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The year was 2001, and the specs were:

  • CPU: AMD Thunderbird C 1400 MHz (king of the hill back then :D )
  • M/B: Can't recall
  • Soundcard: Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1 with Live! Drive IR
  • SCSI Adapter (Oh yeah, baby!): Adaptec 29160N
  • SCSI HDD: Quantum 10k RPM SCSI 160 17.6 GB (man, that things was loud)
  • GPU: First an Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 Ti 500, but that had some issues, so I

    later changed to a Radeon 8500 IIRC.

  • Cooling: First a leaf blower of a CPU cooler, after that my first water loop:
  • CPU block: Aquacomputer Cuplex Classic
  • Pump: Eheim 1048
  • Radiator: Aquacomputer Airplex Classic
  • Chassis: I think it was a Chieftech CS901, not sure about the color

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my first build was my lego pc it was an gigabyte gc330ud with a intel atom 330 

 

Lego AND a computer? +1 internet to you, good sir!

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My first was an Athlon 2600+, i think 512mb of ram, a 80Gb HDD, a Radeon All-In-Wonder 9700 i believe. It was the king of BF2! In 1024x768 no less!

My Timewaster: i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz 1.19v, Asus P8Z77-V, Noctua NH-D14, Sapphire Radeon HD 7850, 16 GB Corsair Vengance, 128GB Samsung 830 SSD, HAF 912, Logitech G710+, G700

 

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year and a half on, still using it! :P 

 

i rhink this thread was more aimed at the people just jumping on the wagon now...

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FIrst build was like a Pentium II lol I remember it lol

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Just some helpful stuff: You're - You are, Your - Your car, They're - They are, Their - Their car, There - Over there.

 

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I remember it like it was tomorrow. My first build wasnt even for myself. i3 560, 4gb ram(ripjaws), a gt 210, some asus board which broken and was the beginning of me starting to hate Asus, an antex earthwatts 380w power supply and a 250gb hard drive. I remember how happy i was as i got £20 profit, yes only 20.

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


Listen if you care.

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AMD Sempron 140 unlocked and overclocked by about 200-300Mhz

4GB of RAM

Nvidia Geforce 9500GT

 

The feeling you get when you have everything all hooked up and it powers on and POSTs successfully is the best feeling in the world.

Yes that is one hell of a feeling, I was waiting for the post beep but i didnt have the speaker in and i nearly had a heart attack.

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


Listen if you care.

Cpu: intel i7 4770k @ 4.2ghz Ram: G skill  ripjaws 2x4gb Gpu: nvidia gtx 970 cpu cooler: akasa venom voodoo Mobo: G1.Sniper Z6 Psu: XFX proseries 650w Case: Zalman H1

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Yeah I remember mine pretty well and only about 7 months ago was it made.  Stayed up all night putting it together to be sad that it was not working.  Figured out my PSU separated the 24 pin and it never dawned on me when plugging everything up.  Now I'm fighting myself to not upgrade it yet =(

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My first build was an 80286 built from parts pulled from a trash dumpster! If I remember correctly there was a 30MB MFM  drive attached via an ST506 controller and a whopping 1 MB of memory that was soldered onto the motherboard. I learned a lot from putting those parts together!

 

This was back around '88 or '89 I think.

The computer isn't the "Thing".....the computer is the "Thing" that gets you to the "Thing".  - excerpt from "Halt and Catch Fire".

 

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I ever have 386SX -> 486DX -> Pentium 133 -> Celeron 333 desktop PC which is build by other people. I think I first build my own PC with Celeron 633 o.c to 950, 32MB RAM, GF2MX, and 20GB HDD, that was awesome spec at my high school time

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I am currently using my first build as I type.

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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I remember dressing in a tiny lab coat, dancing around yelling IT'S ALIVE after I was done. By tiny lab coat I mean you could see my genitals.

And that, kids, is how uncle Tuckfam got kicked out of his mother's house.

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Mine was some random pc rebuild in 2001.  I made the cabling better;)

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Build Log here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/119926-yin-yang-prodigy-update-2-26-14/

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we had an acorn computer which just had a black screena nd green text and i printed english homework on it (dot matrix printer)
then we had a family computer which im guessing was an athlon xp 1700+ running xp, i then got my own computer given to me....

 

(this was in 2004 so 9 years ago... i was 15)
amd athlon k7 650mhz slot A

QDI kinetiz A motherboard (usb1.1 and agp for the win)

128 (possibly 256) mb of sdram (100mhz)
nvidia geforce4 mx440 (sounds impressive i know) 64mb...

