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Wednesday, July 09, 2014 4:58 AM (permalink)
What was the very first rig you built, inherited, hacked, etc.?
Mine was a Compaq Presario, circa 1998 or so I think. I forget the actual model number, but it was sleek and sexy with lurid purple stickers extolling it's many virtues, molded from that ubiquitous beige plastic from the era. LOL
I succeeded in upgrading the thing to pert-near 512 MB of PC100 RAM as I recall!
It sported a Pentium 3 I think, a floppy drive of course, a CD drive given to me by a friend, an enormous 12 GB hard drive, and an amazing 256 MB video card that I added.
Needless to say, I got very tired of the thing after a few months, after which I built my first Pentium 4 rig from the ground up, but it was a valuable training grounds for sure.
Just like the first car I learned to drive on in many ways, which was a Volkswagon beetle.
So how did you get started?

Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 motherboard Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow case ~ Seasonic X 1250 PSU  Intel i5 4670k OC to  with a Corsair H100i cooler with 2 Arctic Cooling fans and 2 Corsairs in push/pull
2 EVGA GTX 550Ti Video cards in SLI with 2 Gb memory on each
1 Kingston V Series SSD 128 GB for Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
1 Kingston SSD 64 Gb for games  1 Kingston SSD 64 Gb for storage
1 Western Digital 160 Gb HDD for storage
    16 GBs of G.Skill memory DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24 @ 1.5 v
LG Bluray RW  optical drive
Samsung 25.5 inch HDTV/monitor
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NZXT Phantom 410 ~ Gigabyte Z77X- UD5H
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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:30 AM (permalink)
    Desktop recovered from the Fort Worth Tornado in 2000, before that I used my parents computer and worked on it often lol. It wasn't much in 2000 but it was mine.
     
    Intel Pentium 133 (upgraded to a K6-2 450)
    128mb PC100 (upgraded to 512mb "128mb max cachable")
    ASUS P5A 
    4mb Riva 128 (upgraded to a TNT2)
    3gb Seagate HD (upgraded to a massive 15gb)
    Windows 95 (upgraded to Windows 98SE)
     
    Now that was a gift for me, in 2002 I built my first computer
     
    AMD Athlon XP 1700+
    512mb DDR 2100
    Aopen AK77 Plus
    Aopen Geforce2 Mx200
    20gb Maxtor HD
    Windows XP Home Gold :D
     
    Also remember Aopen lol
     
    but heck here is the rest of the systems I think of fondly lol
     
    AMD Athlon XP 2600+
    1024mb DDR 400 (4x256mb Corsair XMS)
    Gigabyte GA-7N400
    Pixelview Prolink FX5900XT Limited Golden Edition 
    40gb Maxtor HD
    Windows XP Home
     
    Athlon 64 3200
    MSI K8N Neo FSR
    2x512mb DDR 500 OCZ Gold
    XFX 6600GT AGP
    80gb WD
    Windows XP Home
     
    Athlon 64 x2 3800
    reused above ram
    Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS
    EVGA 7600GT 
    160gb WD
    Windows XP Home
     
    Athlon 64 x2 5000
    2x1gb DDR2 800 Corsair XMS2
    ECS KA3 MVP Xpress 3200
    XFX 8800GS 680m (upgraded to Saphire HD3870+HD3850 Crossfire both 512mb DDR3 cards, the 3850 hit the same speeds as the 3870 :D)
    320gb Seagate 7200.7
     
    After that its to recent lol
     
     
     
    post edited by candle_86 - Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:38 AM
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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:33 AM (permalink)
    http://forums.evga.com/My...Computer-m2150385.aspx


    See my current build here: https://forums.evga.com/My-bench-rig-unlimited-power-m3596024.aspx
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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:42 AM (permalink)
    My first Little Brother in my Signature. :-)


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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:55 AM (permalink)
    So you are a fairly recent PC builder then? I started in 2003 I think.
    Both of your brothers sound like great rigs.

    Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 motherboard Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow case ~ Seasonic X 1250 PSU  Intel i5 4670k OC to  with a Corsair H100i cooler with 2 Arctic Cooling fans and 2 Corsairs in push/pull
    2 EVGA GTX 550Ti Video cards in SLI with 2 Gb memory on each
    1 Kingston V Series SSD 128 GB for Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
    1 Kingston SSD 64 Gb for games  1 Kingston SSD 64 Gb for storage
    1 Western Digital 160 Gb HDD for storage
        16 GBs of G.Skill memory DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24 @ 1.5 v
    LG Bluray RW  optical drive
    Samsung 25.5 inch HDTV/monitor
    ~ Backup System  ~
    NZXT Phantom 410 ~ Gigabyte Z77X- UD5H
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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:04 AM (permalink)
    I love Big Brother. Currently the classifieds are with a buddy that is testing them on a 3970x system, so I can weigh the benefits of getting the bigger chip for benchmarking and such.

    I came back from a trip to a sunny desert location, reenlisted for a few years, and decided to build one.. It was a horrific start and I didn't know what I was doing. 2 days later, I took everything apart and slowly put it back together, reading labels closely (my manuals were in Japanese only... Couldn't understand anything other than "ASUS" lol)

    So, after finishing, I fell in love with building.. Now I can't stop tinkering and I am aiming for records in benchmarks. Currently in the top 30 on a few, with a 4770k going against a few 3930/4930k's... It's so much fun!

    I am trying to figure out how to go about getting a CaseLabs case, so I can push everything further.

    Also, I just sold step brother to another member of the forums. That was a fun little experiment and will continue to build when possible.
    post edited by Scarlet-Tech - Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:06 AM


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    Re: Nostalgia time,..What was your very first rig?? Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:13 AM (permalink)
     
    Locking as a duplicate: http://forums.evga.com/My-First-Computer-m2150385.aspx
     
     
    Continue in the other thread.

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