What was your first computer?

[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.

[KB_TheDireWolf]

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!

I highly doubt it.

[KB_TheDireWolf]

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!

I should send you a pic of my house

, looks like a horders place....

[toms94z71]

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

yeah, the sad part is the the 13 yr old is the most accident proned/careless one, the 10yr old will probably be the most responsible with it, the 8 year old  has a bad habit of deleting things when it makes her mad on her tablet so I will have to watch her lol. I got a psu, hd, keyboard, mouse and monitor already, so I have about $270 planned on the rest of the stuff to get for it.

[bejamartins]

Well, my first build was on 2004, but I had professional help, so I guess may not count as much. Later on on 2008 I made one by myself. Wasn't stressful overall, made some choice mistakes that I later regreted but eventually came around it. Most stressfull thing: learned how to apply thermal paste (I still get criticezed the way I do it, but works for me).

[matx13]

yeah, the sad part is the the 13 yr old is the most accident proned/careless one, the 10yr old will probably be the most responsible with it, the 8 year old  has a bad habit of deleting things when it makes her mad on her tablet so I will have to watch her lol. I got a psu, hd, keyboard, mouse and monitor already, so I have about $270 planned on the rest of the stuff to get for it.

The 8 year old sounds hilarious!! hahaha

[KemoKa]

First PC i built had an Athlon 64 X2 2400+ with 2GB of RAM and a 250GB HDD. Ran Ubuntu for 2 years before I built my APU machine. Now it sits in my closet.

[toms94z71]

The 8 year old sounds hilarious!! hahaha

She deleted minecraft off her tablet several times because it made her mad. She has Autistic spectrum dissorder it doesn't take much to upset her at all.

[APasz]

First build huh? My first from scratch PC was one I made for my mother for mothers day a few years ago. Real simple AMD A8 5600 I think, 500GB HDD which has since been replaced by a 120GB SSD.

If you include tinkering then my first build was my first PC. Pent2 thing, had that for like 6 years.

[DKL]

I should send you a pic of my house

, looks like a horders place....

If it is any comfort you and I are practically one and the same. I live in a house that looks like a hoarding area. The house itself is infested with mice/rats and if it isn't that it's bees. I am 19 and have yet to succeed at achieving any part-time job. I am somewhat luckier than you in that my mother only has a knee injury and my father, well, we never know if he has early Alzheimer's or not due to his personality.

My father pays the bills by tutoring after he got laid off from his Graphic Design job last year. My parents are barely able to pay for me to go to college for two semesters. I have qualified for no financial aid of any kind, no scholarship, nothing.

I am majoring in Computer Science at my county's college but due to any lack of work I have been forced to turn to online ways of finding a job. This started with the idea to build a computer for it. One that I could do some Youtubing (but no real editing with an i3) on as well as other work. I bought the parts this past Black Friday,  http://pcpartpicker.com/p/j2g4cf (prices are with tax and shipping costs, $50 in rebates are not deducted because with my luck they'll get rejected). The CPU is on back order at Superbiiz with no ETA and every single other part has arrived and is sitting on my desk. 

My current computer is just a $300 ASUS Transformer Tablet that can do web browsing well but lags just when editing any java file in Eclipse. Might have something to do with Z3775 and 2GB Memory and being a year and a half old...

...I use a flipphone. No smartphone for me. Everyone else I know has one... sigh...

I plan to find work dog sitting, tutoring, in addition to my own blogging and Youtubing to bring in SOMETHING. I have tried numerous giveaways to try to at least win something... no dice.

 

I live each and everyday wondering if it is a lie. Wondering if everything I'm working towards is going to come crashing down. I may never actually finish my degree if I don't take loans and if I take loans I may take even longer to pay them back...

...and did I mention that I don't have a license, permit, insurance, etc.? I am on Medicaid Health Insurance. 

Meanwhile, I'm helping my classmates in various classes with their assignments before I even do my own. I start essays at Midnight the day they are due just to get an A when I hand it in the same day. I like girls and they like me back but I can't have a girlfriend because I don't have financial stability... 

My whole life is stable from the outside to others because I basically put on an act of emotional and financial stability. In fact if anything is stable it is only intellectually. My parents try to act like nothing is wrong but then if anything does go wrong all hell breaks loose.... 

 

It could all come crashing down like a pile of cards at any second, and I never know when it will happen. I passed a car on the way to school today... it was flipped upside down in the middle of the road blocking traffic. A family of four was watching as police stopped traffic so workers could carefully move it onto a truck to tow it away..

 

...and a diner in my area burst into flames a couple years ago. What if that happened to my house? With all the hoarding it would spread like crazy and I would lose everything...

[matx13]

She deleted minecraft off her tablet several times because it made her mad. She has Autistic spectrum dissorder it doesn't take much to upset her at all.

Dang, I gotta brother like, they get feisty lol  

[ethconmeg]

Lol my first pc that I built had a cyrix 333mhz processor.