the wait was worth it! :P

[27-bit]

When I was like 13 my friend fixed his power button on his P3 I think it was. Then I asked myself why am I so afraid of opening my case! Then I just could into I LOVED IT. My first build was about 4 or 5 years can't remember..

[MystiqThunder]

PC has been my life for as long as I can remember. I finished my first build by the time I was 14. Now with me liking competitive gaming, I feel I need a kick-ass PC :)

[Dariru]

My dad used to own and run the Compucentre at Market Mall (for all you Calgarians that remember) so I was using computers for as long as I could remember.

[tp95112]

I used to play a game called crossfire, i loved the game but had bad fps. I started to look up imformation on how to get better fps on a laptop but it was hopeless, I was youtubing one day and saw Linus's channel and looked at it. I was amazed by how awesome computers were in general so i started to google and researched about computers that led me to getting my first build last year around august.

[GrandmasBoy]

My old prebuilt crapped out maybe 18 months ago or something and my clan mate was knowledgable enough with computers to help me pick a few parts and get me started. Since then it has spiraled out of control to an uncontrollable addiction changed my components almost 4 times in pursuit of building my now dream PC. :D

If I can do it anyone can.

[Emkryan]

Always liked pc gaming despite having owned a ps2,xbox,and ps3. Eventually I had friends who had built their own pc's and eventually started to open my families computer and here I am now with my own rig and keeping up with new trends and whatnot

[dharmadrummer]

I got into computers about four years ago when my Xbox 360 got the red ring of death and needed to be repaired. My computer was the only thing I had to play around with so I started tearing it apart and researching computers, hardware, software, networking... My kind-of first build was taking an old Dell computer and replaced almost every part in it. My first actual build was just after the release of Ivy Bridge processors.