What were your first specs?

[Yea, i use windows, W]

Welp, im proud to say, im this old that we had to swap drives for a simple game as mario!!

 

I owned the worlds first laptop ever made!!, The Toshiba T1100, IT WAS A MONSTER!!

 

I still have it, and sometimes when im bored af, i hop on to that old junky laptop

[SFFDesigns]

My first build is my current one (3700X + 32GB, RTX 3080 when I can actually find one).

 

My first computer I ever really used (I used one before but less) was an i5-2410 (mobile cpu) with iGPU on an old Lenovo Thinkpad running W7. I sorta used an old WinXP machine as well like I said before, but I can't remember the specs

[TotallyNotGigabit]

I knew I had a Compaq Armada E500 but I don't know what it really had then:

 

• Pentium 2 or 3 (Can't remember the speed)
• 192MB RAM
• 18GB IDE hard drive
• ATI Rage graphics
• 1400x1050 (got limited to 1024x768 after XP) or it was 1024x768 to begin with.
• Windows 2000 Professional, then Windows XP Professional

 

I was eight, in 2003 when I got this laptop. I didn't start playing games on PC until that laptop died and got replaced with an Acer TravelMate 2403WXCi in 2005, then a Lenovo N200, SL510, MSI GT640, then my first desktop computer in 2012 that I built with Dad:

 

• i5 3570k
• 8GB RAM
• GTX 560ti
• Samsung Spinpoint 1TB HDD
• Crucial M4 128GB SSD
• Blu-ray Rewriter drive from LG
• In a Zalman Z11 PC case
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

That was pretty much the peak of PC gaming for only 2 or 3 years. But I'm back in the laptop world.

[Silentprototipe]

Ive still got my first PC kicking and screaming around. Windows 10 obliterates the old tired quadcore. 

 

A6 3650 

8 GB DDR3 

IGPU (Multiple GPU's from GT 730's to GTX 950's have gone through this machine) 

1 TB Seagate HDD (Long dead) 

 

[jollander]

Ok this was a long time ago so some details are a bit fuzzy.

 

IBM Aptiva

Pentium II 350mhz

16 or 32mb sdram (I'm not sure)

a few hundred MB hdd

 

There was a motorized front cover that would go "bzzzzzzzzzt" and glide away to reveal the cd-rom and 3.5" drives.

 

Edit: It looked kinda like this, except I don't remember the whiter keycaps.

 

[X-System]

1 hour ago, jollander said:

Ok this was a long time ago so some details are a bit fuzzy.

 

IBM Aptiva

Pentium II 350mhz

16 or 32mb sdram (I'm not sure)

a few hundred MB hdd

 

There was a motorized front cover that would go "bzzzzzzzzzt" and glide away to reveal the cd-rom and 3.5" drives.

 

Edit: It looked kinda like this, except I don't remember the whiter keycaps.

 

-snip-

A PC with Pentium II was not sold with a few hundred MB HDD. It was a few gigabyte HDD.

 

A few hundred MB HDD, it was in PC with 386/486 CPU. In 1998, I had a PC Pentium II 233MHz, it was with 2.1GB HDD. And in 1994, I had a PC 486, it was with 420MB HDD.

 

I found a list of IBM Aptiva : https://www.pc-collection.com/gamme-aptiva.php

[Donut417]

First computer I ever bought was a:

 

1) AMD Athlon XP 3200+

2) I think it came with 128 Megs of memory and I upgraded it to 256 megs at one time

3) Spinning rust, not sure on the size of the drive

4) Started with a ATI Radeon 9600 and ended with a GeForce 6800

5) Wireless G WiFi card 

[kelvinhall05]

Absolute fuck ton of Minecraft on an Asus X200CA with a Celeron 1007U, I am 99% 4GB of RAM even though everywhere says it only came with 2GB, 320GB hard drive, and whatever iGPU that Celeron had. Eventually I played TF2 and BeamNG, but mostly Minecraft. Handled everything like a champ, and man, I fucking loved it.

 

 

I miss it ngl.

[AndyNotts]

First, BBC Model B 32K RAM no floppy drive, cassette deck back then.

First PC, AMD 386sx 33MHz with 1MB RAM. Day one was a harsh lesson in conventional and upper memory, learning that even with 1MB of RAM you can only access 640K unless you upgrade to 2MB

[sora.sky]

My first self built computer:

• 4690k
• GTX 670
• 8 GB RAM
• Some random 500GB mechanical HDD

The earliest computer I remember the specs for was a Pentium 4 based machine. 

[ObsessiveGamerHD]

My first rig I got prebuilt when I was 14 (2014)

Some random Bitfenix Case

FX-8350

500gb HDD (Not even sure which one)

AMD Rx250iCooler 

BeQuiet 500W PSU

8GB DDR3 1600Mhz TeamElite RAM

I upgraded the PSU (Which died), put a 240GB Kingston SSD and 2tb HDD, got a H80i cooler and a Radeon card (380X maybe? Can't really remember)

 

Now I run:

Phanteks P440A

Asus B450-F Mobo

AMD 3600x (Stock cooler)

WD Blue 1tb M.2

ROG 750W 80+ Gold

Gigabyte 2060Super (Gonna upgrade soon, waiting for Navi to release)

TeamElite 3200Mhz 16GB (2x8GB)

[vinc3nz0]

pentium 4(cant remember which one i was super young)

2gb ddr2 ram

shitty crt monitor

500gb 5400 hdd

it had no dedicated graphics card, i used to play a lot of flash games back then

windows xp service pack 3

[Lord Bloobus]

400MHz Intel Pentium II

256MB Ram

8MB 2x AGP 3-D Graphics

[jollander]

On 9/26/2020 at 12:35 AM, X-System said:

A PC with Pentium II was not sold with a few hundred MB HDD. It was a few gigabyte HDD.

