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ImmortalSteak
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I was 19 years old and it was a Athlon X2 4400+ / 1GB Ram ...

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Hats off to everyone who bought all the components themselves. I wouldn't dare to ask my parents for a GTX 780

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Hats off to everyone who bought all the components themselves. I wouldn't dare to ask my parents for a GTX 780

Funny I asked my parents for a Titan but my parents wanted me to to get a slightly cheaper one (780 at that time) but it was out of stock so when it was finally in stock I asked them if I could order it but they said it was too expensive and I ended up with a 770

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I was 18 when I fully built my first computer.

 

However, I've been messing with computer hardware for a very long time, so I was swapping parts out of old computers into other old computers since I was 11 or 12.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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I just realized I never posted my own well I first dis and re assembled an old computer when I was 8 or 9 I did my first fully custom build when I was 12 (technically still a WIP) specs 3930k rampage 4 extreme 770 (eventually 2 or 3) 900d custom water cooling loop (yes I did a full custom water cooling loop on my first custom build #dealwithit)

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The first upgrade I did myself was going from 4mb of ram to 12mb back in '94.  I was 14.  That made my dos 6.2 and windows 3.1 system run soooo much more smoothly.  I've been addicted ever since!

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My first complete build was 4-5 weeks ago and I'm 19. Linus' videos helped out so much =D

But I've been messing around with old school computers dad obtained for a loooonnggg time.

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I was 15 and in grade 10. My friend and i built competing machines. It had a athlon 64 3500+ and a 512 mb graphics card later I upgraded to a 1gb nividia still terrible card but it allowed me to play medal of honor pacific assault.

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I was 11 and i'll list the parts here

 

 

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Inwin case, got it for my birthday

 

 

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Hyperthreaded pentium 4 3ghz (this was in 2010 and I bought it for $20 at a local goodwill sealed)

 

 

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antec 620 watt psu about... 120 dollars

 

some old board I found in the trash

used intel hd graphics until I picked up an old geforce 4 card. installed windows 7

 

 

had like 4 gigs of ddr1 ram

 

 

 

I mean, if you are trying to decide if your son is ready to build a pc. get him some old pentium 4's and a $29 computer repair kit. and have him take them apart bolt by bolt then put them back together without losing 1 screw

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I should get an award for still being here at this point 

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I was 14 (5 years ago) and had my dad's friend help me…I cant remember the specs but it's pretty much worth nothing now :)

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15  :(

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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14, by myself and I didn't know much and never asked for the build... I looked at it now and I somewhat wasted my allowance...

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13 from scrap parts... (more of an upgrade from multiple computers)

 

Built my first full system at 16

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My first build was somewhere around 2002 I was 27-ish, I believe it had a AMD CPU but that's all I can remember. I had computers long before that but they were always pre-builts.  Although I did take apart my original Nintendo back in the day,  not sure if I got it back together though.

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16

(And that's my age now, it's only been 6 months since my build.)

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First build @ 14

<p>Mobo - Asus P9X79 LE ----------- CPU - I7 4930K @ 4.4GHz ------ COOLER - Custom Loop ---------- GPU - R9 290X Crossfire ---------- Ram - 8GB Corsair Vengence Pro @ 1866 --- SSD - Samsung 840 Pro 128GB ------ PSU - Corsair AX 860i ----- Case - Corsair 900D

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14. I'm still 14. I've known how to build one since I was like 10, though. It's the saving up part that took me a few years.

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around 17 years old

 

Pentium 120 Mhz

8MB RAM

Seagate 1.2GB HDD

SiS 512KB Video card

10x CDROM

28.8k modem

15" CRT monitor

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i was around 7 or 8 i think (i'm 16 now). my dad let me build his computer (with his help of course) i cant remember the specs but he still uses it to this day (how about that for future proofing haha just kidding) but i might edit this post with the specs but i know for sure it has an amd athlon 64 x2 ........yeah that bad boy ;)

 

My athlon 64 x2 is still running strong :D

Feel free to message me if you want to chat!

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