pics or . . . icwatudidtharNic wrote:
I buy a bunch of PCB and make mine from scratch.
I built my current rig and i must say it went very well indeed, i did use a couple of guides for reference. I put it together, it worked first time and it's been a peach since.
It wasn't the hardest thing i ever did but the guides were just assurance.
It wasn't the hardest thing i ever did but the guides were just assurance.
Building a PC isn't exactly rocket science tbh ... the worst part is actually matching the components, the rest is like mentioned just exspensive LEGO ...
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i bought an AT & T branded 486 dx2, in 1993. was the last pre-built i've owned. i upgraded the 9600 baud modem to 14.4, for a cost $139, and replaced the four 256k simms with four 1mb simms so i could play DOOM. Castle Wolfenstein ran fine, when you booted from the floppy.
Remember to always ground yourself first.
I have a mate who helped another install a dvd burner. In doing so he somehow fucked up the the internal network card. How he went from doing something in the top front of a pc and breaking something towards the bottom and back, I'll never know.
I have a mate who helped another install a dvd burner. In doing so he somehow fucked up the the internal network card. How he went from doing something in the top front of a pc and breaking something towards the bottom and back, I'll never know.
The first PC I bought was a 386 Enhanced ... was pretty kickass back in those days ... played Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Colonization and Pirates on that machine ... bought my first Pentium in 1998 when Delta Force came out ... first build was 2005 and specifically for bf2burnzz wrote:
i bought an AT & T branded 486 dx2, in 1993. was the last pre-built i've owned. i upgraded the 9600 baud modem to 14.4, for a cost $139, and replaced the four 256k simms with four 1mb simms so i could play DOOM. Castle Wolfenstein ran fine, when you booted from the floppy.
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
Railroad Tycoon,
the first computer i built was a Frankenstein mix built from a server, it had SCSI HDD, cd-rom and even a SCSI floppy.
the best innovation for the PC was the AT standard - the video in that rig was IBM MCA. i got (later) a 2x cd burner, that was very good at making things you could set your beverage on, so you didn't stain the furniture . . .
fuck me - i don't blame people that buy pre-built with a warranty, and hope to be rich enough to do it one day.
the first computer i built was a Frankenstein mix built from a server, it had SCSI HDD, cd-rom and even a SCSI floppy.
the best innovation for the PC was the AT standard - the video in that rig was IBM MCA. i got (later) a 2x cd burner, that was very good at making things you could set your beverage on, so you didn't stain the furniture . . .
fuck me - i don't blame people that buy pre-built with a warranty, and hope to be rich enough to do it one day.
Takes too long and doing CPUs on FPGAs means they are too slow...burnzz wrote:
pics or . . . icwatudidtharNic wrote:
I buy a bunch of PCB and make mine from scratch.
Not to mention my designs are shit compared to modern stuff (or any stuff at all for that matter - but at least they worked).
With older computers you needed a soldering iron to solder the chips in or remove unnecessary ones. I was about 9 when I soldered a few upgrade chips into my BBC Micro Model B.
For coasters:burnzz wrote:
i got (later) a 2x cd burner, that was very good at making things you could set your beverage on, so you didn't stain the furniture . . .
Hard drive platters > CDs
Takes a little bit of work to get them, but they are nicer.
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