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custom built:

 

pentium 4 

 

iGPU

 

and some random amount of ram I can't remember

 

 

10/10

HP Pavilion p007tx (i5 4210u, gt840m, 8GB DDR3 memory and a 1 TB HDD that makes cool sounds when booting up) 

Since my laptop can't run modern games too well I use a PS4

 

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I had one of these:

 

mac2si.jpg

 

It's an Apple IIsi. I know most of you don't particularly like Apple, but this one did come with a mechanical keyboard at the time. After 12 years of valliant service in a dusty environment the PSU crapped out and took everything with it, unfortunately. I think I might still have the mouse though.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

My rig: The StealthRay. Plans for a newer, better version of its mufflers are already being made.

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Seeing as I am a younger user; before I had any actual knowledge of computers I had bought a £500 Compaq laptop with Vista on it. It was alright, had quite a few problems with it including poor cooling and a tiny 250GB HDD which was also pretty slow. Eventually, the charger broke and it had turned out that the battery was faulty.

 

However, my first desktop was a custom build Ubuntu-based machine. This was in my learning stages; it had 256mb of DDR-DIMM, an Athlon and a 500GB HDD (One dodgy combo). Eventually I left it for dead because even though it was relatively fast for what it was, it couldn't do much or run much. A few years later, I re-open it and holy ass there was a lot of dust. My friend offered to take that heap of crap off my hands and so I gave it to him. After he plugged the power cord into the PSU, his thumb basically blew up so he had to go to A&E. He was chill about it.

 

So my current PC is my third PC.

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Bondi Blue iMac G3 running OS 8....let the hate come

 

Those old iMacs were amazing, why would someone hate on that. I personally always wanted one :)

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My very first PC was the compaq presario 4504 desktop pc. It was actually quite good at playing games. Played quake 2, mortal kombat and nfs II se on it. great machine for its time.

Specs wise all i remembered was Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz. 64 X CD Drive, HDD was 2GB. 16MB of ram and a 56K modem. Ah those days B) Posted Image

I was like 6 years old at the time lol

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My first PC was a home built 386SX25 running Dos with 5Mb of RAM but my first home computer was a Timex Sinclair with the 16Kb memory expansion circa ... I want to say ... 1981?. I still have it in the original box. I was a die hard Tandy Color Computer Guy after the Timex until they disappeared. Home built a CoCo II from an old CoCo I with a special order main board upgrade from Radio Shack. Kept the Chicklet keyboard though. Then pre-ordered a CoCo III in '86. It ran a 640x480 resolution, ran Microsoft Basic with add-on's from Macroware? for the extended graphics features. It was every bit as powerful as the IBM PC of the day. Loved that computer, spent hours coding in front of a 12" Composite monitor.

 

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dual floppy drives like it wasnt going to go outta style lol. love it!

 

The second one isn't hooked up ATM, I'm basically using it as a blank cover. I will hook it up eventually though. I don't ever remember a time when this computer had a blank right there, you could see the 2nd hard drive right there.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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My first PC was a home built 386SX25 running Dos with 5Mb of RAM but my first home computer was a Timex Sinclair with the 16Kb memory expansion circa ... I want to say ... 1981?. I still have it in the original box. I was a die hard Tandy Color Computer Guy after the Timex until they disappeared. Home built a CoCo II from an old CoCo I with a special order main board upgrade from Radio Shack. Kept the Chicklet keyboard though. Then pre-ordered a CoCo III in '86. It ran a 640x480 resolution, ran Microsoft Basic with add-on's from Macroware? for the extended graphics features. It was every bit as powerful as the IBM PC of the day. Loved that computer, spent hours coding in front of a 12" Composite monitor.

 

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Cool stuff. I've always wanted to play around with a CoCo. I guess the closest thing I have to one of those is a TRS-80 MC-10, which is some really cut down home computer thing that basically has no software lol.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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Some piece of shit Dosbox....

 

Then we got something with a Pentium processor at 166mhz.

 

Third computer had a Pentium 3

 

The fourth one, now that was a beast for its time. Had this amazing thing called a Pentium 4, and a GeForce3 Ti200. I remember we picked up that GeForce because we started to get games which required support for 3D Textures

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My first pc i made about 3 years ago. This was a pc i did build out of old parts i did not know a lot about computers back then.

 

intel single core 1.6ghz

The graphics card was pretty bad cost about £30 in today’s money and i do not know the name of it sorry

it had 4gb of ddr ram 400mhz xD

mini e machine case

mini atx motherboard not even a micro atx.

A crt monitor the old fat ones with vga and used the monitors on board sound.

I used a £2 keyboard and a £1mouse

300gb Hard drive which was the only okay bit.

