What were your first specs?

[TetraSky]

First legit PC was probably this shit :
http://www.backoffice.be/prod_uk/Packard_Bell/p180111614_packard_bell_platinum_8700_gf_rw_mt_1_x_piii_.asp

 

Before that I had some old ms-dos one that I basically only used once and never touched it again.

 

I had originally posted about it in 2014 on the forum with more info:

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I don't remember much about my first PC... All I remember is that it had a slot for 8 inch floppy disk and seemed to be running on MS-DOS or some variant. (No GUI, only command lines)

After that we bought a Packard Bell PC, 128MB of Ram, Intel P3 733Mhz. I don't remember anything else about it. But a quick search on google gave me this
http://www.backoffice.be/prod_uk/Packard_Bell/p180111614_packard_bell_platinum_8700_gf_rw_mt_1_x_piii_.asp

Can't be 100% sure it's the same, but the look of it is extremely similar from what little I remember of it, especially that monitor with the speakers on the side, I remember that. We bought that PC for over $2k at the time... Today, you'd have to pay something to get rid of it, :lol: .

(We had upgraded the memory to 192MB (128+64) relatively quickly, then again to 256 a year or so later and once more near the end to 512, we switched to Windows XP from the time it had 192MB of RAM)

 

[spartaman64]

cpu: fx 6300

mobo: msi 970a-g46

ram: gskill sniper 2400mhz 2x4GB

gpu: radeon hd7770

storage: wd blue 1TB

case: fractal design core 1100

psu: rosewill 750w

[Dudis]

My order history doesn’t go that far back, but i remember my first self bought and built system from back in 2004 or so was;

 

Core 2 duo (first gen i believe) 

GTX 7950 GT (dual card Gpu)*

*Upgraded to GTX 8800, then XFX Radeon HD 5770.

 

 

Oldest complete system i can find in my order history is from 2012. My parents are still using it today

 

Intel core-i7 3820

Corsair h80 hydro cpu watercooler

Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 (motherboard) 

Corsair vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz, 16gb (4x4) cl 9

Gainward gtx 660 ti 2 gb

Corsair SSD 120 gb

Random HDDs from previous builds

Cooler master 750w 80+ bronze

Fractal design Core 3000 midi tower

[FaxedForward]

First computer was a Commodore 128, which I have the vaguest of memories of from the very early 90’s.

 

First PC was some kind of 386 or 486 running MS-DOS with specs I was too young to remember, but I do recall playing some games like Stunt Driver and Sam & Max Hit The Road.

 

The first one I really remember the details on though was a Pentium 166 MMX with S3 ViRGE graphics that played most 3D games in slideshow mode. Oh how I dreamed of getting a Voodoo 2 to add on to that crappy card! We also had internet on this PC circa ~1996 when it was slow, expensive, and mostly pointless. I do miss the simplicity of the Web 1.0 era sometimes though.

[Rlmva]

On 9/24/2020 at 3:05 AM, BurstSMG said:

I guess you can tell how old someone is by their first specs and what games they played...

The first specs I remember were:

 

AMD FX-4100

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

8GB HyperX Blue DDR3-1333

Nvidia GT 430

Antec Nine Hundred

That thing played the everloving CRAP out of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum and Minecraft 1.5.2 i swear to jebus

 

Ryzen 3 3200G

AMD RX 570 4GB

16GB 2666mhz DDR4 ram (2x8GB)

ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0

As you can tell, I didn't build this that long ago, but its already been upgraded.

[freeagent]

PIII 450 Katmai

Asus mobo

128mb ram 

Voodoo II

20gb Bigfoot

 

Was a prebuilt HP with an upgraded gpu.. my first pc in the winter of 2001.. I paid 400 for it I think.

[SkenderTV]

First PC I built from scratch.

 

Cpu: AMD athlon xp 1600+

Motherboard: ECS EliteGroup K7S5A

Ram: (unknown brand) 2gb (4x512mb) ddr-333

GPU: ati radeon 9600

20gb hard drive because poor. Lol

 

[TheRandomness]

A Core 2 Duo T7200, 4GB of DDR2 and a Geforce Go 7700. It was a nice laptop for the time.

[Zando_]

First actual tower was a Q6600 with an X1650, first tower I built myself was a dual core Pentium (forgot the name) + 1050 Ti. 

[Vals89]

Athlon 64 2500+

No idea what mobo

256MB DDR RAM

300W non-name brand PSU

ATi Radeon 7000 64MB 64Bit  lololol

80GB HDD

Samsung DVD/CD-burner

 

A couple of years after I got it, I worked during summer break and upgraded with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 256mb and a 512mb RAM module. Oh sweet frames!

