What was YOUR First Build? Share!

SkyChotik · 04-25-12, 11:17 AM

My first build was in a custom case that I rigged up myself, with a little machine help from my dad at the time. (I would post pictures if I had them)
Sold the case after a year of building it, and swapped it for the case it's in now.

My first build hardware:

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz
DFI Infinity RS482/G
2GB 333MHz DDR RAM
Visiontek x1300 (Eventually got swapped for an EVGA 8800 GTS 320, that I sold last year)
(Some un-labeled 500W psu I got off ebay)

Still running strong! It's currently a media server with four 500GB hard drives, storing movies, music, videos, and all that fun stuff, running XP Pro.

Feel free to share your first build with pictures!
I'll post some after I get my camera back from my ex.

johan851 · 04-25-12, 11:28 AM

I had a 486DX2. I don't remember how much memory it had. I ran Windows 98 on it. It was a gift from someone who was getting rid of their old hardware.

_slh_ · 04-25-12, 11:47 AM

Pentium 166
32mb Ram
10gb hard drive
10x CDRom
ATI Mach64 gfx
Windows 95

EarthDog · 04-25-12, 11:50 AM

The first one I built myself was:

A64 2800+ (Newcastle) 1.8Ghz @ 2.3Ghz
Some DFI board
ATI 9800 Pro flashed to XT

SkyChotik · 04-25-12, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by johan851

I had a 486DX2. I don't remember how much memory it had. I ran Windows 98 on it. It was a gift from someone who was getting rid of their old hardware.

Do you still have it? I would love to see pictures, I've only ever seen one before, and that's because my cousin had one in his closet.

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Originally Posted by EarthDog

The first one I built myself was:

A64 2800+ (Newcastle) 1.8Ghz @ 2.3Ghz
Some DFI board
ATI 9800 Pro flashed to XT

Sounds very familiar to my first!

alinosa · 04-25-12, 12:18 PM

First rig built by myself: Asus A7V333 with an Athlon XP2200+. 512MB on a single stick, 60GB HDD...

OLDEST build: a 386SX 16MHz that we needed at work last year to extract info from 5.25 in floppies. THAT was a fun project.

My first IBM compatible computer was a 386SX-16 made by Hyundai (like the cars, yes) with a 20 MB harddrive that fit in a 5.25 in bay. It had 8 MB of RAM and was a screamer.

*sniff* the good old days.... yeah right. my phone has more power than that 386 and can run angry birds. Winnah!

moz_21 · 04-25-12, 12:49 PM

My first build was a PII 300 in some cheap case with a 40GB HDD, GeForce 2 something graphics, I think 128MB ram, some kind of CD-RW drive, running windows 98, I played a lot of Need For Speed 2 on that thing.

I grew up on a couple old mid 80's IBM clones (8086 i think) and a Tandy 1000SL (screamer!).

nightelph · 04-25-12, 01:30 PM

First build for me was probably a bunch of random P2 parts I picked off the side of the road and combined all the working parts from several. Much later a P4c build came along.

EGutierrez91 · 04-25-12, 02:02 PM

First build from scratch was the one in my signature.

I've done plenty of parts swapping and replacing before though.

PanteraGSTK · 04-25-12, 02:05 PM

My VERY first attempt to build was a 486dx2 with 32mb of memory (IIRC) that ran 98se. That was just my dad helping me learn to build. He handed me a box of parts, an AT PSU with a case and said "have fun". I think I was 12 or 13.

My first build where I actually got to buy parts was an ASUS CUSL2 (SKT 370) with a 533mhz Celly that was OC'd to 800mhz. Used an Alpha cooler with a 60mm delta screamer. Ran great for a while. Still have the board, cpu and case.

You never forget your first...

trekky · 04-25-12, 02:05 PM

this is my 1st build in sig
im probly going to build again when DDR4 comes out

Scout · 04-25-12, 02:56 PM

ASUS A8N-SLI
FX-55
6800 ultra SLI
2gb of ram
group effort between my brothers and I to play lots and lots of counterstrike.

wagex · 04-25-12, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyChotik

My first build was in a custom case that I rigged up myself, with a little machine help from my dad at the time. (I would post pictures if I had them)
Sold the case after a year of building it, and swapped it for the case it's in now.

My first build hardware:

Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz
DFI Infinity RS482/G
2GB 333MHz DDR RAM
Visiontek x1300 (Eventually got swapped for an EVGA 8800 GTS 320, that I sold last year)
(Some un-labeled 500W psu I got off ebay)

that is what my computer at work is ;D cept an 8500gt still dropping hints for him to let me upgrad this thing lol

but anywho my first build was an
k8 3d cpu cant remember what one exactly
with 256mb's of ram D:
think 80gb hdd lol

it tore through 56k like a boss hahaha lots of diablo 3 and tibia

rishidev · 04-26-12, 12:50 AM

pentium 1 75 mhz
intel board
48mb ram
bought opti 931 audio card
graphics -cant remember
256mb ibm daqa ide drive--upgraded to ibm 2gb later
creative 4x cdrom drive
dlink nic

played doom95, hexen1--hexen II was all choppy graphics, dogz was good too, pitfall -the mayan adventure.

