What were your first specs?

[Lord Szechenyi]

4 hours ago, 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

 

a 68000 Motorola

512KB of ram

i can't remember what the Gpu was

Paula sound chip

Motherboard is the one of an Amiga 500

 

Rest in Peace Commodore

[Lord Szechenyi]

3 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

CPU: Z80 (2.5Mhz)
Ram: 64Kb
Storage: 5.25" 191Kb FDD
Display: 9" CRT (green)

 

On top of all that, it was "portable" and weighed only 26 lbs

Man sinclair was trash.

also, i'm quite sure you had an expansion slot because i don't remember a z80 with 64kb of built in ram

[Lord Szechenyi]

Just now, Grumpy Old Man said:

OH

nevermind then, when you said 9" Monochrome i completely forgot that 9 inches is tiny

Spoiler

And also that it was 26 pounds

But wait, other computers used the Z80? i thought it was Sinclair Exclusive, since their computers were the zx 80, zx 81 and zx Specturm

[Lord Szechenyi]

8 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Spoiler

 

 

5 minutes ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

OH

nevermind then, when you said 9" Monochrome i completely forgot that 9 inches is tiny

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And also that it was 26 pounds

But wait, other computers used the Z80? i thought it was Sinclair Exclusive, since their computers were the zx 80, zx 81 and zx Specturm

Wait, was that PC only available in the US? that would explain it for why i didn't know about it

[Lord Szechenyi]

Just now, Grumpy Old Man said:

It was on sale elsewhere too, for example in Europe

well TIL z80 was used in other computers than sinclair

and also, TIL Sinclair had no imagination for naming their computers

[EL02]

1. Pentium 4 3.06ghz
2. 512mb ddr2 600mhz ram
3. 60gb + 80gb HDDs

[RejZoR]

Celeron 333MHz

64MB RAM (133MHz SDR)

S3 Savage 3D 8MB

4GB HDD

Diamond Monster MX200 or MX300 (Aureal Vortex powered soundcard)

 

Thanks to S3 graphic card, all Unreal Engine based games could be run through S3 Metal API which allowed me to run all the Unreal based games at stupid high framerate. And back in the day, there were tons of them running on this engine. Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex to name few. I have very fond memories of this system. There was Riva TNT and Voodoo 3 available already at that time, but this was surprisingly powerful system for what it was.

[Dredgy]

Intel Pentium 3 667Mhz

2GB Hard drive (later upgraded to 40).

256MB of RAM.

Windows 98, Me and eventually XP.

 

I used this until 2008.

[CommanderAlex]

Well if your talking about a PC rig, it was in September of 2015. 

 

CPU: Intel i7-4790k 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 16GB (upgraded to 32GB later on before replacing the rig with my current computer). 

MOBO: MSI Z95 Gaming 5

HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB

GPU: 2x XFX Radeon R9 270X CDFC in Crossfire (later replaced by a MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X in 2017) 

PSU: Corsair CX750 (Replaced with PSU in signature below and carried over)

Case: Corsair 400R

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit 

 

I really played Battlefield 4 and Bad Company 2(tried running it on the Compaq down below...horrible experience), Minecraft, World of Tanks/World of Warships, and The Forest. 

Before that, my first computer was a something like a Compaq Presario SR5501P that was kept stock for many years until the motherboard went in about 2013, later upgraded to an HP p7-1534 with one of the R9 270X I bought in put in the HP with that Corsair CX750 so I can start playing games. I still have the original CPU from that Compaq. Its an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ that was running Windows Vista at the time (I don't get all the hate for Windows Vista, I loved the UI but was probably too young to understand at the time). 

 

I also have a Intel Pentium i200 that my dad got from a box of junk computer parts that I picked out and wanted to keep cause it looks cool. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Not my first ever computer, but the first I bought and built myself:

 

Core 2 Duo E7300, 2GB of 800Mhz OCZ RAM, PNY 9600GT, Biostar(?) P45 Motherboard, 500GB HDD.

