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What CPU/GPU were in your first gaming PC?

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i7-920 and Radeon HD 5850.

Totally overkill

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My first gaming PC was a 386.

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The first "good" rig I built meant to play games on was a pentium pro 150 OCd to 200mhz and a voodoo something or other card.  

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i5 4570 and gtx 760

 

former console noob right here

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Phenom 955 BE with a Radeon 5450 lol.

How dare you LOL at a Phenom!

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A celeron of some sort with on motherboard graphics from 2001. I'll have to look more into it.

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Pentium 4 @2,6 ghz

FX 5200

 

The Pentium 4's were pretty sweet CPU's :)

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It was a K6-II 500MHz with a Geforce 256 iirc.   The system itself was an Compaq desktop that ran 98SE purchased new by dad in january 1999, GPU added later.

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i7 -2630QM

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The Pentium 4's were pretty sweet CPU's :)

I always hated them :P even then they were slow and they ran hot.





 
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I had an old prebuilt computer running Xp when I was 13, from playing wow that I bought on my 11th birthday. I began to start tweaking the core 2 duo, OCing it to 2.50Ghz on the stock cooler (was completely stable on stock voltage - not that I knew what the voltage was) and I began to play games on slightly higher settings. I was happy with myself, and my newfound skill. A few years later, in college (New Zealand) so, 15 years old if you can think of it like that, I obtained a gtx8800GS from someone at a LAN party.

I thought that that card was the shit. Until he let me play far cry on his 470. But I was still happy being able to play (be it on lower setting) with the rest of them with my older rig. Eventually, I saved up enough money to build my own rig from scratch - one year ago (aged 17) because it's hard to save money for me. I bought an FX 6350, cheap gigabyte mobo, a 7850, 8gb ram, 620w psu, a cheap case, and a 60gb ssd. I'll also mention that my ex girlfriend allowed me to salvage a 500gb laptop HDD from her busted notebook, wich I can't bring myself to chuck.

That rig was the best thing I've ever bought. I still have the hdds Psu, CPU, and ram, but I have made a few upgrades in the past year, which you can see on my profile. Linus's videos helped me to learn more about everything I needed, and I went from there (as did many others)

TL;DR - FX 6350 and 7850 or Intel core 2 duo and gtx8800gs

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The first PC I used for gaming was running a Pentium 4 and an nVidia GeForce 6200 from XFX. Yes. XFX. This was in 2004.

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An Amd Athlon 64 3200+ OC'ed to 2.2GHz single core

And a Gigabyte Gforce 6600GT Silentpipe 2 256mb (replaced to an Asus ati X1600XT silentpipe) when i broke cause of oc'ing.Was i a noob back then haha

And a Abit AN8 32X socket 939 motherboard and some kingston 2x512 mb ram

And a zalman CNPS 9900 cooler

Man that thing flew in coparison to my shitty HP generic piece of crap that costed 600 euro more ...

Let's agree to disagree

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I always hated them :P even then they were slow and they ran hot.

 

Some of the ones I had ran pretty quick though I do agree with the temperature. I had a Pentium 4 3.2GHz with HT which was pretty nice at the time well it did what I wanted it to do at least.

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Zilog Z80 @ 1.774 Mhz what is this dedicated Graphics Processing Unit you speak of....

 

We have a cobweb gangster in our midst..

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The first PC I used for gaming was running a Pentium 4 and an nVidia GeForce 6200 from XFX. Yes. XFX. This was in 2004.

 

Someone we know well nowadays knows all about that particular card, here. (he hates it when people dig up his Tiger vids lol)

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i5 2400...for both lol

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Someone we know well nowadays knows all about that particular card, here. (he hates it when people dig up his Tiger vids lol)

Wow. Like. Wow.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E2160

Radeon HD4350

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intel centrino 2.0 ghz, ati radeon m x700 250mb ddr 3 in an acer aspire 1694, back in 2005, COD 2 and NFS MW at max presets and that would put to shame any desktop by the time. damn that was fast

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Intel core i3 laptop playd combat arms ftw

Awww man! That game. lol. I had a Core 2 Duo with a GeForce 7300 GT. And yes I used to play Combat arms on that thing all day long. lol

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My first pc I played games on was when I was like 2 or 3 and it was a Compaq PC with like a Pentium ii or something.  When I actually started to play a lot of games on my PC, I got a Dell with a Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading, 512 mb of ram and an ATI GPU with either 256 or 512 mb of ram (i don't remember).  I upgraded that PC to 3gb of ram and a gt 430, but the gt 430 broke, so now it's back to it's old ATI GPU, and I wound up building the rig you see in my sig.

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Well this thread escalated quickly, not even 24 hours and we're onto 7 pages! :D Keep em coming :D

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The year was 2000, I had my first PC, wasn't really a gaming PC but I played Rayman on it and some rally game! It had some intel pentium I think with very low clock speeds probably less than 1ghz. Had like 64mb RAM I think and couple gig HDD if I'm remembering right. It was a Packard Bell running windows ME I don't ever remember shutting it down properly, would take so long I'd have to hit the power button so I could leave!

 

My first proper build however had a Intel Q6600 and some AMD card which I don't remember now :)

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