What was your first computer?

[Sluggest91]

Mine was the crappiest piece of garbage you will ever know, i don't remember the specs though...But i remember it can't even run Half Life

[Mikjul]

SATELLITE A500-17X

 

• Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery)
• Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P7450
• 40.6cm (16.0”) , Toshiba TruBrite® HD TFT High Brightness display with LED backlight and 16 : 9 aspect ratio
• Hard disk 500 GB
• Precious Black with matt black keyboard
• 4,096 (2,048 + 2,048) MB, DDR3 RAM (1,066 MHz)
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 230M with CUDA™ technology
• maximum life : up to 2h50min (Mobile Mark™ 2007)

[SlaughterMelon]

Well our first computer as a family (that I can remember) was a custom built from General Nanosystems.  It had a Pentium 2 slot loading CPU and ran Windows 95 with that cool child environment.  We eventually upgraded to 98.  Then we got another custom built from the same place when it was time for windows xp, this time with a horrible AMD Sempron CPU.  Then I used a laptop from my dad's work with SUSE linux on it.  

 

Finally, in 2007 I got my first computer.  I desperately wanted an gaming computer, specifically wanted an Ailenware M7700, but naturally that was like 3 grand... so that didn't happen.  Instead I got an HP DV9000 as pictured below.  It could sort of play halo CE for the PC, and eventually got windows 7 and would also kind of run Auto-desk 3DS MAX.

 

[Superdoge]

Mine was a toaster. Toasts bread so fast that you don't even need to wait long! Other toasters just didn't compare. This toaster ran at 450F, but you could overclock it to 1100 watts - only $5 an hour to operate to use! Best PC ever. Still is the best PC ever, takes about 30 seconds to make my bread.

[starwarsguy99]

My first computer was an Acer prebuilt.

Specs were:

i3-2###

500 gig HDD

4GB Ram

Asus GT 520

[Nowak]

I have NO idea what model it was, who made it or really anything else about it, but the only thing I remember is that it ran MS-DOS.

[jaxjaggywires]

I forget the brand, but it was bought from CompUSA in 1993.

 

486-SX 33MHz

4 MB RAM

120 MB (I think?) HDD

MS-DOS/Windows 3.1

 

I was all about Doom, SimCity and Civilization on this bad boy in middle school...

[12g28m]

this is my first computer dell optiplex with intel pentuim III

my first laptop was some white sony vaio from 2005 

[Norseman4]

First off: First post. Now then, on to the on-topic response:

 

Has anybody replied with the Coleco Adam yet?

 

If not ... First

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam

 

2x High speed Random access digital tape, ftw.

 

Apple version of interpreted basic, which was great until I moved to the IBM PC with is COLOR monitors. (ohhh, ahhh)

 

Ability to play ColecoVision games (Bite me, Pong)

 

Ahh the good old days.

[maestro0428]

Original 128k Macintosh.  Yeah, that dates me. 

[Security]

The first PC in the house I don't remember anything off except I was allowed to use it only when one of my parents were there. The first PC I remember something hardware related about was one that was based around a Pentium 166 Mhz CPU and that the 500MB HDD was at some point upgraded to a 2GB one.

 

The first one I bought and build myself had the following specs:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition
• Asus M2N-SLI Delux
• 4GB 800Mhz Corsair DDR2
• ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
• 500GB WD Black
• 520W Corsair PSU
• Cooler Master Centurion 534 +Plus

   

   

[CookiezFort]

Can't exactly remember what PC it was. 

 

I think it was like half pre-built with a bit of customized parts.

 

Pentium something and an nvidia FX-5200, cpu was definately a pentium and I had like 2gb of ram, then sticks started dying so I went to 1GB then ddr3 came out and I had like 512mb becuase sticks started dying and the mobo also started dying

[JohnnyFALLEN]

I can remember having an IBM PC AT in the house growing up. Oh Reader Rabbit.

[linuxfan66]

I can remember having an IBM PC AT in the house growing up. Oh Reader Rabbit.

An at could run reader rabbit...I thought a 386 would be required. Did that have Cga or hga graphics?

[SyroStark]

This is my first time building a computer, I have been wanting to do up but usually something came up that made it not . I decided to attempt building a computer my laptop has started to have issue and I have started to become interested in streaming.

