What was your first computer?

[Carrionz]

In the middle of my first build right now... which will consist of the following:

 

CPU - 4770k

Mobo - Z87 Sabertooth

GPU - ASUS GTX 770

RAM - 16 Dominator Platinum 1866

Case - HAF 912 plus

Cooler - NH-D14 until I can get together a custom loop

KB - CM Quickfire TK red

Mouse - Razer Naga Molten

 

Bunch of NF-F12s and 128gb samsung 840 and 2 x 1TB Seagate HDDs possibly in RAID 1

[bagahr7]

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

MSI Twin Frozr III R6950 PE/OC

1 x 4 GB Corsair Vengeance black 1600 Mhz

Western Digital 1 TB Green

CoolerMaster HAF 912 Plus

LiteOn something DVD-RW

Corsair AX 850

Gigabyte GPA 890 UD3H

 

I bought 3 Rigs at a local computer store before, but they were shit as hell

 

this was my first system I choosed the parts and buiöd all together. I bought some oversized and undersized things.

Now I upgraded it to:

 

2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz black low Profile

Prolimatech Megahalems @ 2 beQuiet ShadowWings 120mm

Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB

Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB

Samsung ST3500 500 GB

Samsung HD300 300 GB

and some quiet and high airflow fans

[rashdanml]

My first was for my brother-in-law. I can't remember the detailed specs, but it was along the lines of:

 

i7 2600K

4GB of Gskill Ripjaws DDR3 1333

ASUS P8P67-V (I can't remember which one exactly)

WD Caviar Black 1TB

ATI Radeon HD5850 (just before it was discontinued and 6000 series came out)

Antec 900-2

600/650W PSU from Corsair; think it was the TX series.

 

SSDs were too pricey back then.

 

My own, about a year later:

i5 3570K

MSI Z77A-G45

Crucial M4 128GB

WD Caviar Black 1TB

Coolermaster HAF 932

EVGA 560Ti 448 Core (the MSI Twin Frozr wasn't in stock :()

Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 8GB DDR3 1600

Seasonic X560-FL 80+ Gold

ASUS Bluray drive (because it was cheap)

Samsung S23A300B 23" monitor

 

Already had peripherals (mouse, keyboard, headset).

[SirReallySam]

The banter makes this forum great sometimes

agreed...  :ph34r:  BANTER!!!!

[Kirrr]

My first build:

 

AMD K6 133MHz

Cheapo Foxconn board

32mb SDRAM

2x2GB Server harddrive in a blazing fast RAID0 config

ATi Rage PRO 4mb vga

Some crappy "white" case

+ BIG 14" Viewsonic CRT

[pGuerrerox]

I noticed this as i was looking through but, i think that your CPU is bottle necking the 7870 by a noticable bit, any reason you chose a i3 and a 7870?

At the time just money! 

 

I didn't notice any bottleneck, I am not a pro... i just play and mine crytocurrrency with it.

 

SSD + i5 ivy upgrade planned, hope a pricecut with haswell arrive.

[algoat]

Pentium Pro

S3 Virge Video card

Don't remember the rest

[Art Vandelay]

Core i5-2400 (regret not buying the 2500k)

Intel DH67BL motherboard (it was cheap, no regrets)

GTX 550 ti (so many regrets)

Corsair TX650 (developed a weird buzzing noise, and shipping it to the RMA centre costs too much)

Some horrible $20 case (3 motherboard standoffs were stripped; it was just an awful case)

old WD blue hard drive I had lying around (I can't complain, it was free)

Patriot G2 1600MHz RAM (cheap and decent)

[Filthyfil]

From memory

 

DX4/100

With 16MB of Memory

Awesome 14" Mono Monitor at that time

[7Shinoda]

4 or 5 years ago
 

Motherboard- ASUS Maximus Formula X38

Graphics card- EvGA 9800GTX

CPU- INTEL q6600 + thermaltake V1

Case- Cooler Master Dominator CM690

PSU- Corsair TX750W ( still using it )

DVD Drive- LG 24x 

Storage- 500gb 5400 Samsung F3 ( still with it )

OS- Windows VISTA X64

RAM- Corsair Dominator  4 GB DDR 1333Mhz 

Edited June 15, 2013 by 7Shinoda

[foxlinked]

it was in 2003 if i can remember right... 

 

epox 8rda

amd athlon xp thoroughbred b 1700+ 1.47ghz @ 2ghz

some generic cooler master cooler

512mb kingston hyperx ddr

i think the video card was a visiontek geforce 4 ti 4200 then later a radeon 9800 non pro

24x TDK cd burner

$30 lite on case with 300watt psu

 

the rest is hazy

i recapped the board a couple years ago. everything still works otherwise lol

[Vic9mm]

My first was.

