Age when you got your first PC

[XVariety]

I was 8 years old and it was a Frankenstein computer.

[ZacDaMan72]

13

[AriseMini]

9 yrs of age, I upgraded my old prebuilt comp w/ a HD 6450 silent a 1TB Barracuda and 6GB RAM (2x 3Gb sticks). Im 12 now ( couple days ago) and ill be upgrading my comp now (8350, 12GB RAM) to a 32 GB RAM, GIGABYTE GTX 970, Some Rosewill 750W Modular PSU and a new Case (DIYCP STORM Blue Edition) EDIT: also getting a CM Nepton 120M AIO Liquid CPU Cooler. for 577.92 including TAX and Shipping

[col_crunch]

This year... so 19. I have always taken apart and upgraded computers, but this was my first full build.

[McMurderMonkey]

Although my dad guided me and helped a fair bit (as well as giving me the PC building bug!), I built my first when I was about 11 years old. As one would imagine, it was very garish with a completely transparent acrylic tower with multi colour rainbow leds and a UV cold cathode

[JoaoPRSousa]

I was 14, and it was 4 months ago

[LeKnightHawk]

2 years ago today, actually. So I was 15 almost 16! I use the exact build to this date (with a new GPU and new ram)

[MLG Doge]

I'm gonna be thirteen (still am) when i've finally built mine

[Octavialicious]

12

[The_Evenger]

independent from my father? 12.

i5 2500k, budget mobo, 450wpsu, 500gbHDD, 8GB RAM, and a Geforce GT 440 that i was never stable, not even under clocked.

[Keudn]

15

[NeatSquidYT]

I will be 14 years of age when I build mine.

[HowToGaming]

I was 12 when I first built a computer from scratch

[cnelson3225]

I was 12.

It was a cheap IBM think centre from eBay that cooked the hard drive every month so I modded it by cutting a hole in the top of the case and hot gluing a fan on it. Then it kept snow-balling into pulling it out of the case, onto my bare desk, adding a Hyper 212+, and a solid Seagate HDD.

[Bouvie_11]

I was 16 at the time when i first built mine. Took me almost a whole day but it worked, only needed a Little help to screw stuff in. I remember i must have not inserted the graphics card in properly, had beep codes then had Mistaken it for faulty ram which after a bit of troubleshooting i eventually found out lol

[gundershot]

My current build is my first. Built it a week or so before my 16th birthday, that was half a year ago.

[NeatSquidYT]

My current build is my first. Built it a week or so before my 16th birthday, that was half a year ago.

It's a nice build

[gundershot]

It's a nice build

 

Thanks! It's no doubt the best purchase of my life 

[Pomfinator]

when I was 16, 3 years ago.

[dre92]

Technically my official first computer build was about 1 year and 8 months ago, but I got my very first computer way back in 2001 or 2002. I was 11 and it was a custom pre-built PC but I can't remember the full spec exactly, all I remember was it had Pentium 4, 256MB of RAM, and 40GB of storage or something, and my favorite games were Vietcong and Medal of Honor : Allied Assault.

[Recon97]

Got computer when I was 6.

[IMPERIUS]

Im 15. Can I screw it up?

[KayTees]

18. Built after my birthday.

[PolitcalBlade]

12, I salvaged some stuff from my basement. I still use the same setup today. But, I got a hand-me-down PC at 6.

[Adamthegeek]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this before (I think I saw it one another forum) but how old were you the first time you built/modified a computer and what were the specs? (if you remember)

14