 

A few hundred MB HDD, it was in PC with 386/486 CPU. In 1998, I had a PC Pentium II 233MHz, it was with 2.1GB HDD. And in 1994, I had a PC 486, it was with 420MB HDD.

 

I found a list of IBM Aptiva : https://www.pc-collection.com/gamme-aptiva.php

Thanks! That goes to show how unreliable memory is, eh?

 

Edit: Looking through that list, I think the only detail I got right was the name Aptiva. Haha!

[Briggsy]

First machine I had that was my own rocked an AM486 processor.

 

Its been so long I can't remember much else about it, other than gaming on a tiny 13'' CRT monitor and bragging about it. I think the monitor was a Magnavox.

 

I also had a Microsoft mouse 2.0 with the trackball inside that needed to be cleaned out periodically. When laser tracking came out a few years later it was a huge deal. Those old trackball mice would always gum up at the wrong time haha. 

 

The dial-up modem inside was a 14.4K, which was fine at the time. You could download multiple floppy disks in under an hour (hooray!). 

 

Man... If I could have looked forward in time to what we have now, my head would have exploded.

[BrianTheElectrician]

First pc of mine was one my dad had bought new when I was 5 or so (1995/1996). I got it I think in 2000/2001 when he got a new gateway with a 1.1ghz athlon, so it was both my dads first computer, and my first.

 

It was a pentium 100mhz, 32mb 72 pin edo ram (originally 8mb but my dad had upgraded maybe a year before getting the athlon). Had a western digital 11000 (1gb) ide hard drive and a diamond stealth 64 2001 series 2mb pci video card (s3 chipset). Also had a 4x cdrom drive and a sound blaster 16. It ran Windows 95.

 

Not long after it was passed down to me it would hang on the windows loading screen, so I didn't get much use out of it until my uncle walked me through re-installing windows. Leading up to that I remember taking it apart and putting it back together again too. That thing was a whole pile of firsts for me! It's the one I point out in the tech hoarders video.

[Starv1n]

On 9/24/2020 at 8:37 AM, WereCatf said:

Oh, oh, can I also participate?!

 

My first Home Computer was a Commodore 64, running a MOS6510 at 0.985MHz with 64KB RAM. My first "Intel PC" was an 8086 or 8088 -- can't remember anymore which one -- running at 4MHz and sporting a monochrome IBM MDA - display. No HDD, only 5.14" floppies. Can't remember the RAM on it, anymore, either. It was a salvage from a local factory and in a pretty bad shape. I upgraded pretty soon to an IBM PS/2 Model 30 with a 80286 CPU, 4MB RAM, 1440KB floppy-drive and a 20MB HDD -- pretty beefy upgrade!

 

Commander Keen ran on it very nicely and I also played some Wolfenstein 3D and Leisure Suit Larry! Such a gaming-machine. DOOM wouldn't run on it, since it required a 80386 or higher CPU.

Starting to show our age here,

 

I had that same IBM 80286 computer. I remember trying to play a game called Flashback but it wouldn't work without using a boot disk to free up more memory. You would switch the computer on and go make a cup of tea, loading times were very very slow. Other games i use to play on it were:-

Cat

Aldo

Amaze

Quarantine

Leisure Suit Larry

Wolfenstein 3D

688 Attack Sub

 

 

 

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, Starv1n said:

Starting to show our age here

Welcome to the club! I'd send a membership-card, but the punchcard-machine is broken; it's taking rather long for the manufacturer to ship me some new vacuum-tubes, for some reason!

[sub68]

mine was a lenovo h420

I still have it in my sig

it had a intel i3 2120

and 4gb of ram with a 1tb hdd

[lexanx]

my first computer was an i3 2 gen with intergrated graphics with 2 gigs ddr2 of ram

[Lord Vile]

God knows was a prebuild in 2005 so likely a Pentium or Celeron D.

 

Does Yeti sports count as a game? 

[ring0kp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer/AT

[NineEyeRon]

The first PC I bought myself was an i7 920 based system, can’t remember the GPU.

 

Played loads of games as I had a steam library full of stuff so too much to name.

 

I played PC games as a child on parents computer before that, mostly MSFS 5 and Monkey Island. 

I had a crappy Dell desktop through university that I never cleaned but it had a discreet GPU so could game on it, played IL2, CS:S and designed golf courses for TW05,06 and 07.

[DalekAce]

Not very old but:

Intel Xeon W3860

20gb ddr3 1333mhz ecc

AMD 6850, then gtx 970

2x 1tb 5400 rpm drives

 

[jones177]

First computer Atari 400 1.8mhz.

 

First Intel PC.

Commodore A2286 Intel 286 10mhz.

The was in a slot in my Amiga 2000 computer. 

 

My first build was a Intel 486 50mhz computer to play Doom.