300w Jepo power supply

windows 7 32bit

Oh yes and a stool that hurt my back xD

 

What i use now 3 years later yes i did upgrade it over time this is the finished result

 

Intel i7 3770k overclocked

An R9 290x Overclocked

a corsair k70 keyboard and a corsair vengeance mouse and a corsair dual sided mouse mat

Yes i do use a sound card i use the Creative sound blaster Z i also use a pair of Creative T40s series 2 speakers

16gb of corsair xms3 1600mhz

Coolermaster Storm Enforcer Mid Tower ATX Case

X2 Samsung 840evos SSD

Asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard

Corsair RM 850w Modular Power supply

BenQ XL2720Z monitor 144hz 1ms response time

Windows 8 64bit with start is back

Also i got rid of the stool and i got a GT Omega EVO XL Racing Office

 

As you can tell the first pc i build was very shit xDAnyone else built something worse

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Man that's a huge upgrade, 

 

Toshiba Satellite

3400m @ 1.8Ghz

6520G iGPU

5400RPM 750GB HDD

4GB RAM

 

Current 

 

Intel 4670k OC'ed 4.4Ghz
16GB Crucial Low Voltage OC 2400mhz
GTX 760(SLI) (SOLD)
GTX 760(SLI) (SOLD)
Samsung Evo 128Gb SSD
WD Cav Black 1Tb
WD 650Gb
Z87 Fatality Motherboard 
Creative 3D Four-core sound processor 
1x1080P 144hz ASUS Monitor 
Coolermaster Quickfire TK Keyboard 
Genius GIla Mouse
Fractal XL R2
+ 2x 2.5inch 500GB hard drives I got from some broken laptop to use at Network sharing disks. 
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First build & Current build:

 

I5 4690K

MSI Z97-G55 SLI

8GB Kingston Fury Black

(Soon) EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX
Some hard drives I had laying around totaling to 1.7TB

Corsair 230t

Corsair cx600m

 

The i5 does surprisingly well in gaming without a dedicated GPU, I'm able to run pretty much all my games just fine at 1680 x 1050 (Horrible resolution) at around low-medium settings for more demanding games, and medium-high for less demanding games at constant 40+ FPS.

Specs: CPU - Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz | GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Motherboard - ASUS Strix Z370-G WIFI AC | RAM - XPG Gammix DDR4-3000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) | Main Drive - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 | Other Drives - 7TB/3 Drives | CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i Pro | Case - Fractal Design Define C Mini TG | Power Supply - EVGA G3 850W

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My first pc i made about 3 years ago. This was a pc i did build out of old parts i did not know a lot about computers back then.

 

intel single core 1.6ghz

The graphics card was pretty bad cost about £30 in today’s money and i do not know the name of it sorry

it had 4gb of ddr ram 400mhz xD

mini e machine case

mini atx motherboard not even a micro atx.

A crt monitor the old fat ones with vga and used the monitors on board sound.

I used a £2 keyboard and a £1mouse

300gb Hard drive which was the only okay bit.

300w Jepo power supply

windows 7 32bit

Oh yes and a stool that hurt my back xD

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First pc I buildt had a cpu who looked like a pci card, i think it was a Pentium 2. It looked at least very much like this and not like the cpu looks like today:

CPU-Intel-Pentium-II_32739-480x320.jpg

 

My current rig can be found here: http://linustechtips.com/main/gallery/album/1850-kimmaz-current-pc/

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My first PC i built was 10 years ago.. i didnt know much about computers back then but i knew one thing "If it Fits It will work"..

CPU: I have No idea what CPU it had.. Only thing i know is that it was a Intel Pentium at 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 2 gb (SomeMhz)
GPU: ATI X800 (Man i was proud of it..)
OS: WinXP

I had 2 of those "fat" monitors.
Man, My friends were jealous..(Or atleast the 3 "half-friends" i had at the time)

I was 7 years old at the time, I had some help from my father with building it, But i did most of the assembly.

My Gaming PC

|| CPU: Intel i5 4690@4.3Ghz || GPU: Dual ASUS gtx 1080 Strix. || RAM: 16gb (4x4gb) Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600Mhz. || Motherboard: MSI Z97S Krait edition. || OS: Win10 Pro
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My first PC i built was 10 years ago.. i didnt know much about computers back then but i knew one thing "If it Fits It will work"..

CPU: I have No idea what CPU it had.. Only thing i know is that it was a Intel Pentium at 2.4 Ghz

RAM: 2 gb (SomeMhz)

GPU: ATI X800 (Man i was proud of it..)

OS: WinXP

I had 2 of those "fat" monitors.

Man, My friends were jealous..(Or atleast the 3 "half-friends" i had at the time)

I was 7 years old at the time, I had some help from my father with building it, But i did most of the assembly.

Two fat monitors i love how about the time you would of been the man!!! For having them. People in 20 years will laugh at are high spec pc's now

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