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I'm 27, from beautiful Baltimore, MD! My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a mint green monochrome monitor! Imagine my surprise when that brand-new 486 SX25 had COLOR! I build 2 or 3 rigs a year for friends and family. I used to upgrade religiously every year, but with three kids now, I go about every 2 years. Currently running a
P4 C 3.0Ghz
1 gig 2-2-2-5 RAM
Geforce 7800GS
Audigy Gamer
Basic HDD/DVD-burner
Thermaltek Xaser III Case
Compaq P1220 gaming monitor


Speaking of Commodore games, anybody remember Paradroid? I think I lost 5th grade to that game!
 
I'm 17.

I've only built like 1 or 2 rigs in the past few years. I just upgrade and stuff like that. Unfortunately all my rigs run on XP but one of them was running a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu until XP started to overwrite Ubuntu, which I don't understand why it did that, my HDD isn't even half-full.
 
27
Bank of America Technology Support Group
I have built around 65 Intel based PC's for home since I was like 14
Countless Servers and PC's for work.
Building my first AMD PC for home use currently!
 
27, living in London UK.

First computer was an Amstrad CPC6128. Anyone remember those? Was less popular than the Comoodore64 or spectrum, but was technically superior to both. Had some great games on it - like Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (many hours wasted on that one) and Titus The Fox.

Sold that to buy a TV and a Megadrive (yes, I had a console period).

Went to uni and got into PCs by playing Civ2 on a mate's PC. At the time I was also volunteering in a uni charity organisation. I somehow allowed myself to become elected as IT officer. So I went and bought myself a PC and taught myself HTML to do the website (they'd not had one before). Did that for 2 years.

That first computer got upgraded bit by bit, moved between cases etc. In theory I had that PC until 2004 but not a single component of the original machine was left by then! I then built my current rig completely from new components. Only upgrade it's had is an extra 2x512Mb of RAM to get X3:Reunion looking lovely :wink:
 
Age 24

Builds

Opteron 165
Asus A8N32-SLI
1GB OCZ GX XTC pc3500
320GB Segate SATA II
ATI X1900XT
X-Mystique 7.1
Viewsonic VX 2025WM
Antec Neo HE 500
Antec Sonata
Plextor PX 716A DVDRW DL
L.I.S. 2 VFD


AMD Athlon 64 3000+
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
1GB Corsair XMS C2
36GB Raptor
200GB Seatgate
BFG 6600 GT OC
OCZ Powerstream 420W
LG CDROM
Full Server Tower


AMD Athlon XP 2500+
512MB Azen PC2700
Gigabyte GA7VAXP Ultra
LG 4040B DVDRW +RAM
Thermaltake Purepower 420W
Custom Case
16x2 LCD Module
80GB WD
Nvidia Geforce FX5200


Plus tons at my old work.
 
mission impossible on commodore 64...........only took 15 minutes to load.........with a cassetteplayer
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[code:1:6d1cecffcc]READY.
LOAD "*",8,1

LOADING...
READY.
RUN[/code:1:6d1cecffcc]

You know you miss it :)

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X1900XT beats the 7900GT no problem, if i had to choose between the X1800 and the X1900 i would get it as it's basicaly the same as the XTX version only slightly a bit slower.
 
I've got a IIc with moon patrol permanently in the 5 1/4" drive. It's actually quite portable and I can plug it into any tv! I've also got one of almost every apple product up to the iMac (except some of the original mac servers.)
 
I'd be the "college tech whiz" more than the V.P. of IT. I'm 21 and I have built two computers. One is my current rig (Athlon X2 4200+) and the other was a contract job (hee hee) that was a dual-socket Xeon Irwindale unit. However, I have opened up and upgraded and fixed more things in more computers that you can shake a stick at.
 
I know some software, particularly Linux stuff. Been using Linux solid since I happened upon my first *real* broadband connection 3 years ago when I went to college. Yes, I lived out in the sticks and had only dialup before then. 😳

I'm working on learning C, mostly for a few classes I am taking. I'm not CS, but a lot of the engineering instrumentation classes that are part of the biological engineering curriculum are MUCH easier if you can do C on a real computer instead of Visual Basic on a Windows machine. Plus when I graduate undergrad and then go through medical school, I'll be one of a handful of doctors that can actually use a computer. I can't tell you how many docs I have worked with or shadowed that had no clue as to how to use the machines. Oh, that and I'd love to have (or help make) a Linux EMR program 😀 and ditch those damned Win32 boxes that are omnipresent and as attractive as mold on a month-old soggy loaf of bread. Those were the bane of my existence when I was in doctors offices', save for the hypochondriacs and mothers who brought their kids in with colds, flus, and other viral infections and were upset that they couldn't get antibiotics. THOSE were the worst- even worse than using Microsoft BOB :shoots gun into head:
 
amazing how in the midst of random posts (mine included) you find something that puts it all in perspective... I wonder who will have my system when I kick-off?
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Nobody in my family would want mine. It's much more powerful than anything they have, but it would be unsupported then (as the support team would be taking a dirt nap) and it does not run Windows. It's also a pain to move around as I have cable-tied all of the cables together to make it all nice and neat behind the desk. That makes it a bear to move anything as you have to cut all of the ties. There are also two monitors of different resolutions and that takes a lot of getting used to. The smaller one was a gift I got after I bought the nice one, so maybe when I get more money, I'll buy a match to the nicer one that I bought and use the other one for something else.

