Age when you got your first PC

[pspfreak]

I was like 8 or 9 playing with my pc after my dad got a dell Pentium d with vista (it still runs like that), and I had a p4 with 256mb ram and windows xp. Anyways, I took the mother board out of the case and was messing around with a pci card without a shield, and burned out some thing on the motherboard. My brother had just got a new gaming rig (well in his mind) so he got rid of his old amd athlon xp. I'll type the specs I remember.

 

 

HP Pavilion something (keep in mind this was bought in 2004)

P4 @2.6GHZ

256mb ddr ram

onboard graphics

250w psu

cd-rw drive

80GB Seagate Baracuda IDE

 

My bros HP Pavilion

AMD Athlon XP 2500+

512MB ddr ram

6600gt AGP

350w PSU

cd-rw drive

dvd-rom drive

80GB Seagate Baracuda IDE

 

At that time I was happy for the upgrade, for now which is shit hardware.

 

A couple of years ago I built my first "real" PC

 

It had a

Core 2 Quad Q6600

3GB DDR2 RAM

Antec 500w Earthwatts 

Integrated Graphics

Intel DG41TY

 

 

Edit: Here were the AMD computer specs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c00191366

[AndrewReaganM]

15. My current specs are in my signature +3770K I forgot to put down there.

[CJPowell27]

15 this year 

[Guest]

I know how to build one but sadly i never did, my dad is ALREADY-BUILT freak. xD

[CyanOG]

I got into tech when I was 4 I was playing with computers and experimenting I remember having a brick monitor and system but I could play any game out there like Halo 1 or Diablo 2 as well NFS hot pursuit 2 so I guess it had good graphics for the time.. Yes I was 4-5 and played diablo 2 get on my level.

So I wonder what your stories are

[AlwaysFSX]

Lol, at one when I was plopped in front of ours and told to play around with it.

[Shd0w2]

Around 6-8, my parents had been programmers and troubleshooters for a ton of companies, while the computer industry was growing fast.

[LarsReviews]

really early. 4 or 5

 

Edit: It was 5, because we moved right after my 5 years younger sister was born. 

[Volbet]

I have always played with and tinkered with computers, but I have to say 10. That was when i build my first computer.

[ViruZ_HUN]

around 5-6.

 

I played on the familiy PC the first 2 games i played in my life "Battlefield 1942 and CS 1.6)

[ViruZ_HUN]

10-11

srsly?

[loccilucas]

pretty late, around 13

[nanowatt]

When i first got my hands on a atari vcs damn it was epic....don't remember a lot i was very young

[Hans Christian | Teri]

I got into tech when I was 4 I was playing with computers and experimenting I remember having a brick monitor and system but I could play any game out there like Halo 1 or Diablo 2 as well NFS hot pursuit 2 so I guess it had good graphics for the time.. Yes I was 4-5 and played diablo 2 get on my level.

So I wonder what your stories are

 

Bahaha, I played Wolfenstein 3D with my dad sitting in his lap before I could walk, GET ON MY LEVEL.

[SeanAngelo]

around 6-8

[Shroomster]

I was like 6 and I used to take shit apart and so it started. I basically built a computer, but did not know what the parts did. Most gaming was on console, because my parents were (still are) old fashioned (my mom called the Playstation 2 a hellmachine ). But then I got really interested in the matter, but because of insufficient funding was not able to build one and had to use cheapo prebuilts from the local supermarket and play old and indie games like Battlefield 1942 and Thomas was alone. Last year I finally got enough money and built a beast machine for me.

[Snickerzz]

10-11

same here^^

i had asked my mom for my own computer, i got a dell optiplex g270 sff (i think) 

[Levent]

4 and was playing Quake at that age.

[mapegl]

 

1993. Playing Gorillas in QBasic.

 

Played it with my brother forever. I was 6 at the time.

[MrImnotMLG]

Maybe a year and a half ago. I joined the forums then. Actually it might have been a few months earlier in January of 2013 when I was 15. I'm a late adopter compared to you guys.

[Snickerzz]

I love that case, my old school had 100s of them and I got a few when they got replaced

it didnt allow for much ventilation though, my p4s cooler sounded like a leaf blower O_O

[brownninja97]

I was a pretty casual user until i was 12, then i wanted to know more then the average person, my justification was that i could put that on my cv, at the time i didnt think i would like it but i did, around that time i brought minecraft and then i wanted to build my own pc, oddly the first pc i built wasnt for me, it was for my aunty which went flawlessly, it went down hill from there on.

[Enderman]

12

but I started building robots at 6

[Jerakl]

Started playing games? About 5 or 6.

Started with PCs? About 13. That's when I started looking into how to build a PC and I discovered Linus' videos shortly after, I didn't make an account on the forums for a while though.

[rambi36]

I only got into computers when I was 13...