What was your first computer?

[corbetto]

The first pc i built took 1 hour for me to figure out that i didnt have cpu power plugged in. Derp

[DebatED Nothing]

My first PC is the one I'm still using. The build itself was fine, I had some friends helping me who knew what they were doing (we did forget the power LED though) however the part list made by a friend was questionable. It had the current Mobo, RAM, CPU and Corsair SSD, however the GPU was a Radeon HD 7850... Yes, that's right, on a "gaming" PC I spent less on my GPU than on my CPU (or at least almost the same amount). The build had an estimated draw of 400 watts maximum, so we bought a 750 watt psu...

[Noyu]

....I wanted to cry because I stuck in my GPU before I plugged in the power switch and led controls and so I only had this tight little space and I don't have the smallest of hands or nimblest of fingers so it was painful..........

ditto here.

 

but I was "cool, calm, and collected" that I decided to remove both my GPU and my WiFi adapter. ahahahaha

I just built my first rig about 5 days ago. Was pretty happy when everything worked fine and booted from the first try.

After a few hours, I was actually on windows 10 and stuff (trying out edge etc etc) when I was researching fans for the Hyper 212x.

Then and there I realized that I installed the cooler the other way (instead of blowing to the exhaust, I t'was blowing to the PSU)

.....to be continued....

[RevoltTrain]

My current PC. All I've done is add the second GPU and add another HDD from when it was originally built

[KrakensKitchen]

I actually thought about building a PC back in early 2014 (I originally wanted an Xbone solely for Forza Motorsport 5) but only until November this year I was able to build it.

 

So in October 2015 I got the parts and managed to assemble it together but the motherboard died during the process (I think it was faulty from the beginning) and that delayed my ascension until November (Just imagine a bunch of components just lying on your desk in your bedroom for a month). In November I finally got the replacement motherboard and everything worked and booted fine the first time however the WD Blue drive I got brand new was all along DOA so I thought I put in this 8 year old Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 I found in a Seagate Desktop backup thing I salvaged would do fine until I got the replacement.

 

Bad idea, the Seagate soon started to die on me and soon enough it gave up and I lost some of the games I installed from Steam earlier, GTA V was the biggest loss since It took 17 hours on my crappy ADSL connection to download 

[matx13]

ditto here.

 

but I was "cool, calm, and collected" that I decided to remove both my GPU and my WiFi adapter. ahahahaha

I just built my first rig about 5 days ago. Was pretty happy when everything worked fine and booted from the first try.

After a few hours, I was actually on windows 10 and stuff (trying out edge etc etc) when I was researching fans for the Hyper 212x.

Then and there I realized that I installed the cooler the other way (instead of blowing to the exhaust, I t'was blowing to the PSU)

.....to be continued....

Hahaha loved that one!

[matx13]

I actually thought about building a PC back in early 2014 (I originally wanted an Xbone solely for Forza Motorsport 5) but only until November this year I was able to build it.

 

So in October 2015 I got the parts and managed to assemble it together but the motherboard died during the process (I think it was faulty from the beginning) and that delayed my ascension until November (Just imagine a bunch of components just lying on your desk in your bedroom for a month). In November I finally got the replacement motherboard and everything worked and booted fine the first time however the WD Blue drive I got brand new was all along DOA so I thought I put in this 8 year old Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 I found in a Seagate Desktop backup thing I salvaged would do fine until I got the replacement.

 

Bad idea, the Seagate soon started to die on me and soon enough it gave up and I lost some of the games I installed from Steam earlier, GTA V was the biggest loss since It took 17 hours on my crappy ADSL connection to download 

Silence for a fallen brother. That sucks man hope it works out!

[Quincy15]

My current PC is my first build. (Spec in my profile) I did not start with a budget build and went balls to the wall and bought some of the most expensive components I could and amazingly I did not screw it up

[TIM74UK]

Back in the day lol First computer I built was a 386... That was when the motherboard had no integrated anything. You had to plug in IDE cards just to connect your HD.

 

At a time when the soundblaster was the biggest card you had in your system, and GPU's didn't even exist

 

The system had 500MB hard disk (which I might add was huge for the day, sizes of HD could be as low as 20mb) and the processor ran at 16 or 33hz, I had 1mb of ram but if you had 2mb of ram you were packing 

 

Games of choice of that day were Xenon 2 / Sopwith / Indy 500 / Populas

[ZombieLloyd]

 (Just imagine a bunch of components just lying on your desk in your bedroom for a month). 