My guess is that my computer would get sold for cheap or perhaps taken into a computer shop and have Windows installed on it and then sit up in the den in my parents' house, rarely to be used 🙁
 
My rig:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket 939 rev E4 @ stock
Corsair VS 2x1GB DDR 400 2.5-3-3-7
Abit KN8-SLi
WD Raptor 74GB
WD Caviar SE16 250GB (SATA-300)
20.1" Dell 2001FP
19" Dell E193FPD (on loan) monitors are spanned with TwinView
XFX GeForce 6200TC fanless
Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W, modular cables 😀
Cooler Master Cavalier 3, no window
Sony IDE DVD-ROM/CD-RW and DVD+/-R/RW
Mitsumi 7-in-i USB 2.0 memory card reader/floppy
Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64

Machine I built:
2x Intel Xeon Irwindale, 2.80 GHz, 2MB L2, 800 MHZ FSB, skt 604
Supermicro X6-DVL-EG2 ATX board
2x1GB Mushkin DDR2-400 registered ECC
WD Caviar 80GB HDD
Raidmax ATX case
Samsung DVD burner
Athena Power 520W EPS12V PSU (it's been fine so far.)
Crappy old '80s IBM floppy drive from the bargain bin
20" Gateway VX900 CRT from the bargain bin
IBM Model M keyboard :trophy:
Very expensive and odd 64-bit PCI PIXCI camera capture card that I had to build the computer around
Fedora Core 5 64-bit (also W2K in VMware Server 1.0.0)

How's that?
 
I just turned 31 :roll: and i've built two or three so far, but that's becouse i usually change some parts and not the whole computer :)
I'm from Macedonia( for the ones who don't know it is in the south part of Europe). I'm an Air Traffic Controller.
The first game? I remember the games on atari, the ski-jumps on commodore 64 with the tapes and the hours spent in adjusting the readers position with a small screw-driver :lol: Good old days :wink:
 
I'm 16 and living in florida. My first computer was an apple II c and I still even have it set up in my room (along with about half a dozen of my more recent creations 😀 ). I mostly build computers for myself, I've always had connections with my uncle who works for intel and have gotten many a processor early/really cheap, so I'll occasionaly build for a friend and make a killing since I can get processors like half off (sometimes). Right now I'm running an *old* Pentium Extreme 955 with a 7950 GX2 and waiting for the nforce 590 to come out before I finaly get around to using my conroe and if I ever see any good reviews of quad sli, I might go for that too, but that is all up to the mercy of Nvidia (and my parents for budgeting :lol:). My two main computers are in my sig.
 
44, Northern Virginia, Network Administrator. Degree in Electronics, MCSE, MCP+I, both meaningless certifications by the way. :wink:

Literally built more machines than I can count and rebuilt even more than that. In charge of purchasing technology for 2 civil engineering companies and running the networks. Before that I worked in R&D in semiconductor manufacturing.
 
24, sunny san diego. working with computers since i was 7.
Can anyone say old atari computer and dot matrix printer? hehe that atari didn't even have a hard drive, you had to pop 1.44" floppies in and out to load programs.
Got hooked on games w/ the atari 2600 - still have it.
built a 386 when i was 8 or so with my dad. tons of controller cards and 33Mhz - with the Turbo button! Turbo made the numbers change to 66Mhz. It was awesome. also had 1.44" and 5.25" floppy drives. after that we had a packard bell 100Mhz computer with (gasp) a CD-ROM! of course the cd-rom went and locked up the computer trying to access the drive until i hit it w/ my fist. then we had a no-name P2 333Mhz.

suffered through windows 3.1. the good part was dos 5 and 6.0 were there to save us, and taught me how to command line and bypass dumb windows stuff.

Anyways, built a number of computers from scratch (less than 10), but i've troubleshot so many i can't even estimate it. the best had to be the one w/o a surge protector with capacitor guts everywhere. them - "can you get my data?" me - "uhhh probably not..."

still use my 5 yr old build, with a few upgrades:
P4 1.8 williamette
Intel 850MVL motherboard
512MB RDRAM 800
9600XT all-in-wonder
160GB (40 + 120)
lite-on dvd burner and a cd burner
some enermax case
Antec 350 TruePower.
My RAM was a good investment since its increased in price since i bought it 5 yrs ago... 😛

currently working as a software engineer and graduated from college 2 yrs ago w/ a computer engineering degree.

probably wait til end of this year or next year to build my conroe.
 
18

A build and a hlaf.
A milluion upgrades.

Software:
Photoshop 7.0
Frontpage
Dreamweaver MX
Fireworks MX
Flash MX
Freehand MX
Other small stuff too.

For those of you who did not know from the above list I'm into
Graphic Design. and Web Design.
 
I'm the oldest person here. Just turned 66 in July. I've had computers since about 1983.
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Wow, a really old man, I'm impressed. I won't turn 66 until September.
8)
Chuck
NF7 v.2,XP2500M,11x200,etc
the machines I build are faster
than mine now, all in good time
my pretty!
 
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