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Greetings from Noctua!
We’re thrilled to team up with r/pcmasterrace for a giveaway:
Five of you will have the chance to win a NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler!
Before entering, make sure to check your system's compatibility on our compatibility centre here.
How to enter:
- Comment on this post with your answer to the question: What is your earliest PC-building memory?
- Shipping (and potential customs duties) will be covered by us. All further information on shipping and terms & conditions can be found here.
- You can enter the Giveaway from June 11th 2025 to June 18th 2025 12:00 PM CEST.
The 5 most heartfelt, funny or otherwise original memories will be chosen by our Support Team and contacted by u/noctua_OFFICIAL via Reddit DMs.
We're excited to hear about your personal stories! Feel free to also share pictures.
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i placed my first gpu: gt710 in my dell optiplex lol
When i first immigrated to Norway, my norwegian teacher let me put the ram stick in our school PC. Dont know if that counts but thats the first pc “building” experience i got. This was like 20 years ago.
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2003, AMD Socket-A and a Chaintec motherboard
My first ever build was 2 years ago was a massive jump over my first pc, which was a Alienware alpha from at least 2014 I think. I Went from 2GB vram to 20GB, never knew GPU could be so big (it alone was bigger than my old pc).
Earliest memory is the proud feeling I felt when I completed my first build and then realized that I forgot to attach the IO shield.
My earliest memory is building my very own PC. The first one I ever owned.
It had a hideous case which I loved back then lol
When I tried to turn in on, it just didn’t.
After hours of troubleshooting I decided to take out the mainboard and RMA it. When I unscrewed it it made a “clonk” sound and a screw from behind the board fell down.
I immediately tried again and it worked.
It had a Pentium 4 and a nVidia GeForce 3 64MB
The first game I played was Max Payne – what a blast
Good times.
I will mount this on my wife when she gets angry at me to cool her down.
Building my first pc with an Intel Pentium 4.
Earliest memory was taking an old Dell Optiplex off the side of the road and fixing it up into a device that could actually game.
When my father built my first PC in 1998, before that I had been gaming on a Commadore 64. I was 8 years old and got a AMD K6 300 mHz CPU, 4gb storage, and a Voodoo 3Dfx. My computer was a beast! I helped installed the CD drive and one ram stick, wow I felt like a superhero!
I remember that Command and Conquer needed to be slowed down or else the speed was way too fast.
It was back when I was a teenager, and my dad helped me build my first gaming PC. I remember being fascinated by all the different components and how they fit together. We spent hours researching and choosing the perfect parts, and finally, the day arrived when we got to put everything together.
I recall being so careful not to touch any of the sensitive components, and my dad teaching me about static electricity and how to ground myself. When we finally powered it on, and it booted up without any issues, I felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. It was a hand-me-down CPU, an old NVIDIA graphics card, and 4GB of RAM, but to me, it was the most powerful machine in the world.
We spent the rest of the evening playing games and benchmarking the system, and I was hooked. From that day on, I was passionate about PC building and upgrading, and I’ve never looked back. I’ve built many PCs since then, but that first one will always hold a special place in my heart.
I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but tried to remove some dust that build up on my stock cooler of the Ryzen 5 1600
My brother is about 10 years older than me and was studying abroad at the time. On my 14th birthday he visited and we built my first desktop pc together and that was one of the coolest things I ever did
My first gpu is Radeon x1650. Not great, not terrible
Earliest memory is building a i5-2500K system by myself and overclocking it to 4.5GHz – fun times.
Early 2000. (2003. I think) I got my first PC.
It was socket 939 with 512mb of RAM memory or something, and it had Athlon 64 FX-60 iirc.
Anyway, friend of mine recommended that I upgrade my CPU (that Athlon was the fastest thing for that socket, but I had no idea) and he sold me one of his CPU’s for a chocolate bar and bottle of Fanta (Shokata was just released, it was huge hit in my country)
Anyway I burned the mobo and CPU because that CPU was another socket, sadly I do not remember which one.
I had no idea what I did so I went to another buddy and we tried that “new” cpu and we burned his stuff too.
