Posted July 23, 201113 yr My daughter (9rs old) has been wanting a PC for awhile now so I told her she would have to build it, so today she put it together. I had to give her a hand on a couple things but for the most part it was all her.CASE: Cooler Master 430 Elite black (was using for a BTC machine)PSU: Inland 500wMobo: Gigabyte MA785GMT-UD2H (DDR3)CPU: AMD Phenom X4 945 (stock)RAM: MicroCenter (2X2G) 4G 1333mhz DDR3 (rebranded ADATA Gaming Series)GPU: XFX HD4770 512 (1 of my old GPU's)HDD: WD 160G (spare drive lying around)OPTICAL: LG DVD BurnerShe did very well and it posted on 1st start up. Unfortunately, she can't retain the names of the parts. LOL.PICTURES
July 23, 201113 yr You have a nice daughter LZR. 9 years and already can build a PC. You must be very proud. My daughter is now 3.5 years and I remember when I made a post here that I became a father. It feels like that was yesterday and already 3 years have passed Glad to see you again
July 23, 201113 yr cute. seems like people become acquainted with technology at increasingly earlier ages. i think i built my first computer in my 20s
July 24, 201113 yr Author I built my 1st one when I went to school back in 05 for computers. It seems like the kids are starting real young now in computers. I see young kids at work from time to time knowing what parts they want for their builds etc.
July 24, 201113 yr Author You have a nice daughter LZR. 9 years and already can build a PC. You must be very proud. My daughter is now 3.5 years and I remember when I made a post here that I became a father. It feels like that was yesterday and already 3 years have passed Glad to see you again Damn, has it been that long?The time goes by so fast. It's hard to believe that she will be going into 5th grade and is 4'7. It seem like yesterday I was changing her but.
July 24, 201113 yr i think my first build had one of the original ati radeon video cards :noexpression:back then i dont think there were any numbers, just 'radeon'
July 25, 201113 yr My first build was on Pentium 2 @ 400mhz and 128mb of ram, along with the 13,5gb hard drive. I also had matrox millenium g400, if I remember correctly. I know I borrowed money for this beast
July 25, 201113 yr i guess that means kel is officially the oldest person on the forum unless he was a phenom and built his first system at age 5 or somethingone thing i remember about the olden days is how very expensive ram was.oh and how you could use a common pencil to mod those old duron cpus and unlock them (i think) Edited July 25, 201113 yr by ccl0
July 26, 201113 yr LOL, I've got Kel by almost 20 years. The first computer I worked with, besides my slide rule, was a mainframe that required punch cards to enter data, then you got output on 14" wide continuous feed computer paper. My first calculator was an HP45 that I got a great deal on by buying mail-order - only $280 instead of $395!! (1973 dollars) That was almost 30% off! And it was rugged - you could drop it from a second story dorm window and it would still work. I still have it. The first small computers I worked with when I got out of college had a 1MHz 8 bit processor with 64KB of external memory (the memory alone took up an entire 6"x8" plugin board), a single 8" floppy for "permanent" storage, a keyboard and an 80 character by 25 line black and white display. No mouse - weren't invented yet. Printers were usually dot matrix with a ribbon for ink. Communication with a remote computer, not the internet - not invented yet, was through a 1200 baud acoustically coupled modem. The PC was invented two years later.Cheers and Regards
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