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 Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 18:34 Post subject: So you built your first computer? |
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Tell the story about it.
I was in middle school when my family FINALLY got our first computer, was some shitty compaq, but at the time it was GREAT, all these game demos, PC games (back when pc games were top shit)
Went out and bought CnC gold, blood 2 and some other ones. Upgraded the memory from like 64MB to 256.
Anywho, I got big into day of defeat back when it was a lot and I went and bought the radeon 7000 PCI video card. greeeat. Figured I'd build my first computer. Searched and saw a site called tigedirect that wasn't too far from me, ordered a case, a micro ATX board (didn't know better), amd XP 1700, some memory etc.
Man was I Stoked when I got it all, first computer, didn't really know a lot. Shiney gleaming case, side window, grinning like a fat kid staring at desert.
I got it all assembled, looking over all the connections making sure I didn't make any rookie mistakes. Oh I forgot something! The video card, popped it out of the compaq and into the newly built awesome.
Put the sides back on, whiped some of the dog hair it already had on it, breating in it's new home.
Nervously hit the power button, waiting to hear it sore....and it does!
Fans spinning up, LED glowing's, monitor glows the MB splash screen.......
and then....
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP powered off.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!? Loud obnoxious BEEP and it powered off? That's not supposed to fucking happen!
I hit the power button again but nothing. Shit what did I do wrong!? I unplug the PSU cord and plug it back in, hit the power button, the action starts up again!! Whew, maybe it was just a fluke, right after it posts.....
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP powers off.
At this point im sweating not knowing what to do now, looking over everything frantically, almost in tears cause I just spent HUNDREDS on this, weeks of saving and for what? A loud obnoxious fucking beep?
I can't figure it out, my project, my weekly allowance...all gone. My mom offers to pay for a computer tech to look at it, we drive out drop it off. 2 hours later he calls back saying he figured it out.
What!? I spent hours building it carefully, double checking everything and in 2 hours you figure out my problem?
Told me to come in and he'd explain it to me, show me what I did wrong. My mom drives me out there and he shows me....I forgot the single most important fucking thing, one of the first fucking things your supposed to do that I completely didn't even think about.
You know what it was?
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I forgot to put thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU
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Every build since has gone decently good other than the lacking quality of ASUS boards, but for some reason I keep buying them cause I love their design and layout.
754 posting issues with a few memory slots
939 sata issues and PCIe issues at first till bios updates
AM2 RMA board 3 times till I got a working one.
Built a buddies computer using gigabyte, rock solid no issues.
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 21:11 Post subject: |
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Well since my dad is engineer of informatics (I dk how you brits or americans say it properly). Anyway since my birth I was always surrounded by all sorts of computer, from Spectrum, Amiga, Atari. I was first in my street to have a PC (I remember the win 3.11 on it). It was beast  : 20MHz 286, few hundreds MB of disk, I don't remember but I doubt it had much MB (maybe KB) of ram, monochromatic display.
It could play Prince And my dad programmed (in Basic) me a program for calculation: first adding and substracting numbers from 0-10, then 0-100, then came multiplying and dividing.
But the first computer I really put myself was AMD Duron 1 GHz, 128MB of ram, 40GB of disk and Nvidia Geforce 2 mx 400 on a mb that I no longer recall.
Since then I have put more comps for my friends then me, but I feel an upgrade coming soon
I never got anything wrong because I've always read about computers, and first time I had my dad watching over me...
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 21:22 Post subject: |
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As my brother was a computer maniac and my father wanted us to learn something he was as well the first to get an computer in our neighborhood. Thanks to him I learned much, as he is 10 years older than me.
I started with his sharp mz800 (but only playing at that time). His second computer was an atari pc3 with 8mhz and 640kb ram! That mofo was pretty fast and we had a 30mb hd which was rare at that time! (that monster was really huge!)
And everytime he changed his computer, I got his old ones... and he had a lot of computers... I think he once counted and it was something around 40-50  I had a lot of fun with my amiga 500 later on but I never did anything productive as programming was very limited with the given software.. so I later went back to dos and discovered basic for myself B)
My first from my own money bought computer was my an K6-2 500MHz which I had for some years until I bought myself an Barton 3000+ and later this notebook.. fuck I need to upgrade soon 
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 21:23 Post subject: |
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mmm the durons. Those were before the XP's weren't they?
you remembre a MB company soyo? they made some real nice AMD boards back then, wonder what happened to em :\
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 21:33 Post subject: |
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I had a super cool epox board then ... which wasn't that good actually :/
and yes the durons were first. when max payne got released a friend of mine got a 1.4 ghz duron with 1GB ram and a geForce 3 ! fuck I was sooo jealous
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 22:23 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | I had a super cool epox board then ... which wasn't that good actually :/
and yes the durons were first. when max payne got released a friend of mine got a 1.4 ghz duron with 1GB ram and a geForce 3 ! fuck I was sooo jealous |
hehe I remember when max payne was out it was stuttering for me! |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Oct 2009 23:25 Post subject: |
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My first was an AMD 1800 XP, mobo - ECSK7S5A - rock solid.. In fact I still am using it with Windows 7 installed!
