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What was your first build?

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ozzman we share something in common, I also built my first pc specifically for BF2.

AMD Sempron 2600 @ 1.8ghz
512MB DDR
Radeon 9550
Some asrock motherboard that I can't remember the name of.

Dude, I remember when that game came out and going to "Zero Hour" (a Traverse City PC Gaming Lounge) and paying $5 an hour to be able to play BF2. A couple months later I graduated high school and realized I was one of those geeky kids who spent all my time and money there, so with my first paycheck (pretty beefy, I worked 72 hours my first week) from my first full-time job (worked graveyard shift at a factory making sunroof rings for Hummers and Cadillacs) I talked to my uncle about building a new PC specifically for BF2.
Prior to that machine my PC was a powerhouse AMD K6-2 450mhz (which I had somehow got to 800mhz once playing with the mobo switches:eek:) on an IBM Aptiva board with 256MB of RAM and an onboard SiS 530 graphics chip.

I have always been fairly into PCs and tweaking them, but if it wasn't for BF2 I would have never got full-blown into PC gaming again and I would probably still have that crappy IBM PC
 

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Dude, I remember when that game came out and going to "Zero Hour" (a Traverse City PC Gaming Lounge) and paying $5 an hour to be able to play BF2. A couple months later I graduated high school and realized I was one of those geeky kids who spent all my time and money there, so with my first paycheck (pretty beefy, I worked 72 hours my first week) from my first full-time job (worked graveyard shift at a factory making sunroof rings for Hummers and Cadillacs) I talked to my uncle about building a new PC specifically for BF2.
Prior to that machine my PC was a powerhouse AMD K6-2 450mhz (which I had somehow got to 800mhz once playing with the mobo switches:eek:) on an IBM Aptiva board with 256MB of RAM and an onboard SiS 530 graphics chip.

I have always been fairly into PCs and tweaking them, but if it wasn't for BF2 I would have never got full-blown into PC gaming again and I would probably still have that crappy IBM PC

Holy Crap that's eerily close to my story :eek: Except I was about 14 and we had a computer already it was a compaq and I loved opening it up and uninstalling it and reinstalling it. It was a 700mhz Duron with 256mb of ram and a nvidia vanta riva or something like that. Anyway I remember getting battlefield 2 which I had saved up for over about 3 months and I got it when it came out but I couldn't play it on my old machineso I got that one I mentioned in my first post and I couldn't play online because I didn't know what a patch was. That was the first machine I ever overclocked and I killed the motherboard using atitool :p and then eventually got an x850 pro which I overclocked with an aftermarket cooler and it ran really well :D I'm sure I tried crysis on it and thats what made me get my 8800GTS then my GT.
 
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I built my first computer when I was about 14, I was working in a computer shop over the school holidays.

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67GHZ
ASUS A7N-266 mobo
128MB DDR 333 (later upgraded to 256MB)
Maxtor 40GB HDD
LG CD-ROM
GeForce 2 MX 64MB GPU
Windows XP Pro SP1

The first game I played on this PC was GTA III!

BTW: I've since then upgraded the PC to 1GB RAM, Radeon 9250 256MB, LG DVD-ROM. And I am still using this PC when we've got a CSS LAN!
 

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Ah I totally remember this one. I was 15 and saved money up all summer doing misc. jobs. Along with my birthday money I had enough. I believe it was $800 for the entire system. This was in 1998.

Here is what it consisted of:
AMD K6-II 400MHz
Epox AMD Board, don't recall the model
32MB of SDRam of course - Later upgraded to 128MB which was just INSANELY awesome at the time, and also expensive!
6.4GB Quantum Fireball Hard Drive
Generic CD-Rom
Generic Case (AT, haha!)
Monster 3D 4MB PCI Video Card (LOVED THIS CARD! Quake II was so awesome looking. OpenGL FTW!)
I had a generic PCI video card for 2D but I don't recall the model. I think it was a Matrox
15" AOC CRT monitor
Diamond 33.6k Modem
Windows 95 initially, upgraded to 98 a month or so after the build.

I later got a Riva TNT 16MB AGP video card and that thing blew my mind.

I loved that rig!

I think this is the main reason I went back to AMD when I built up my latest rig early this year. The kid in me came out and just had to go with the spider platform. Of course times have changed and AMD is not the bargain product they used to be but that doesn't mean I don't have a soft spot for them. Building a comparable Intel rig back when I was 15 would have cost MUCH more. AMD was a HUGE bargain back in those days. AMD FTW!
 
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First PC I ever built was a 486, don't remember the rest of the specs, but I was 8 and took me about 4 hours to work out how to install Windows 95 LOL.

First PC I ever 100% owned was a good few years ago now when 939 was relatively new.

Athlon 64 3000 (top of the line at the time)
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my first one made out of scraths is my nehalem system
p4 system i got , just got allot of upgrades
 
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I loved it because I build it myself and it was an epic imporvement over my original system which was an athlon single core 2600+, 512 MB, Gforce 4 IGP anoter Gipsy PSU.
 
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