What was your first computer?

[psyc0]

my first gaming computer was a 800 dollar cyberpowrpc i hated it so much that after 2 weeks with it i scraped it and spend almost 1500 on my current pc

[DarkNemesis]

I bought mine DIYed at a shop in October 2011 for S$1250  or about 1000 USD. With a Core i5 2500K, 8GB RAM, GTX 550 Ti, P8P67 Pro, Stock Cooler, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue, Optical DVD Burner, 600W Enermax PSU, ThermalTake SpaceCraft VF-I. The rig just recently went to my brother but with the Stock Cooler upgraded to the CoolerMaster Hyper 212, PSU upgraded to a Corsair HX-1000 and the GPU upgraded to an 1GB XFX 6950. It was my base to practice my PC DIY so I tinkered with it alot, undergone RAM changes and LOTS of GPU changes, 

 

Overpriced in Singapore and that is WITHOUT peripherals and monitor which I luckily had on hand to avoid spending any further.

[Dudenstein]

The tower was about $800

[i_build_nanosuits]

my first gaming PC that i've built for myself was a Pentium 4 HT with a radeon 9200 and 1GB of RAM, i paid around 1400$ for it if i recall correctly with a sweet 15inch 1024x768 CRT monitor!

Before that i used my dad's machines, we always had gaming PC at home (they werent called gaming PC back then they where just called ''fast computers'' lol!)

[Scotty]

My first PC was $1600, but with my entire setup I've put well over $2300 into it with monitors, speakers, mouse, ect. I was only 16 but worked my ass off to earn that money, well worth it as I'm still using it 1 year later!

[Misanthrope]

The first PC I got specifically to game as an Athlon (the original one) based one with a geforce 2mx. I think it was less than 1k

[Misanthrope]

That's taking it back there a ways...

 

Oh yes, that was my first gaming pc but not the first pc I gamed with: I actually have been doing it since the DOS days where my cousin and I used to type in games off a basic book and then play em  B)

[Deus Ragno]

About 2400 dollars at the time.

[chimmychunger]

$3000 aud

[Deus Ragno]

Do you think it's rational or fine for someone to save up and spend alot of money on their computer ?

Well yes. I would obviously not be spending multiple thousands on past, current and future builds if I did not think so.

[Jodomcfrodo]

My first PC is the one in my sig... Around $3k to be honest... Took me forever to save up but was totally worth it. 

[ShogunZ]

I think about 500 euro's.

[Almercenary]

Always rational if you enjoy what you do. My first pc cost $1200 in 1986 and $2000 in 1991 for an IBM compatible. both very basic systems but in that time very very expensive.

So yep, spend what you can and enjoy it.

Showing your age (: they were top of the line apparently, to bad I used my first 1992 IBM PC in 2008 lol. Not to great then.

My first PC was about 700 aud and was a piece of poo, now I have slowly upgraded and is now worth around 2600 aud

[JQLeitch]

I'm curious of what your first PC build was and the parts you used, I am 17 years old and I only built my first PC two years ago, but I've been PC Gaming since I was like 7, playing Half-Life, DOOM, Flight Simulator etc. So just post your first build if you feel so inclined

 

My first build, built in late 2012.

 

CPU: Intel i5 3450
Motherboard: P8H77-M
RAM: 4GB XMS3 @1333mhz
Chassis: Coolermaster Elite 430, which has been 'upgraded' since to a Fractal Design Define R4
GPU: GTX 650, I stupidly fried this card March 2013 but it was a good performer, my current GPU is a 7870
PSU: Corsair CX750
Storage: 500GB Seagate Barracuda, pretty bad drive, it's slow and very noisy, I have since added a couple of 60gb hard drives for more storage and an 128GB Sandisk Ultra Plus SSD as my Boot Drive
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit

[DigitalHermit]

My current rig 睦月(Mutsuki, specs in sig) would be the first I built, if you don't count teardowns and reassemblies (which would increase the number to 13)...

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

Check my Sig..

