What was your first computer?

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FX-8320

8GB Kingston black RAM

500GB Seagate HDD

Gigabye cheapo motherboard (forget the name)

MSI R77770

700W thermaltake PSU

[Charger]

I dont remember anything other then the amd athlon 2400+ I built it around 2003

[L A]

Basically the build in my sig right now: Illya, the air-cooled prodigy

• CPU
  Intel i5 4670k
• Motherboard
  ASRock Z87E-ITX
• RAM
  Kingston HyperX Red Series 2x4gb
• GPU
  MSI TwinFrozr GTX 770
• Case
  Bitfenix Prodigy Red
• Storage
  Kingston HyperX 3K
• PSU
  SeaSonic G Series SSR550w
• Cooling
  Be Quiet! Dark Rock 2

[hypnodog]

The one in my signature. Since there have been a few upgrades done and I'm too lazy to list the og specs, just let me know if any of you want me to list them.  

[killertek78]

PIII 750@850 (Slot1) (always OC'd!)

Abit BH6 (or BE6, can't remember)440BX 

128MB DDR

ASUS V7100/T GeForce2 MX

Creative Sound Blaster Live!

Maxtor 20GB HDD

LiteOn 32x CDRW Drive.

350w cheap PSU

Massive steel white case of some type, later painted with Subaru Blue(WRX)

All hooked up to a 13" TV for the first year or so until I could afford a 17" flat CRT from KDS, SyncMaster 750s to be exact.

[lovetech000]

this was my frist build

CPU: Q6600

Main: Giga P43 

RAM: 2x2GB DDR2 RAM 800MHz

GPU: Geforce 9800 GT 1GB 

PSU: 500W 

250GB HDD

My first build in 2008

[Oscar Herrick]

lol... stil using this computer rn

CPU: Core 2 duo e840

GPU: GTX 260

Motherboard: Asus P5K-E

Case: (Some extremely old black thingy)
PSU: 500 Watt Cooler Master 80+ Bronze

HDD: 250GB Seagate

[fir_nev]

2010 build which completely died last year.   Saving up for a new build.

 

Casing: Cooler Master Elite 335

PSU: Cooler Master GX 650W

MB: Intel DH55HC

CPU: Intel i5 650 3.2GHz 4MB Cache

RAM: Team Elite PC1333 4GB (2GB x 2 kit)

GFX: XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5

HDD: WD Green 1TB + WD Blue 250GB

[Virus__]

My first real build was;

 

Gigabyte Motherboard, of model I cannot remember, but it was a pretty solid motherboard with SLI etc..

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz

2GB Geil DDR2 800MHz

XFX Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB Overclocked

800W Super Flower PSU (of which is still going strong in my current PC)

Coolermaster Air Cooler

Seagate 250GB

Seagate 160GB

Antec 900 (upgraded to an Antec 902 a few years later when my mate wanted to unload it for $50)

Creative Soundblaster Soundcard

Razer Lycosa Keyboard

Razer Lachesis Mouse

19" LG 1440x900 monitor

 

I got it off a mate after he had it for about 6 months, he initially paid around $2,400 for it but I got it off him for $1,000

 

I loved that PC I was so sad when it died on me ~4 years ago. I think I still have the graphics card, which is completely dead, it ran most modern games up until 2011 on high settings without an issue, which is why I ended up staying with Nvidia on my follow up & current build.

 

Prior to that Core 2 Duo, I had 3 AMD builds and an Intel Pentium 4.

[Robin88]

Core i5 750 (I still have that CPU, I just cannot find a motherboard for it that isn't ridiculously expensive)

Gigabyte P55M-UD2 (Awesome motherboard, less than £100 and could hang there with the big guys when it came to overclocking, shame it was that awful blue colour though)

2x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer Blue (DDR3 hadn't been out that long, this was when you could still get motherboards with DDR2 slots as well as DDR3, and even a single 2GB stick was over £120 back then)

Sapphire ATi HD5750 1GB

WD Caviar Blue 500GB (No SSD back then, a 32GB SSD was the same price as a 256GB SSD is today if I remember rightly)

600W Cooler Master Silent Pro

In an old no brand mATX case from my mums old PC.

