Your first build?

Out of curiosity, I'm starting this thread.

So what was your first build?
When did you build it?
What did you use?

Personally I built my first a couple days ago.
Specs are:
i7 6700k
Gigabyte z170 gaming 7
MSI GTX 980 ti
2b hybrid drive
500 GB SSD
Corsair 750w power 80+ bronze
Corsair 750D case
NZXT Hue+
Some Acer 1080p 144hz 21 inch G-sync display.
DDR4 2400 LPX ram
Cryorig R1 ultimate

And yes that is quite some first build, can you top the price at the time?
Oh yea, on top of that I'm 14. Good luck.

I think I was around the same age but:

1.2 GHz Athlon T-bird
Azza KT3ABX Mainboard
512 MB PC-133
64 MB Geforce 2 MX
40 GB Quantum Fireball
I ran Windows 95 on it for a bit lol.

Mainly just played Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament. It's been a while
Congrats on your new build.

My first build was in 1985. I was 32 years old, PCs didn't exist yet when I was 14!

Supercom XT motherboard with Intel 8Mhz 8088 cpu (Later swapped out for an 8Mhz NEC V20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20)
Generic case with unique flip open top (Like this: http://abcresellers.com/store/product136.html)
640K of RAM
20MB hdd
130W psu
360K floppy disk drive
Multi-function card with parallel port and 2 serial ports
IBM CGA graphics card and monitor
IBM 83-key keyboard
IBM PC-DOS 3.1

I don't remember what the cost of the total build was but I recall that the RAM cost around $300 and the hdd was $500.

My first actual build that I did is still what I use today, just been upgraded a bit.

Phenom II 955
Sapphire 5770
MSI 970A G45 (still in use)
4GB RipJawX (still in use)
1TB Seagate Barrucuda (still in use)
Corsair CX600
Rosewill Challenger Case
Windows 7

Built it at age 16 in September of 2011. Price was I think $600 or so, maybe less. Specs of it now are in my signature below.

3770k (sold)
GTX 770 (given to my brother)
Asus p8z77-vpro
Corsair vengeance 16gb 1600mhz
2TB Seagate barracuda
120gb kingston hyper-x SSD
Corsair TX 750
Carbide 500r case
win 8

It wasnt a massive amount as some of it was second hand, only RAM, case, GPU, storage and win 8 i bought new. About £750 i think.

Everything but the 500r, 3770k and gtx 770. (coupled with new GTX 970 and used 3570k) has gone into my sisters new build for christmas.

Current specs in my sig

Last December:
AMD Athlon X4 860K
MSI A88XM-Gaming
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB 2133MHz
250GB & 3TB Seagate Barracuda
Corsair 200R & CX600M
Win 10 tech preview

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bought a FX-8320 + 990FXA-UD3 a couple months ago, then bought the rest of the parts yesterday after selling the machine listed above.

I've built 2 other machines prior and I'm building one in a couple weeks for my little brother.

Back in 2006 I built my first rig

PowerUp Case
MSNV-939 mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2Ghz socket 939
Started at 2GB of RAM and eventually went to 4
ASUS HD4870 1GB Dark Knight

Second rig (built spring 2010)
Lian Li LanCool PC-K62 (still use it)
Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
AMD Phenom II X2 555BE, upgraded to Phenom II X4 965BE (now in my HTPC), then a Phenom II X6 1055T
8GB RAM
ASUS HD4870 1GB, ASUS HD6870, Gigabyte GTX 570 1.5GB, ASUS GTX 670 2GB

Current rig (Upgraded mobo, cpu, and RAM spring 2015)
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7
Intel Core i7 4970K
16GB RAM
ASUS GTX 670 2GB

It was this summer

Asus Z97-A
Core i5-4690K - 3,5 GHz
Radeon R9 380 NITRO 4Go GDDR5 DUAL-X OC VERSION (UEFI)
HyperX Fury RED Series 4 Go - DDR3 1333 MHz Cas 9 (two of those)
Samsung 850 EVO 250 Go
Barracuda 2 TB
Corsair CX600M
Atx Zalman Z1 (USB 3.0) case

I never build/bought a new PC since 2005. Always upgraded what I had. I started with a prebuild then upgraded it myself. But we can call it a custom build by now because I'm no longer using any of the original parts.

December 30th 2010, a week before Sandy Bridge came out!

I upgraded from a HP dx2200 with a Pentium 4 HT, 2GB RAM and an 8400 GS to this. It was quite a leap!

Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.8GHz (stock)
8GB DDR3 1333MHz
Foxconn H55M-S (I think?)
PALiT GeForce GT 220 1GB
Seagate Barracuda 320GB
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (still using today in my NAS)
NZXT Lexa S (still using today)
Samsung DVD-RW Drive
CiT 650W Neon PSU (this thing eventually blew up)
Windows 7 Professional

I bought the GT 220 purely because it was 1GB and cheap (I didn't know much good and bad hardware back then!) Only used it for a few months, sold it and got a used EVGA GTS 450 SSC instead which was much better.

Here are some pics of it with the GTS 450 installed: http://www.computerforum.com/threads/post-a-pic-of-your-pc-here.9727/page-412#post-1711167

I do have some of it with the GT 220 somewhere but it looked basically the same, just with a GT 220 which was red and short.

Back in 2005 or so, it was an Athlon 64, 1-2GB of RAM, 250GB HD, and a 9600XT video card.