OS: Win XP

Motherboard: MSI K9MM-V

CPU: Athlon 64 X2

RAM: 1Gb DDR2 Ultra

PSU: 350Watt cheap PSU

GFX: 128MB Geforce MX 440SE recently upgraded to a Geforce 6200 LE 128MB AGP.

HDD: 200GB WD

Being used to this day by my mother for Internet's and movies she loves it.

[KushKomputers]

 

Here was my first rig as a freshman in high school! I've done many builds after this and my latest rig is in my sig and is VERY different in specs AND size. My first builds specs are:

 

AMD Phenom II X6 1090t Black Edition

Corsair H70 Liquid Cooler

ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme Mobo

Corsair Dominator GT 8gb RAM

AMD Radeon HD 6950 x2

OCZ 60gb SSD

WD 2tb HDD Black

WD 300gb Velociraptor

Corsair AX850 PSU

Corsair 600t

 

ASUS 21" Monitors x3

Logitech G9x

Logitech G Keyboard

 

 

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Damn, that is crazy awesome!!

[KushKomputers]

In the middle of my first build right now... which will consist of the following:

 

CPU - 4770k

Mobo - Z87 Sabertooth

GPU - ASUS GTX 770

RAM - 16 Dominator Platinum 1866

Case - HAF 912 plus

Cooler - NH-D14 until I can get together a custom loop

KB - CM Quickfire TK red

Mouse - Razer Naga Molten

 

Bunch of NF-F12s and 128gb samsung 840 and 2 x 1TB Seagate HDDs possibly in RAID 1

Nice! whats the monitor situation? 

[Carrionz]

Nice! whats the monitor situation? 

 

I already have an LG 21" Flatron W2246 at the moment, so I'll use that and a monitor will be the last thing I think about. When the time comes I will stretch to 2 x 24" Asus monitors.

[DiamondRyce]

January of this year. Basically check my build sig with certain parts are different

CPU = Intel Celeron G540

GPU = Galaxy GeForce 630 (had for 2 weeks before switching to my Gigabyte Radeon HD 6670)

Case = Some Sentey CS2 Tac 2.0? Before moving to the Cougar Spike(about 4 weeks after)

PSU = Cooler Master 500w non modular

Ram = 2x2 gb Consair Value Select 1333mhz

[shimmikins]

did a quick search and couldnt find anything, so how old skool are you with system building?

 

to start, my first system was when i was 14.. built by myself

 

AMD 486 DX4-100 (intel, amd and ibm all where producing this chip)

8mb EDO ram (4x 2mb sticks)

SiS 1mb VGA vid card

200mb IDE ata33 HDD

Sound Blaster 16

14" CRT monitor @ 640x480

 

geez, after 16 years of building that system, i can still remember all that.. running msdos 6.22, win 3.11 and rockin games like doom2 and descent

[7850OC]

cpu - AMD Sempron 1150LE (i love it ♥ ^-^)

gpu - ASUS motherboard iGPU (i love ♥ ASUS)

ram - 1GB DDR2 533mhz (+_+)

hdd - 80GB (and i still use it today in my 2d PC, is a good drive)

os - Windows VISTA (yey, i love ♥ vista)

 

 

 

i have not build it of course, i just buy it, i need a PC for a small job in that time   :ph34r:

[Uberskills]

its my current pc soo 

CPU-3570K

MOBO-asrock extreme 4

GPU- XfX 7950

RAM-8gb DDR3 1600mhz

HDD-3 180 free hard drives that i got and 1 500gb hard drive

OS-Windows 7 

[Glaith]

First family computer was a commadore 64.

And my first personal computer was a 486 dx when everyone else had a pentium 2

Then i got a pentium 3 @ 800mhz with a gforce 2 that was the start of many more gaming rigs.

[iRRuSiioNZz]

The pc i built today
 

CPU: 4770k

MOBO: z87x UD3H

GPU: Galaxy GTX 780

RAM:8GB DDR3 1600mhz

HDD/SSD: 120GB SSD 1TB HDD

OS: None yet

[gasho]

Amiga 500

[shimmikins]

if i count family systems, then would be C64 too.. that thing was awesome for its time

[Chuck Norris]

My first system was a dell dimension xps t500.

 

Specs:

20gb hdd

128mb ram

pentium 3

windows 98

 

[Langdon]

My first system [prebuilt] had a 20GB harddrive and Windows XP, that's all I remember.

My first system that I built was built in January so it isn't very old school.