What was your first computer?

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Pentium IV 

Nvidia 5200 ultra

[Herman Mcpootis]

My original build i had last year

i5 650

leadtek gtx 650ti

4gb ddr3

500gb hitachi

Some random $10 crap case

 

Made changes like no tommorow with it, and ended up with the rig in my sig

[mikat]

16 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

My original build i had last year

i5 650

leadtek gtx 650ti

4gb ddr3

500gb hitachi

Some random $10 crap case

 

Made changes like no tommorow with it, and ended up with the rig in my sig

> MFW you don't have a sig

[roughavoc]

P4
Nvidia 6600GT

[Ser James Acinonyx of Compactis]

My first own PC was an Acer Aspire 5738Z (specs in name)

[NojusTechTips]

My one was (and now still is) a Core 2 Duo, NVidia GT240, 4GB RAM. It's a pre-built HP Workstation.

[Murasaki]

AMD Athlon 4200+

GeForce 8600GT

2gigs ram

 

~10 years old

So far everything in that setup has passed away except the PSU, It has new components now and I gave it to my mother to use.

[Herman Mcpootis]

54 minutes ago, mikat said:

> MFW you don't have a sig

the one in my profile lol 

[mikat]

1 minute ago, herman mcpootis said:

the one in my profile lol 

signatures > profile

[Quinten Verhelst]

Q-force laptop

I3 330m

4 gb DDR2

500 gb hdd

Windows 7

(16Y)

[onlybuilt4cubanxlinx]

Some Acer pile from Best Buy. I want to say my step dad spent $750-1k on at the time. 233mhz is the only spec I remember. I put a 4mb ATi card in it after they divorced. It was a joke of a machine, but it ran HL1 and TFC some how. Pair that machine with AOL 56k dial up and whooa man! I remember trying to find the least used phone number to connect to so I could get the max connection. Ping was around 280-300. Then I figured out how to save system resources by using a Microsoft dialer instead of logging into AOL. I wouldn't change of my setup at that time for anything. It has made me very humble when it comes to tech.

[yt1993]

A on old HP one for me, which for the life of me I wouldn't be able to remember the model of, back in around 2001.
It was so old it barely installed Heroes 3, and even then it wasn't able to run it!
I can remember being the most excited person ever, looking at the installation bar crawling towards 100%

[durpflip]

my first PC was a windows 98-based packard bell tower that came with a CRT monitor.

i don't exactly remember the specs (i was 4 why would i care) but i used it daily for playing chip's challenge and whatnot.

[ElenaLeffelZXC4]

I'd Love to say that my first computer was one from 1980 or something, but in reality, it's not. When I was 7, I got to visit my dad's for the first time in years, (Family issues) I played Diablo II on his Windows 95 Machine, I have literally No idea what System Specs the computer had, but it wasn't my first computer, so that doesn't really matter. I did learn some pretty interesting things, Like how you could put a random user account and password and have full access to the computer (Providing there was no Document Protection), and a bunch of other useful tidbits of info.

 

Fast Forward to Grade 7, and Lots had happened. My mom said she would get me a computer in half a year, but that ended up being a lie. So, I went to school, and Boom, Found an Old Dell Desktop Computer, with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 on the side of the Road. This was about 2007-2008. Not a very impressive computer, but it was better than nothing. I think it also had an old Geforce4 MX 4** or something. It took me about half a year to get the money to get a proper hard drive, and I was so naive that I thought Windows came Installed on a Brand New Hard drive. Lol.

 

So, I ended up getting my friends windows XP disk, and I installed it, but I had My Computer in Processor Compatibility Mode, without realizing it. So I ended up having windows XP install, WITHOUT EXPLORER. Yeah, Explorer wouldn't run. Not to mention, that I didn't have a valid Product key, so I had to reinstall the Trial every 30 Days. In case you are wondering how I ran programs, I used CTRL + ALT + DEL, to run Program to browse Folders, and launch Applications.

 

First Time I reinstalled, I had lost all my documents, so I Got Learnt about Partitions, and unencrypted documents. So I was able to play some very Basic Games, Red Faction, and The Great Escape Video Game. 

 

Every week, I went out in the middle of the night looking for Computers that were thrown on the Curb. I ended up finding lots of parts, and such, that I ended up using. Better Space Hard drives, a Geforce5 Graphics Card, TONS of 2000 Era Tech, and even TONS of 95 Eras Tech. It was here that I realized how important it was to delete your Data before Throwing Computers out, because I found an old 95 machine that had ALL of a Company’s Tax info and such. And even the person who owned it. 

 

Eventually, I came upon a Very Lucky Find. An Intel Motherboard, sitting in a case, soaked with Rain. I thought for a fact that it was dead.

I took it back and tried it anyway, it Blue screened, and I couldn't get it to work and I couldn't get it to Stop Blue-screening, no matter what I did. (I Left it in a dry place and didn't use it for a week before trying). I gave up on it.

 

I then found a Rare Sound Card for PC, that Now Makes Headphones. It was a Santa Cruz turtle beach sound card. I used that for So Long, but didn't realize how badly I would need it later. The audio ports on the Motherboard I had found that Blue screened had Been Ripped off by the previous user.

 

So, one day, when I was bored, and found a new case I wanted to move my computer to, I decided to give the Intel Board a try again. And it worked, and damn was it SO much better. I went from a 2.4GHz Processor, to a 3.0GHz Processor that had 2 Threads. It was awesome; I had my First Real Processor Upgrade! I moved all my data over to the new computer, kept the motherboard, and tossed the case, with a bit of hesitation.

