How bad was your first PC?

[HumbleMobo]

Some Compaq PC from like 2005 that had an Athlon 64 3200, came with like 1 GB of RAM and had a Geforce 6150 LE.

My dad built me a PC with a Pentium Extreme some time back with a GTX 7800 damn remember those Prescotts?

[Silverfields]

Intel core two duo at 3ghz, 4 gigs of RAM, and nvidia 9400 graphics with 256 megabytes of v-ram. Some 500 gigabyte hard drive as well.
Late 2009 iMac, rip me

[HumbleMobo]

I'm actually very curious to see how bad everyone else's PC's were before they got their ultra mega super awesome gaming builds.

 

Mine was some Dell desktop that we got from Walmart. Had 4 gigs of memory and on-board graphics. EWWW.

I almost want to report you for posting such trash lol

[Coombzy]

yh i was a console peasant hahah 

So... you had no PC or laptop before that? even a family PC you used. Because either one of those would be your first PC.

[Kobathor]

My computer (the one I've been upgrading for 6 years now) had some good parts for its time. It originally had an Intel Core 2 Duo clocked @ whatever the stock was. It had my dad's extra Nvidia Quadro 2000 (he had an extra since he RMA'd one card and was too lazy to wait for it to be returned so he bought a new one), which was eventually replaced with a GTX 570HD. It also had 4 gigs of RAM, which was insane since I only played Roblox in 2008.

 

The only original parts are the PSU and the boot drive, which are soon to be replaced..

 

EDIT- the first computer I used was my dad's which was better than mine.

 

EDIT 2- I only got this computer because in 2008 when the econ crashed in USA his office suffered lots of lay-offs, and his boss (SUPER nice guy) gave him one of the extra office computers "for the kids."

[scobie56]

So... you had no PC or laptop before that? even a family PC you used. Because either one of those would be your first PC.

oh ok m cant remember but i know it had a celeron core m 

[ThinkWithPortals]

my first personal computer was a... mac

-shudder-

I kid, I kid, I owned one too.

 

On topic: Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, iGPU running Vista.

[Rafferz]

Well, when i was little my parents bought this

Pretty damn boss for its time, and I remember them telling me that me or my sis threw the tv remote at it (it was a tv too) cos we were always scared of the dirty diesels in thomas the tank engine

[Nena Trinity]

Compaq Laptop: Athlon X2 TK-55 + GT91?0M + 2GB RAM + 80GB HDD. (this model was known for overheating and even fires...) 

[abt]

I almost want to report you for posting such trash lol

The post was trash or the pc was trash? ;-;

[TetraSky]

Pentium 3 733Mhz

128MB of RAM

Some integrated nvidia graphic chip.

 

Was originally running Windows 98SE, installed Windows XP pro on it.

 

Upgraded the ram to 192MB and then to 256MB...

 

I believe this is it
http://www.backoffice.be/prod_uk/Packard_Bell/p180111614_packard_bell_platinum_8700_gf_rw_mt_1_x_piii_.asp

 

We had to ship it, the whole computer, for repair, like 3 times, because it kept failing.

 

 

After that terrible piece of sh*t, I started building my own computers, which was an Athlon XP 2800+ with 512MB of RAM (later upgraded to 1GB, then 2GB), used the integrated graphics of the motherboard (I think it was something like a Geforce4 MX), later upgraded to an ATI x800XL AGP in order to play GTA San Andreas and Guild Wars.

 

After that computer, I built the one in my signature (I technically built a AMD based system first, but it was so buggy and terrible that I don't want to talk about it anymore... made me hate AMD so much)

[Guest]

AMD FX-6300/GTX 650 played BF3 alright. 

[DigitalHermit]

Intel P4 (Not sure if Prescott or Northwood)

128MB DDR 266MHz

SiS 650 64MB DDR AGP x4 graphics card (later replaced with a GeForce 5200)

Some Gigabyte mobo

"Old Faithful" 400W PSU (It's a no-brand that refused to give up until 2012)

Those were the days when I played GTA III and GTA Vice City on a CRT at over 60fps...

