How long did it take to build your first PC?

About 3/4 hours and that's with some good cable tidying. I just watched a lot of build videos before hand which helped although it is a relatively easy task.
 
I used to be able to do three standard PC builds in an hour when I was working for a computer shop. However, that is insane and I don't recommend it. It's much better to take your time and have regular breaks for tea and chocolate biscuits.

First one, I'm not sure about. I've done so many now I can barely remember the first one. What I do remember is that I had some trouble with the jumper settings that took a while to resolve, including a phone call to someone more experienced. Probably 5-6 hours, maybe a bit more, over a couple of days.
 
Mine first build took me around 5 hours. I was really scared because the components were quite expensive so I was really slow and patient and kept double checking to make sure I connected everything. Excludes software stuff, my software checklist is too long and installing everything would take hours.
Collecting hardware and prior research took me a couple of weeks. Well, first build ;)
 
Probably a couple of hours, double checking everything was cabled correctly but also organizing cables as in where they would go around my case prior to building.
 
Several hours for the furst one I built.

My current PC, which I built 2 years ago (now I'm back on a motorbike I'm not as fussed about my PC being up to date) took around 30 mins. As soon as I installed Windows it kept blue screening and I worked out it was the memory. As it was xmas, and I was down with genuine flu, not the infinitely worse man flu, I put it to one side, ordered some memory, and used my old PC for the next week till I recovered.
 
I started with an off-the-shelf machine (back in '97) and upgraded/modded it over time. By the time I built a totally new machine from scratch I was already up to speed - think it only took a couple of hours.
 
Biohazard said:
Mildly OT. Can anyone remember what the math co-processor for the 386 was called?

I always wanted one. :D
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i387

Didn't make a lot of difference IIRC, unless you had MS flight sim I think.

One of those "go faster stripes" type upgrades :o


I still wince at the thought of paying out £200 for 3Mb of ram (yep, Mb, not Gb)
 
2-3 hrs for the first, now 1-2 hours for the actual build. Many hours on installing OS, drivers, software and setting it up how I like it.

The build part is the easy part I find, It's when software doesn't work the way it should or your drivers seem to be making things crash etc that can be the pita to sort out.
 
bitslice said:
i387

Didn't make a lot of difference IIRC, unless you had MS flight sim I think.

One of those "go faster stripes" type upgrades :o


I still wince at the thought of paying out £200 for 3Mb of ram (yep, Mb, not Gb)
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I only wanted it as I had the SX varient that was soldered onto the mobo, and had an empty socket for the 387.

That, and that alone I think essentially spurred a whole decades worth of neurotic 'puter OCD... :D

I remember jumping 1mb-4mb with a crazy amount of sims and being able to play Civilization, Settlers and Colonization. No sound, but happy as can be. :D
 
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