HOW DID YOUR 1ST BUILD GO

First build went perfect, all others have since included full WC installs, dual loops etc.

No leaks ever (touch wood)
 
Faulty RAM and mobo on my first build, and it took the supplier 3 weeks to sort it. Been fine ever since for a fair few builds.
 
Mine went well, no problems as of yet, been running about 2 months now. Only gripe i had was application of the motherboard blackplate, my god was that tricky to get on!

Also scared myself when inputting the processor, as my hands are clammy. There were light condensation marks on the edges of the processor as i dropped it in and pinned it down nervously. Thankfully all was fine and i had nothing to worry about. The rest was pretty simples.
 
It went fine! I think I used a Juno case, and an Athlon t-bird 1.4...
Before that I had only modified existing PCs.

I remember my parents thinking it was witch-craft that I had built a PC as a child!
 
Mine was a long day of cursing, swearing and sweating. Finally got it together and put my XP disk in. Nothing!!! It couldn't detect my hard disk. Oh the panic.
I took it apart, checked every connection, thought I must have bent something, snappend something, or plugged the wrong thing in the wrong slot.
Fonrtunately I still had my mums pc downstairs. A quick google (slow in the days of dial-up) and I found out that XP without service pack 1 wouldn't recognise a SATA hard-drive!!! That led to a days worth of research on how to make a slipstream xp disk with sp1.
The unbridled joy and sense of achievement when it finally booted was wonderful.
 
How did my first build go? Very well I'm glad to say, even though I had been assisting my dad with PC builds & upgrading Graphics cards/hard drives in the PC's passed down to me for years before, I never really plucked up the courage to do one myself from scratch until 2005.

I did the build slowly though, starting from September 2005 as I was only a college student at the the time and was using my EMA money to fund the build haha :D I started the build by purchasing some stylish black case with a transparent side window (can't remember the name of the case now but it was brilliant).

Then over the course of the next couple of months I slowly worked my way into purchasing the Motherboard, PSU, FDD, DVD Drive, cabling & case fans. The last parts purchased online was on Xmas day 2005 (using Xmas money given by parents lol!) which consisted of the CPU & HDD. The Graphics card was handed down to me by my Dad from his old rig & the RAM I took from my old rig.

The ending result was this:

Skt 754 AMD Athlon 3000+
DFI LanParty UT 250 GB (what a great board it was)
400W PSU with blue LED fans
512MB DDR400
ATI Radeon 9550 (I think)
250GB SATA1 Seagate HDD (the noisiest HDD I've never owned!)
Stylish black case
LG DVD-RW drive
Standard black FDD

As I had already purchased most of the parts before that Xmas, everything was already put together. Oh how nerve racking it was when I recieved the CPU & HDD right before NYE 2005 and delicately fitting the CPU onto the board & mounting the CPU cooler and finally pressing the power button for the very first time that morning - and everything worked! What a relief it was :) Unfortunately as I was unaware of OcUK at the time, I purchased everything from a competitor. I used and owned my first build for around 16 months, before I sold it on to a family member as my Dad had passed down his rig to me.

Liam
 
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Mine was a Mess. Cable Everywhere, Didn't overly know about the CPU fan cable. Pc Booted but nothing Happened. Took me 3 days to realise. But once That baby was up and running, I had a glow and twinkle in my eye. Was overjoyed. I Built my First Pc, on my own without any knowledge.
 
I did my first build when I was 14 and it went a bit badly. I was doing fine, managed to get everything connected properly but when I tried turning it on it kept shorting out. Because I had no idea how to fix stuff back then, I sent it off to a computer shop (which charged me £50) only to find out that I had not put the standoffs on the mobo! Epic fail by me :(

Since then i've not had a single problem!
 
Was Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzing when that bios screen came on the monitor for the first time.

Now i just want to build more and more and more (costing a bloody fortune) LoL.
 
Really not well, I shaved off a two pin from the 24 pin PSU which plugs in to the board thinking it was 'compatible' turns out it wasn't PC blew up and smoked everywhere... And have learnt a lot ever since.

THE WORST FIRST BUILD ERRRRVERRRR.
 
Swimmingly, thanks very much.
My LAST personal build gave me a DOA motherboard, but stuff like that is just unlucky/inconvenient.
Follow online guides, dont force anything that doesnt want to happen.
 
This is my first build. Started as an ocuk tyrannosaur mk2 pre-build in jan. improved it and added some stuff, then completely gutted it and sold some bits off, kept other for my folding rig (wip). Set up my first watercooling too, external rad to cool both systems.

Only issue when i built the actual pc was the msi i/o shield being ****. I bent all the tabs forward but one still managed to prod into a usb port. I thought it was odd that my speakers screetched when i plugged them in, but left it at that. Couple days later i got an electric 'shock' off it (more of a creeping tensig sensation). So i tore it out and cut all the tabs off with tin snips.

Watercooling had many more mishaps. I made so much mess LOL. Split coolant all over the floor, all over me, all over my agility 3 (who cares..), even split a load on thr extension lead at one point. I'm clumsy.

Not bad for a first build though I guess. Still a wip as i need to sort a few things and get gpu blocks.

As for things I've fried: i set fire to a bitfenix led strip. Plugged in the connector without looking and had only plugged in 2 of the 3 pins. That smelled baddddd
 
My first ever build is my only ever build. Details in my sig.

I only finished it two days ago. It took two nights after work to complete - notwithstanding I do the cooking etc in our house as well as needing to sleep ;)

It went very well apart from the odd cut or two from fiddling around in the case.

Quick tip - don't bother attaching any cards etc to the motherboard before you screw it into the case otherwise you're in for all kinds of frustration. Unless you have a gigantic case and tiny guts, of course! A friend gave me that tip and I had no problems.
 
cmd1989 said:
I did my first build ... only to find out that I had not put the standoffs on the mobo! Epic fail by me :(

Since then i've not had a single problem!
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That reminded me of my first build back in the 90s with my twin brother. A 486 or pentium 1. The motherboard had a scratch on it so was earthing out through the metal motherboard mounts. Swapped them to plastic clip ones and done. Lesson Learned.

Had some stinkers since then - mostly involving DOA RAM or cheap OCZ RAM that needed more voltage than the mobo would provide it on first boot.
 
Went ok apart from forgetting to set Sata mode to IDE (first time installing Sata, so didnt know about this option!). Took me a whole day to figure out.
 
Did my first ever build exactly one year ago, runs like a charm today on the same OS install. I was stressed as hell seeing so many expensive parts, fearing I'd **** it up but it went together well in the end.
 
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