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[jhogan93]

hey guys, i just built a very basic starter Pc for a buddy of mine. it has a AMD Athlon X4 645 paired with a GTX 560 and 8gbs of ddr3 ram @1333mhz. and seeing his face light up from it was awesome! This is his first real experiance with pc gaming. and when seeing his excitement I thought damn, like i didnt get into pc hardware/ gaming until 2016 but if i had a rig like that i wouldve went nuts in 2012-2014ish. so what do you think? was that a good system back then? or what was your first Pc build? im curious of how nostalgic we can get. i would love for linus and the gang to do a vid with this idea

[Action_Johnson]

First build was an Athlon XP 2200 with a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, on an A7N8X Deluxe. Had two 17" CRT's, a Logitech MX510, and I think, maybe 8GB of RAM in it. 

 

Some cheesy case with a plexi side panel and a light up jewel for a power button. It was awesome. 

[jhogan93]

5 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

First build was an Athlon XP 2200 with a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, on an A7N8X Deluxe. Had two 17" CRT's, a Logitech MX510, and I think, maybe 8GB of RAM in it. 

 

Some cheesy case with a plexi side panel and a light up jewel for a power button. It was awesome. 

i remember when my dad bought his Xp machine and i was glued to it for hours playing online flash games 

[Action_Johnson]

Just now, jhogan93 said:

i remember when my dad bought his Xp machine and i was glued to it for hours playing online flash games 

Oh yeah.... Newgrounds was the shit.

 

UT, UT2003, CS 1.6, DoD, AA 2.5, Morrowind, TONS of Half-Life mods, good days at LAN parties.  

[jhogan93]

18 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

My first build was only in 2019 and I'm still using it (although a few upgrades have been done) so I'm not very nostalgic about it right now but I probably will be in the future when I have done more builds

you will get there, once the last bit of ur OG build is gone/ sold off. i just tossed a 250gb hdd i threw into my first gaming pc and it kinda sucks to see it go. 

[jhogan93]

Just now, Action_Johnson said:

Oh yeah.... Newgrounds was the shit.

 

UT, UT2003, CS 1.6, DoD, AA 2.5, Morrowind, TONS of Half-Life mods, good days at LAN parties.  

dude doom 2 on my grandfathers 95 machine! we installed it and didnt tell our mom for months! she was soooooo pissed

[PlayStation 2]

For what it's worth, it probably would've been better than going the AMD FX route.

Throwback to mid-2016 when I scavenged my older brother's first PC to build mine. Thing was an absolute shitbox, but it got me through around a year of Team Fortress 2, even if the RAM was wildly unstable in it, even at 1066MHz.

[FakeFBI]

remebering how it was like on a i5-640 or something, it was the shit

[FakeFBI]

1 hour ago, jhogan93 said:

dude doom 2 on my grandfathers 95 machine! we installed it and didnt tell our mom for months! she was soooooo pissed

 i remeber dowloading doom2 and was like, TEAM FORTRES 2