[Gamer Schnitzel]

The only thing I remember is that the graphics card was a geforce 4 mx 420. i played far cry on that

[Helpful Tech Witch]

22 hours ago, sub68 said:

1tb hdd

wowza! that would've been a pretty penny.

[sub68]

2 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

wowza! that would've been a pretty penny.

Hmm my parents bought it for my brother I think but that was too long ago I don't remember the price

Also the computer and same hard drive still works

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, sub68 said:

Hmm my parents bought it for my brother I think but that was too long ago I don't remember the price

Also the computer and same hard drive still works

last forever. Ive got a 80gb sata drive thats been fine for near 20 years. it had like 35000 power-on hours, too. dont use it rn, its just sitting on some cardboard on a shelf .

[Leng]

I don't remember it all, the CPU was running at 400MHz, think it was a Pentium II like this:

https://www.cnet.com/products/intel-pentium-ii-400-mhz-processor-80523py400512/

Had 2 HDD's in it, went absolute overboard with Storage, my friends thought I never would need this much. Each HDD had a capacity of 2GB.

GPU I think was something Voodoo ish, maybe the 2 with 8MB of VRAM.

 

This PC might still sit at my mum's house in all its glory. I don't feel old now, I feel ancient.

[Guest]

first first PC... something with Windows 98 or 2000 on it. I can't even tell you what it was. Probably some Pentium based system.

It was really good at playing Lego Rock Raiders. I don't think I played any other games on it cuz I wasn't good at the other games when I played them on other PCs.

 

Oh! And some Tonka game. You had to like shovel the snow, build a building, put a construction machine together. Mostly Rock Raiders though.

[Matt1632]

Amd Turrion 1.8Ghz 64bit

512MB DDR1

60GB HDD

Ati Mobility Radeon X1600

(Asus A6000 Laptop)

[IntMD]

1st Actual PC...

 

Pentium 133Mhz

16mb RAM

1.5GB HDD

Windows 95

15" CRT

 

Looked exactly the same as this, down to the triple CD changer in there.

 

[Guest]

I don't remember exactly. It had an AMD FX processor and 8GB or RAM, I know that. It was a pre-built that my dad bought for me at Fry's. I later took the insides out and put it in a Thermaltake case. That was my first experience with building my own. 

[Teddy07]

I only remember that my processor had ~80 mhz so I often visited my uncle because his had a bit over 100 mhz. My PC could not play the games I wanted to.

[Praesi]

IBM 286->386 and so on.

 

First self bought GPU was a Voodoo somethingsomething. Dont know anymore.

[Ashhez]

CPU: r7 2700

GPU: msi 1070ti gaming 

Mobo: x470 gaming plus

PSU: corsair cx650m

26 gigs of ram @3000

it was a sloppy mess but it was awesome because I was fresh off of console …. had never seen more than 60fps lol

 

[Rileypoio]

My first specs were a custom built

 

Intel i7 950

GT 1030

A gigabyte motherboard

12gb 1600mhz Corsair RAM

 

yeah its not too old as some as yours

then after my upgrade a few months ago

 

Ryzen 5 2600

ASUS B450M-A

GTX 1650 Super OC

16gb 3200mhz Ram

[B16CXHatch]

Specs of the first PC I actually learned to use, I don't remember super well but I do know it had a Cyrix 233 CPU, like 16MB or 32MB of RAM, a 2GB Seagate hard drive, and a Diamond Stealth PCI video card of some sort. If you wanna get technical, the first PC I actually interacted with was an IBM PC 5160 XT with an Intel 8088. I know it had a 10MB hard drive and a CGA video card, but beyond that I don't remember anything. I barely touched the thing. I didn't really understand command line until several years after my dad stopped using it.

 

The specs of the first PC I ever built myself were as follows:

 

MGE Sidewinder case

400W MGE PSU originally (piece of garbage), replaced with FSP 450W

Gigabyte GA-7N400-L Motherboard (nVidia nForce 2 400 chipset)

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (400MHz FSB version)

512MB PQI DDR 400 RAM originally, then doubled to 1GB

Maxtor 160GB IDE Hard Drive (also garbage, but survived till next PC)

Jetway GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB AGP originally, then an EVGA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, and lastly an EVGA GeForce 6600GT AGP

Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 originally, then a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS

I started with a CTX 17" CRT briefly, then had a Dell 19" CRT, then ended with an Acer AL1917 19" LCD

Logitech Elite Keyboard

Logitech MX510 Mouse (Blue)

Logitech Z640 Speakers originally (they died), and replaced them with a set of X530 speakers which I still have and use on my old CRT TV for older game systems

[HotdropHeinz]

Intel Core2Duo E7400

4GB DDR2

Nvidia Geforce 9500GT

500GB HDD

running Windows XP 32bit

 

aww yeah