What was your first computer?

[WhitetailAni]

ASUS V400C laptop. Core i3-2365M, 4GB LPDDR3-1333, 500GB HDD, 1366x768 60Hz screen, Linux Mint 17.3.

Ran any version of Minecraft all the way up to 1.11.2 (max it could run, it officially supported 1.12.2 but that didn't work) at 40-50 FPS. Adding mods brought it down to 30-35 FPS but it seemed the same to me.

 

It died last year. I dropped it.

[y3llowduk]

First computer that was actually built/bought by myself was a AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition, 4GB RAM, XFX HD6850 and Windows XP because I couldn't afford legit Windows 7

[Kanna]

I don't remember but I know it was old old windows XP computer probably 2 gb ram and an intel pentium 4 paired with some GPU that was 256mb video memory and had VGA

[Wolly9102]

Mine was an HP laptop with an Pentium M 1,73 Ghz 40 GB HDD and 512 Mb Ram. It ran Windows XP and also was the first pc I upgraded the RAM of to 1 GB in this case.

I have it stil lying around and it still works. Not getting rid of it because of sentimental value.

[OrangeSunshine]

My first pc that I bought myself was a nextbook... It was terrible, but it ran google docs well enough to take notes. I think it had like less than 2 gigs of ram and a awful atom cpu in it. I don't know how windows 10 updating did't murder it.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/nextbook-ares-11-review/

 

[Darkwing Drex]

I had an IBM PS/1 with an OLD Intel chip. It could run Reader Rabbit and Wolfenstein (sometimes).  Storage was in the Megabytes if I remember correctly (this was in the early 90s). Two floppy drives, the big wide one and the smaller hard 5KB ones, and an external CD Rom. And a CRT that you could drop through a car today.

[GuiltySpark_]

I was all Apple when I was younger because that's what our family had. I went to college with a Macbook Pro. Before that it was a Performa 550C, PowerMac G3, PowerMac G4, iMac G5 then an Intel Macbook, the first Intel model with the Core2Duo.

 

It wasn't until 2008 or so that I built my first pc:

 

Intel Core2Quad Q6600

Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

2x2GB G.Skill DDR2

Some random hard drive until I got the first Intel SSD, the X25-M 80GB.

[BondiBlue]

8 minutes ago, Darkwing Drex said:

I had an IBM PS/1 with an OLD Intel chip. It could run Reader Rabbit and Wolfenstein (sometimes).  Storage was in the Megabytes if I remember correctly (this was in the early 90s). Two floppy drives, the big wide one and the smaller hard 5KB ones, and an external CD Rom. And a CRT that you could drop through a car today.

Ah, the PS/1. I've got a model 2011 with a 286, 1MB of RAM and a 30MB HDD. Those were nice machines. It's a shame mine doesn't work anymore, but oh well. 

[Colonizor48]

Some sager laptop. My first computer i used personally. I had some others i shared with my parents before this but those have been lost to time

 

6gb ddr3

GTX 280m gpu

Some first gen i7 cpu

1tb hdd 250gb ssd.

 

Got this around 2014-2016 i think? Used it until 2019. One of the coolerswent missing for some reason leading to average temps of 70 degrees and the pc would frequently thermal throttle due to this. Eventually got a weaker but usable laptop.

 

 

[cacoe]

• Cyrix 486 dx2 66mhz
• 8mb ram SDRAM
• 2mb.... rando graphics card, can't remember which, wasn't that important
• 800mb HDD
• 2 speed cdrom
• 14 inch crt monitor
• not sure on the mobo, was a pre-built from a little computer store circa 1995
• Windows 3.1

I was over the moon to get this for Christmas 1995. I also toasted it the same day and cried like a baby. There used to be a voltage switch on PSUs (for a while I think they put a blank plate over them and then just phased them out entirely for region specifc version), I was a very... trial and error kind of learner and I learned not to switch that again. Went up in a puff of electrical smelling smoke. My dad wasn't too pleased but he took it back, complained that they never mentioned anything about that switch and they replaced the PSU as a result.

[Middcore]

First computer that our family bought was an IBM Aptiva with (I think) an AMD K6 at about 350mhz. Not counting work laptops my dad had before that.