[Wano97]

The one I actually owned myself was a macintosh II... I've used worse though. 

[abt]

prepare to be scarred for life this was about was awhile ago and luckily i only played minecraft at the time but here are the specs: 512mb of ram, windows vista, integrated graphics and either a core 2 duo a Pentium celeron or core m i cant remember.

Dear god

 

Bless your soul

[eye2012]

AMD athlon 64 3500+ and an ATI X300    yeah baby

[Egad]

TRS80 Pocket Computer Model: PC-2 + printer interface

 

I believe Tandy was the OEM and Radio Shack rebranded it.  I was the envy of others due to the printer expansion:

 

 

Many were destroyed and died unloved deaths, bearing the nickname Trash 80, but now everyone who visits my office admires it.  Turns out time can make vintage diamonds out of shitty coal.  

 

To load software you bought a book, typed in the program via that shitty little keyboard, using the tiny little screen.  Then it didn't run because you made a typo and you became angry, yelled at it for awhile, and then just assigned the task to a grad student.  Sadly for me I often was that grad student.  

[mtbdude641]

if were talking about first personal pc mine was actually a laptop. it has 256mb of ram which i had upgraded to 512 and it had a single core processor hyperthreaded i believed so it showed up as two cores. wasnt that amazing but did play untreal tournament 2004 decent enough though. desktop was a gateway prebuilt that came with a dual core and 2 gb of ram. which i later upgraded the power supply and got a 8800 GT when they first came out. was right around the time half life 2 was released as i had got the orange box right around that time as well. both were gateway PCs though.

[Shoob]

AMD Sempron 2400+ (Socket A)

512MB DDR RAM

Geforce FX5200

[Fate]

Athlon 64 x2 4000+, no dedicated GPU, 2GB ram, and a 320GB hard drive.

I got like 5 fps during raids in WoW, so I upgraded my GPU to a 6450 where I got a whopping 15 fps! (This was a lot for me at the time)

Then I upgraded to a Phenom II 960T and that helped a ton, but I also needed a better GPU, so I bought a 6750. 

Now I have a 3570k and R9 290

[rcarteraz]

I wish I even still had the specs from my first computer I bought on my own. I did pretty good. I was back in like 02. I gave up on going to Australia so I'd get the $1000 to build it. Went to Fry's electronics and picked out all the parts with myself. It was probably a pretty hobo computer but I was proud of it. It did great lol.

[royalcrown]

My first PC was super awesome. 8502 and 64 k ram, SID CHIP, 1541 disk drive !

[Gikero]

266Mhz Cyrix II CPU, 48MB of SDRAM, 4.7GB HDD with Win 98 Second Edition and a 48X CD-R Burner. Played Starcraft and Command and Conquer: Red Alert well enough. Lagged in busy areas of Diablo II. CD burner literally ate my Red Alert Disc. Shortly after, I bought my first laptop. 2.4Ghz Celeron, 256MB DDR, 40GB IDE and a 32MB Nvidia GeForce 4 Go! A crappy laptop (That I love) but I got it to play so many games that it shouldn't have been able to run. =)

[royalcrown]

TRS80 Pocket Computer Model: PC-2 + printer interface

 

I believe Tandy was the OEM and Radio Shack rebranded it.  I was the envy of others due to the printer expansion:

 

 

Many were destroyed and died unloved deaths, bearing the nickname Trash 80, but now everyone who visits my office admires it.  Turns out time can make vintage diamonds out of shitty coal.  

 

To load software you bought a book, typed in the program via that shitty little keyboard, using the tiny little screen.  Then it didn't run because you made a typo and you became angry, yelled at it for awhile, and then just assigned the task to a grad student.  Sadly for me I often was that grad student.  

I like them, but typing in programs in those days DID suck

[Playdohman]

Single core sempron laptop with 256mb of ram. Not too bad for XP and the sims 2, which is what computer use consists of at age 8