What was your first computer?

[yurihellsing]

Had a look through some files and found this and yes this is from the very first PC i built played Renegade to death on this PC (only screen shot i can find with the specs)

 

Found a CPU-Z capture from the same comp too

 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

I haven't started my first build yet but, the planned specs are in my signature.

[geforceftw]

3.0 P4 no HT

2 or 4 gigs of 1066mhz ram

250gb hdd

gateway mobo.

some nvidia card before the 8800s.

 

First and last prebuilt pc. Gateway ftw.

[KellerKind]

My first build is the one that i have right now... i always had laptops thats why  

[Goose Legs]

My first PC that I built consisted of an Intel Pentium 4 with a very basic Intel motherboard. The biggest issue at the time was I couldn't get my optical drive and IDE hard drive connected concurrently because of how far away they were spaced in the case. (I only had one IDE channel...and I was 12 and didn't fully understand SATA). I then went back to Fry's, explained my situation to one of the managers and he suggested that I go with SATA since the performance would be much improved and I won't have these issues. (And I had like 4 SATA ports on the motherboard). As soon as I did that, problem solved!

[rafalpl1]

My first built is my current built:

 

ASUS GTX 780

Intel I7-4770k

ASUS Maximus VI Hero

Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866Mhz

Corsair CX750

Cooler Master Haf 932 Advanced

[ManWithBeard1990]

The one i'm using right now. (also my avatar)

[DuffyTheWaw]

First PC I built is the one I'm currently using. I looked at PC building guides for 6 months before I actually attempted to put this thing together, and even then I was nervous I'd mess something up.

Just don't make the same mistake I did my first time.
Don't forget the plug in the CPU power.
And don't cut yourself on RAM. That hurts.

First PC built is this thing:
Case: Antec 300

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX
CPU: Intel i5 3570
GPU: Nvidia GTX 660
RAM: 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 by Kingston

Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda

Generic DVD Drive
 

[Lavachyste]

Me it was in a Thermaltake Armor + case, with the Asus M2N32 motherboard, a 8800GT GPU, AMD 3000+ CPU and 2 GO of Gskills RAM. It lasted for 5 years until it died 1 year ago. My recommendation. Invest.

 

I see see pc building like an investment, where you purchase something great and expensive but it will last.? It is always my idea when building a pc.

[district_11]

The Mid Tower on the right. Using it right now, built around this time last year. Never had any problems. Had to RMA a DOA HDD for the mATX on the left though

 

[RottenBiscuit]

I saved money for about 1 year when I was 19 to put together my first "gaming" pc

 

it was a phenom x 4, dont remember the speed, a MSI motherboard, some 4 gigs of Crucial ram (one of the sticks failed about a month after) a 500 gig hd and a hd 4850... ohh yeah, the psu was a 650w BFG refurbished psu I got... great psu.. except it was noisy as hell... it  died  like 3 years ago (im 27 now)

Last me about 3 years of decent gaming... well no, of about 1000 gaming hours (wasnt working at the time... and you know... college was starting)

then I upgraded to an hd6870, and so on... had a x3 RANA... then went to a Phenom II, and so forth... I think my current build was purchased using some of the money I spent on the first pc and I recovered after selling the used parts... about 500 bucks I supposed... so when ppl talk about how expensive pc gaming is... I cant help but laugh.

 

 

 

My first pc was a win 3.1 and then a win 95 my dad got for 900 bucks at the time... I remember playing that one had a nvidia 6200 card of sorts

[TetraSky]

First PC that I truly built from scratch, from new parts I've chosen and bought myself, is the one I'm using right now.

Before that I had assembled PCs, but from old parts, change cases, etc.. Nothing I had personally bought myself.

[What's a GPU?]

Like many others, my current build is my first full build. I used to mess around with "old" computers that were used in my family; added graphics cards, took apart some and put them back together, and just generic stuff. Now that I am in college I decided it was time to go big and build my own. The one thing that I think was a big help for putting this together was the fact that I had messed around on older computers and took things apart and practiced really without too much of a worry of damaging anything. I would have been incredibly nervous to put this together if I had never actually taken parts in and out of a computer before. Still my biggest problem was the fact that I was all on my own with only videos to help, if I could have had someone there to supervise that was more experienced I think it would have made the process run a lot more smoothly. 

[kayodoc]

Idk if this really qualifies as "building" a PC but when I was 6 I took apart an iMac G3 and put it back together. Turns out I hated the things back then just as much as I hate em now :lol:

[TheGosuStandard]

 

 

So clean!

