Who here built your first machine with Sharky's help?

It looks like I'm another statistic:)

February of 2002 is when I built my first rig;)

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Originally posted by Mojo
The first system I built was in about 96.. a 486DX2/66.

But I've gained some confidence in my upgrades from being here :)

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You got me thinking back... The first PC I made was a 386SX/25 later upgraded with a co-processor (WHOOT!!) Damn was I pissed when it didn't do a damn thing to speed up the system :P

Well with the help of a tech savvy friend, I built my first pc in 2001, but except for the case that machine is long gone...July this year, got into SF and the high-end guide at SE, and I'm upgrading one or two components at a time. So my second (current) comp is thanx to SF/SE:D

Now if I could just make up my mind about a new mobo...

built my first rig with the help of a friend in the summer of 2000...when i started looking to upgrade i came here for opinions & options.

Absolutely got most recommendations and help here. Turned me on to newegg, epox as well as other pieces which have turned out to be excellent. I continue to browse as I upgrade. Thanks to everyone!

Me, was a 1700+, asus a7n266, g3 ti200, 384mb crucial pc2100. Leet computer it was~

The first computer I've built was way back.

P-2 300Mhz
Biostart mobo
64MB SDRAM ---> Upgraded to 256MB SDRAM
ATI 8MB Card ---> Upgraded to ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB AGP

THEN

P-3 550Mhz did 633Mhz
Iwill BD100Plus BX440 mobo
128MB SDRAM ---> Upgraded to 256MB
GeForce 2 MX-400 32MB AGP

THEN

Celeron 1.0Ghz Coppermine 128kb cache that did 1.4Ghz 140Mhz FSB
same Iwill BD100Plus BX440 with a socket convertor.
512MB SDRAM
GeForce 4 Ti-4600 :D:D Scored about 83xx on 3DMark01

THEN

Celeron 1.2A Tualatin 256kb cache that did 1.6Ghz 133Mhz FSB
Asus TUSL2-C 815i Mobo
512MB SDRAM
GeForce 4 Ti-4600 Sored 9904 on 3DMark01 :D

THEN

The system in my sig :D:D

The first computer I built was an Intel 486DX from spare parts that I got from asking people for their old computer parts. It was just about the time that the Pentium 200 was the chip to have.

The first system I built with new parts had a PII400. I remember a couple days after building the system the PII500 was released. The system had 128Mb of RAM, a 2.5Gb HDD, and a 2X CDRW that would only burn coasters.

After that one was a Athlon 900 system (more of a mobo/proc upgrade) and then my Athlon XP 1700+ system (I'm typing this post on that one).

I joined the forum between the Athlon 900 and XP 1700+ systems. While I didn't learn much in terms of how to build a system, I learned a lot about what parts are good and bad. I look back at my first few systems now and see the glaring errors in hardware selection I made. That happens no more thanks to Sharky Forums!

I think I came here around the time I'd replaced a few parts in my P2 300 with a P3 600 CPU, more memory, etc.

Don't recall looking for much help in doing that but I did get a great deal of help from Sharkys when I built my next one from scratch.

I've done another 3 since then and have always used this site when choosing parts as well as getting advice on installing. I like to think I've been of some small help to other members too on occasion.

Nope, but when I built my second computer, I got tons of help and therefore it is much better than the first.:)

i SHOULD have came here....but i built 2 computers before i landed here.

I just built my first machine a couple of months ago, largely through the use of Sharkey's guides and reading the forum. It went together smoothly and has worked great.

Abit NF7-S, AMD 2500+

Built the machine in my sig with teh help of Sharky's (although I believe the NF7-S was MY idea :P)...can't believe its been half a year already....now if I could just get a decent overclock WITHOUT windows corruption :mad:

I lurked at Sharkys gathering information for my first build. Once it was done and working I joined up and joined in. That was years ago now.

I did it all by myself when I was 13. I never saw it as being hard at all, I just did it.