What was your first computer?

[Agent181]

Damn my very first computer was a Compaq but I was way too small to remember the specs, my first laptop was a Athlon cpu with it that helped me through years then the pc building began and now my current craptop

[Lenidar]

It had a Pentium... I just remember staring at the maze screen saver and having fun...

[ZoZubin]

The first computer I owned myself! (like the first one I bought, not that I got from my dad cause he bought a new one) was the Apple iMac G5. that was very stupid because shortly after Intel based Macs came and within 2 years all the PowerPC support was gone. But I tried to do as much as possible with that old thing. even running PowerPC Linux what was very hard to install since the DVD reader was dead and the system did not support booting from usb. But I got it to work, and I learned a lot doing so.

[Jynx]

My first was a 486dx running dos and pctools.  My dad showed me how to build it when I was 12, it was my 13th bday present.  I then started going to computer shows with him after that and getting his hand me downs.  23 years later I never stopped. 

[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

 

 

Found an ad for the Pre-Built Version from when it launched

 

[Jynx]

I had started with a built 486dx with my dad and then continued to upgrade it however the first system I bought and built myself was a 650Mhz AMD Slot A.  Remember these?

 

 

[Real_PhillBert]

It's my sig build. Lol. I am a relative newbie.

[Ostwind]

3570k

Cooler Master V8

Sabertooth Z77

8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum

EVGA GTX 660 Ti Signature 2 FTW

Cooler Master Silent Pro M 700w

120GB OCZ SSD

1TB HDD

Corsair Obsidian 550D

[Sir Asvald]

My in signature.

[NumLock21]

Personal very first pc ever built.

Intel Pentium 3 800EB slot 1.

Some atx board

64MB sd-ram 133mhz

Ati rage xl 2MB agp

Creative sb live sound card

20Gb ide hdd

50x cd-rom

1.44mb floppy drive

Inwin case w/power man psu 200w

Case color? Beige

Windows Me

Upgraded that through out the years. Maxed ram to 384mb, 80gb hdd, asus geforce fx 5200 128mb dx 9 for gta vc, nec pci usb 2.0 card, d-link gigabit lan card, sony dual layer dvd burner, samsung dvd player. Had a acer and asus cd writer, both were crap. I still like how it has 2 leds, one is red so you can tell the drive is burning to the disc.

[walwalka]

AMD Athlon X2 3800+

4GB DDR 400

Biostar 6100 board

Ati x1600 512mb

Hipro 580 power supply

Random case

[bamerx98]

It seems like it was yesterday but it was only a few years ago now but here we go

Phenom II x4 955 BE

MSI 760G Motherboard

8Gb of RipJawz X 1600mhz for 33.99 wishing ram was this cheap still

Gigabyte 550ti Windforce (69.99)

Coolermaster Elite 335U with 500W power supply

1TB Seagate Barricuda

 

All of this came to about 450 dollars after taxes and was a really good pc i enjoy the computer and really got in to pc gaming and to be honest I think i spent the most amount of hours on this setup. Later dropping a 7870 Tahiti in which might have gotten more hours played on it then the 550ti but over all it was amazing pc and I wish I didn't sell it all, but ive got a bigger more expensive and better pc now which is great but i still think that i spent more time on that setup then my current setup playing games. I wish i could get back in to the games. 

[AntVenom]

Gigabyte GA-K8N-Pro-SLI Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

1GB of DDR400-PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6800GS GFX Card

Some generic case that came with a 500w power supply. Power supply died after 6-8 months or so. But I did my own cable sleeving on it, so that's cool.

[Arty]

So pretty

Gigabyte GA-K8N-Pro-SLI Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

1GB of DDR400-PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6800GS GFX Card

Some generic case that came with a 500w power supply. Power supply died after 6-8 months or so. But I did my own cable sleeving on it, so that's cool.


 

[JoeBTN]

Check My profile page.

[gojira]

Athlon 760k, GTX 580, EVGA 600B, 8 gigs (4x2) 1333mhz, 120 gig SSD and Rosewiol Ranger M. I honestly don't know how my components survived with so little airflow lol

[Interfectorem]

My first ever custom built PC had the following specs.

• AMD FX-8320
• CoolerMaster Seidon 120M
• MSI TwinFrozr R9 270
• Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
• Corsair Vengeance 8GB
• Corsair CX600
• Rosewill Blackhawk
• 1TB  WD Caviar Black
• Windows 8.1

[TechDookie]

 

My first ever custom built PC had the following specs.

• AMD FX-8320
• CoolerMaster Seidon 120M
• MSI TwinFrozr R9 270
• Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
• Corsair Vengeance 8GB
• Corsair CX600
• Rosewill Blackhawk
• 1TB  WD Caviar Black
• Windows 8.1

 

I have the same case. Did you get it in all black or with the blue? Also, did you find it opening side panels?

[jono20]

Bought in 2004:

 

• AMD Athlon XP 2500+
• DFI NFII motherboard
• 512mb OCZ RAM

 

"Upgraded" with a 128mb Radeon 9800 Pro a year later.

[catzambia]

(i3 would be better)

nobody building a sub 400 dollar pc is going to spend 3x the money they're already spending for a part.

[Sousuke]

Intel i5 760 2.8GHz Socket 1156 8MB L3 Cache
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 i5 Memory Kit CL9(9-9-9-24) 1.65V
250GB Seagate Barracuda 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
LiteOn DVD-RW SATA Drive
Asus P7P55 LX P55 Socket 1156 8 Channel Audio Out ATX Motherboard
PALIT GTS 450 1024MB GDDR5 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
Be Quiet 530W Pure Power PSU
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case
Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Built that in December 2010 (I know I skimped out on the GPU but hey it was my first build) 

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Gigabyte GA-K8N-Pro-SLI Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

1GB of DDR400-PC3200 RAM

GeForce 6800GS GFX Card

Some generic case that came with a 500w power supply. Power supply died after 6-8 months or so. But I did my own cable sleeving on it, so that's cool.

 

Not gunna lie... I dig the side panel and blue colour.

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nobody building a sub 400 dollar pc is going to spend 3x the money they're already spending for a part.

 

You don't say?

[MRL]

Core i5-2500K

MSI P67-C40

8GB Kingston ValueRam 1333MHz

1TB WD Green

MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone II

DVD optical drive

CoolerMaster Elite case, I forget which number.

CoolerMaster ElitePower 500W PSU

 

This was built in 2011, the SandyBridge was just released. No picture of it sadly...

[Avericious]

Case: NZXT Phantom

Motherboard: Gigabyte P67-UD7

GPU: Sapphire Dual-X HD 7970

CPU: Intel Core i7 2700K

SSD: OCZ Agility 3 120gb

HDD: Western Digital Green 3tb

PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 1000W

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16gb