 

My first build is the current computer I use, spent a lot of time researching how to properly attach everything & watching videos. How I found LTT videos actually. 

[Linux User]

I've done 2 builds so far, both this year although the first might not count, so I'll say both. The first was an ancient 10 year old computer I took apart for parts, but a friend wanted it so I sold it to him. It had a 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (yes, netburst), 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. If that doesn't count, the second one was for my dad. It has an AMD 7850K, 8 GB HyperX beast 2133 MHz RAM, 120 GB HyperX fury SSD, a 500 GB WD green, 1 tb WD Scorpio Blue (both in my spares box), 350 watt PSU and a TP link WiFi card.

[hueylax70790]

My current one. Instead of building a brand new computer, i just upgrade parts. I will eventually build a new one, but until then, my build is perfect.

[ViruZ_HUN]

I've never built a PC:(

 

But look at my profile and see my dream rig which I am probably going to build later:D

[KJH]

My first build was all the way back in early 2000's that was the third PC that i owned.

 

I really don't even remember the full set up but i had a GeForce 4 Ti4600, a Gigabyte motherboard  an AMD CPU (K6 or K7 don't really remember now), a whooping 512 MB of RAM (upgraded soon to 768 MB) 4GB Seagate hard drive later another Seagate drive with 60GB, and a huge 15" CRT monitor (it weight like 3 times more than the rest of the PC).

 

The most challenging task was to get the money for it, but since that the other thing was the RADEON 9700 PRO that entered the market very soon after I had finished my build. But luckily I was able to sell my GeForce and buy the new ATI. It was the time of ATI domination.

 

Other than that i remember i had some troubles with the case screws. The case itself was a strong heap of metal, but the screws that were sold with it were really weak. I changed them for the screws from my previous PC.

 

This PC was with me (or rather in my garage) for a long time until i sold it like 3 years ago to a grocery store in a small village, where it lives till this day.

[Simply Karlo]

My first build was around 1998. I bought this second hand 80486 Dx2 50MHz back in 1997. I gutted the case and put in AMD K6 200Mhz with a whopping 64MB of EDO RAM. The motherboard was an ASUS socket 7 with an SIS chipset. The video card was a 3D Blaster Banshee with 16MB of VRAM. It had 6GB HDD and Windows 98. I was 18 or 19 when I built that system. I used to play FF VII on that machine. My 4770k is my sixth personal build.

[mayu]

My current PC

 

I had problem installing motherboard standoffs on my CM Elite 430, for some reason they were just refused to go in  :wacko: , had to get help from local shop, even they took more than half hour just to install those standoffs, weird thing

 

Some cases do come with standoffs preinstalled these days, so not much of issue now

[Vacsol]

my current one was built in November. it went without a hitch and I've been upgrading it ever since. I have a thread detailing my upgrades as they happen.

you can find that here

[skywake]

My first build was a bit of a franken-rig. It was a 1Ghz AMD Duron with 380MB of SDRAM and a TNT2 Graphics card. I had a 20GB HDD, a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. I remember spending ages ripping my music collection at 128kbps because storage was a premium. Or when GTA Vice City came out and this machine was so slow that I could race the textures loading and win.... it was a POS even for the time but it was fun....

 

As for advice, I'd say the main thing would be to not build for your next upgrade. For example don't spend extra on a motherboard with a whole pile of PCIe lanes if right now you know all you're going to put in there is one GPU and nothing else. Even if you think you may buy all of the cards all at once odds are that by the time you do you'll be looking at building a new rig anyway. Same goes for other things. Don't get a super high end CPU because you feel that you might possibly get into 3D rendering. Buy for what you can use now, don't buy for what you think you might use.

[I_STOLE_YOUR_WIFI]

Its the one im using right now! Then only things ive updated since are adding an SSD (Samsung 840 pro 120gb), and a Noctua CPU fan, ive overclocked my i5 to 4.5GHz.

 

Specs: Intel i5 2500k, GTX 570, Define R3 chassi, MSI motherboard (cant remember the model).

[Slivrer]

Good idea for a thread!!

My first build was a single core Athlon 3.2GHz, some Gigabyte board, 1GB DDR2 800MHz, Radeon X1300 256mb, 500w PSU and a 250GB IDE drive, which I very soon updated to a SATA one. 

I ended up having to get a new cooler for my GPU as Crysis made the fan stop working...

 

There is nothing quite like your first machine