[Hackzzila]

I still have it right now

 

Core i5 4690k

1 TB Blue (Win 7)

1.5 TB Green

8GB COrsair Vengeance

ASUS ROG Maximus VI Hero

ASUS Strix GTX 750 ti

Corsair 750D

Win 10 (Win 7 is broken *cries*)

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Hey, I thought it would be neat to see what your first PC build was like. Pictures would be cool too.

All right so, I built my first PC in 2012. Not that long ago but I've just never had enough money. I was finally able to save up $500 from my birthday and Christmas. This build was done with NCIX parts, they were out of stock on a lot of the things I wanted; however, I couldn't wait and bought some not-so-great alternative. Most notably my PSU.

 

First PC Specifications

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320.

Motherboard: Gigabyte-not-sure-of #themodelnumber.

RAM: Kingston 8GB black.

GPU: MSI R7770.

HDD: 500GB Seagate barracuda. 

PSU: Thermaltake T2 750W.

Case: Bitfenix Mid-tower black no side window with a nice feeling power button.

 

The total was about $520.

I was going to go with an i5 BUT I would have had to of gotten an mATX motherboard with a small case plus a cheaper GPU. I didn't like small computers at the time. The 8320 caught my eye when I was in the store, got it on sale for only $100 which was a great deal. I still have that 8320 in my main rig.

 

My PC has evolved slowly over time with mini upgrades. Recently I decided to try out watercooling for the first time, since I'm such a badass I went straight to hardline. You could argue my watercooling was a waste with my current specs but whatever, it works great and looks killer. I wanted to be different and give myself a challenge.

 

Latest Specifications

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320 @4.8Ghz.

Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0.

RAM: Kingstin 8GB black.

GPU: MSI GTX 760 x2 in SLI.

SSD: 120 SP.

SSHD: 2TB Seagate.

HDD: 500GB Seagate barracuda.

PSU: EVGA G2 850W.

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe.

 

Here is a picture of my current PC, sadly I didn't get any from my first. I plan on rebuilding it though with the same parts and giving it to my brother.

 

 

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

My current PC specs

 

CPU: i5-4690k

GFX: R9 280x

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro

PSU: Rosewell Hive

RAM: G. Skill Ripjaw Z

Storage: 32GB SSD + 1TB HDD

Motherboard: MSI something or another

 

I think I spent about 1000-1200. I can't quite remember because I had other expenses like OS, monitor, keyboard and shit.

[Jerakl]

Specs:

 

4770k

G.Skill Sniper 16GB

MSi z87 gd65 gaming

CM Storm Trooper

Random storage

HX650w

CM GeminII S

 

Current:

All the same except 1 more TB of random storage

H100i

[Mao_Zedong]

Well I'm building it in a few days, but here are the parts I will be using.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($259.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($81.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($52.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial M4 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00)
Case: Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Corsair CO-9050016-BLED 52.2 CFM 120mm  Fan  ($20.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: HP LA2006x 20.0" Monitor  (Purchased For $0.00)
Monitor: Acer G257HU smidpx 60Hz 25.0" Monitor  ($249.99 @ Newegg)
Mouse: Logitech G602 Wireless Optical Mouse  (Purchased For $0.00)
Headphones: Shure SE215 In Ear Headphones  (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: fan splitter ($4.99)
Total: $831.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-15 22:42 EDT-0400

[itsmyjobtoknow]

My first PC build was actually in my school where they taught us PC Hardware and Networking.

