Your FIRST processor?

[Sat1600]

486 dx2 66mhz from Dell. It had a whopping 8mb of ram and 320mb hard drive. Played King Quest 6 like a boss

[jerubedo]

Intel i386 here @25MHz

[Ben17]

On 6/29/2019 at 4:57 AM, Uttamattamakin said:

t if carefully reassembled this thing would boot with no issues

You should try and reassemble it

[Uttamattamakin]

19 hours ago, nick name said:

The first PC I built had one of the first 1GHz Intel processors.  I can't remember which one exactly though.  

I remember when 1GHz was the frontier...  I think the first consumer processor, to ever hit that mark, was an OC'd LN2 cooled AMD Athlon around the late 90's  98 99 ish then in 2000 first normal 1 GHz processors came out.  It was all about the GHz in those days.   Now... it's all about the cores. 

10 hours ago, jerubedo said:

Intel i386 here @25MHz

Aww man.  There was a time I would've killed to get a 386 SX.  Specifically the last in the line of Tandy 1000 series computers was a 386 that could (barely) run windows and use a first generation CD rom drive.... had SVGA.  (when I had 640x480 8 colors). 

 

I don't care what anyone says.  Compare to the quantum leaps of the past PC tech is relatively stable and mature. 

[Ebony Falcon]

First laptop I can remember the specs from was a i5 2400u with a gtx 420mx but I had a desktop with windows 99 lol so god knows what that had in it 

[nick name]

1 hour ago, Uttamattamakin said:

I remember when 1GHz was the frontier...  I think the first consumer processor, to ever hit that mark, was an OC'd LN2 cooled AMD Athlon around the late 90's  98 99 ish then in 2000 first normal 1 GHz processors came out.  It was all about the GHz in those days.   Now... it's all about the cores. 

Aww man.  There was a time I would've killed to get a 386 SX.  Specifically the last in the line of Tandy 1000 series computers was a 386 that could (barely) run windows and use a first generation CD rom drive.... had SVGA.  (when I had 640x480 8 colors). 

 

I don't care what anyone says.  Compare to the quantum leaps of the past PC tech is relatively stable and mature. 

I wasn't sure if it was the Pentium III so thanks for doing the research for me.  It was in late 2000 or early 2001 when I built the machine.  I remember ordering all the parts in my dorm (same dorm Michael Dell supposedly got kicked out of for receiving PC parts that would fill up the office) and my roommate and my other friend wanted me to wait for them to build it.  I didn't.  Got it to POST first try.  Good times.  

[Uttamattamakin]

2 hours ago, Ebony Falcon said:

First laptop I can remember the specs from was a i5 2400u with a gtx 420mx but I had a desktop with windows 99 lol so god knows what that had in it 

Uhm  98?  ME?   That was 20 years ago so ...  I don't blame you for the misremembrance. 

1 hour ago, nick name said:

I wasn't sure if it was the Pentium III so thanks for doing the research for me.  It was in late 2000 or early 2001 when I built the machine.  I remember ordering all the parts in my dorm (same dorm Michael Dell supposedly got kicked out of for receiving PC parts that would fill up the office) and my roommate and my other friend wanted me to wait for them to build it.  I didn't.  Got it to POST first try.  Good times.  

Yeah.  Looking at the way LTT and others build PC's now I am not sure I'd know what to do.   It's so much easier to just buy a basically disposable laptop.   i.e. by the time software that can really use RTX is common it'll be in mobile, inexpensive, and decent. 

[nick name]

1 minute ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Uhm  98?  ME?   That was 20 years ago so ...  don't blame the misremembrance. 

Yeah.  Looking at the way LTT and others build PC's now I am not sure I'd know what to do.   It's so much easier to just buy a basically disposable laptop.   i.e. by the time software that can really use RTX is common it'll be in mobile, inexpensive, and decent. 

In college we could get any Microsoft disc for $5 so I actually played with all the operating systems.  Including ME.  

[Uttamattamakin]

1 minute ago, nick name said:

In college we could get any Microsoft disc for $5 so I actually played with all the operating systems.  Including ME.  

I was reacting to "Windows 99" above that.   

[flibberdipper]

First I used was some older AMD chip (cannot remember what the hell it would have been, but it was Y2K). First I ever had for just myself was a Celeron 533 out of an eMachines 533is

[lloose]

It was a 486. I don’t know which model. After that we had a Pentium 33mhz running windows 95. 

 

The first CPU in a computer that was mine and not my families was an AMD Duron 1700+.  I didn’t know a lot at the time about hardware but this was my gateway into computer hardware. I slowly upgraded what I could. Made some bad mistakes and leaned (like “upgrading” from an ATI 9200 128mb to an NVIDIA 5200 256mb because more memory means faster card right?). 

 

First cpu in a build that I did completely by myself was an AMD Athlon 64 2800+.