 

This is my current situation. I've got my case, motherboard and ram and I can't get the CPU, PSU, Hard Drive and OS until the 31st of this month

[Quincy15]

Bad idea, the Seagate soon started to die on me and soon enough it gave up and I lost some of the games I installed from Steam earlier, GTA V was the biggest loss since It took 17 hours on my crappy ADSL connection to download 

I take for granted the high speed broadband in London, takes about 30 minutes to download ;-(

[TIM74UK]

I take for granted the high speed broadband in London, takes about 30 minutes to download ;-(

 

17 hours is not that bad if you set it running when you came home from work and by the time you come home on the next day you are rocking.

 

Also 60+GB in 30 minutes??!??!??

[Quincy15]

17 hours is not that bad if you set it running when you came home from work and by the time you come home on the next day you are rocking.

Its bad even if you were waiting for it to download on a Lunar Module on the Moon

[TIM74UK]

Its bad even if you were waiting for it to download on a Lunar Module on the Moon

 

There is always a bigger fish....

[Noyu]

ditto here.

 

but I was "cool, calm, and collected" that I decided to remove both my GPU and my WiFi adapter. ahahahaha

I just built my first rig about 5 days ago. Was pretty happy when everything worked fine and booted from the first try.

After a few hours, I was actually on windows 10 and stuff (trying out edge etc etc) when I was researching fans for the Hyper 212x.

Then and there I realized that I installed the cooler the other way (instead of blowing to the exhaust, I t'was blowing to the PSU)

.....to be continued....

..continuation...

 

so here I was. acting "cool, calm, and collected". I first checked if I could just transfer the fan on the other side, without having to remove the cooler. apparently that was easy, but I had to remove one of the RAMS first 'coz my hand was too big. closed the side panel, ta-da, #solved.

 

next thing I know, I'm in the UEFI BIOS playing around (and crashing a lot), overclocking.

 

Then suddenly, just at the side there, I see "DDR3 4096". I'm like what. Is my RAM broken sht. Turns out it was just loose from the reinstall I did earlier.

 

LL: Not every first build story is a clusterfck of problems. If you don't get overexcited, you might just be lucky enough to pull it off the first try.

[michaelocarroll007]

17 hours is not that bad if you set it running when you came home from work and by the time you come home on the next day you are rocking.

 

Also 60+GB in 30 minutes??!??!??

60gb in 30 minutes is probably off a bit or hes got crazy internet lol probably meant the usual games he downloads is roughly 30 minutes and are more around the 20gig mark. most of my games take around that i dont have many games with 30+Gbs of size though.  100Mbps connection should do it in under 1 hour and 30 minutes  and 300Mbps would do it in just under a half hour  @Quincy15   @KrakensKitchen 17 Hours ouch what do you get with a speed test

[jconstable]

First Built from scratch was for a friend haha. 

But my own CPU: AMD FX-8350 Octa Core Black Edition. R9 270X GPU. 16GB Kingston RAM.

Learnt not to buy a cheap fan controller. Tried a cheap Power cool controller and it wasn't good at all. Now very happy with the NZXT controller over 5 Artic F12 Fans.

[KB_TheDireWolf]

Frist PC built (in sig) I call Red Fox.

Sadly it wasn't my PC, I built it for someone else that I meet online.

We agreed on the price and build. He sent me a interact e-transfer for the c$1,200.

Everything went pretty smooth. I did buy a CX psu, posted the build on LTT, ended up with a 12 II from SafeSonic out of my own pocket because I had already bought the CX.... (Am still stuck with it)

I built it over a period of 3-4 days, no big complications. Everything truned on when i hit the power button the frist time.

I hung onto to it, I was busy with school and couldn't benchmark it, after testing and learning about how the 970 Game reads CPU temps I realized that the thing would benefit from better cooling.

I convince my customer to allow me to get a H100I GTX, it was completely over Kill and unnecessary but look baller shoved into a spec-02 case.

So the night after I just put in H100

My buddy comes over, brings a monster energy drink with him. You can see where this is going with two teenage boys...

My friend places has half empty drink above the computer on my keyboard pull out....

I start f'ing around with him....

It falls

It went right into the top vent of the SPEC-02, with the PC running.

I luck out and give my mobo a 99% isopropyl alcohol bath and it still works afterwards!

After putting all the overclocks on it, I stress test it with Valley benchmark and prime95 in the background. Stress test it for over an hour and it passed!

I deliver it to a happy customer afterwards he gets 200fps in CSGO...

God I miss it...

Am unable to buy a PC for my self....

I only have $300 Canadian to my name, and am 17yo, nobody wants to hire me for a part-time job....

On-top of that I live with a disable mother, she is crippled by Spina Bifida, cannot work or drive, she cant do much of anything due to pain....