 

 

[Moonzy]

MY first computer would be an Asus N55SF laptop bought in 2011

i7 2630QM, GT555M, 8GB DDR3 1333, 640GB HDD (later swapped to 240GB SSD around 2014 or so)

 

My first legit experience with a PC is Pentium 4, ??? RAM (possibly 256MB), 40GB PATA HDD (later expanded with another 80GB), 3D Prophet 4500 64MB GPU, I remember owning it since ~2001 up until 2009

2009 onward it was a Core 2 Duo machine with 2GB RAM, using the PATA Drives and no GPU up until I got my laptop

 

2016 I built Desky, originally it was an i5 6600, GTX 970, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD + 2TB HDD, and upgraded it a lot since

[Parry_Riposte]

Z80 @1.77 and 16K memory

 

[freeagent]

HP Pavilion 8570C

 

P3 450

256mb

Asus mobo

VoodooII 16mb 

20GB Bigfoot

 

I later upgraded it a few times. Had a few ATi cards, more ram, more disk space, etc..

[Blue4130]

First that I built diy was a 486 dlc 50mhz cyrix with an add on math co-processor. 4mb of ram, 20mb mb hdd and some isa cga display card. It was a bbs monster. L. O. R. D and hack'n'slash rocked. 

[Adi0115]

I had a Spectre x360(Was my mom's but I used it)

 

i7 7500u

Intel HD 620 iGPU

16GB RAM

512GB Nvme

4K 60Hz Screen

 

 

I just got my new laptop a week ago(Asus ROG Strix G15)

 

Ryzen 7 5800H

RTX 3050ti

16GB Ram

1TB Nvme

1080p 144Hz Screen

[thrasher_565]

my family pc was my first pc i used windows 95 and duke nukem was my first game. probably a rage pro and later on and voodoo 2. we later got an 4gb hdd and oh man we didnt have to fight over what game was installed or what music was download...

 

i then spent my life saving on a p4 system for $800 can and probably had windows 2000 or xp on it dont remember.  then my dad go his pc and athlong 64 and i would get his hammy down parts for free.

 

pic of the case i moded add an window, and red cold cathode, and power led mod. and painted it. it was my dads case and i trade him my case and $100 for it because i liked to mod. my dad moded an off, 5v,7,12v switch to this metal 120mm fan that he dose not remember were he got this is when 80mm fan was still the norm. then he got an Thermaltake Armor VA8000SWA case.

 

 

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by thrasher_565

[Xevo]

First laptop is an acer aspire 4720z:
Pentium T2330 Intel Graphics media accelerator x3100,80gb dd,512 mb ddr2
ofc its dead

First pc:
AMD A8 7600 R7
Asrock a88m G/3.1
2x4 gb Corsair Vengeance ddr3
120 gigs ssd,240gb hdd,and a 1tb hdd
still my main rig till now

not too old,but definetly not new

 

[Zagna]

Toshiba T3100e/40

• AMD 80286 12MHz
• 2MB RAM
• 40MB HDD

[Henry Butt]

Processor : Intel Celeron G470
GPU : None
Motherboard : Asus H61-MK
Cooling : Stock INTEL COOLER

Storage: Hitachi 500 GB HDD
RAM: 2GB 1333 Mhz

PSU: Chirag 350W pSU
Peripherals: Frontech Wired keyboard, mouse and speaker
Monitor: Samsung LCD 60 Hertz
Case: Random Zebronics case

[Rarity]

cant remember the specs , but ran windows 95 , and i had a turbo button ..played lots of Maddog Mcree on it though 

[mariushm]

The first pc my family bought when I was in highschool, learning programming 

 

It was a custom system with the components I chose based on reviews of hardware in local IT magazines.

 

So I ended up with a

K6-2 3D Now 333 Mhz  (used to OC by moving jumpers on mobo to change from 5 x 66.6 Mhz =333 mhz to 3.5x95 = 333 Mhz and later ran it at nearly 400 mhz)

PC Chips Elpina M577 motherboard (one of the better PC Chips models, with via mvp3 or whatever the chipset was called, and full l2 cache memory and sd-ram/edo-ram, agp 8x, at and atx power inputs, c-media onboard sound etc) ,

32 MB SD-RAM (upgraded later to 96 MB)

3 or 4 GB Maxtor mechanical drive (forget the exact size now, it's long gone anyway)

Samsung 24x CD-RW drive (put me off Samsung optical drives, wasn't very good)

 

One of the first upgrades was the video card, and I can safely say it was because of Half-Life

I changed the card to a S3 Savage 3D which lasted around a week and then bios got corrupted and could no longer do 3D games 

Got upgraded for free by the store owner to a S3 Savage 4 and that also shit itself after a few days. 

