What was your first computer?

[HCP]

First one was a Amiga 500 and C64

First real PC i think it was some old IBM 8086/286 with a 30mb drive.

[fishymamba]

Some IBM computer my dad bought in ~92. He said it cost  over $2000 when he bought it. have no idea what it was, just remember that you needed floppy discs to start it.

[tovleander]

My first: IBM aptiva. 350mHz K6. 8gb hard-drive. Then a Dell P2-400mHz 12gb hard-drive.

[d33g33]

Mmm I can't quite remember but it was a AMD 1ghz Thunderbird. 40gb HDD and I had a GeForce 2 GTS. I remember the GTS I was the envy of everyone!!!

[GamerDude]

Geez, my first PC was some white box 286, but come to think of it, it was more of a family PC. The first true DIY PC I'd built, with help from my nephew, was a P III 933mhz rig, with a GF2 MX400 64MB vid card, IIRC, it was a hella gaming rig then.

[Tr3vor]

I still have mine

 

Its a Pentium MMX 200mhz, 64mb of EDO 72-pin simms, Baby AT motherboard with intel chipset of some sort, S3 ViRGE 2mb, some POS sound card, etc.  

 

It was a computer that was locally built, maybe at a brick and mortar store, but yeah around 1997-98. We've had computers before this one, but at the time I was like <5 years old, so I wasn't aware of them.

[virtualTune]

I only remember it having a Pentium 4 and 256Mb memory with Win 98. 

[SirReallySam]

My build at the moment is my first BUILD, built it just before Christmas

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/UVrg

 

This is the first PC I can remember the name of:

• Packard Bell i-MEDIA Tower.
• Pentium 4, 2.4Ghz Processor.
• 1GB RAM.
• DVD Player - CD Writer.
• Floppy Disk Drive.
• 15" Packard Bell Monitor (monitor has twin speakers that can either attach to the sides of the monitor or stand on their own).
• Anti glare screen for monitor - not shown in picture.
• Packard Bell Mouse and Keyboard.

(Windows XP)

 

but I know my family had one before I used to go on paint all the time XD I think it

was windows 95 anyways

[CAKEwasTRUE]

-Pentium 4 @ 1.80GHz

-1.5GB DDR ram

-180GB WD Blue ATA

-Dell Motherboard

-Nivida GTS 8400 Legacy PCI

-180Watt psu

-x2 RW DVD Drive

-Dell case

 

 

9/10 would bang

[virtualTune]

-Pentium 4 @ 1.80GHz

-1.5GB DDR ram

-180GB WD Blue ATA

-Dell Motherboard

-Nivida GTS 8400 Legacy PCI

-180Watt psu

-x2 RW DVD Drive

-Dell case

 

 

9/10 would bang

must have been expensive :)

[Samdb]

My family's first was the Compaq Presario SR1719UK, my parents are a little bit ignorant when it comes to electronics. However my first system was a Samsung RF511 AO2, which is only 18 months old, so I guess I've not had a computer till I was 15...

 

Edit: I just read a review of the Compaq which said it was silent, the damn thing sounded like a Boeing 747

[MrKaiDow]

Intel pentium 4 (can't remember clock speed)
1.5 GB ram
Geforce 6300GT
40GB IDE WDcaviar
300w PSU

Thats all i remember!

[Lays]

my first system I built was the one I'm using right now,

 

I7 3930k, Rampage iv extreme, 32gb 1866mhz, at first I had 1 titan, but I sold it and currently have 2 evga acx 780 sc's,  I love this computer to death, it handles absolutely everything I throw at it without even flinching. I can't wait to do future watercooling+ maybe updates later on.

[JordanMac]

The first computer i built for myself is the one in my sig.

[wkronbaek]

A compaq c60 or something along those lines. split it apart after it like, started becoming unusable and i'm impressed how bad a job they did at applying thermal compound. Reminded me of that Tek syndicate applying thermal compound the kentucky way video

 

First desktop/Thing i build myself is gonna be the one in sig

[Nertballs]

the actual first pc we had, i have no idea, but it had windows 98 i'm pretty sure! :P

and the one i built myself last year has a 2500k and a gtx 560ti (the done thing at the time) and the rest is in my sig!

[solomongrundy]

Commodore PC iii something or other. It didn't have a hard drive so it needed MS dos  5.25" floppy disks to boot up. I remember playing Prince of Persia on it...now that game was awesome.

I remember my neighbor getting a better computer with more colors...I think mine was CGA colors and he had EGA. I was jealous as hell because Prince of Persia and other games looked much better than mine.

 

First computer I built myself was a AMD Duron with an Abit board and 256mb of PC133 sdram.

[obsidian1200]

My first computer was a handmedown Gateway tower that my parents got back in 97, back when they were using the Gateway 2000 name. I don't even remember the specs on it.

[Tr3vor]

I like my old computer so much that I'm gonna post pictures of it :P

 

 

Cable management? Ain't nobody got time for that in the 90s (or 80s)

 

[docterkiwi]

Ok so This is my first build and Im so exited I feel like a kid not being able to sleep! My question is what was your first build and were you very excited like you couldn't sleep? lol and how much did you spend?

[Hazy125]

My first build is the one I'm using currently, so I remember it pretty well. The thing I remember most wasn't actually building it, but the trouble I had loading windows onto due to having some problems with a 3tb drive not being recognised properly or at all even by my motherboard and me plugging the drive into several laptops to get it to actually work... I spent 6 hours doing that and spent $2000AU

[Snickerzz]

me because my first build was only a year ago :D

[nelodiavolo]

You young wippersnappers! My first computer was made out of wood and it ran on hopes and dreams!

 

OK JK. My first build was with a LanParty SLI-DR socket 939 Mobo with an AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+ and 4GB of OCZ Platinum DDR RAM.

 

OP, I know how you feel about not being able to sleep. I just the final piece of my Haswell build today (4670K) and I have not completed it tonight. Now I have to sleep, go to work, and won't be able to finish till later tomorrow. :(  

[qwertywarrior]

my first build was a QX6700 and a 8800GTX with 4 raptors in raid 0

using a 680i board with an amazing 2GB of ram

also a high end creative sound card with that external box (forgot the name)

 

spent around 5000 dollars

 

gaming computers back then were exciting

now its meh

[docterkiwi]

yea my parts get here friday sat and wed  so im gunna be like starring at each part im my desk until they are all here.