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How old were you when you built your own pc?

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I think when I was 15. Reason being, I never really had a reason to. I had a laptop and really only played minecraft.

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7, ish

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The first time I built an entire PC all at once was 2010, and I was 25. But I've been tinkering with PC systems since I was about 14 or so. I probably knew most of what I'd have needed to know by 16-ish.

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I built mine when I was 14, 8 months ago. I have no money, no life, no friends now. Worth it? The additional 30fps  and superior graphics are my new friends.

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does, taking a pc fully apart and then putting it back together count?

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I think I was about 13, nearly 14. Built my first computer with a Core 2 Duo E4500 and a Geforce 8500 GT in it. Oh, those were the days.

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I was 23. First time I bought everything and build it on my own.

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If you count tearing down and rebuilding a computer, like 12 or 13. The first actual build I think I was 16, maybe 15. I remember what year I built it (2004) but I don't remember when exactly that year I built it.

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I was around  12 or 13 i would say, but this was way back (1994'ish)

                                                                                   

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Oh man. This thread brings back so many memories. My first build was like 2011 (or 2010, i don't remember). an AMD phenom II x6 1055t. Still in use to this day. It has 240 gig SSD, 1tb WD black HDD, an R9 290 (it used to have two 5770's in CFX when i first got it) and a 750 watt PSU. It served me well, and overclocked like a champ, even though i didn't use the black edition CPU (with an unlocked multiplier) That's my only regret, not getting the black edition. Even still, with memory tweaks I am OC'd to 3.7 GHz. (3.8 but she will blue screen every couple of hours) I was 15 at the time. So many memories..

 

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Did my first upgrade when I was 12, I doubled the RAM on a old Dell Optiplex Pentium 3 machine. It's a amazing old machine, it still works, I use it occasionally to play old games like Moto Racer.

 

I Built my first computer from scratch out of spare parts from family members when I was 14. It was a Athlon 64 1.8ghz CPU and a Radeon 9600 Pro. The computer is still in use to this day (upgraded and overclocked to a Athlon x2 2.9ghz) and it's my steam streaming PC. Awesome old PC, older AMD CPUs are so cool! :)

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I knew how to build since I was 16. Built my own this year. I am now 20 y/o. Started last September, and added the last parts yesterday. Woot Woot ! :D

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When I was 15. Took me a year to save up after I got my first job.

 

Was a baller rig too.

 

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Just this year at the age of 22. I could never afford to build a PC worth making for myself out of new parts until recently. I always took apart old PCs though at a much earlier age around 12-13. I remember my brother giving me his old computer and it could only run Left for Dead @720p on low settings at around 30fps. I usually just replaced drives and put more ram in them. I learned a lot more than I'd ever thought I would about PCs after watching literally hundreds of videos on Youtube about computers and tech. Then I stumbled across LTT... We all know how that goes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I was 15 when I upgraded my prebuilt, built one computer for me mate when I was 16, and built an ITX machine this fall (age 17)

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Not exactly "built" - my first PC was an old Pentium 4 chassy with 512Mb DDR400 RAM, 80Gb IDE drive, and a 5:4 LCD monitor, almost 9-10 years ago

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