What was your first computer?

[ammarez]

The first Pc that I built, was back in 2001 I was 3 years old and my father finally decided that I should build a pc by myself it had a pentium 4 1.5, a GeForce 2 Ultra, I am not sure about the Ram and the mobo but I think they were an asus cuv4x-m and a Kingston 256mb ram not sure though 

[Atomika]

I had a HP 550 Laptop that I got as a Christmas present, I used it for like 3-4 years solid, constantly on it and then it ended up melting on my lap for some reason and shorted out haha - Picture here

 

I also purchased my first PC when I was 11-12 years old. Me and some friends wanted to get into PC gaming as we played games like runescape and other games like that - picture here

The PC cost me around £300-£350 if I remember correctly, Even though I did some small upgrades to it, new CPU fan, rear exhaust fan etc haha. I also got given an ATI 5550 Graphics card for free from one of my friends' parents that worked in IT as he had some spare components.

 

Old PC specs:

Intel Celeron

4GB Ram

250GB Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD

ATI 5550 Graphics Card

Cooler Master CPU Cooler (Can't remember what one now haha just remember it cost me around £50)

Asus motherboard

 

It ran solid for around 2-3 years, then I built this one I'm now

[airdeano]

sorry mates, but we already have a thread for posting rig/builds here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/183-show-off-your-setup/

[MrCharlieZombie]

What did your first build have inside?

[Tedster]

FX-6100

16GB Corsair Vengeance

Radeon HD 6570 2GB

2TB Seagate HDD
128GB OCZ SSD (died almost immediately)

500w PSU

Terrible case.

[Laputacake]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.3Ghz

3GB Samsung and something

VTX3D Ati Radeon HD 5450 1GB

160GB Samsung

220W PSU

Dell Optilex 755 SSF

[Delusional Phil]

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Yup ... Nothing ... 

[Oshino Shinobu]

My first build that I bought with my own money (not built by me):

i7 3770K

8GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz

GTX 670

2TB Seagate Barracuda

MSI Z77 motherboard (can't remember the model)

No name 700W PSU

 

 

First build that I actually put together:

i7 3770K

16GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz

GTX 780Ti

2TB Seagate Barracuda+ 2x 60GB Sandisk Plus SSD

Asus Sabertooth Z77

Corsair AX860

 

Still got a few of those components in my current build. I also had some changes inbetween the two, but most of it was just one change at a time. A big upgrade is coming up, I can feel it

[MountainDrew]

First build that I bought and put together myself:

 

i7-4770k

Noctua NH-D14

8GB (2x4) G.Skill Ripjaws @1600mhz

EVGA GTX 780 SC

Samsung 840 EVO 128GB and Seagate Barracuda 1TB

MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming motherboard

Corsair RM 650w

Fractal Design Define R4

[Lolzious]

Pentium D 3.2ghz, Dell business class mobo, 320gb HDD, 520w PSU, XFX HD 5770, 4gb DDR3

It ran far cry 3, GTA 4, and a few other games, and that's all I cared about at the time

[pants18]

fx-6300

sapphire amd 7950

corsair cx-750

wd 1tb blue

8gb generic kingston ram

corsair 600t

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FX-8320

8GB Kingston black RAM

500GB Seagate HDD

Gigabye cheapo motherboard (forget the name)

MSI R77770

700W thermaltake PSU

[Charger]

I dont remember anything other then the amd athlon 2400+ I built it around 2003

[isHypnophobic]

Basically the build in my sig right now: Illya, the air-cooled prodigy

• CPU
  Intel i5 4670k
• Motherboard
  ASRock Z87E-ITX
• RAM
  Kingston HyperX Red Series 2x4gb
• GPU
  MSI TwinFrozr GTX 770
• Case
  Bitfenix Prodigy Red
• Storage
  Kingston HyperX 3K
• PSU
  SeaSonic G Series SSR550w
• Cooling
  Be Quiet! Dark Rock 2

[hypnodog]

The one in my signature. Since there have been a few upgrades done and I'm too lazy to list the og specs, just let me know if any of you want me to list them.  

[killertek78]

PIII 750@850 (Slot1) (always OC'd!)

Abit BH6 (or BE6, can't remember)440BX 

128MB DDR

ASUS V7100/T GeForce2 MX

Creative Sound Blaster Live!

Maxtor 20GB HDD

LiteOn 32x CDRW Drive.

350w cheap PSU

Massive steel white case of some type, later painted with Subaru Blue(WRX)

All hooked up to a 13" TV for the first year or so until I could afford a 17" flat CRT from KDS, SyncMaster 750s to be exact.

[lovetech000]

this was my frist build

CPU: Q6600

Main: Giga P43 

RAM: 2x2GB DDR2 RAM 800MHz

GPU: Geforce 9800 GT 1GB 

PSU: 500W 

250GB HDD

My first build in 2008

[Oscar Herrick]

lol... stil using this computer rn

CPU: Core 2 duo e840

GPU: GTX 260

Motherboard: Asus P5K-E

Case: (Some extremely old black thingy)
PSU: 500 Watt Cooler Master 80+ Bronze

HDD: 250GB Seagate

[fir_nev]

2010 build which completely died last year.   Saving up for a new build.

