What was your first computer?

[mybeat]

P3 500 mhz 

128 + 64 (upgraded)

13 gb hdd (managed to dualboot + store music & games)

riva tnt2 (it was awesome)

15' noname CRT

[Spannerhands]

Built my first ever pc... Long time ago but think the speck was something like....

 

286  16bit 12 Mhz

512k ram

10mb hard drive the size of a house brick

VGA Graphic Card

And one of the first ever sound blaster cards

2 HD floppy disks drives

Ruining MS dos 3.3

 

Its was such a beast LOL

[Liam-Wabbit]

Built my first ever pc... Long time ago but think the speck was something like....

 

286  16bit 12 Mhz

512k ram

10mb hard drive the size of a house brick

VGA Graphic Card

And one of the first ever sound blaster cards

2 HD floppy disks drives

Ruining MS dos 3.3

 

Its was such a beast LOL

I bet that hard drive was plugged into a scsi card , I remember they had 3 cables 2 ribbon for data and 1 power , the floppy disk run off the same card :o  BIOS came on a floppy disc. now pc's are pretty much like LEGO plug and play  5 1/4 in hard disks Seagate were still making them that size for years, up to 6gb versions were the last 5 1/4 hard disks I remember.

[Nicktrance]

We bought a PC very late, so I was already 10 years old and it still works, with a few minor problems xD. 

 

AMD Athlon single core 1.9GHz something-or-other (Socket A)

256MB RAM, upgraded to 768MB

nVidia Geforce FX 5200 (VGA)

120GB WD HDD

a floppy disk drive CD-Drive and CD-RW drive, upgraded to DVDRW

crappy no-name brand 320W PSU (I ended up pulling that out for testing fans and stuff when it failed to handle the load and replaced it with another crappy 500W PSU)

All that shoved in a crappy Scan case with a removable mobo tray  :huh:

Running Win7

 

It was really nothing special but it lasted us some 5 years through a lot of GTA3/VC/SA, AoE II etc. and a lot of school work.

[MeltyMoon]

Oh boy, I bought an epicly overpriced dell;

 

HD 5450

750GB Sata 2 Seagate HDD

6 Gigs of samsung RAM @ 1033MHZ

Phenom II X6 1035T (overclocked it to about 3.4Ghz on stock volts though 1.135 once i rebuilt the PC)

460 Watt PSU (generic)

Generic Dell Mobo

Windows 7 Home premium

 

And that pretty much somes it up, that PC and a 20 inch 1080p monitor costed me a grand :(. If only i trusted my self enough to build a PC sooner lol. This was about 4 years ago

[acturisme]

I want to get a soundblaster 16 for a Retro build in the future

I remember those memory defrag programs that created more ram and cleared out old unused data

memory was so expensive back then £70 for 2 matching EDO dims

Memmaker.exe was the one built into dos.

[Soolkiki]

Mine was some old company computer. It was  pentium 4 at 1.8 Ghz, 512mb ram, and that's honestly all I can remember. It was SLOW! Got to write some papers on it though.

[TechTheWorld]

Case: Antec 300.

Mobo: MSI 970A-G46 am3+ ATX etc etc.

Processor:Fx-6300 @ 3.5gz

Ram: 8gb crucial sport @1600mhz.

Video card(and I hope to upgrade soon): Radeon hd 6450.

Power supply: OCZ 600w 80 plus bronze modular etcetc.

CPU cooler:Hyper 212 evo.

2 320gb something hard drives.

 

2 case fans and some random network card.

[ixi_your_face]

God, it was so long ago now. I can barley even remember what i did last week and you're asking me this?!

[DLM_012]

It was a prebuilt DELL Dimension

 

Pentium 4

512MG of RAM

80GB SATA HDD

 

That's all I remember lol. Oh and it ran XP of course. It was a beast when I first got it despite all of the bloatware but became dreadfully slow after a few years.

[Bender]

Apple Power Macintosh 7200/120

 

I miss that beast!

[joelthezombie15]

the first one i used was a 1993 dell. we called it the dinosaur. it was also the first pc i took apart.

[bob345]

The first computer i used was some old macintosh, the one that was just a big bubble around a screen.

[KushKomputers]

Ok so I thought this would be a cool idea to post the specs of the first computer that you ever built. My current build is my first one but I have made some small upgrades. I built it around this past Christmas. Anyways here are my original specs.(P.S. it is nothing special) 

 

Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-970-DS3 

Graphics card- Radeon HD 6450 2gb ddr3

CPU- AMD FX-8350

Case- Cooler Master HAF 912 

PSU- Cooler Master Exterme Power Plus-600w

DVD Drive- Lite-On 24x dvd drive

Storage- 500gb 5400 rpm notebook drive. 

OS- Windows 7 home

RAM- 8gb (2x4gb) PNY 1333

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

My first was the one im using now.  Would never be able to not build and E based system.

[pGuerrerox]

My first was the one im using now. 

 

Me too!!

 

CPU Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core

Motherboard ASRock H77M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1155

Memory Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600

Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM

Video Card HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB

Case Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX

Power Supply Rosewill Green 530W 80 PLUS Certified

Optical Drive LG GH24NS72 DVD/CD Writer

Keyboard CM Storm QuickFire Rapid

Mouse CM Recon

MousePad CM Storm Speed-R

Monitor AOC E2460Sw LED 24" 1080P

[xToFxREAPER]

amd a8-3870k oc'd to 3.4ghz cooled with a coolermaster x6 elite

8gb of g.skill ram @ 1600mhz

f1a75 m mobo

gs600 psu

asus 7750 gpu

in an antec eleven hundred

Edit: thought I would mention the rig in my signature is only my second build.. Technically, the gpu has changed alot but the rest is the same

[Willie]

Motherboard- Asrock 970 Extreme 3 AM3+

Graphics card- Radeon HD6870 now x2

CPU- AMD 960t unlocked @3.7

Ram- G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB @1600mhz

Hearsink- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Case- Cooler Master Elite 430

PSU- Rosewill Fortress 750W

DVD Drive- No clue

Storage- 1TB Seagate Barracuda

OS- Windows 7 home

[felixbearpig]

The one in my sig

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

The one in my sig

FYI Sig is a German firearms manufacturer.  Not a computer

[felixbearpig]

FYI Sig is a German firearms manufacturer.  Not a computer

sig sauer if im not mistaken

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

sig sauer if im not mistaken

Yes but commonly refereed to as only Sig simply because it is one word. People say FN not FNH because FN sounds much better.

[felixbearpig]

Yes but commonly refereed to as only Sig simply because it is one word. People say FN not FNH because FN sounds much better.

lol then my pc's name is sig

[MJOLNITR VIPER]

lol then my pc's name is sig

Well that is a good name for a system.

[DLM_012]

EDIT: Lol'd at the above banter ^^^

 

 

Motherboard- Biostar 880G

Graphics card- XFX 9400GT

CPU- AMD Sempron 140 (unlocked to dual core)

Case- In-Win (generic case)

PSU- OEM PSU that came with the case

DVD Drive- LG GH22NS40

Storage- 320GB Western Digital

OS- Windows 7 home

RAM- 2GB (1x2GB) G.Skill Value RAM 1333Mhz

 

It's upstairs in my room and has been running strong for about... 5 years now almost... I don't even really use it since I have a beast gaming rig but it's a great machine for basic tasks including youtube (720p), email, and basic net browsing.