 

CPU: Intel Celeron 420 

MOBO: MSI G31TMP21

RAM: Kingston 2GB DDR2 @400MHz RAM

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 

Case: Some local case

PSU: Same as above

OS: Windows XP Themed to Win 7

Storage: 1TB Seagate +  80GB Seagate

 

I know this is not a good PC for ya. But it's a beast for me. I still use this PC.  And yes, It can play Minecraft

[Superarragon]

Processor - i7 4770k

Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO

Motherboard - Asus Maximus VI Hero

Memory - Kingston HyperX Black 2x4gb

Case - Fractal Arc Midi R2

Graphics Card - Asus DCUII GTX 770

Power Supply - Corsair RM750

Storage - Seagate Barracuda 2TB

OS - Windows 8.1

 

Built it seven months ago.

[JQLeitch]

Processor - i7 4770k

Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO

Motherboard - Asus Maximus VI Hero

Memory - Kingston HyperX Black 2x4gb

Case - Fractal Arc Midi R2

Graphics Card - Asus DCUII GTX 770

Power Supply - Corsair RM750

Storage - Seagate Barracuda 2TB

OS - Windows 8.1

 

Built it seven months ago.

Lovely build, would kill for a modular power supply, but can't financially justify it atm.

[maddogl]

Processor -amd fx 6300

Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO

Motherboard -gigabyte 970fx ds3p

Memory -gskill ripjaws 2x4gb

Case - novatech defender

Graphics Card - msi radeon 7870

Power Supply - evga nex650g

Storage - Samsung 1tb

OS - Windows 8.1

 

built at the beginning of this year with finalization about 1 month ago

[ColorfulShardMC]

I don't know if changing parts to an OEM counts but if it does, then it would have

CPU: i7 3770 (lost it after i took it apart because of a new build) (stock Intel cooler )

MoBo: Some OEM Asus H77 Motherboard

RAM: 16 Gb of some Adata 1600 Mhz (I used it in 3 other builds )

Graphics Card: eVga GTX 770 4 Gb Superclocked ACX (What i actually changed)

Storage: 2 2 TB 7200 RPM hard drives

Power Supply: (I think) A 650W Raidmax Semi-Modular PSU that has 80+ Gold rating (What I actually changed)

Case: Some OEM Asus case

OS: Windows 8 (then to windows 8.1 which i love)

About 1 year and 1 month ago

[JQLeitch]

I don't know if changing parts to an OEM counts but if it does, then it would have

CPU: i7 3770 (lost it after i took it apart because of a new build) (stock Intel cooler )

MoBo: Some OEM Asus H77 Motherboard

RAM: 16 Gb of some Adata 1600 Mhz (I used it in 3 other builds )

Graphics Card: eVga GTX 770 4 Gb Superclocked ACX (What i actually changed)

Storage: 2 2 TB 7200 RPM hard drives

Power Supply: (I think) A 650W Raidmax Semi-Modular PSU that has 80+ Gold rating (What I actually changed)

Case: Some OEM Asus case

OS: Windows 8 (then to windows 8.1 which i love)

About 1 year and 1 month ago

Wait! You lost an i7 3770?

[c3p0]

CPU: Intel Q6600 LGA775

MB: Asus P5K Deluxe

Ram: 2Gb Kingston HyperX PC2-8000 4-4-4-1 2,25v

Scythe Infinity

GPU: Nvidia Geforce 8800 768mb

HDD: 160 GB Sata 2

 

It's been a while so I could had missed a part :unsure:

[ColorfulShardMC]

Wait! You lost an i7 3770?

Yup, Also lost an i7 4770k along with it. It's somewhere in the house i just have to find it I also have an 8320 that had bent pins due to my aunt cleaning the house and just throwing it into a box *ouch* But I bent them back Still need to get a new AM3+ mobo to use it for something Felt pretty bad but i forgot about until now

[JQLeitch]

Yup, Also lost an i7 4770k along with it. It's somewhere in the house i just have to find it I also have an 8320 that had bent pins due to my aunt cleaning the house and just throwing it into a box *ouch* But I bent them back Still need to get a new AM3+ mobo to use it for something Felt pretty bad but i forgot about until now

Dear lord lol, I would lose my mind if I lost two high end (expensive as) CPUs

[ColorfulShardMC]

Dear lord lol, I would lose my mind if I lost two high end (expensive as) CPUs

Indeed but now I'm back to sandy bridge first ivy then haswell now sandy wanted to save the 2 cpu's for something later then again my aunt cleaned the house a long time ago and either put it somewhere or though it was trash *cringe*