No need to say how much my dad whooped my ass, I couldnt sit straight for like 2 weeks because I had rainbow on my ass cheeks.
PC building was very expensive back then lol
I have been into PC hardware for about the past year and just got to building my first PC last month, building went very smoothly other than one singular mistake which was that My LF3 Pro didn’t fit all of its screws in my Corsair 5000D because of some tall plastic part at the top of the motherboard to the right of the IO shield.
My fix for this was to put half of the screws in and then to zip tie the other corners to the top of the case.
My first build was in about 2004ish. So I could continue playing FFXI. Was playing it on ps2 before then
My earliest PC building memory is sometime in the early ’90s, I was terrified of inserting I think it was a 386 or 486 CPU because it was before ZIF sockets were a thing so the danger of bending the pins was real. Thankfully, it went fine. 🙂 Also, the DIP switches were intimidating, the chances of getting one of them wrong weren’t negligible. 🙂
Allmost Killing my NH D12 in 2013 while trying Transplant it too my nee Rig😅
Well, it runs too this day on my Testbensch
I connected my HDMI to the integrated graphics CPU instead of the GPU
my first pc building memory is when my dad didnt let me do anything cuz he thought ill break it lol
I built my first PC in december right before my exams during christmas.
Most of the tiles I would’ve been building a lego set but this year it was a really expensive scary lego set.
Everything worked first try, I am still having nightmares seeing the board flex as I try to ram the ram into it. So stressful.
When I got my first PC, back in 2012, I didn’t know anything about computers and listened to my uncle, who said I would also need a soundcard because that PC didn’t have one. When the PC arrived, I struggled like 20 minutes to find where to install the card and then gave up. After a while, when I was a bit more knowledgeable about PCs, I realized the motherboard only had a free PCI and not a PCIe slot available, which was needed for the soundcard. Oh, and the motherboard had onboard audio, which was good enough for me back then, so I didn’t even need the soundcard…
My first pc building memory was from when I was 15. I built an AMD Athlon 2400 system so that I could play Warcraft III with my friends.
I’m pretty sure the old GFX card from that pc is in the roof space at my parents house somewhere, including the box with dodgy artwork.
My Pentium III (slot one) wouldn’t post
I was being super careful and every part was precious to me
It just needed some more pressure to insert the cpu – and we were golden
Back in the day when Windows came on 24 disks!
My earliest memory came this year. I had only ever previously bought pre-built systems but decided to take the plunge and build a pc from scratch.
I researched heavily and decided I wanted a full noctua setup to match a black fractal north. I went with an all chromax black setup with a NHU12-s and NF-A14 fans.
I spent all day building the pc and enjoyed every second of it. There were a number of really frustrating moments trying to get windows 11 to boot properly but the building aspect was so enjoyable.
I’m hooked. I’ll never buy a pre-built system again. There’s nothing more satisfying than building something that you’ve researched and put so much effort into.
The results were amazing and I’m still shocked that my pc is so silent. The only noises I usually hear are from serious gaming from the graphics card and when the fans start to pick up a little.
I’m hooked on your products. The attention to detail is stunning and I can’t wait to see what you develop next.
Oh god… with my first proper job in the early 2000s I bought a beast of an AthlonXP. The screwdriver slipped as I was putting the cooler’s clip on and wrecked my mother board. They had really difficult clips… I hope my next big memory is teaching my daughter how to build a PC 😀
All my new PC builds are quiet Noctua coolers with the sides open and no extra fans. They just work so well. Way better than that Athlon cooler! 😀
Every chance I get I tell people to just get a Noctua. Have served me so well for the past 15 years. I’m a customer for life.
Don’t pick me as I have a new PC build and would just give it to a friend.
Coming from 8-bit homecomputers, I was totally blown away when I saw Wing Commander for the first time on a friends PC. I knew that I had to get my hands on a system that could run this game.
So after I basically asked and stressed every single member of my family I had the funds and went out to buy the components. I can’t remember every part but I do know that the CPU was a 486DX and it ran Wing Commander just great.
Hooked to PC gaming ever since and of course, Noctua fans and coolers are always part of my builds for years now.