Age when you got your first PC

[Encoded7]

Technically haven't built a pc on my own, but built one with a friend about a month ago, so 21

I have been interested for a long time, but due to economic reasons I haven't had a chance to try before

 

Some day my friend! Some day!

[Guest]

I did my first 'from-scratch' build about a month ago; I'm loving it so much. I'm 20. c:

 

Happy Gaming!

[Torey]

My families first computer like product was a Web TV which we got when I was around 8-9? So in 1997-8 give or take a year or two. Then we got our first Windows based PC when I was around 13 or so. From there it was mostly junk until I built my own PC as a graduation present from my parents in 2007 at age 18. The system specs were: Raidmax Smilidon Case, Nvidia Evga 7950GT, AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+, 320 GB HDD, 4 gigabytes of ram, a EVGA 590SLI Motherboard, a Hanns-G 22" 1680x1050 monitor, Logitech G15 Keyboard and a Logitech G5 mouse. I upgraded that PC slowly from 2007-2012. It went on to have a 9800GTX+, different RAM because of faulty issues, a new case, a GTX 260, then with the help of a friend on another forum. I was able to buy a Phenom II 965 BE, and he gave me his old motherboard and GTX 260 as a Christmas gift to me. Around a year later I sold it for 300 or so dollars without one of the 260's and started building a new PC. This story is too long so I'll end it here. 

 

TLDR. 1997 age 8-9?

[Llego2187]

11 now im 28

[TheR6]

I first built one at the age of 12. I built one for myself help from my uncle's friend. Built one for my brother and friend by myself. Currently building another one for myself and selling other parts.

[linuxfan66]

When i was 8/9 had this old pc i played dos games on...jazz jackrabbit being the main one..oh memories

[PC-NOOB]

2

[Geralt]

I loved PCs since when I was 13. I didn't own a computer back then because I could not even pay for one so I used the family's pentium 4 rig with built in graphics (LOL). Back then I think the GTX 480 was like the best thing since sliced bread. I could go on about the tech specs and all that. Then at 16, I got my school laptop. My daily driver at school. An Asus G56JR with a GTX 760M. The first machine that I used that actually had a graphics card but an ageing one. Then at 17 which was a few months ago, I had saved up enough for a $1000 gaming rig. My dad saw that and said he would top up a bit morre for me. I tried to stay under $2000 (take note computer hardware here in Asia is SUPER expensive) and thus I ended up with SnapDragon.

 

TLDR: 17.

[fracking4oil]

An new Tandy from Radio Shack for my 14th (I think) birthday. Man that thing sucked, even for the time.

[OleXavi]

about three weeks ago, so 17!

[Enferk]

My father bought my first pc as a gift for my 15 year birthday.

I builded my first when i was 16. Now i'm 18 and dreaming about ultimate gamers wet dream gaming build

[beingGamer]

My dad used to assemble PC since i was born.

So I used to use my dad's pc as mine.

Used to play games like jill of the jungle, pacman, bruce lee, prince of persia

Used to play these since age of 5/6

[PapaGangster]

When I was 14 I'm 15 now.

[xiaolongstan]

First one i paid for myself: 13 (Last year)

First one i had all to myself: 6 or 7 (Around 2006-7)

[lightningterror]

14 i believe (First year high school) and was a pre built system sigh. Didn't have knowledge back then about building my own.

[robert1339]

A month ago, so 14!

[sqwidee]

I've owned and helped build PCs since I was a little kid, but I finally saved up enough cash from work to buy and build my own rig last year at 20. You gotta earn the privilege, kiddos.

[scobie56]

i was 10 when i got my laptop (it was so crap) and i was 14 when i built my gaming pc and is the one iim using now 

[cragger89]

I would have been 10 in 1999. I asked for a PC I saw in a second hand shop for Christmas. £80 for a DX-2 @ 66mhz, 16MB of RAM, 500MB hard drive. I asked for a CD drive and sound card as extras to go with it.

 

I learnt a lot from that machine, especially reinstalling Windows 95. I broke it, a lot.

[Hero7750]

My families first house pc: ~5-6 years old (it broke about 2 years later)

Second family pc: Like 10-11 years old

First personal pc: 12-13 (was a laptop)

First custom pc: 16 years old (built it christmas 2014)

[Dezz]

First family computer: I was 9, I think

Since then I had 2 more computers

 

Recently I moved to another country coz of job and I've build my own PC (I'm 21 now).

[Guest]

7. I was 7.

[SIGSEGV]

Like, 0-3 years old (it was an RM PC, used to think it was IBM but I did some more research and the logo I remember turned out to be RM). Ran Windows 2000 and I used to play Lego Racers and mess with paint and the maze screensaver. It had no internet connection.

First Mac:

An iBook G3 off of ebay when I was about 8 years old.

First custom built:

14 years old, build a few months back and mostly from parts off of ebay and slowly being upgraded

[Payupsir]

15

[jamese669]

well the first pc i got was in the late 90's but my first custom built rig was back when the 9800gt was new that was 8 years ago so i was 15. thats made me feel old.....