 

I added a second 9600GT in SLI, OCed the E7300 to 4.0Ghz from 2.66Ghz, and upgraded it to 4GB of HyperX DDR2 when I gave it to my wife (then girlfriend) to use as her first gaming rig.

 

At that time I was using a Q8400 and a GTX 460 SE.

 

We played a hell of a lot of the original Borderlands, and it was fun as hell.

[Steam.exe]

Mine was Intel Pentium III with 256 MB Ram. Later i upgraded to 512 Mb of Ram. Year 2000. 

[MoozOfDoomz]

3 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Wow- this makes me think how much my generation is spoiled- although when I'm your age I'll prob say the same about the next generation too

[nbrowser]

Cyrix 100 PR75, 8Mb EDO, 500Mb HD, Win95 OSR1, in an AST Advantage Adventure 575+

[TrainFan475]

Intel Pentium E4700, 4gb ddr2 800, integrated graphics, dell motherboard, 500gb hdd, windows vista.

[Slayerking92]

CPU: MOS Technology 6502 @ 1.02 MHz (NTSC)

RAM: 20 KB ROM + 5 KB RAM 

Storage: Compact Cassette

The only game I remember playing was called "voodoo castle"  and whatever I typed in from magazines.

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Very first computer... man I don't remember the specific specs but it was probably some original Intel Pentium running Windows 98. That would be the first actual computer I used when I was a kid. Next one was probably a Celeron machine than ran Windows ME (and honestly I don't recall it being as bad as people say it was) and then moved onto a Pentium 4 HT system running Windows XP. When that machine died since the Northbridge heatsink didn't want to stay resulting in the board burning out, I ended up using an Athlon XP 2600+ machine our neighbors sent to us when they were moving. That's when I got my first taste of overclocking. I still have all of those chips kept in a collection actually. 

[Venow]

my first pc was a 8088 with a chip running if I remember almost 10mhz dont remember on how much I had on expanded memory cards knowing my dad it was max at 1mb but it had a 5 1/2" drive? big floppy hehe.  mono chrome display  IBM built by my dad from back then old parts or parts that had a bad chip or 2 but back then you can swap chips in and out as they went bad

[Venow]

oh it was all dos too no windows no HD you had boot disks

[pm128]

Amd whatever

Integrated graphics

1gb ram

100gb harddrive

600px screen

 

 

It was a netbook

[Oliver Michael]

My first computer that was really "mine" (in the idea that I wasn't actively sharing it with my sister) was a Lenovo Flex 3, came with a TERRIBLE cpu, 2gb of ddr3, no graphics at all.
I basically fried it trying to play tf2 and overwatch, and then the screen broke while I was looking up pictures of Thanos lol.

 

[pm128]

thanos snapped screen

[eeeee1]

I think i had some core 2 duo, like 2 gigs of corsair dominator ram, some nvidia card (9800?) in sli. it was a dell xps that my dad owned

[PlayStation 2]

Had something kinda similar, but I had an HD 7850 instead and 8GB of RAM that barely functioned. 

[Dedayog]

First computer:

 

Commodore 128

 

First PC:

 

486x25

4MB RAM

170MB HDD

[Aereldor]

I'm only 21 but the first computer I played games on was my dad's Power Macintosh 6500 (250MHz version). The one I have the most memories on was his Powerbook G4 - I remember sinking hundreds of hours into Lego Star Wars II.

 

Then there was the family laptop with a Core i3 2120m, which to me and my sister's delight, could run Skyrim at 1024x768.

 

The first PC that I built was in 2015 with a Core i3 4160 and a GTX 960, that was still in use till a few months ago. The GTX 960 is still in use and still runs the latest games at 1080p medium settings, 30-45fps, my sister uses it. I replaced the Core i3 4160 (and motherboard and RAM) with a 9100F, H310 board, and some DDR4 memory, so I could donate the old system.