Did you build the computer you use?

[Workaholic]

I send my friends links on how to do it, and pop around if they get stuck. Its a simple affair on the whole, they only need a hand when it blows up in their face.

Plus it gives them confidence to sort their own bloody problems out, instead of relying on myself.

I would love to, but it always turn into phone calls every hour. For example at the moment I am put in charge of finding a good ISP for one cousin and buying a good webcam and microphone for another....

(As usual, there's the reminder calls.)

[Knoxville]

I built all the computers we have in the house except one, and thats about 7 years old now tbh.

[Lee H]

Cases are a real hazard - cut into ribbons sometimes.

Indeed - When building I've found if you cut yourself and blood drops on the PC, the PC building gods smile upon thee and all goes swimmingly well with the build with no issues regarding stability.

I've been building mine for the last 16 years and plan to do so for the foreseeable future as I build to what I want my system for, plus it works out cheaper as well

The only thing I need now to finish my current system design is another PCI or even PCI-E based DVB-T tuner thats MCE 2005 compliant, oh and Vista extreme edition

[Steve A]

Yup

Built both my PC's one in a thermaltake (sorry) case and one isotope,

[Stringent]

Funnily enough I actually built my work computer too!

[Ramedge]

I built my pc back in march, its been great apart from windows corrupting a system file. Re install here i come.

[Stevo]

Built my second computer bout 3 years ago and since then have built another 3. Would never buy a prebuilt system again. I also took my laptop to pieces, I mean to pieces not just removing the back panels and built it back up (it still works btw) does that count? lol

[BEANFro Elite]

I built my own PC about 2 years ago now, and it has slowly evolved from an AMD Athlon XP (T'Bred A) 1700+, MSI K7N2G-ILSR, Gainward GeForce 4 Ti-4200 Silver, 512Mb PC2700 Ebuyer Extra Value RAM, 30Gb 'Low Profile" Maxtor DiamondMax 8, Artec 16x DVD-ROM to the my current PC specs... So in escence I have a whole new PC now but it still smells and feels like the same old PC

[Stubzz]

Only have alaptop so building it is kinda hard. Built all my previous desktops. It's sooo tempting to build another one :/

[theslasher@ntlw]

Always build my own getting harder to upgrade now with a family help friends and repair theirs drive the Misses mad and look for help on the things i don't know from you people.

[GDVS]

My current machine is an off the rack Compaq job with a 7800GT, Tagan PSU, and another 512MB RAM added. The previous one started out in life as an Advent Celeron 333 and ended it's life as an Athlon XP1800 with only the case left of the original machine, not sure if that counts as built or not. Previous machine (P100) was a total scratch build.

[MD]

this machine and the 15 or so before it.... I am well known by friends for making the insides really tidy, so I have probably built in the region of 65 pc's for other people too...

Matt.

[aphex]

This is the first and only pc I have built so far and I was quite surprised how easy it was.

[MrChris]

i built this pc with te help of my uncle...nothing can beat it its so much fun...

[Mehul2004]

I built a little server for the middle room, shares out 500gb over the flat, sitting room/laptop/bedroom etc. Easy build, just wish I had screwed the hard drives down . . . they are making this odd rattling noise now . . . . . .

[Elspuddy]

all the pcs in my room (bar my lappy) have all been built by me
i used to work in a cyber cafe and he person there owed me how to build them