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Ultra hardcore gateway computer that was super old and had an astonishing 4 gb of ram, a single core processor with on board graphics, and about 2 inches of dust.

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i don't think there are bad pcs (read my sig. lol)

 

because during that time , they were decent.

 

but my first pc was

pentium 4 2.4ghz

1gb ram

80gb hdd IDE

forgot the gpu

There is no such thing as a bad PC, there are only BETTER PCs

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pentium laptop that was 6 years older than my own age... ( i was 15)

 

 

err. i mean it was 6 years old when i got it when i was 15... if that makes any sense

 

Then it isn't 6 years older than your own age, it was just 6 years old.

 

;)

 

 

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A Samsung RC710 laptop with some like 16 CUDA core GPU, 6gb DDR3 RAM and a dual core i5.

 

I had it for 5 years until I upgraded to my current machine which is currently a completely random PC, consisting of a HP workstation mixed with a 780TI.

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My first computer was a laptop - Asus G51Jx and that was back in 2010.

 

Specs :

 - I7 720QM (Quad-core with HT)

 - 16GB DDR3 RAM 

 - GTX 360M

 - 750GB HDD

 - 1080p Screen

 

Not that bad for my first computer. 

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Um.

Core 2 duo E6300

OnBoard graphics

4Gigs of ram.

 

 

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I dont have the specs at the first PC I used (family PC) it is still in the house even if no one uses it, but my First computer is the one I I using now, that I built 2-3 year ago, when I was 15:

 
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I don't even know

But it had DDR333 (which I believe is DDR2?)

And about 128 or 256MB of it

I remember buying an upgrade for it... 

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I don't even know

But it had DDR333 (which I believe is DDR2?)

And about 128 or 256MB of it

I remember buying an upgrade for it... 

Actually I think that is original plain old DDR

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Actually I think that is original plain old DDR

Yup, sure looks like it now that I googled it... 

And that was in 2005 I believe. It was shit even back then.

And then I upgraded to an Athlon II X4 640, 4GB RAM and a Radeon 6670 that I've been using until this year. You can imagine what that upgrade felt like...

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the first computer I personally owned was Dell Optiplex GX620 that came with a P4, 1GB of ram and some intel onboard graphics. Used it from 2007-2011.

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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.

Just a prebuilt POS?

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Just a prebuilt POS?

No, I selected the parts.  :ph34r:

 

It was my first build, I was impatient, went with just an APU, was disappointed, ended up slapping a GTX 660 in it, was still disappointed.

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my first pc i was a old microsoft pc or something running windows 95. toward the end it took 1 day to turn on the pc. but the my first build(and current) got a 780 in it. I'm happy with it.

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my first pc i was a old microsoft pc or something running windows 95. toward the end it took 1 day to turn on the pc. but the my first build(and current) got a 780 in it. I'm happy with it.

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It was a handed down family computer. I'm pretty young, so this was in 2011. Pentium inside, 500 GB HDD, 4 GB of RAM, Windows 7, integrated graphics. It originally shipped with Vista right after it came out and actually handled it really well. It was one of _those_ HP Pavilion machines,

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No, I selected the parts.  :ph34r:

 

It was my first build, I was impatient, went with just an APU, was disappointed, ended up slapping a GTX 660 in it, was still disappointed.

Not that POS, the other computer that you mentioned.

 

It was a handed down family computer. I'm pretty young, so this was in 2011. Pentium inside, 500 GB HDD, 4 GB of RAM, Windows 7, integrated graphics. It originally shipped with Vista right after it came out and actually handled it really well. It was one of _those_ HP Pavilion machines,

That's pretty much what my Mum gave to my Grand mother in exchange for her Asus A3H (which I fully upgraded), it has a 2GHz 45nm Pentium, 3GB RAM originally, the Intel GMA and a 250GB HDD. I upgraded it to Windows 7 as well for her. (its a Compaq Presario CQ60, still better than the newer Compaq laptops, but still outclassed by the Presario R3000).

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Not that POS, the other computer that you mentioned.

Oh, yeah. All I remember about it was an HP with a 6gb HDD

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Well it had a Pentium II in it, so...yea, pretty bad. I had it until 2008. :lol:

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Don't know the specs, but it ran MS-DOS. Nobody knew how to use it.

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Well it had a Pentium II in it, so...yea, pretty bad. I had it until 2008. :lol:

Similar to me having a Pentium III 667 with a 20GB HDD, 256MB RAM and a (now artifacting badly, but still useable) Geforce 256 until the start of 2014 as my desktop (of course in the interim I had 2 laptops-both of which were better). I'll say this-you don't miss what you don't have. The amount of good games it was actually able to play is astonishing considering the age of the hardware.

 

Don't know the specs, but it ran MS-DOS. Nobody knew how to use it.

Really? Because I got taught how to use DOS and Windows 2 when I was around 3-4 years old....even the old computers aren't that hard to use.

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AMD Duron CPU 899Mhz with a VIA mobo(can't remember it's model unfortunately) , 256MB RAM, nVidia Riva TNT2 MODEL64 32MB GPU, noname psu and case,not to mention the old CRT Monitor(still good btw)

Those who complain about a pc with 4gb of ram, COME ON!!! I would've done anything for something like that,though I understand the age difference between some of us.

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The first pc i owned myself was a 80486DX4 100 mhz, i believe it had 12 or 16 mb ram (edo if i recall correctly) startet with 400 mb hdd, but i got my fingers on a wooping 1,7 gb western digital 5400rpm disk...... (still have it LoL) gfx was something s3 1mb.

 

Yea, those were the days...

 

It ran "larry and the land of lounge lizards" butter smooth LoL

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The first pc i owned myself was a 80486DX4 100 mhz, i believe it had 12 or 16 mb ram (edo if i recall correctly) startet with 400 mb hdd, but i got my fingers on a wooping 1,7 gb western digital 5400rpm disk...... (still have it LoL) gfx was something s3 1mb.

 

Yea, those were the days...

 

It ran "larry and the land of lounge lizards" butter smooth LoL

I remember s3!  My dad had an old laptop with graphics from them once... now when you search "S3" all you get is samsung phones :)

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