What was your first computer upgrade and the first system you built from scratch

MechaWyvern · Aug 4, 2009

First upgrade was doubling the ram (8mb to 16mb) in an Acer Pentium 166mhz system.
First "from scratch" was an Athlon 2500+, 512mb, Geforce 4, 80 gig HDD.

sHape oF gReY · Aug 4, 2009

Very first upgrade that I can remember, was add 4 Mb of RAM to my 90Mhz P54C machine. Then later, not sure if it can be considered an upgrade, but I swapped cases...I remember it vividly because it still had a "Turbo" button on it and it boggled the hell out of me, had to ask my old man what it was. :bday:

My very first top to bottom build was a K6-2 300Mhz with 64 Mb of RAM, SoundBlaster 16 bit? sound card and an amazing Voodoo Rush (year later updated to Riva TNT).

Old Thrashbarg · Aug 4, 2009

I can't remember exactly what I did first... it was either changing a clock crystal to run my 286 at 14mhz, or adding an expanded memory card to the same machine.

The first computer I built completely from scratch was a Socket 7 Pentium, I forget exactly what it started out as, I think maybe a P133 and 16 or so MB of RAM. It changed around a lot, so I don't recall every different permutation of it. Before that I was just taking prebuilt/barebones systems and upgrading them.

Daddyjaxx · Aug 4, 2009

The first real PC I bought, not including an Atari computer I had, was a 386 from Circuit City. I think I paid a grand for it and it didn't even have anything but DOS on it.

LufbraDan23 · Aug 4, 2009

jmdixon85 said:
Well apart from upgrading Amiga's and doing some tinkering with 486's (I was all for Amigas back then, didn't like PC's much) The first system I built goes something like this:

PentiumII 350
64MB SDRAM
something like a 6GB HDD
and if I remember right, a TNT2 M64 32MB

All hooked upto a 17" CRT that weighed about the same as a small car, lol

Don't get me started on CRT's! I'm a big guy and i nearly put my back out taking an old 17" to the skip last week!

jmdixon85 · Aug 4, 2009

LufbraDan23 said:
Don't get me started on CRT's! I'm a big guy and i nearly put my back out taking an old 17" to the skip last week!

Yeah they were a right pain to move about. I think mine was a Phillips 107B, it was that heavy it always used to bend my desks after a few month!

Diggrr · Aug 4, 2009

My last CRT was an NEC syncmaster 21". I had to get a desk that was 3' deep to have room for the keyboard and mouse in front of it!
And yeah, I lugged it upstairs to my son's room where he uses it.
Oy!

ObiWong · Aug 5, 2009

lol uhhhh
it was a AMD Athlon 2100+
2GB Kingston RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 256MB
some no name case/PSU combo

it was awesome!

sHape oF gReY · Aug 5, 2009

Diggrr said:
My last CRT was an NEC syncmaster 21". I had to get a desk that was 3' deep to have room for the keyboard and mouse in front of it!
And yeah, I lugged it upstairs to my son's room where he uses it.
Oy!

Haha I have that same CRT and man, that thing weighs as much as a MINI Cooper. Still works great considering is close to 10 years old.

What was your first computer upgrade and the first system you built from scratch

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