Never messed up a build. However, I did blow up a friends (hate them anyway) by upgrading their ancient Compaq Tower with non compaq memory. Glad I did since they ought a new one and I got to keep the one I let them use - my AMD1800XP.
Currently built a CORE2DUO. I actually ordered the mobo/cpu/gfx card from mwave and had them install the cpu/heatsink themselves. Since I got older, I dont want to be bothered with cpu chips/heatsinks that intel makes more difficult than it should be to install.
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tywyn
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Oct 2009 01:10 Post subject: |
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I can say that my experience is very similar to Man Mountain with the ZX81 being my first PC all those years ago. Thee were lots of others including Spectrum, Amiga, 486, K6, P4 etc and a host of consoles. I remember sending my Spectrum being upgraded from 16 k to 48k so that I could play games like Knight Lore, but it took weeks and weeks to come back, and for a 12 year old boy it seemed like a lifetime. When it arrived though I was ecstatic!
The first PC I actually built though was also a K 62 back in about 99, but in my wisdom after i had built it I took the BIOS settings sheet provided with my order and set them as in the sheet. Unfortunately it was an example and after switching on the PC after applying the settings and rebooting I smelt a burning from the mobo, which ofc was the chip being fried. After much arguing on the phone I managed to convince the company (overclockers) to exchange free of charge, so I was very lucky.
Nothing similar has happened since though
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Oct 2009 01:40 Post subject: |
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my first computer was a MSX2, hence the metal gear avatar.
First PC was an AMD 486DX 40mhz , 16mb(!!!!) ram and double speed cd rom , it pwned rebel assault.
Of the many PCs i had it wasnt till my AMD 3500 that i build one piece by piece from scratch, since all the previous ones i either had a good deal on a complete system or had it custom made in the store for a good price. But that was when i lived in germany and not in the technology desert called belgium which didnt pick up on computer knowledge till broadband got available in 2000.
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Oct 2009 05:18 Post subject: |
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My First self built PC 1999 was a tower unit , FIC-SD11 MB AMD Athlon 650 w/Adaptec ultra19160scsi controller and there was my problem couldn't get it to boot, the SCSI HDD/ pioneer SCSI dvd or the SCSI HP cd/rw could not be found, after 2 days on FIC forum turned out to be a bios update...still have the system"retired" memories
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Werelds
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Oct 2009 23:05 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | mmm the durons. Those were before the XP's weren't they?
you remembre a MB company soyo? they made some real nice AMD boards back then, wonder what happened to em :\ |
Funny you should mention them, I threw away an old board I found in the attic from them just this summer..They went bankrupt earlier this year somewhere though, but they hadn't done any PC hardware for some time I think 
I honestly can't remember not having a computer in the house. First one was a 386 with a whopping 20 meg harddisk, fuck yeah bitches
Replaced that with a DX4 not long after, which eventually turned into my first "whoopsie" project. Motherboards back then had these amazing simple DIP switches to fuck with the cpu clocks, so I put that from 33 to 40 and noticed it went from the 100MHz default to 120MHz. Little nublet that I was, I obviously didn't count on that doing any damage without extra cooling 
First PC I really built was a P1-133 (pre-MMX), 32M RAM and an ATi Mach64 (2MB VRAM). Upgraded that with a Voodoo 1, which to date, is still the best upgrade I ever did. Running HL @ 800x600 without any glitches thanks to glide, while my mate with his pricy P2-300 and Rage 3D could barely handle it on 640x480 because it didn't support OpenGL and had to use D3D or software rendering!
On my fifth or sixth selfbuilt system since then, currently very tempted to finally replace my faithful 9800GTX (which only replaced my 8800 cuz that died after 3 years of service). Got it for free from my retailer even though warranty had expired, and it's still an amazing card - the 58xx's look mighty interesting though
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 02:09 Post subject: |
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The 58xx's are amazing, sadly I haven't been able to utilize mine I've got such a system bottleneck that I saw no increase going from an 8800GT to a 5850
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Werelds
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 16:17 Post subject: |
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well if 1 gpu from a 5870 is as fast if not faster than 2 gpu's from the 295GTX, I recon its going to have a long life, considering we haven't gotten anything THAT video stressful.
