what age was your first build?

Scuzi · 21 Aug 2008 at 13:31

ubern00b said:
If it were that simple these forums wouldnt exist

It is that simple. Sometimes it doesn't work though and that's where the difficulties arise. A toddler could screw a PC together and get it up and running. Troubleshooting is a bit more difficult though.

ubern00b · 21 Aug 2008 at 13:45

Scuzi said:
It is that simple. Sometimes it doesn't work though and that's where the difficulties arise. A toddler could screw a PC together and get it up and running. Troubleshooting is a bit more difficult though.

I was just being pedantic

focusing mainly on the "and it works" part of your sentance hehe.

DanTheMan · 21 Aug 2008 at 16:32

I was 15, it's still my main rig 3 1/2 years on.

mpj88 · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:12

13 assisted by dad!

TheCenturion · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:15

seven years ago i built one with my uncle, I was 7 or 8

Sinny · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:20

13/14 cant really remember but it was the time of Pentium 4's and fx5200.

SexyGreyFox · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:22

It was a 386SX25 in 1989 and I was 31.

Kaed · 21 Aug 2008 at 21:03

19.

I was 'on trial' at a small computer programming company. The boss said, go downstairs to the storeroom gather up the remains of any computer you find there and build your pc.

I went off and did just that (I think to this day, that was his way of 'trialling' his new employees)

typk · 21 Aug 2008 at 21:15

Must have been about 12.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 21 Aug 2008 at 21:16

Helios1234 · 13 Sep 2008 at 17:58

16/17 when I had to build a pc for my friend.

Glaucus · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:00

18 when I saved up money before going to uni and splashed out on a silly expensive computer. IIRC I paid ~£300 for an asus geforce 3 delux gfx card.

Iraklis F.C. · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:08

8 , was a spectrum if my memory serves me right...the ones with cassettes...endless hours of arkanoid

Monkeynut · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:19

Built my first computer at the age of 12 and started programming at 8.

Granted, it was Visual Basic, but it was magical at the time.

Munky1080 · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:21

I think I must've been 10 when I made my first computer. I was programming in BASIC for my old apple IIe way back though, probably when I was about 8...again nothing too complex...basically just IF THEN statements based on input variables.

KNiVES · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:24

11. I remember buying a GeForce 2 and fitting it in my parents' computer. They went berserk. They had no idea what the hell was going on. They thought I was going to kill myself.

neon.uk · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:26

Ummm i helped with the first build of my bros PC when i was 12/13 and then built one myself at 14

Eriedor · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:27

Sone · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:11

from new parts about 15, but i used to buy cheap old base units and mash them together from 11. Local shop used to sell them for 5 quid untested (on Botosolow street, Hanley if you from stoke).

Morgoth · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:14

I think I would have been around 17/18, I had no real interest in PCs until my parents bought one for me and my brother to share to help us with school/uni work (for the internet and word processing stuff).