 

Right now I currently have only the case for the computer, a Carbide series Air 540 and don't even have  a mouse. When I complete the computer I am planning to use the computer for school, gaming, streaming and video editing. I was thinking about getting the different pieces of it over time so i don't really have a set budget for the whole operation.

 

From what I have learned for the computer alone I would need a CPU, motherboard, GPU, RAM, heatsink/cooling system, operating system, mouse, keyboard, monitor, storage device, power supply. If I am forgetting something please leave a comment about it. I am pretty open minded when it comes to this, mainly because I have nearly no idea what I am doing and would appreciate any help anybody could give.

[The Official Czex]

This is my first time building a computer, I have been wanting to do up but usually something came up that made it not . I decided to attempt building a computer my laptop has started to have issue and I have started to become interested in streaming.

 

Right now I currently have only the case for the computer, a Carbide series Air 540 and don't even have  a mouse. When I complete the computer I am planning to use the computer for school, gaming, streaming and video editing. I was thinking about getting the different pieces of it over time so i don't really have a set budget for the whole operation.

 

From what I have learned for the computer alone I would need a CPU, motherboard, GPU, RAM, heatsink/cooling system, operating system, mouse, keyboard, monitor, storage device, power supply. If I am forgetting something please leave a comment about it. I am pretty open minded when it comes to this, mainly because I have nearly no idea what I am doing and would appreciate any help anybody could give.

 

Get an SSD and a HDD for the best bang for your buck. Typically, a 250 GB SSD + a 1 TB HDD is the best option.

 

Go with Intel for your CPU.

 

Use a SeaSonic, EVGA, or Corsair PSU (non-CX or RM series).

 

Motherboards prices generally do not matter unless you're looking for specific features.

 

When you have a budget sorted, ask us for help on deciding upon a GPU.

 

16 GB of RAM is all that will be needed for most tasks.

 

You can use PCPartPicker for finding the best deals and checking for compatibility. 

 

Also, welcome to the forum!

[SyroStark]

I actually discovered this forum when I was watching one of a video on his Youtube channel. From my quick look at PCPartPicker, it should be a lot of help for building the pc, and I have already started a part list on it. Czex what would you recommend for CPU cooling? I have seen a few videos about water cooling and a few videos about using fans.

[The Official Czex]

I actually discovered this forum when I was watching one of a video on his Youtube channel. From my quick look at PCPartPicker, it should be a lot of help for building the pc, and I have already started a part list on it. Czex what would you recommend for CPU cooling? I have seen a few videos about water cooling and a few videos about using fans.

 

Air cooling is generally cheaper for about equal performance to water cooling. I prefer water cooling, but it's really up to you. If you'll be overclocking, then I suggest water cooling as it's easier to manage an OC on water vs air.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

These computers were the first ones I ever built, there were parts laying around my high school in my freshmen year and I asked if I could try and build computers out of them and I did.

 

If a thread like this already exists- oh well. New threads are always cool

[Aytex]

they let you build PC's are your school?

you sir are privladged

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

they let you build PC's are your school?

you sir are privladged

This school was pretty much entirely self guided, I could do literally anything I wanted. In that same year I interned at Brown University taking college physics courses everyday.

[werto165]

I've got to confess, I've never actually built my own PC, I got mine custom built from pcspecalist at the time, however I have done a few upgrades like a new SSD and GPU and I redid the cable management, but surely it's not too hard it's practically electronic legos at this point. 

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

I've got to confess, I've never actually built my own PC, I got mine custom built from pcspecalist at the time, however I have done a few upgrades like a new SSD and GPU and I redid the cable management, but surely it's not too hard it's practically electronic legos at this point. 

That's how I explain it to people, Computers are essentially electronic legos.

[werto165]

That's how I explain it to people, Computers are essentially electronic legos.

Yeah I would love to build a new PC, I can't exactly take my current one apart and rebuild it at the moment as I need it for my course, I can't afford to get more parts because all my money is going into the sink hole aka university 

[JWMutant]

Commodore 64 for me. Had many hours of fun pulling them apart. I remember the ram that the 64 had is less than the cache you will find on the cheapest and nastiest hdd you can find today. Had something like 64kB of memory. Oh the tape drives....... Spy v Spy.... best game ever!