How bad was your first PC?

[gergy008]

That I purchased myself-

 

I had a 3GHz Pentium D Celeron D, with S3 integrated graphics. 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM and it was bloody terrible.

I bought it in a boxing day sale at PC World in the UK (For which I actually now work for and know so much more about how the company operates). It was an E-Systems branded PC mid tower in a foxconn case, and I got it for about £200 at the time. There was literally no documentation about the company online, and certain programs didn't run correctly or at all when I bought it, and every time the computer loaded I got some System OOBE message that I didn't know what it was at the time. Turns out it was the tool that manufacturers use in the factory when setting up and installing drivers on a system ready for shipping and they hadn't completed the process properly.

 

That was an interesting run. Norton internet security didn't work AT ALL so I had no anti-virus until I did a full system restore for the first time and the computer operated properly after that.

[Baby Sloth]

I'm actually very curious to see how bad everyone else's PC's were before they got their ultra mega super awesome gaming builds.

 

Mine was some Dell desktop that we got from Walmart. Had 4 gigs of memory and on-board graphics. EWWW.

amd 8350, 8 gigs of ddr3 1600mhz ram and a gtx 960

[pit5000]

1984 Macintosh

[Smooth Bunz]

i7-920 gtx 480 12gb ram a slow af 320gb hdd and some msi mobo I can't remember the name of. That is MY first personal pc. The first pc that we had in the house was some old Pentium like a gig of ram 80gb hdd and It was slow! 

[Ethann_AKA_CPU1]

2008 imac... and I still use it

[carguy86]

Quadcore athlon, 8gb og ddr3, two 2tb hdds and a 240mm aio. (My father built this PC in 2008 and added the aio in 2011 as well as some upgrades.) and it was OC'D. (Cant remember what gpu it had tho.. It got traded away for some moped parts)

[GodSpoon]

It was an EEE 701sd 

 

 

Bought it for $15 off a guy back in 2008, who didnt know how to install an OS on it since it had no disc drive

 

With a screaming 630mhz celeron-m, an 8GB SSD (that I still have), a gig of ddr2 (installed by the 11 year old hands of yours truly) and a mind-boggling 800x480 lcd

 

All crammed into a tiny, underpowered little bitty laptop.

 

I loved that thing so much, I must've installed at least 20 different operating systems on the little guy after I found out how to load ISO images onto flash drives 

 

I actually got windows 8 developer preview on it one time, but none of the applications via the windows store could open since the resolution was so low, so I just threw debian back on it

 

I had hanging around my house until about a year ago, one of my siblings tore it down and lost the last few screws it had from me messing with it since I was a wee lad

 

Never got around to putting it together, and it vanished haha

 

Good memories though 

[ShadowCaptain]

It was an EEE 701sd 

 

Still have mine, its a black model with white keyboard and battery (swapped with my friends white one so we have two tone)

 

It runs XP Fundamentals, still has Soldier of fortune 2, halo ce and HL1 installed for when we used to play LAN at school (4 of us had them)

[GodSpoon]

Still have mine, its a black model with white keyboard and battery (swapped with my friends white one so we have two tone)

 

It runs XP Fundamentals, still has Soldier of fortune 2, halo ce and HL1 installed for when we used to play LAN at school (4 of us had them)

 

Dude thats awesome, I remember running halo ce and quake on mine, they both had such a low framerate it was almost unplayable though  :lol:

#CultOfEEE701

[ShadowCaptain]

Dude thats awesome, I remember running halo ce and quake on mine, they both had such a low framerate it was almost unplayable though  :lol:

#CultOfEEE701

 

Halo SP ran shit, but multiplayer was fine, 

[sgtcool]

my really really first one couldnt run Command and conquer 3, thats all i remember

my next one could run it max at about 30 fps after i replaced the GT 9600 with a gtx 550ti i could play BFBC maxed 60 fps

[thekeemo]

I never had my own computer.

Do I win?

[Guest]

It was an old hp from the early 90's and I think my calculator is more powerful now

Unless the calculator was from the early 90s too...

[Keudn]

Athlon X2 270u with 4GB of RAM and a HD4250

[Oskar94a]

I cant remember the parts, was prob a pent III or an early pent 4 with my Matrox G400, I remember it running GTA II and AoM well.

[alex190304]

Sadly dont have mine anymore but it was a Dell Inspiron 530s Mini Tower with a Core 2 Duo

[mider]

Compaq Persario

 

1GB RAM

100GB Hard Drive

Intel Pentium IV @ 1.3 GHz

Windows... V... (vomits) Vista  :angry:

Onboard Graphics

 

 

[Hans Christian | Teri]

My first PC was a Pentium 2 233MHz with 64MB RAM, 4.1GB harddrive and a 16MB Creative 3DBlaster Banshee graphicscard. It was a hand me down from my dad and for several years it was my most prized possession, I loved that thing.

[bigtuck20]

First one was a core i2 duo. 2gb ddr2 ram and I think a 1gb graphics card

[Dabombinable]

It was an EEE 701sd 

 

 

Bought it for $15 off a guy back in 2008, who didnt know how to install an OS on it since it had no disc drive

 

With a screaming 630mhz celeron-m, an 8GB SSD (that I still have), a gig of ddr2 (installed by the 11 year old hands of yours truly) and a mind-boggling 800x480 lcd

 

All crammed into a tiny, underpowered little bitty laptop.

 

I loved that thing so much, I must've installed at least 20 different operating systems on the little guy after I found out how to load ISO images onto flash drives 

 

I actually got windows 8 developer preview on it one time, but none of the applications via the windows store could open since the resolution was so low, so I just threw debian back on it

 

I had hanging around my house until about a year ago, one of my siblings tore it down and lost the last few screws it had from me messing with it since I was a wee lad

 

Never got around to putting it together, and it vanished haha

 

Good memories though 

Intel was retarded enough to make a CPU well after the Pentium III that is actually slower  :blink: . 

[BudgetForNow]

either my old old old old computer from 30 mhz on a good day or in terms of more modern day computers a 15 year old toshiba satallite with a celeron

enough said about my age but the laptop is a month older then me

[Rylie59]

I can't remember exactly what my first pc was. It was a pre built Dell tower. It actually wasn't bad for the time. It did what I wanted it to which was WoW at the time. Pretty happy with it actually.

[TheMastr13]

Dell dimension L400c

128 megabytes of ram (I think)

400 MHz Intel celeron, socket 370

6gb hard drive

Windows 98 SE

Those were the days...

[ADeadlyGinger]

The first PC I ever had was a Gateway 2000 with a Pentium II or Pentium 4. I can't remember which. I played Croc on it. I don't remember how good or bad it was because I was like 7.

[GoldSrc]

It was a P4 @ 3.0GHz with HT.

It had an nvidia 8400GS

2GB or ram DDR2 667MHz

And an 80GB hard drive.

 

So yeah, it was sort of crap, I remember I had to set Crysis ar 640x480 to sort of play it lol.

It used to do good with Doom 3 and HL2 though.