What was your first computer?

[Jamdude]

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[AlwaysFSX]

Yup I do

 

Intel Core i3 2120

 

8GB G.Skill Value ram

 

Gigabyte H61M S2PV Motherboard

 

Gigabyte GTX 650

 

Antec 300(It's broken now )

 

500GB WD Blue

2120 MasterRace.

 

[Shroomster]

Okay then.    

AMD FX-8350

AMD HD7970

1TB Barracuda

8GB Adata xpg 1600Mhz

Thermaltake Water 2.0

Thermaltake Berlin 630w

Coolermaster N400

And almost forgot the Asus 990FX Sabertooth.

[rambi36]

2120 MasterRace.

-snip-

Except now I have an i5 4670k

[Darth Blender]

CPU: Intel pentium 4 3ghz

GPU: Nvidia geforce 8800GT

M/B: ?

Ram: 1gb DDR2 600mhz

Hdd: 320GB

Case: something that looks like a washing machine

Os: windows xp 32bit

[TheKDub]

Easy, I built it around a week ago..

CPU: i5 4690K

MOBO: MSI Z97-G55 SLI

RAM: 8GB Kingston Fury Black

GPU: N/A

Case: Corsair 230T

PSU: Corsair CX600M

[Bogica]

I don't remember, it was so long ago, I built it with my dad, truth be told I was just handing him the screws, the screwdriver, parts etc. was a little kid but I remember it ran on DOS.
Now the first PC that was mine (not my dads) was a

Pentium 3 633MHz

128mb RAM (Later upgraded to 256mb)

GeForce 2 MX 400

15" 800x600 monitor.

Bad ass rig!

[thoristhebest]

intel core 2 duo. like some old mobo out a dell optiplex, 60gb hard drive. amd 1500x series graphics card 4gb ddr2 ram. a blue led case i had to like angle grind to get the inverted mobo to fit. and a 500w cheap powersupply. it was baller

[Neogeek2734]

Oh man...

 

1.7Ghz Celeron

512mb DDR pc2700

40GB HDD

Geforce4 Ti 4200 (64mb i believe)

 

 

My cousin gave me the graphics card for my birthday. He's the one that got me into PCs and PC gaming.

[themaniac]

do you mean first pc you built specs

[mansoor_]

athlon x3 425

3 gb ddr3,

500gb seagate barracuda,

int graphics,

generic psu.

[yurihellsing]

Had a look through some files and found this and yes this is from the very first PC i built played Renegade to death on this PC (only screen shot i can find with the specs)

 

Found a CPU-Z capture from the same comp too

 

[handymanshandle]

I haven't started my first build yet but, the planned specs are in my signature.

[geforceftw]

3.0 P4 no HT

2 or 4 gigs of 1066mhz ram

250gb hdd

gateway mobo.

some nvidia card before the 8800s.

 

First and last prebuilt pc. Gateway ftw.

[KellerKind]

My first build is the one that i have right now... i always had laptops thats why  

[Goose Legs]

My first PC that I built consisted of an Intel Pentium 4 with a very basic Intel motherboard. The biggest issue at the time was I couldn't get my optical drive and IDE hard drive connected concurrently because of how far away they were spaced in the case. (I only had one IDE channel...and I was 12 and didn't fully understand SATA). I then went back to Fry's, explained my situation to one of the managers and he suggested that I go with SATA since the performance would be much improved and I won't have these issues. (And I had like 4 SATA ports on the motherboard). As soon as I did that, problem solved!

[rafalpl1]

My first built is my current built:

 

ASUS GTX 780

Intel I7-4770k

ASUS Maximus VI Hero

Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866Mhz

Corsair CX750

Cooler Master Haf 932 Advanced

[ManWithBeard1990]

The one i'm using right now. (also my avatar)

[DuffyTheWaw]

First PC I built is the one I'm currently using. I looked at PC building guides for 6 months before I actually attempted to put this thing together, and even then I was nervous I'd mess something up.

Just don't make the same mistake I did my first time.
Don't forget the plug in the CPU power.
And don't cut yourself on RAM. That hurts.

First PC built is this thing:
Case: Antec 300

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX
CPU: Intel i5 3570
GPU: Nvidia GTX 660
RAM: 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 by Kingston

Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda

Generic DVD Drive
 

[Lavachyste]

Me it was in a Thermaltake Armor + case, with the Asus M2N32 motherboard, a 8800GT GPU, AMD 3000+ CPU and 2 GO of Gskills RAM. It lasted for 5 years until it died 1 year ago. My recommendation. Invest.

 

I see see pc building like an investment, where you purchase something great and expensive but it will last.? It is always my idea when building a pc.

[district_11]

The Mid Tower on the right. Using it right now, built around this time last year. Never had any problems. Had to RMA a DOA HDD for the mATX on the left though

 

[RottenBiscuit]

I saved money for about 1 year when I was 19 to put together my first "gaming" pc

 

it was a phenom x 4, dont remember the speed, a MSI motherboard, some 4 gigs of Crucial ram (one of the sticks failed about a month after) a 500 gig hd and a hd 4850... ohh yeah, the psu was a 650w BFG refurbished psu I got... great psu.. except it was noisy as hell... it  died  like 3 years ago (im 27 now)

Last me about 3 years of decent gaming... well no, of about 1000 gaming hours (wasnt working at the time... and you know... college was starting)

then I upgraded to an hd6870, and so on... had a x3 RANA... then went to a Phenom II, and so forth... I think my current build was purchased using some of the money I spent on the first pc and I recovered after selling the used parts... about 500 bucks I supposed... so when ppl talk about how expensive pc gaming is... I cant help but laugh.

 

 

 

My first pc was a win 3.1 and then a win 95 my dad got for 900 bucks at the time... I remember playing that one had a nvidia 6200 card of sorts

[TetraSky]

First PC that I truly built from scratch, from new parts I've chosen and bought myself, is the one I'm using right now.

Before that I had assembled PCs, but from old parts, change cases, etc.. Nothing I had personally bought myself.

[What's a GPU?]

Like many others, my current build is my first full build. I used to mess around with "old" computers that were used in my family; added graphics cards, took apart some and put them back together, and just generic stuff. Now that I am in college I decided it was time to go big and build my own. The one thing that I think was a big help for putting this together was the fact that I had messed around on older computers and took things apart and practiced really without too much of a worry of damaging anything. I would have been incredibly nervous to put this together if I had never actually taken parts in and out of a computer before. Still my biggest problem was the fact that I was all on my own with only videos to help, if I could have had someone there to supervise that was more experienced I think it would have made the process run a lot more smoothly. 

[kayodoc]

Idk if this really qualifies as "building" a PC but when I was 6 I took apart an iMac G3 and put it back together. Turns out I hated the things back then just as much as I hate em now :lol: