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ImmortalSteak
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The first time I modded a PC (slapping a new GPU and PSU into it) was when I was 17.. I haven't built a complete rig yet, but I will soon (if I can get this new job and find an apartment,, and enough spare time to game)..

i7 not perfectly stable at 4.4.. #firstworldproblems

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Liar! Only Linus's baby could do that

What if I am Linus' baby????

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Building my first on Tuesday I'm 13

CPU: i7 4770k | Mobo: Gigabyte z87x UD3H | GPU: Galaxy GTX 780 | RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600mhz | Storage: 120GBSamsung 840 + Seagate Barracuda 1TB | Case: Xigmatek Talon | PSU: Corsair TX650m

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I was 14 (four months ago).

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I was twenty-three years old. I had been teaching English in Ho Chi Minh City for two years before returning to the United States in early June of 2011. For my two years in Vietnam, I had been using a desktop replacement laptop and had all but forgotten about the desktop computer I had left behind. It was just a piece of junk Hewlett-Packard mini tower whose only notable feature was its Q6600 processor. I decided to clean the thing out of any dust that might have accumulated. Since it was a piece of junk anyway, I didn't feel too nervous about disassembling it, despite never having done so before. What I discovered, however, was that, while I had no difficulty disassembling it, there was so little room to work that I couldn't even put the machine back together. I went to Micro Center to buy a huge (overkill) full tower so I'd have plenty of space. That was the beginning of a new hobby for me and I haven't stopped upgrading since (nothing remains of the original Hewlett-Packard components).

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14 or 15, and it was an old amd system that i have no idea of the specs on, but it was a single core, and i had one of those huge blue antec cases that everyone had in like 02.

One of these:

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and im still using one of my crts from those days as well.

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I was 21

  • AMD 64 3300+ (wish it was the clawhammer)
  • MSI K8N Neo
  • ATI X1650 XT
  • 2 GB Ram
  • 2 DVD RW drives
  • 100 GB HD
  • 60 GB HD

Super OP AF Killer Retro Emulation PC 360 No Scope 420 Blaze It (Sorry I Couldn't Help It) Seriously Though This PC Is Overkill And Before You Ask It Does Play Crysis 1024x768 60 FPS

Intel Core Duo 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz // ASUS P5N-D // Zalman CNPS9500A Air Cooler // 4GB G.Skill @ 400MHz 5 5 5 31 23 // 2 Way SLI GeForce 9800 GTX+ // 32" SONY WEGA CRT TV 480i // Corsair TX750 // Seagate 3TB // Win XP 32Bit // Sony DVD RW // ANTEC Full Tower // Steel Series H Wireless // Logitech K520 Wireless Keyboard // Logitech M510 Wireless Mouse // Logitech G27 Racing Wheel // Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS // HORI Fight Stick Mini // 8Bitdo NES30 Pro / FC30 Pro / SNES30 / SFC30 Bluetooth Controllers

Future Upgrades The New 8Bitdo Wireless SNES Controller With Analog Sticks / 8Bitdo Bluetooth Arcade Fight Stick / Proper HD I Know This Machine Does Not Support 3 TB / Icy Dock 5.25 4 Bay HD Hot Swap Bay For More Seamless Multi Booting Want To Run At Least Win 95, Win XP, Win 7 

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Future Upgrades 1080Ti or Vega RX64 http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/16900-nothing-special/

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16. My first complete build is this year. But I have done a lot of stuff in the past reguarding solving problems for computers.

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


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11, on an old rig. 15 now, and have a rig of my own :)

export PS1='\[\033[1;30m\]┌╼ \[\033[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[1;30m\] ╾╼ \[\033[0;34m\]\w\[\033[0;36m\]\n\[\033[1;30m\]└╼ \[\033[1;37m\]'


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i was 25 (im 25) and nobody help me nor pay for it! 

Looking around,

bla bla bla this, meh that!

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I was 8. I cant remember for the life of me the specs, but i'm sure it was a Pentium D.. Hmm.. Or maybe it was an Athlon.. It ran BF2 like a boss though :D

 

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Mine was probably around 17 when I actually had money to afford each part for crysis, jesus christ those were good times

Yeezus was the best album of all time

 

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I was 16 (now 17), I had no help and the money came out from my own pocket.

same :)

PROFILEYEAH

What do people even put in these things?

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I was 17, I'm still 17. Defiantly worth it. Previously brought factory made machines (haha I know)

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PC: EVGA GTX680, i5 2500K, 8GB Kingston HyperX, Gigabyte Z68-GA-UD3P, 120GB OCZ SSD, 2x1TB WD Greens, Corsair 600t, Corsair AX750, Corsair H100i, ASUS MX239H, Corsair K60 + M60. 

 

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13, build it just before christmas. 

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I have built computers since I was 10, but I built the first one for myself when I was 11 or 12.

Its a Core 2 duo E8400, 4gb Ram, 500gb HDD, 19 inch Dell monitor.

It still runs, and thats what my dad uses now. Might make it a home server in the near future :)

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Let me sum this up for ya: 6-110 years.

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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