 

At this time, I HAD NO IDEA about Thermal Paste. Yup, you guessed it, I Was Running "Steel on Steel" My Idle Temperature was 46 Degrees Celsius. When Playing a Game, I hit 80+ Degrees. I was having issues playing a bunch of games, and playing 720p Video. And 1080p video just wouldn't play.

 

a Friend told me about Thermal Paste and I was Amazed, I had just upgraded to Windows 7, and my graphics card didn't support the OS, But I didn't Know that.

 

So I Immediately Experienced a HUGE Performance Boost from the Thermal Paste, Obviously. 1080p videos played with little trouble, and my computer was fine with temperatures, around 60 - 70 degrees, when gaming instead. It's funny that the only game that made my computer crash from overheating was Star Wars KOTOR II the Sith Lords.

 

Eventually I found the Godsend of Finds. THE LAST AGP 8X Video card. The ATI HD 4650 AGP 1GB GDDR3. (I think it was GDDR3?) I put it in, and that’s where the real fun began.

 

Just Cause 3. 30FPS Low Settings

Skyrim, 30FPS Low - Medium Settings

Alan Wake, 30 FPS Low

many other games were now playable to me, and I guess for the time 30 FPS and low settings weren't impressive at all,  but I was still Impressed because i could play games that I never would have thought Possible.

Even the Tomb Raider game was "playable", (10-30 FPS with a GPU overclock)

 

And All Of This Was Free, and Took about 4-5 Years.

 

EDIT: Oh right, the hard drive I bought ended up not working anyway, and the place I bought it from wouldn't take it back, so it was a Waste, and I don't count it as money spent on the computer.

Edited July 1, 2016 by Zileth Ryder

[PattyJ]

HP computer with 2gb of ram,intel pentium 4,ati radeon 9500 hd (ati was later bought by amd) finally 40gb maxtor HDD (maxtor was bought by seagate) so yeah a lot of companies have been bought

 

[francmyster]

My first computer was a custom built AMD Duron 900MHz, 256MB RAM, MSI motherboard with integrated graphics running Windows 2000 back in 2002

 

In retrospect I'm in awe as to how far we've come.

[Fruit Dubious]

Mine was an old eMachines business desktop. I remember it was only powerful enough to run Windows XP, use Microsoft Office, and browse the internet.
I still remember when I upgraded the ram from 512MB to 2GB. I felt like a complete baller since the upgrade finally allowed me to play games.

[ESPImperium]

Mine was a UK brand called Tiny. The specs were roughly this:

 

CPU: Intel Celeron 500mhz

RAM: 32mb DDR2

HDD: 20GB Wester Digital IDE

56k Modem

Windows XP Home

Own Brand MoBo, PSU and Case and cooler, IDE CD-ROM

Upgraded it with a IDE LG CD-Re Writer

Crappy Tiny 12.1 inch CRT monitor and 3.5W speakers too

 

It worked for about 2 years before it slit its wrists, then i went for a custom build from a shop, my next 3 PCs were like that, upgrading every 2-3 years, my last one lasted 5 years before upgrade and now i have a self made custom build.

[FluffyPuppyKasey]

Mine was an HP Pavilion running XP MCE 2005. Don't remember the specs at all.

 

It looked like this:

 

[bugs399]

On 1/6/2013 at 1:35 AM, Casper said:

Actually the first computer I have actually owned is the one I have now.

Corsair 600T Case

AMD Phenom BE Denab 3.2 ghz cpu

H100i Enclosed Water cooling

8 gigs Gskill Ripclaw x ddr3 1333mhz ram

AMD MSi R7950 3GDDR5 Twin Frozr III

Primary Monitor Asus 23inch 1920x1080 led

1 Corsair Force GT 120gig ssd

2x 500 Gig WD black drives

How old are you?

[Laputacake]

On 1/1/2016 at 7:04 PM, PampaZiya said:

Am I the only one who's first PC had a 256MB of RAM? not even pentium 4, the one before it, some intel graphics with 500mb ;p..

Mine had 256 DDR, pentium 4 thought. Intel 82845/g graphics. rip GTA SA.

[CommanderAlex]

My first desktop PC was this back in 2006..lasted me 8 years till the motherboard went from the OEM replacement PSU.. 

 

My first gaming PC is what I have now. 

[Ramin_Studios]

Do laptops count...i'll pretend they do. A Dell Studio 1458 (purple(my mom had this laptop first)) it had a Core I5 @ 2.7 GHz

Intel intergraded graphics

4GB ram

500GB HHD

 

http://www.dell.com/us/p/studio-14/pd

[MilkJugg24]

And old windows 95 computer, I don't know the specs because it's in my grandmother's house under 10 feet of dust.

 

All I remember is that it had 3.5in floppys you needed to insert and type a command line to run the disk.

 

I used to play this ripoff game of pacman, it was alright.

[flibberdipper]

On 6/27/2016 at 2:40 PM, onlybuilt4cubanxlinx said:

Some Acer pile from Best Buy. I want to say my step dad spent $750-1k on at the time. 233mhz is the only spec I remember. I put a 4mb ATi card in it after they divorced. It was a joke of a machine, but it ran HL1 and TFC some how. Pair that machine with AOL 56k dial up and whooa man! I remember trying to find the least used phone number to connect to so I could get the max connection. Ping was around 280-300. Then I figured out how to save system resources by using a Microsoft dialer instead of logging into AOL. I wouldn't change of my setup at that time for anything. It has made me very humble when it comes to tech.

I still had to use good ol' Prodigy to get online back in 2008.