Well I have never completely built a computer from scratch as of yet, but the first computer I ever got to tinker around on looked alot like this...
http://digg.com/hardware/When_was_th..._your_computer
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Well I have never completely built a computer from scratch as of yet, but the first computer I ever got to tinker around on looked alot like this...
http://digg.com/hardware/When_was_th..._your_computer
:eek:
I would charge the guy for my dust masks too.
Man. . Never seen one that bad! Guy must of had a Computer in his laundry room or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnowFire
My first computer I built I killed my new top of the line 6800gt with static electricity.
I was 10 when I built my first. A AMD Duron 1.3ghz with onboard sound and graphics. Worked perffect the fidt time.
The first PC I built (Not counting the barebones system a year ago) is the one I'm using right now.
It's turned out pretty well, even though it's taken me six months to finally finish the thing. I've been using it for most of that time, and just waiting until I had enough money to get the next part.
The only issues I have had are 1) The processor heatsink, I had to push so damned hard on the lever that locks it down that I still have ridges in my thumb.. and 2) Me tweaking things in software and causing everything to stop working properly. :D
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Originally Posted by SnowFire
So much dust in that thing he could have a garden in there...
Ran flawlessly on the first start up, I had upgraded before (amd 450mhz to a celeron 500mhz) and then afterwards built a system looking like this:
Athlon 2500, 1gb 2700, 40gb maxtor, asus mobo, geforce 4 (soon upgraded to a 9600pro). Up and running in no time.
Purchased a pre-built from a local PC shop in 2001/02. Incrimentally upgraded it over time due to hardware failure (hard drive scratched, PSU caught fire, busted mobo, etc). Current Rig (see sig) is the first "completely built by me" machine.
Because everything was incremental over time, this build was pretty much flawless, as all the hardware was already checked and tested as mostly it was a case change. Only problems I have is with hard drive cooling, noise reduction, and processor cooling, but nothing else horrible happened that I attribute to my assembly skills.
-Cool-
Speaking of rebuilding computers, I just rebuilt some dell (mobo fried, so I replaced the mobo)