40gb western digital hard drive (black in color)
EZ-cool 450w power supply (no its an old one before sata existed)
modified version of xp sp2 with a black theme and a round "start" orb which i love!
it still works now (lost the heatsink for the mx440 and now use a p162 which is essentially the same)
I have put 512mb of ram in it (for context the maximum the board allows is 768mb and idle in xp it only uses 100mb and never touches 200), I have installed chrome on it and VLC and it has a pluscom wireless G card so its perfectly usable.....slow but usable...
will upload a pic of me on this page on it in next few days if anyone wants to see  :D

Falcon: Corsair 750D 8320at4.6ghz 1.3v | 4GB MSI Gaming R9-290 @1000/1250 | 2x8GB 2400mhz Kingston HyperX Beast | Asus ROG Crosshair V Formula | Antec H620 | Corsair RM750w | Crucial M500 240GB, Toshiba 2TB, DarkThemeMasterRace, my G3258 has an upgrade path, my fx8320 doesn't need one...total cost £840=cpu£105, board£65, ram£105, Cooler £20, GPU£200, PSU£88, SSD£75, HDD£57, case£125.

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Gigabyte GTX460, Gigabyte gt430,
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This

http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html

 

 

CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz RAM: 16K, 640K max Display: 80 X 24 text Storage: dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives Ports: cassette & keyboard only   5 internal expansion slots OS: PC-DOS v1.0

 

I also had a Commodore PET at the same time.

 

 

Got them both for free through my uncle who had access to tons of computer hardware from businesses that shut down.

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This

http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html

 

 

CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz RAM: 16K, 640K max Display: 80 X 24 text Storage: dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives Ports: cassette & keyboard only   5 internal expansion slots OS: PC-DOS v1.0

 

I also had a Commodore PET at the same time.

 

 

Got them both for free through my uncle who had access to tons of computer hardware from businesses that shut down.

 

wow that is cool, also my first PC was actually more powerful with it's Intel i486 with 20MHz, wasn't expecting that lol

DESKTOP - Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Processor - Intel Core i5-2500K @ Stock 1.135v Cooling - Cooler Master Hyper TX3 RAM - Kingston Hyper-X Fury White 4x4GB DDR3-1866 Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning PSU - Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850w  HDD -  WD Caviar  Blue 500GB (Boot Drive)  /  WD Scorpio Black 750GB (Games Storage) / WD Green 2TB (Main Storage) Case - Cooler Master 335U Elite OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

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The one I am using now.. (specs in signature)

SPECS: MOBO - INTEL DZ77GA70K EXTEME, CPU - i5 3570 @ 3.4GHz, MEMORY - CORSAIR VENGEANCE 2 x 4G, GPU - GIGABYTE HD7970 OC, HDD - WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 1TB, SDD - INTEL 520 SERIES 120GB, CASE - COOLERMASTER RC-682A-KWN5, PSU - THERMALTAKE SMART 750W, KEYBOARD - RAZER BLACKWIDOW ULTIMATE 2013, MOUSE - RAZER DEATHERADDER 2013.  :D

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In terms of first built pc, the one in my sig.

 

but first ever pc... I think it had a 1 core intel celeron, like 1gb of ram, 60gb HDD, and like a 64mb nvidia card or something lol

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The first computer that I used was my Dad's old Lisa.

 

Fantastic machine

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I have no idea about the specifications, but I remeber it was a Leading Edge, it took FOREVER to start up, and the printer was really loud.  Of course, this was back in the early-mid 90s, so there was no basis for comparison back then.

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This

http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html

 

 

CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz RAM: 16K, 640K max Display: 80 X 24 text Storage: dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives Ports: cassette & keyboard only   5 internal expansion slots OS: PC-DOS v1.0

 

I also had a Commodore PET at the same time.

 

 

Got them both for free through my uncle who had access to tons of computer hardware from businesses that shut down.

 

I still need to find a 5160 (same thing except it comes with a 20mb hard drive.)

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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A 386 with 100 MB of HDD.

CPU: FX-8350 Cooler: NZXT Kraken X60 w/2X NF-A14 FLX MoBo: Asus M5A99FX Pro Rev 2.0 Memory: 8GB G.Skill Sniper@1720 GPU: Sapphire Dual-X HD7970@1100/1500 Storage: Samsung 840 120GB(OS), Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 64MB PSU: Sparkle 850W Gold Case: Corsair C70 Military green w/ Solid window Keyboard: Ducky Shines 3 (MX Blues), Razer BlackWidow 2013 Ultimate Mouse: Corsair M90,M65 w/ Vengeance MM600

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