 

Spec:

An AMD Phenom, can't remember the model but it was a Quad-Core

Some Asus Motherboard with only two Dimm Slot

8GB of Patriot DDR3 1333Mhz Ram

Originally it was a stock cooler on it...then I got an H80 to try out

An ATI Radeon HD 5670

Two 500GB WD Blue in Raid 0

Some crappy PSU

A Zalman case...

[Nonco]

The only thing I remember about it was it had a Nvidia GTX 400 series GPU

[DEDRICK]

Athlon T-bird

SOme mobo

Unknown amount of ram

GeForce4 MX 440

 

 

 

It was awhile ago

[Gale]

CPU: i5 3550

Motherboard: P8Z77-V

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB

GPU: Asus GTX 560

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

PSU: Corsair CX500v2

Case: Corsair 300R

[Sors]

CPU:  Intel 8088   4.7 MHz

RAM:  512 KB

HDD: NO HDD.

5 1/4 Floppy drive.

Video:  Monochrome Display Adapter, With 4 KB of memory.   Couldn't make any graphics other than text.

[themaniac]

haven't built one yet

[Mushious]

Don't remember my first build too well...

 

CPU: Some AMD from ~2002

Mobo: No clue
RAM: 128MB

GPU: FX5200

HDD: 100GB

PSU: Generic noname under 300w

Case: An out of the dumpster generic case

 

Later build:

CPU: AMD FX-8350

Mobo: Something Gigabyte

RAM: Kingston 8GB (probably valueram or something, idk)

GPU: Gigabyte 7870

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

PSU: Seasonic 550W

Case: Thermaltake V3 Black

 

Current:

 

CPU: Intel i5-4690K

RAM: Mushkin 8GB DDR3-1600

Mobo: Asus Z97-a

GPU: EVGA 780ti SC

HDD: 1x 120GB 840 EVO, 1x 120GB 850 EVO, 1x Barracuda 2TB

PSU: Seasonic 650W

Case: Fractal Design Define R4

 

Path of progression, not including the prebuilt and laptops along the way.

[DIV1D3]

I still have most of the parts I used in my original build, but I haven't had a completely new system since. 

 

OG PC Specs:

Intel i5 4670K

NZXT Havik 140

ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer

Corsair Vengeance LP (2x4GB)

Seagate Barracuda 1TB

Antec HCG-900

Aerocool Strike-X Advance

 

Didn't have a GPU to start off with, and after a while the mobo started to show it's cheapness, one of the fins broke on a fan with teh Havik 140 and the case from Aerocool was terrible. 

I've made many improvements from when I first made this PC, wishing to get an i7 and 8GB more RAM with an 980 Ti soon. 

[B16CXHatch]

Built my first one in Junior year of high school.

 

Original Spec:

MGE Sidewinder Case

MGE PSU that was total garbage, but hey. I was learning.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (400MHz FSB variant)

Gigabyte GA-7N400-L mobo (nForce 2 400 chipset)

512MB of some DDR 400 RAM

Jetway GeForce 2 MX400 64MB yanked from my parents old Gateway

Some old CD-ROM and CD Burner also pulled from that Gateway

Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, take a guess at what computer I pulled that from

Maxtor (quit laughing, I didn't know any better) 160GB IDE 133 Hard Drive

Windows XP Home SP2

 

Final Spec:

Same MGE Sidewinder Case

FSP 450W PSU of some kind

Same CPU

Same Mobo

1GB of DDR 400 RAM of some kind in Dual Channel

EVGA GeForce 6600GT 128MB

Lite-On DVD-ROM (needed to install Battlefield 2) and DVD Burner (to match)

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

Still had the Maxtor somehow. It croaked shortly into the next computers tenure.

Still XP Home SP2. Vista didn't come out until about 6-10 months before I built the third computer.

[Shin-Gouki]

The first Computer I helped my Dad build when I was 5 or 6 

 

 

IMSAI 8080

Processor Intel 8080

Speed 2 MHz

RAM 8K

Cassette tape 8" Floppy Disk Drive