What was your first computer?

[FlashingKool_Z]

I was joking

 

 

 

[Speedbird]

See, the first computer I remember using was my dad's custom built P4 rig. Had a 2.8GHz Prescott Pentium 4 w/ 800 MHz FSB, 1M cache and hyperthreading, a whole GIGABYTE of Double Data Rate RAM, a 160GB hard disk (huge!!!!!!!!) at 7200 rpm (nothing will be faster than this), which was SATA based (1.5 Gbps), and an ATi Radeon 9600 Pro w/ 128MB VRAM, more than enough for an awesome 800x600 HL2 experience. Also had 2 optical drives, all powered by some 400W PSU I've never heard of, running pirated Windows XP.

[Tr3vor]

Tempest console.

 

 

then a commodore 64 personal computer (I have an emulator and play all the games still)

 

first IBM was an 0x86, with 512K ram, 1.2Mb floppy drive and 14" monochrome monitor. First customization I made was adding a 20Meg. hard drive.

 

LOL That box art is so ripping off atari's VCS box.

 

 

What the heck is that thing anyway, Never heard of a tempest console. I searched it up and the closest thing that came up was an Emerson Arcadia.

[HippY]

it was a P4 1.7 Ghz, first 256 MB RAM , then upgraded to 512 Mb RAM, and I bought my very first own hardware, an Ati Radeon 9550. That was a beast of a card, it played Need for Speed Most wanted fluently

[mr moose]

LOL That box art is so ripping off atari's VCS box.

 

 

What the heck is that thing anyway, Never heard of a tempest console. I searched it up and the closest thing that came up was an Emerson Arcadia.

It's an MPT-03 compatible console made by tempest (bought out by goldstar, then black and decker IIRR).

It was released in 1979. Funny thing is I had a that 2600 as well. (aussie version, no paddles) 

[Tr3vor]

It's an MPT-03 compatible console made by tempest (bought out by goldstar, then black and decker IIRR).

It was released in 1979. Funny thing is I had a that 2600 as well. (aussie version, no paddles) 

 

It appears that the MPT-03 is basically an arcadia. Those seem to have a lot of variants and rebrands and stuff. http://www.digitpress.com/the_digs/arcadia/texts/cons-fam.htm

[MatazaNZ]

This beauty with it's Celeron 2.0

http://s249.photobucket.com/user/Marky264/media/DSC01087.jpg.html

[a_block_of_wood]

I built my first PC at the end of 2000, using the money I earn working as a waiter as well as whatever I've saved before. It was so long ago I can't really remember the specs but here's what I still remember:

 

CPU: AMD Duron 750Mhz "Spitfire". You can overclock it with a battery, some wires, and a pencil, literally. Bought it because can't afford Pentium III/Athlon, and Celeron is too slow.

Mobo: "Tomato" brand, seriously, go google it. VIA chipset, socket A. Bought it because it's the cheapest.

RAM: Single stick of 128MB DDR SDRAM.

HDD: Can't remember the capacity but it's a Western Digital

Graphic: Riva TNT2 M-64. Because I can't even afford a TNT2 Pro, and the shiny new Geforce256 would cost me 6 months waiter salary/entire computer's budget.

Case: Generic ATX case, comes with cheapo power supply, I think..

Optic: "Whoppin" 52x CD-ROM

 

IIRC the peripherals were just generic brands, keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor is likely a 15" CRT, can't remember the name. I think it ran Windows ME.

 

I have had 6 computers in the past 18 years, built 3 of them. Expecting my next build to be 2015, soooooo excited 

[MtrCat]

First rig was something really nice that my dad threw together when I was younger, had a cool case with awesome neon strips on the sides, all custom build and played a ton of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City... But he lost that a long time ago. 

[mr moose]

It appears that the MPT-03 is basically an arcadia. Those seem to have a lot of variants and rebrands and stuff. http://www.digitpress.com/the_digs/arcadia/texts/cons-fam.htm

yep,  they were probably one of the first products to be rebranded en mass by an array of different companies. 

[tensai]

Oh god....

P1 100mhz with MMX, 16mb of RAM, massive 1.6 GB hdd and a SiS gpu

[The_Evenger]

my first PC i built was a bare-bones kit, the one i'm using now is the one where i picked out all the parts to and put together, i call it "Digital Overload"

although it has had 6 part failures in the First four months, and 3 more in the next two. my recommendation is don't re-use the PSU from your old build and don't skimp on it, get a beefy one. and if you go Duel cards don't EVER let someone else move your computer that isn't an enthusiast.

[dha07]

Amstrad CPC 464

[evinta]

Intel 3 5-600ish mhz computer with megabites of ram. 

 

MEGAbites. 

 

:angry:

[Admiaczking]

AMD E-450, Radeon 6320, 4GB RAM, 1600x900 display, 19", 500GB 7200RPM

[RisingHermit]

Honestly don't remember much about my 1st PC. All I know, is that it was a Compaq from around 1997 that ran windows 95.

[bry.yyyy]

My current build is my first ever computer build at 2011 with i5 2320 4 gb ram onboard graphics asus p8h61 m lx plus and 1 tb hdd (cause i'm 14 now lol)

[Tyler Cheng]

the 1st one i build is when i was 12, my brother showed me once and i do it until now

 

1st build 

AMD Athlon II X2 245 (i think)

Leadtek GT 240 1GB

Asus mobo that i cant remember

kingston 2GB DDR3 RAM 1333MHz 9-9-9-24 (i think)

and some other parts i cant remember

the harddrive yes, WD 320 GB blue (still using now)

 

If u r wondering why i use my 320GB HDD because i bought the original Win7 Ultimate and i m too lazy to reinstall in the current build, the only thing left from the 1st one is that HDD

 

Now is 

AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Ed

EVGA GTX 560 Ti 

Avexir Blue Led 1600MHz 8GB dual channel RAMs

Corsair VS 550

Asrock 970 Extreme 3 R2.0 

Xigmatek Dark Knight Night Hawk 2 12cm fans

 

Upcoming

AMD FX-8370/FX-8370E

GTX 970

Is an upgrade, the others i will think about it lel

[Ramzzz]

mines was:

pentium 3 (dont remember the clock speed)

256 mbbytes of ram

120gig hdd 

64mbytes gpu dont know anythign else about teh gpu 

thatsall i remember i wasnt really tech savy back than 

[Majinferno]

Dell optiplex gx-260. It ended up giving me beep codes after failing start-up. Took me about 8 weeks to find out a piece of RAM was not properly seated. :l

[raultherabbit]

A 386/33mhz with a 50mb hard drive. All I played was wolfenstein and test drive 3. Right on.

[shadowblitz3]

My dad bought our first computer back in 2003-2004 with an intel celeron and xp. lasted 5 years.

[SirWibbles]

It depends on what you mean by first pc. The first one my family had and used a lot was a crappy old gateway. My first laptop was my personal one and that was a crappy refurbished compaq with a whopping 2GB of RAM and a 2 ghz processor. My first personal full desktop is the one I just built and it's a fantastic gaming rig.

[Syraz]

Tandy 1000

[Guest]

What was your very first computer ?

 

 Mine was a Compaq Presario 6410NX Desktop PC

 

I think this one was my first too! The gpu didn't have a heatsink as i remember! I still got all the parts!