What was your first computer?

[AlexStriz]

The first computer I ever build was for my school. The principal gave us an $800 budget to build two pc's that would be used in the computer lab. Around six people from out grade built them during lunch. They ran ubuntu and everything. We felt so accomplished. No idea what the specs were other than the fact that it was an intel cpu (I remember the stock cooler) and an asrock board. It's what first really got me into building computers. Needless to say, since then our computer lab has been updated with ~20 iMacs... 

[Photonic]

Intel core I3 cant remember what model but it was sandy bridge

 

8GB of ram

 

nvidia gt 520

 

1tb hard drive

 

some asus motherboard

[CaptainKoda]

Intel core I3 cant remember what model but it was sandy bridge

 

8GB of ram

 

nvidia gt 520

 

1tb hard drive

 

some asus motherboard

cool!

[SeriouslyMikey]

The only thing I remember from my first build is that it had a 6870 and was in a Zalman Z9 Plus case and it was painfully loud.

[CaptainKoda]

The only thing I remember from my first build is that it had a 6870 and was in a Zalman Z9 Plus case and it was painfully loud.

cool

[melias24]

The one i'm using now

[CaptainKoda]

The one i'm using now

thats cool!

[armycombatvet7]

If you built a computer, and your ram is at least a GB, stop talking. Lol. It was soo hard to build a computer after not building one for about 11 years. The technology has changed soo quickly!!! I remember having a 10GB harddrive and an 8MB Video Card. And that was my first build. I remember having to use DOS. Windows 3.1. That was epic. I miss Windows 3.1.....

[armycombatvet7]

I went from that to a 780Ti and a 4770k. I was like WTF IS AN i7??? No more Pentium's? No more Core 2 Duo's? No more P5's???

[mariuskf]

CPU<: 4820k mother board<: ASUS P9X79 LE, Socket-2011 GPU<:ASUS GeForce GTX 780 3GB PhysX CUDA PSU<:Corsair CX 750M, 750W                                monitor<:benq (gl2450)                                           memory<:Kingston DDR3 HyperX blu 1600MHz 16GB                 storage<:3tb + 125 gig ssd                                                                      

 

If I where to put an extra GPU in there would I need a better PSU ?

[athesean1]

@alby800 current build

[KCB50L]

the first one I built was when I gutted my 386 and poured in the parts for the first 486 build (486 25mhz) it still ran the original 2 mb ram but scored a 16bit soundblaster card, a 24x CD drive and ditched the floppy drives that were in there, more of a major upgrade than a build but it was the first time I delved into PC building/ upgrading. the second was when I went to a 486 dx 100 with a better sound card, a 100x CD drive and way more ram (if memory serves correct I went to 32mb).

[CaptainKoda]

If you built a computer, and your ram is at least a GB, stop talking. Lol. It was soo hard to build a computer after not building one for about 11 years. The technology has changed soo quickly!!! I remember having a 10GB harddrive and an 8MB Video Card. And that was my first build. I remember having to use DOS. Windows 3.1. That was epic. I miss Windows 3.1.....

lol

[KCB50L]

If you built a computer, and your ram is at least a GB, stop talking. Lol. It was soo hard to build a computer after not building one for about 11 years. The technology has changed soo quickly!!! I remember having a 10GB harddrive and an 8MB Video Card. And that was my first build. I remember having to use DOS. Windows 3.1. That was epic. I miss Windows 3.1.....

I remember when you had a lot of ram if you had in the mb range and video cards, what were they? but I agree, I miss the old DOS 6/ windows 3.1 days.

[tlx]

I am trying to decide what case i will use for my next build

 

 

Has anyone ever done a full on custom water cooling loop?

 

 

350D would be great for a custom water cooling loop imho

[CaptainKoda]

350D would be great for a custom water cooling loop imho

350d wouldn't be good for water cooling but i said that case looked nice, not it would be good for water cooling

[CaptainKoda]

does anyone have a pc with a window to see in and do you like it?

[KCB50L]

does anyone have a pc with a window to see in and do you like it?

I have a Bitfenix ronin, I don't mind it.

[Craftable124]

I'm still running my first PC (specs in sig) but when I first built it I had no GPU, a 500W PSU, only one 1TB HDD and no SSDs. This was june or july 2013, I remember I built it days after haswell chips became available.

[KCB50L]

I'm giving up my H97 motherboard for a Z97 as I now want to go a twin gtx 980 sli and the gigabyte H97 gaming 3 doesn't support sli, also looking at upgrading the H55 to a CM nepton 280L.

[SkimmyMcG]

• This is the first computer I built, I was also using it up until the end of August when I scratched some money together and built my gaming computer.

Pentium 4 3.0GHz

Not sure

2X1GB's

ATI Radeon 5670

PSU 300W Antec

500GB Caviar Blue

Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit

[MrBaker89]

Just curiosity.....

 

Can you guys remember what the first processor you dealt with was?

 

I remember mine being the huge Pentium II...

 

 

 

[qwertywarrior]

first pc i bought had a pentium 4

[ERSCreeper]

I think it was a pentium 1

[ALXAndy]

3.25mhz Z80