The store owner then simply gave up and gave me a nVidia VANTA 8 MB card which would have been around 20-30$ extra in today's money, compared to the other S3 cards.

 

It rocked at Half-Life, had no problem playing the game at 1024x768 on a 14" Aoc CRT monitor.

 

[RejZoR]

I can still vividly remember everything about it. It was my first after all if I exclude Commodore C-128 that I had until this PC back in 1998 (I kid you not).

 

Celeron 333MHz, 64MB RAM, S3 Savage3D 8MB, 4GB HDD and Sound Blaster 128.

 

I still have fond memories of it especially in Unreal Engine games where S3 Metal API used by S3 accelerated things dramatically. I got really good framerates in UT99 at 1024x768 which was considered pretty high resolution back then and generally only used by Voodoo/RivaTNT users who had much more VRAM. And same applied to nearly every single Unreal based game and there were plenty of them back then. Miss you my little S3 buddy

[sam d yt]

23 minutes ago, Eviljuche said:

People like to make these 'first pc specs' threads so much that I even have my own copypasta for them.

 

It was the long forgotten year of 2009, I was living in a poor family in a low-income ghetto neighborhood where kids were starting to steal from the supermarket since the age of 3. And here I was, a 9 year old boy who was the last one in the class to not have a computer. I heard all these stories about this magical experience of a "computer games" like GTA San Andreas, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Need For Speed Underground, etc. I really wanted to have one, just not to feel myself so lost.

 

And that autumn I got one. My mother, who had a job of an office worker in a major gas company, (not the "gas" of gasoline, the real gas, like propane) has earned some extra money for a good job and decided to buy me one. Her wage was really small, especially by 2021 standards, but for the 2009 that was enough to live and save some extras. But we barely had enough to buy a cheapest build in our small local store, and I had to really beg my mother to buy one - she was a computer-literate person, and she knew what kind of a crap build she was buying to me. That day changed my life dramatically, affecting my interests in life and my choice of a first college degree. But this was, indeed, a shitty rig even for 2009:

 

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L with Intel G31 Chipset and Socket 775

CPU: Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz

GPU: Intel G31 Integrated Graphics Card 400 MHz 64MB (Yes, kids, there was a time when Intel put their GPUs not in the CPUs, but in chipsets)

RAM: 2x512mb of glorious DDR2 memory

HDD: 80GB Samsung SATA drive (Later I learned that at least having a SATA in 2009 was considered cool)

Cheapest case, cheapest keyboard, cheapest mouse.

DVD-RW Drive.

 

I never minded it's being not cool enough - I had a computer, and that meant I had games. And now, I am thankful to the God for that one - it's low-end hardware plus no internet connection made me learn computer tech from relatively young age (to check whether it can play game I want to buy or not), and, most importantly, opened the worlds of the old games and indie games to me - I spent countless hours playing Fallout 1&2, Disciples 2, Crusader Kings 1, Temple of Elemental Evil, Penumbra, Pathologic, Knights of the Old Republic II, Diablo, Dawn of War, Rome: Total War... I even stopped caring about how "cool" modern games were, seeing GTA IV and CS: Source as pretty boring ones - heck, I once bought GTA IV just to give it to my school classmate in exchange of him downloading and burning me some DVDs with Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (which is, arguably, a better game) so I could play one.

 

I still cannot believe that all of that was almost 12 years ago... I still have a weird habit since that time - I always buy a disk drive to my new gaming rigs - that experience where the only source of game knowledge and overall connection to the world's information were dependent on that thing is still haunting me, I cannot force myself imagining a PC without a DVD drive, even though its use is arguable nowadays.

 

In summary, having a low-end hardware in your first rig is somehow is not bad at all - it's challenging and it makes your gaming experience pretty different both in a good and in a bad way.

The fact that you have a copypasta for this is brilliant 

[Montana One-Six]

Used my dad's PCs a lot back in the day but my first own PC was an Acer Aspire Laptop with an Intel core 2 duo, 4GB Ram and some Radeon GPU which died in 2013.

 

My first desktop was a pre-built from 2010 with an Intel i5-2500, 8GB DDR3 -1333Mhz, Radeon HD6870, 1TB WD Caviar Black HDD. The GPU in this one deleted itself in 2015. That made me built my first PC which is now my secondary PC.