Worst case scenerio, it'll be shitty ports or unoptimized crap that doesn't run well. I love ghostbusters to death but fuck that game has issues lol.
Crysis...well..honestly I don't see any other engine pushing gfx as hard as crytek. The only other game that'll kick card balls is stalker and even then my 8800GT managed it just fine.
So I would say go for the 5850. So far I've had 0 issues with the drivers and I haven't had an ATI card since the x800GTO. Everythng is playing just fine, ONLY issues I have had so far are being caused by my old as shit CPU (socket 939 X2 lol)
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 18:14 Post subject: |
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I actually built a PC for the first time almost 2 years ago for my brother. It was a Q6600 with a 9600GT, can't remember all the parts but they were high-end, with the Samsung monitor and $100+ Razor keyboard and mouse it came close to $1,500. He collected these parts little by little and I was going to show him how to put everything together.
He finally got all hardware and I put it all together, hit the power button and it powers up for a split second then shuts down. It finally dawned on me those extra screws with the holes in the top were supposed to lift the motherboard so it doesn't make contact with the bottom of the case.  We take it all apart and put it back together again with the stand-off screws, hit the power button but it still powers up for a split second. At this point it was getting late and I figured we just fried something so I told him I would take a look at it the next day... he was PISSED!
After doing some research I found out I forgot to plug in the CPU power connector and I confused it with a PCIE cable. It's been running fine ever since.
I built myself a computer this year but ended up getting a DOA video card and HDD from Newegg, after getting the replacements everything worked fine. It's a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard, Q9550, GTX 260, WD 500GB HDD, Antec Earthwatts 650W PSU, 4 GB of G-Skill memory, Xigmatek Dark Knight heatsink, and an Antec 300 case with extra fans. Built it for just under $900 which isn't too bad.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Oct 2009 03:10 Post subject: |
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you'll have no issues mixing the two
unless nvidia further acts like cocksuckers and disable chipset stuff when detecting an ATI card lol
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chiv
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 04:14 Post subject: |
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i remember MY first computer. it was a shitty old pc the school was giving away.. lugged it home.. plugged it in... BWOOOSHH, massive cloud of dust out the back of the thing. that was the end of that.
eventually got a dell, kicked ass, that was YEARS ago, and its still ticking.. its in the living room as a media pc.
anyway, about 3 years ago i finally took the plunge and BUILT MY OWN! sourced the parts, picked out the nicest shit... id always been tinkering around in the various prebuilt pcs that id had, or my fathers or my sisters, so i felt comfortable putting shit in, replacing, whatever... but yeah, was exciting picking my own parts and actually putting it together.... took a while, but finally everything was all neatly put in... my cabling was nice, everything looked so shiny... i lugged a screen in to the dining room where id assembled it... everything hooked up... moment of truth.. plugged it into the wall, turned on the socket, turned on the power supply, pressed the button....
BWOOOOOSH, everything went dark in the house.
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:32 Post subject: |
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The first PC in my family was a custom built 486 DX4 100Mhz, 8MB RAM, 500mb hdd that we bought.
My own first pc was built using that first computers chassi, hdd and floppy (and soundcard/cdrom that we had bought for it)
I had bought a bunch of stuff via the computer company my mother was working for at the time.
It was an AMD K6 200, 64mb ram, ASUS VX97 MB, Elsa Victory 3D (gfx). I got home the day i had gotten the parts from the wholesaler i had bought the parts from. I hurried to put the computer together. Then came the time to turn it on..... On the bootscreen i got "Floppy Error" ! damn, so annoying. I could ignore it but i wanted my floppydrive to work. So i spent the next 6hours (not kidding 6hrs straight without a break) trying to figure this shit out. It was getting late and my mother wanted me to take a break so she called me to the livingroom to watch The X-Files that was just about to air. Defeated i left the computer and watched some episode of the X-Files. Now i had school the next day so i needed to go to bed, i decided that i would just assemble the computer one last time and then i would go to bed (in those 6 hrs i had taken apart and reassembled the computer several times). I Assemble the PC and turn it on once again.. blaamm Floppy Error... Fuck i had to fix this i think. So i randomly just turn the floppy-cable around and insert it into the floppy-drive again. Tadaa problem fixed.
Result = I'm stupid but i also hate floppycables..
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