How old were you when you first built your PC?

nexusmaniac · 12 May 2016 at 13:29

Just turned 15 when I bought and built my first PC!
But happily took scraps from failed PCs when I was say, 8-12 and re-assemble them into working machines

martin363 · 12 May 2016 at 14:52

1991, I was 18.

I used to spend a lot of time on a Sunday morning at a computer fair in the basement of a hotel behind the theatre on Tottenham Court Road, got enough bits together to build a 486.

A lot of fun in those days.

Beasty · 12 May 2016 at 14:55

17 and I was a nervous wreck

I think the most I had done before that was put ram or graphics card in

I was terrified of breaking something, I remember physically shaking doing things like the CPU cooler (Didn't help it was one of those awful stock core 2 duo coolers!)

Ridiculous looking back on it now, the whole thing is second nature after building/repairing hundreds.

Klo · 12 May 2016 at 14:55

16 from scratch, I installed my first graphics card at 15.

Remember being very stressed with installing the CPU + fan.

deFiniLoGy · 12 May 2016 at 14:57

18!

Still remember the thrill when my first mobo is a M5E

Nelly · 12 May 2016 at 15:12

Bought my first PC around 1994, I was about 19 - Packard Bell 486 SX2 £999 from Dixons.

I bought a further two PC's, the last being a custom PC from Dan Technology built in 1998, I then rebuilt it myself in 2002 using the same case when I was 27, so around 14 years ago.

Hagar · 12 May 2016 at 15:22

40, 23 years ago

trackrat · 12 May 2016 at 15:29

55, I was a late starter.

alex2zulu · 12 May 2016 at 16:02

i designed my first system when i was about 13, parents got a friend to make it as a Christmas present. pentium 4 that got to 102c without cracking. then i learned about dust.. upgraded that when i was about 15. full gut and rebuild.
then my first rig from scratch was 17. few family bits in between. i always like the engineers on star trek, that and games. such nerd. much pc

marc2003 · 12 May 2016 at 16:25

I was 27. I dabbled with my mate's spectrum as a kid but led a computer free life in between.

Liquiduk · 12 May 2016 at 16:32

Was always dabbling with bits I could find from early (around 12-13) built my first actual PC when I was 17 and had the money to do so.

xb8browney · 12 May 2016 at 16:35

17 years old for me

ci_newman · 12 May 2016 at 16:40

First personal computer at 16 which I tinkered with, first full component build at 18

ttaskmaster · 12 May 2016 at 16:42

2013, I think it was, so not much younger than I am now...
A fellow member on here was very kind (or cruel, or evil, depending on whether you're me, my wife, or my bank manager) and gave me a PC for a wedding present.
In short order, I was upgrading stuff, and soon after building an entire gaming rig!!

TacticalFish · 12 May 2016 at 17:00

When I was 15 doing work experience in a local PC shop.

Had no idea what I was doing, but it still turned on.

Nothing's changed really..

BattFink · 12 May 2016 at 17:30

must have been 12/13...

Spent over a year doing a paper round/washing cars etc.. to save up the money (combined with birthday money etc..), I remember pouring through a copy of micromart & put myself together a nice little Pentium 75 system

I then spent the next 6 months saving up for a 28.8kps modem

Strangely enough, that PC was still felt more satisfying than when I built my current machine (5960x, 980ti etc..)

*Rich* · 12 May 2016 at 19:19

Not too long ago, i think it was a Pentium 4HT....can't remember when they were popular

Lustral · 12 May 2016 at 19:24

13 , in 1993 , 486 DX-2 66Mhz , Socket T CPU , 8Mb Ram , 340Mb HDD Western Digital , 1Mb S3 VESA Graphics card , Panasonic Dual Speed CD-ROM ... I cant believe i remeber the specs

Mr-White · 12 May 2016 at 19:59

Does putting together a Commodore 64 count ?

DEL 707 · 12 May 2016 at 20:07

Think I would have been about 17, it had a Pentium II processor.

Loved that machine it was so stable and fast compared to the hunk of crap Time PC was had.

I had to ask my IT teacher to give me a lift home and have a look at it, because I couldn't get it to turn on. Turns out I forgot to put in any spacers underneath the motherboard, so I screwed it directly to the casing.
I was so lucky I didn't blow anything up.