how long was your first gaming pc or pc to build?

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slyu9213

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The first computer I built/put together from scratch did not take even an hour.

I was never a PC gamer but one day my parents bought me a Compaq Desktop with an AMD Dual-Core CPU and an IGP NVIDIA 6XXX. The deeper I got to gaming I regretted the performance. I upgraded the CPU, and then installed a discrete GPU. Because of that it was very easy. Taking apart older consoles in elementary school helped I guess.
 
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9 months... it took me 9 months to gather all the parts working @ $5.50 a hour "College + Part time work". 2 Pentium Pros were expensive at the time and Ram was just as bad not including the $169 ATI GPU which was the Top end model. I spent more on that Comp than I did on a Car for the next 8 years. After the parts were assembled it took about 1 hours to put it all together and 12 hours to get Windows and all the updates up... good old dial up can't say I miss the "You got disconnected" Half way through a major update.
 
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LechTips

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i hope you have a good job after college
 
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neograndizer

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A few weeks... Couple of hours to piece together all the parts and double checking everything is connected, secured and managing where the cables were going/tucked away. Rechecking again to make sure I didn't miss anything. Then BIOS settings to see everything is recognized. Then some stress and temp monitoring. Then some more tweaking and/or fixing. Once everything is settled and the way I like it, I do another OS clean install and away I go.

~ two years later... Mobo fried (good thing it's still under warranty). Then a few days later (after the replacement mobo arrived), my CPU memory controller got fried (also under warranty). What are the chances of that happening?

Now... My OCZ Agility 3 SSD died and replaced it with a Crucial MX100 SSD. Did a clean install on it and then decided to update the capacity of my aging 250GB HDDs a few days later. Unfortunately, replacing the HDDs corrupted the partition table and Windows recovery couldn't repair the damage done. At least I had a recent image done shortly after doing a clean install on the MX100. Back in business after a few hours waiting for the image to complete.
 
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delaro

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Maybe? I co-owned a Computer repair service for 15 years which I sold off during the summer, I also Co-owned a specialized machine/EDM shop for 12 years which I sold off 4 years ago. I'm a supervisor for the place and I do special projects "Costume machine upgrades", Maintenance, and refurbish whatever used equipment they bring in from Auction to resell. Do I make as much as a Electrical/Mechanical Engineer would normally make not quite.
 
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Andrei_316

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1 hour for hardware (Unboxing, Screwing in Mobo, Heat-sink etc.) another hour for wiring which was pain in the A$$ because I wanted it really neat XD and 30 Minutes putting Windows (Compared to XP, W8.1 is super fast installing) and Drivers. I did it with more than 50 hours of knowledge from YouTube :p Watching "How-To" Videos really help

P.S Being 14 Didn't help with the funds, but saving up and trying to work for it (shoveling snow, raking leaves etc.) took me about a year and a half.
 
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mc962

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A few days, although I only had a bit of the day to work on it as I was working for the other part of the day. I also thought that I messed up at some point and so took the motherboard out a few times, and the EVO cooler bracket was a pain to get in. I think me being nervous and unsure probably added a fair bit of time to the process, im surprised that the power cables from my psu didnt break the socket/attaching chips behind it on my sata devices
 
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