How bad was your first PC?

[Sithhy]

7 year old rotten potato PC that I still use... Cant afford anything better...

[AHaskin14]

core 2 quad 6600 and a gt 640. not the worst, not the best.

[theocuff322]

Some AMD-A8 APU, 4 gigs of RAM, and horrible performance.

[Dabombinable]

Bad by today's standards or the standards when it was bought? Because mine had 4MB RAM (my i7 has 3x that in cache) and a 25MHz 286 with a 10MB HDD, 5.25" FDD and later on once I could get one a 3.5" FDD.

[pordzio]

Let's see: 

 

AMD K6 266 MHz (Socket 7), 32 MB of 100 MHz SDR, 2GB Hard Drive, 2MB S3 ViRGE and a no-name CS4232 soundcard.

[Dabombinable]

Let's see: 

 

AMD K6 266 MHz (Socket 7), 32 MB of 100 MHz SDR, 2GB Hard Drive, 2MB S3 ViRGE and a no-name CS4232 soundcard.

1 generation later and you'd have had an epic PC. Though TBH any of the Stealth cards suck-though at least the later ones had some form of hardware T&L-even if it was buggy AF.

[kol]

Intel celeron @ 2.6ghz

1GB RAM

GeForce 5700LE 128MB

80GB HDD

[Lolucoca]

Mine had an AMD K6-2 and a Voodoo Orchid righteous

[royalcrown]

First computer was an IBM PC XT running PC DOS 2. Was black & yellow though not black & green like the one in this picture:

 

I always preferred amber to the green anyhow.

[Jaytoo]

P4 on a dell optiplex. 2gb of ddr2. 320GB of HDD. Was able to play a few emulators.

[royalcrown]

The thing is that at the time, that PC wasn't bad at all, it was top of the line, since we only had 1 processor to choose from.

 

I had the same, except mine didn't had a case, I had it prop on top of a shoe box. 

 

I think I still have a few of those around here somewhere.

 

I loved the HDD spin up sound back then.  :lol:

 

Unless you gamed on it, it got it's butt kicked by a C64 in that case !

[techguru]

my first was a 386 running dos shell

[Jimmybiggs]

286 with a BX motherboard I brought in from Singapore on a plane - amazing the gear you fit in carry-on. A Voodoo Banshee Accellerator card - awesome

[QueenDemetria]

I'm not sure why people associate old with bad...

 

But the very first PC I had was pretty terribad, loud and slow. It had a Pentium 3, but the Pentium 2 that replaced it ran laps around it. It had no 3D accelerated GPU either, so games sucked. The soundcard had an integrated modem, and this caused interference that made headphones unbearable and speakers annoying. I think the slowness was caused from the P3 being passively cooled, which that chip should have had a fan.

 

The machine that replaced it was great though, had a Pentium 2 that OC'd well, a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 graphics card, 256MB of RAM, Soundblaster Live! sound card(still in use), and 2x 20GB HDD's

[Jimmybiggs]

I always preferred amber to the green anyhow.

Nice 8088 dude 640K is all we'll ever need

[rentaspoon]

486 and window 3.1, it was badass as it played everything but games where made to work with everything

[phoenix230197]

Commodore 64.

 

1st Intel based system i486 DX2 66 with 8 MB RM and a 20 MB Hdd  running windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2.

 

next was Pentium 150 with 16 MB 

 

1st build AMD K6 2 333mhz 32 MB RAM with a 3dfx voodoo II graphics accelerator in loop though with s3 virge and Creative labs Sound blaster 16 . 

[thedarkdad3]

Compaq DeskPro dp4000

Pentium 233Mhz
HD 2.5GB

64MB RAM

Windows 98

3D Blaster Banshee, Voodoo Banshee, 3DFX 16MB SDRAM

 

That was my "first pc" 

[royalcrown]

Commodore 64.

 

1st Intel based system i486 DX2 66 with 8 MB RM and a 20 MB Hdd  running windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2.

 

next was Pentium 150 with 16 MB 

 

1st build AMD K6 2 333mhz 32 MB RAM with a 3dfx voodoo II graphics accelerator in loop though with s3 virge and Creative labs Sound blaster 16 . 

So you must be old like me then !!

[Naijin]

A 'high end gaming pc' that was prebuilt by HP, an i7 2600 and gt 530 gpu, paid a lot for it and could barely play battlefield 3 on lowest detail. Then upgraded to a gtx 560-ti and it was all gone. After a few years I got myself an fx 8350 at 4.8ghz and a 290x lightning. Sold it a few months ago and built my current rig, running an i7 5775c and 2x r9 380 4gb. Never will I make the mistake of buying prebuilt again, and I advise everyone to stay away from them too.

[Kylie]

Well I was born in 95 and was fairly poor so my first computer of any sort was actually an Acer chromebook back from.. 2011? 2010? 

 

My first actual PC was an HP H8-1534 Envy with a 2TB Seagate HDD, an AMD 7750 1GB, and some other odd generic stuff. Oh the CPU was an six core 6350 something? don't remember... 

[cragger89]

No PC is a bad PC.

[Trik'Stari]

AMD A-10 5700 FM2 APU with a GTX 660.

 

Nuff said?

 

Edit: This was the first PC I built. Not owned. I don't know what the first one I owned was.

[FelixMemoria]

An HP Pavilion P6-2350 that I still have with an A8-5600k, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive.

[sobe]

My first pc that wasn't particularly MINE so much as it was my dad's that he built so we could both play games on and such(Commander Keen, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem, etc.), was an Intel Celeron 300A in an AOpen HX08 case with a Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 and 3dfx voodoo gpu. That was a pc built in 1998 and was my first real intro into pc gaming.

 

After a house fire last year however, this is all that remains of that machine, of which I held onto...

(/PCGore)

http://1drv.ms/1MWq331