Ffs, am sick of being stuck in the same place day after day...

[flibberdipper]

I can't remember the first full build... Most have been rebuilds or tweaks. I'll just go with my old one that had a Sempron 145. It went well, other than the motherboard being a turd and the 6570 literally catching on fire.

[seabass9990]

My first Custom computer started about 2 years ago with a dell insperon desktop with a upgrade to a 6570 and a cx430, than two hardrives and a used POS case later i got a asrock 970 extreme 3 that was DOD and a fx6300, months later i finally got a 7770ghz edition from ebay and a 212 evo, than back in september i got a HAF 912 and a 1tb hard drive, so my build is complete

I can't remember the first full build... Most have been rebuilds or tweaks. I'll just go with my old one that had a Sempron 145. It went well, other than the motherboard being a turd and the 6570 literally catching on fire.

good thing im done with mine

[S_S_D]

secondary pc in my sig, my wiring was horrible but i fixed it even though i cant run my cpu power through the back

[matx13]

Frist PC built (in sig) I call Red Fox.

Sadly it wasn't my PC, I built it for someone else that I meet online.

We agreed on the price and build. He sent me a interact e-transfer for the c$1,200.

Everything went pretty smooth. I did buy a CX psu, posted the build on LTT, ended up with a 12 II from SafeSonic out of my own pocket because I had already bought the CX.... (Am still stuck with it)

I built it over a period of 3-4 days, no big complications. Everything truned on when i hit the power button the frist time.

I hung onto to it, I was busy with school and couldn't benchmark it, after testing and learning about how the 970 Game reads CPU temps I realized that the thing would benefit from better cooling.

I convince my customer to allow me to get a H100I GTX, it was completely over Kill and unnecessary but look baller shoved into a spec-02 case.

So the night after I just put in H100

My buddy comes over, brings a monster energy drink with him. You can see where this is going with two teenage boys...

My friend places has half empty drink above the computer on my keyboard pull out....

I start f'ing around with him....

It falls

It went right into the top vent of the SPEC-02, with the PC running.

I luck out and give my mobo a 99% isopropyl alcohol bath and it still works afterwards!

After putting all the overclocks on it, I stress test it with Valley benchmark and prime95 in the background. Stress test it for over an hour and it passed!

I deliver it to a happy customer afterwards he gets 200fps in CSGO...

God I miss it...

Am unable to buy a PC for my self....

I only have $300 Canadian to my name, and am 17yo, nobody wants to hire me for a part-time job....

On-top of that I live with a disable mother, she is crippled by Spina Bifida, cannot work or drive, she cant do much of anything due to pain....

Ffs, am sick of being stuck in the same place day after day...

As soon as you said you had the Monster over the keyboard I cringed. 

Sorry about your situation bro, if you are a good person your luck will change you can count on that!

[toms94z71]

My first complete build I did my self is my current rig, 4930k oc to 4.6ghz, ausus x79 deluxe, evga 780ti sc, 500 gig samsung 840evo, 3tb seagate barracuda, 1 tb wd blue, 32 gigs gskill 1866mhz ddr3, haupuagge tv tuner card, asus bluray burner drive, 850w silverstone strider gold psu, corsair h100i with some noctua fans for it. I went all out, and I am glad I did, I push it to it's limit from time to time. I will be upgrading my graphics card soon, a few of the newer games I got are really taxing it if I put it on ultra settings. 

 

The next build I plan on is doing one for my wife early next year will be based around and i5, and donating her my 780ti when I upgrade my gpu since the games she plays are less demanding normally. I also want to do a low end am1 build for the kids, I don't trust them to spend more then a couple hundred on a computer.

[matx13]

My first complete build I did my self is my current rig, 4930k oc to 4.6ghz, ausus x79 deluxe, evga 780ti sc, 500 gig samsung 840evo, 3tb seagate barracuda, 1 tb wd blue, 32 gigs gskill 1866mhz ddr3, haupuagge tv tuner card, asus bluray burner drive, 850w silverstone strider gold psu, corsair h100i with some noctua fans for it. I went all out, and I am glad I did, I push it to it's limit from time to time. I will be upgrading my graphics card soon, a few of the newer games I got are really taxing it if I put it on ultra settings. 

 

The next build I plan on is doing one for my wife early next year will be based around and i5, and donating her my 780ti when I upgrade my gpu since the games she plays are less demanding normally. I also want to do a low end am1 build for the kids, I don't trust them to spend more then a couple hundred on a computer.

Nice and yeah I wouldn't spend more then 300-400 for a kid I mean Minecraft isn't exactly demanding lol

[Guest Gabbs]

Well... this thread sure did make me feel old.