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[LUZR4LIFE]

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 500w
Mobo: 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 Burner

She did very well and it posted on 1st start up. Unfortunately, she can't retain the names of the parts. LOL.

PICTURES

[LUZR4LIFE]

I have been away to long. I like what you did with the site N1K

[ricktendo]

Lucky kid, she looks like she needed little/no help

[NIM]

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

[ccl0]

cute. seems like people become acquainted with technology at increasingly earlier ages. i think i built my first computer in my 20s

[LUZR4LIFE]

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.

[LUZR4LIFE]

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.

[ccl0]

i think my first build had one of the original ati radeon video cards
back then i dont think there were any numbers, just 'radeon'

[LUZR4LIFE]

My 1st build was a Celeron D/512 DDR and a Radeon 6000. LOL

[NIM]

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

[Kelsenellenelvian]

386 dos+3.11 win like a 400mg harddrive

[ccl0]

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 something
one 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 by ccl0, 25 July 2011 - 05:05 PM.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I am only 37

But yeah pencil mods where the sh!t

[bphlpt]

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.

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