 

Casing: Cooler Master Elite 335

PSU: Cooler Master GX 650W

MB: Intel DH55HC

CPU: Intel i5 650 3.2GHz 4MB Cache

RAM: Team Elite PC1333 4GB (2GB x 2 kit)

GFX: XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5

HDD: WD Green 1TB + WD Blue 250GB

[Virus__]

My first real build was;

 

Gigabyte Motherboard, of model I cannot remember, but it was a pretty solid motherboard with SLI etc..

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz

2GB Geil DDR2 800MHz

XFX Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB Overclocked

800W Super Flower PSU (of which is still going strong in my current PC)

Coolermaster Air Cooler

Seagate 250GB

Seagate 160GB

Antec 900 (upgraded to an Antec 902 a few years later when my mate wanted to unload it for $50)

Creative Soundblaster Soundcard

Razer Lycosa Keyboard

Razer Lachesis Mouse

19" LG 1440x900 monitor

 

I got it off a mate after he had it for about 6 months, he initially paid around $2,400 for it but I got it off him for $1,000

 

I loved that PC I was so sad when it died on me ~4 years ago. I think I still have the graphics card, which is completely dead, it ran most modern games up until 2011 on high settings without an issue, which is why I ended up staying with Nvidia on my follow up & current build.

 

Prior to that Core 2 Duo, I had 3 AMD builds and an Intel Pentium 4.

[Robin88]

Core i5 750 (I still have that CPU, I just cannot find a motherboard for it that isn't ridiculously expensive)

Gigabyte P55M-UD2 (Awesome motherboard, less than £100 and could hang there with the big guys when it came to overclocking, shame it was that awful blue colour though)

2x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer Blue (DDR3 hadn't been out that long, this was when you could still get motherboards with DDR2 slots as well as DDR3, and even a single 2GB stick was over £120 back then)

Sapphire ATi HD5750 1GB

WD Caviar Blue 500GB (No SSD back then, a 32GB SSD was the same price as a 256GB SSD is today if I remember rightly)

600W Cooler Master Silent Pro

In an old no brand mATX case from my mums old PC.

[Hackzzila]

I still have it right now

 

Core i5 4690k

1 TB Blue (Win 7)

1.5 TB Green

8GB COrsair Vengeance

ASUS ROG Maximus VI Hero

ASUS Strix GTX 750 ti

Corsair 750D

Win 10 (Win 7 is broken *cries*)

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Hey, I thought it would be neat to see what your first PC build was like. Pictures would be cool too.

All right so, I built my first PC in 2012. Not that long ago but I've just never had enough money. I was finally able to save up $500 from my birthday and Christmas. This build was done with NCIX parts, they were out of stock on a lot of the things I wanted; however, I couldn't wait and bought some not-so-great alternative. Most notably my PSU.

 

First PC Specifications

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320.

Motherboard: Gigabyte-not-sure-of #themodelnumber.

RAM: Kingston 8GB black.

GPU: MSI R7770.

HDD: 500GB Seagate barracuda. 

PSU: Thermaltake T2 750W.

Case: Bitfenix Mid-tower black no side window with a nice feeling power button.

 

The total was about $520.

I was going to go with an i5 BUT I would have had to of gotten an mATX motherboard with a small case plus a cheaper GPU. I didn't like small computers at the time. The 8320 caught my eye when I was in the store, got it on sale for only $100 which was a great deal. I still have that 8320 in my main rig.

 

My PC has evolved slowly over time with mini upgrades. Recently I decided to try out watercooling for the first time, since I'm such a badass I went straight to hardline. You could argue my watercooling was a waste with my current specs but whatever, it works great and looks killer. I wanted to be different and give myself a challenge.

 

Latest Specifications

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320 @4.8Ghz.

Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0.

RAM: Kingstin 8GB black.

GPU: MSI GTX 760 x2 in SLI.

SSD: 120 SP.

SSHD: 2TB Seagate.

HDD: 500GB Seagate barracuda.

PSU: EVGA G2 850W.

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe.

 

Here is a picture of my current PC, sadly I didn't get any from my first. I plan on rebuilding it though with the same parts and giving it to my brother.

 

 

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

My current PC specs

 

CPU: i5-4690k

GFX: R9 280x

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro

PSU: Rosewell Hive

RAM: G. Skill Ripjaw Z

Storage: 32GB SSD + 1TB HDD

Motherboard: MSI something or another

 

I think I spent about 1000-1200. I can't quite remember because I had other expenses like OS, monitor, keyboard and shit.

[Jerakl]

Specs:

 

4770k

G.Skill Sniper 16GB

MSi z87 gd65 gaming

CM Storm Trooper

Random storage

HX650w

CM GeminII S

 

Current:

All the same except 1 more TB of random storage

H100i