who is the youngest person on here to build a pc?

[milsomonk]

just wandering whos the youngest on here to build a pc?
im 14 and i build'm quite often for people, but theres gotta be younger people

[Tom]

I was building my own PCs from the age of 13, so I guess that's something.

Although I'm 22 now, so that's cheating a bit. It's definitely easier than it used to be.. You lot don't know you're born, etc. etc. :p

[liadbacklad]

i helped build my first pc when i was 11, i got all the little bits for xmas and me and my dad spent all morning on the dining room table building it! (before we were kicked off by my mum)

Back then the pc my dad got me for £1k was about £3k form most major suppliers (gatewat,time,compaq)

[Archaon]

I messed around with and upgraded them from about age 10 but my first proper build was when I was 15 I think.

[Cosmo_1847]

I got my first computer at 11...about that time I got a screw driver too. I remember it took me 10 mins to remove the floppy drive and almost an hour to put it back.

But the first time I've order all the parts and build a computer from scratch was May this year. So 19?

[Locke Fireclaw]

I was a late starter, the last PC I actually brought was an Evesham P4 2.66ghz, non-HT, so that should give you some kinda idea how long ago it was, and I'm 25 now.

What Tom said about the youngens not knowing they were born etc etc, is actually startlingly true.

There is a guy at my works, he's about 16-17 I guess, and he actually had to ask me how to set Master/Slave drives to run dban, and what/where the jumpers were, which has all been omitted with SATA.

Locke

[razer121]

would i still be classed as a youngen? im 20...yet i first built a pc when i was...oh god to long ago :) it was a 166mhz 6gb hdd (which fitted in the cd drive!) i even had a turbo switch on the front of the case :) so you could say i started and learned real young....

[Tom]

would i still be classed as a youngen? im 20...yet i first built a pc when i was...oh god to long ago :) it was a 166mhz 6gb hdd (which fitted in the cd drive!) i even had a turbo switch on the front of the case :) so you could say i started and learned real young....
You did. You've pretty-much described the last PC I had that was bought as a unit, rather than put together. It got upgraded, but I didn't build it, sadly.

Had a 1.3GB HDD in it though.. P100, 16MB of RAM. Racer. :D

[LSG501]

my first proper build was the opteron in my sig (yes late starter here too) from about 3 year ago. However I was pulling apart and replacing bits back with a slot 1 p3 500 and then again with my old dual athlon mp (xp but for multi cpu) so I have experience with this jumper on hard drive thing :D

I still remember my old Packard Bell 486sxII 50mhz!!, think this had 8megs of ram iirc and then a pIII 100mhz, this was high end it at the time (could run autocad!!) and had a 16meg graphics card along with iirc 64megs of ram and 1GB hard drive, it even had a turbo button, it cost over £2k which was damned expensive back then :eek:

Blimey my pda has better specs than both of those!!!

Have to say though that building a pc now is a damn site easier than back then, I would love to see a youngen who can knock out a c2d/athlon now try to do an old athlon xp or even earlier cause I reckon they might struggle a little.

[Tom]

Have to say though that building a pc now is a damn site easier than back then, I would love to see a youngen who can knock out a c2d/athlon now try to do an old athlon xp or even earlier cause I reckon they might struggle a little.
30-pin SIMMs spring to mind. :D

[Rambi]

I started building PC's when i was about 16, 19 now.

My first PC i had when i was quite young was a Windows 3.1 machine that could only run Sierra point and click games. Thats when i first played leisure suit larry.

I mustve been about 6 or 7 at the time i got that machine, cant remember the specs sadly =[.

[Fatal1ty]

still got my fist pc here, i remember the day when the warranty expired i was ready with a screwdriver to get inside. Managed to o/c it from 133 to 166 then to 200 mhz which was huge back then. also upped the ram from 16 to 96mb or something random and changed the hard drive from the 1.5gb to 2.5gb.

still runs today on 95 but the nic has died and i cannot find one for love nor money :(

that was all back in '99 so i would have been 12 at the time :D

[Graeme*Kustom*]

Thats when i first played leisure suit larry.

I mustve been about 6 or 7 at the time i got that machine, cant remember the specs sadly =[.

I'm sure those are 18 rated games... :p

You could have played Monkey Island, that's far more respectable and still funny. :)

I was 14 when I first built a PC from scratch. Gained a lot of experience though when I got a school holiday job working in an IT department. I was 15 then - I remember that specifically because it caused hell with their payroll department as I didn't have a national insurance number allocated to me at the time.

[Rambi]

I'm sure those are 18 rated games... :p

You could have played Monkey Island, that's far more respectable and still funny. :)

I didnt understand it back then :D

Brothers got all the monkey island games played them when i got a new pc :P

[Tami]

Wow!
I have computer bits older than most of you.

[liadbacklad]

Wow!
I have computer bits older than most of you.

pfft old man! :P

[Samsonite]

Hmm, I first took parts from an IBM 8086 as it had a 2.88MB floppy drive which is still better than today's floppy drives damnit (yeah I know we don't actually use them)! Must have been a young teen.

It is too easy now. Gone are the sweats as you wonder if you have just short-circuited £1k's worth of kit!

[iggy]

iggys first computer (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=86).

i was less than 5 when i got this.

[Fireblade]

They're on about the youngest to build one though - not get one... ya plank :D

[Trog]

The first PC's I built used motherboards with soldered on 386 chips, think I was about 30 at the time. My nephew beat iggy as I built him his first PC when he was about three. Can still remember him sitting on my mothers lap, showing her what he could do with his computer. This was a little lost on her as it was a couple of days before she realised that, he was controlling the cursor with the mouse.

[Josho]

Started tinkering with my dad from 6. Built my first from a few other ones at 8 and first PROPER i.e bought all the parts from new was 11. That was myt nans.