[PopsicleHustler]

Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 inside of HP Pavilion DV9580eg laptop. It was a gift from my parents on my 11th (I think) birthday.

 

First real CPU that I bought myself was AMD Athlon II x4 640 back in early 2011 for my very first gaming PC.

[MeatFeastMan]

My first and only build includes the FX 9590. Still going after 2 years without any issues at all. That's despite the doomsday warnings I was given far too many times beforehand. They said my house would be on fire, they said I'd need watercooling, they said it would freeze and have loads of problems, they said it would keep me warm in the winter. It just so happens that it was all nonsense in the end.

 

NH-D15 tames the beast with ease. No hiccups, just a perfect experience. FX ALL THE WAY!!! SCREW THE HATERS!!

 

 

 

 

[Ezzy-525]

Some type of Celeron D which is still packed away somewhere.

[Ebony Falcon]

2 hours ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Uhm  98?  ME?   That was 20 years ago so ...  I don't blame you for the misremembrance. 

Yeah.  Looking at the way LTT and others build PC's now I am not sure I'd know what to do.   It's so much easier to just buy a basically disposable laptop.   i.e. by the time software that can really use RTX is common it'll be in mobile, inexpensive, and decent. 

Yeah I was 5 lol 

[Juniiii]

Mine is the A4-3420 for the FM1 socket, horrible horrible CPU. The CPUZ score is around 140? 240? To put it into perspective, a FX 6300 is about 500 on a CPUZ test and my new R5 1600 is 3500. I would end my life by torture before I would go back and use the FM1 socket ever again.

[WolfLoverPro]

Can’t reply to my last post as it’s been locked. But for your response to you hate reading my post...... (ᴗ ͜ʖ ᴗ) you don’t have to read them ( ཀ ʖ̯ ཀ)

[BigRom]

I still have nightmares of the Pentium M 

 

Pentium M (mum's old Acer laptop from about 2002/2003)

Intel Atom something (dad's company netbook)

Pentium M again (dad's company laptop)

i5-4200M (my Lenovo Z510 laptop, still have it)

i5-4460 (first PC build, sold)

Ryzen 2200G

[Uttamattamakin]

18 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

First I used was some older AMD chip (cannot remember what the hell it would have been, but it was Y2K). First I ever had for just myself was a Celeron 533 out of an eMachines 533is

Around 2000.... AMD chips were rather competitive with Intel. Really what held them back was supply.  Which lead them to sink money into building Fabs which almost made AMD bankrupt.   Ah yes.. Celeron there's a name that will hopefully stay gone. 

[miagisan]

486 DX2 66 crew reporting in

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

should be i5 2500K 

but some how my brother somehow got pursuade to get the non-k to save ~$13...

blaming him till now .lol 

[Bazrat]

#1 i7 6500U with R5 M330 laptop (died less then a year after I got it then I built my first pc)

 

#2 I5 7500 (now in my younger brothers desktop, who was stuck with a Pentium N3700 Laptop)

 

#3 Ryzen 7 2700x (current)

 

Before my first PC I only had an iPad and a Wii. Can't say I ever regret working my ass off to pay for the parts to build these computers

[caldrin]

Well I had a Commodore 64 but I never really classed that as a real PC.

 

I guess my First real PC had an Intel 486 DX/2 66mhz in it..

[mariushm]

Well, like i said, the first computer I actually owned had a K6-2 333 Mhz that I overclocked right away to 350 mhz (changed FSB from 66 Mhz to 100 mhz)

But, at school, I was lucky to actually work on IBM 8086 computers with those ancient CGA/EGA screens with green phosphorus. Also had some 386 PCs at school.

In highschool, the school received a bunch of Compaq 486 66 Mhz machines and learned programming (Pascal) on them.

When I went to university my parents were reluctant to let me carry the PC to college campus because they were relatively poor and buying a computer was a big investment for them, so a friend gifted me an old HP Vectra with a 486 66 Mhz cpu and 32 MB of memory. It was good enough for browsing the internets, listing to some music.

 

Started working as a freelancer during college and by the end of first year of college, I saved enough money to buy a Duron 1100 Mhz with a cheap Asrock board (they just started as an offshoot from Asus making weird boards back then, they were quite different compared to how they are now) which was actually quite stable.

 

Later, i upgraded to a nice Barton cpu and then moved on to Intel D805 (because it was cheaper, running at 533 mhz, but still overclocked quite well) and then moved on to Q6600 and now I'm back on AMD with FX 8320 and the next upgrade will be a 3rd gen Ryzen.

 

[Wolrajh]

My very very first own computer was an Amiga 500 - I even got a bonus floppy disk drive a few years later!

My very first PC was a Pentium 100. Such speed!

Can't track them after that... I believe I had another Pentium 1xx and switched to Core 2 duo later.

 

I can barely remember what I did yesterday or the name of any of my friend in highschool so it's a small miracle I'd even remember I had a pentium100 in the first place ...