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SkyChotik Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Wisconsin, USA	What was YOUR First Build? Share! My first build was in a custom case that I rigged up myself, with a little machine help from my dad at the time. (I would post pictures if I had them) Sold the case after a year of building it, and swapped it for the case it's in now. My first build hardware: Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz DFI Infinity RS482/G 2GB 333MHz DDR RAM Visiontek x1300 (Eventually got swapped for an EVGA 8800 GTS 320, that I sold last year) (Some un-labeled 500W psu I got off ebay) Still running strong! It's currently a media server with four 500GB hard drives, storing movies, music, videos, and all that fun stuff, running XP Pro. Feel free to share your first build with pictures! I'll post some after I get my camera back from my ex. __________________ ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD FX-4100(O.C.@5.1GHz) Sapphire HD 7950(O.C.@1250Mhz) ASUS GTX 560(Non-Ti) OCZ ZT-750w Fully Modular 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600 (O.C.@2133Mhz) OCZ Agility II 128GB (OS Drive) 2x Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB 5600RPM (RAID 0) NZXT Tempest 410 ELITE
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alinosa Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: San Antonio, TX	First rig built by myself: Asus A7V333 with an Athlon XP2200+. 512MB on a single stick, 60GB HDD... OLDEST build: a 386SX 16MHz that we needed at work last year to extract info from 5.25 in floppies. THAT was a fun project. My first IBM compatible computer was a 386SX-16 made by Hyundai (like the cars, yes) with a 20 MB harddrive that fit in a 5.25 in bay. It had 8 MB of RAM and was a screamer. sniff the good old days.... yeah right. my phone has more power than that 386 and can run angry birds. Winnah! __________________ Intel Pentium4 640 @ 4000 MHz (250x16) stock volts MCP650>BIX3>Cathar Storm G4>MCW60>DangerDen 5.25" Res, tygon 7/16" pqi turbo ddr400 DFI Lanparty 875P-T powerstream 520 eVGA 6800U@ 465/1100 on an Acer 22 inch WS LCD Lian Li PC-G70B HEAT Lenovo T61p-> Desktop crushing machine.
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moz_21 Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: MN	My first build was a PII 300 in some cheap case with a 40GB HDD, GeForce 2 something graphics, I think 128MB ram, some kind of CD-RW drive, running windows 98, I played a lot of Need For Speed 2 on that thing. I grew up on a couple old mid 80's IBM clones (8086 i think) and a Tandy 1000SL (screamer!). __________________ [Win7 x64 Desktop] Asus P8P67 w/ i7 2600k @ 4.5GHz 1.37v, CM 212 EVO, 16GB Mushkin DDR3 (991996) @ 2133MHz 9-11-10-28-39 2T, 2x EVGA GTX 560Ti 1GB SSC, OCZ Vertex3 240GB, Antec P183 gunmetal grey, SeaSonic 850W PSU [Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server] Asus M4A79T w/ Phenom II X6 1090T @ stock, 8GB Kingston DDR3 ECC (KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G), Xigmatek S1284, 8x 1.5TB Samsung MDADM RAID5 array, Fortron 530W PSU [Win7 x64 Media PC] Asus M4A88T, Phenom 2 965 X4 @ stock, 8GB RAM, ATI HD-5450, OCZ Onyx 32GB, Seagate 7200.11 1TB [Win7 x64 Laptop] Acer Aspire 5530, AMD Turion X2 RM70 2GHz, 3GB ram, ATI Radeon HD3200, OCZ Vertex 2 50GB [Smoothwall 3.0] ~~Compaq Deskpro, PIII 833 on an i810 chipset, 512MB CL2 ram, 74Gb Raptor HDD, 2x Realtek NIC~~ Now a KVM on Ubuntu server [My].Heatware
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PanteraGSTK Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: over there	My VERY first attempt to build was a 486dx2 with 32mb of memory (IIRC) that ran 98se. That was just my dad helping me learn to build. He handed me a box of parts, an AT PSU with a case and said "have fun". I think I was 12 or 13. My first build where I actually got to buy parts was an ASUS CUSL2 (SKT 370) with a 533mhz Celly that was OC'd to 800mhz. Used an Alpha cooler with a 60mm delta screamer. Ran great for a while. Still have the board, cpu and case. You never forget your first... __________________ EVGA 750i SLI FTW, Q6600 @ 3200mhz 1.325v, vdroop mod, Kingston pc8500 4gb, 2x 8800GT in SLI, OCZ Vertex 3 120GB,WD 320GB for games, Xclio 650w psu, Scythe Infinity 2X Kingwin 80cfm 120mm fans, X-fi xtreme gamer, Windows 7 Ultimate Bill Gates over heard saying "If i had a penny for every time Windows Crashed... Oh wait, I do."
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