What was your first computer?

[kevinho]

First computer was a Commodore 16..

 

First PC bought was a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz (OCd to 180mhz)

 

First PC built was an AMD K6-2 350

[Blinky]

My first comp was a state of the art 486 DX2 33Mhz 4MB ram and a huge 200MB HDD. I was running windows 3.11

[Shiv78]

Just a general thread. Feel free to post any specs/experiences with your first PC build. My first build is the one in my signature, built it when I was 12 I think.

 

Curious to find out how many PCs some of the people around here have built.

[aSpoink]

I've built 2 so far. I built my current one and my brothers when I was 15(16 now).

Specs are:

Brothers PC:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($261.75 @ shopRBC) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M Gaming Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($89.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($67.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Video Card  ($326.25 @ Vuugo) 
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Total: $870.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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My PC:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($100.00) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($57.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($74.76 @ DirectCanada) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270 2GB TurboDuo Video Card  ($100.00) 
Case: Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ NCIX) 
Mouse: SteelSeries Sensei RAW Wired Laser Mouse  ($30.00) 
Headphones: Philips SHP9500  Headphones  ($64.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Other: Xigmatek Tauro 600W M ($90.00)
Other: SteelSeries ApexM500 ($129.00)
Other: DeepCool Ice Edge Mini FS V2.0 ($15.00)
Total: $761.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-11 22:14 EST-0500

I hope to upgrade my rig when zen comes out but I'll wait for more info on it.

[Noyu]

My first build is the one in my signature (Yuki-chan), built it when I was 22 I think. 23 now. Hahaha

 

Nothing special really. It booted the first time I turned it on. But I did make some mistakes:

• Installed the CM Hyper212x fan blowing towards the wrong direction. It was blowing hot air directly onto my PSU hahaha I was wondering why there was no hot air coming out of the exhaust fan.
• MoBo only read 1 RAM stick, apparently I didn't push hard enough
• others not worh mentioning.

[FAQBytes]

I've probably built about 20 computers. I've enjoyed (almost) every one of them and find it very relaxing. I have tons of extra parts I like to fiddle around with as well. Probably about 50 pounds of stuff, but about 30 of that is older stuff I'll never really use.

[Ithanul]

My first build was an AMD rig.  Looking back, I did some stupid selections in hardware.     But, the computer did the job and I thought it was awesome when I unlocked the duo to a quad core (back when AMD took surplus quads and locked them to duo).  Believe I was 19-20 years old back then.

 

Now I have Sergeants, friends, and family that bug me to build them computers.  The offset, I get free food.  Was sweet though to do a x99 system for one guy.  Wish he would sell it to me, the 5930K on that bugger can clock nice.

 

Actually, still have the pic of my first build.  Still have that case and my folder rig is stuffed in there.  Yeah....the PSU was overkill.  I still tend to do that.  Still have that PSU too.

 

 

[JoeCoke]

First PC I ever built. Ah...... Sweet memories. It was back in 2010, I was 13 years old and didn't know the first thing about how to build PCs. My shitty Dell laptop kicked the bucket only 6 months after I got it and I was left with a 1ghz Pentium 3 Dell.. I survived on that thing for about half a year, I did my first ever upgrades to it. I took it from 128mb to 512mb, I put a radeon 9250 in there and most importantly, I added a sound card. LMAO

 

But after a while I just couldn't take it. I gathered a few broken PCs left over from my mother and uncle and just said "fuck it" and went for it. I had no clue what I was doing and it's a god damn miracle it worked out. I ended up with a 1.8ghz Athlon 64, 1GB of RAM and a 9600 pro all in a putty colored case. The thrill when I got when it POSTed was just incredible. I was jumping around and screaming throughout the whole XP installation process. It took me awhile to finally figure what drivers I needed, but after that I was up and running. I was amazed at how perfectly it ran Project 64, and even more amazed that it could play TF2! I had no idea how old the PC really was at the time, but I didn't care at all, I was just so damn proud of it, I felt like I had a NASA computer.

 

The thing still lives today. I did a bunch of upgrades and even a little OCing and it works great as a basic computer. But see people, if someone as ignorant and stupid as me could build a PC at 13, anyone can! Thanks for creating this thread, I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

[A10-FTW]

show me your first CPU and GPU

cpu: Sempron (with 1 core at 2000 mhz)
gpu: HD 4350 with 80sp (that was a waste of money lol) 

[Sprawlie]

My first CPU was a MOS Technologies 6510 @ 1.023 MHZ (Commodore 64)

my First discreet GPU? ATI 3D Rage 

[Guest]

First CPU: uhm some Pentium

First GPU: some integrated from pentium

[Simon771]

Intel E4500 was my first CPU that I owned.

Before that was some Pentium 4, but that was family PC and I was only like 10 years old back then.

So at age 14, I bought myself first PC with E4500 CPU. And I don't think there was any GPU in that system  

 

First GPU that I purchased as an upgrade was GT 9800.

[leelaa14]

4690k gtx 980

[Guest]

Just now, leelaa14 said:

4690k gtx 980

fuck that's a pretty beasty first spec

[RoboTechnal]

CPU: i3-6100

GPU: RX 480 4gb

[Princess Luna]

My first dedicated graphics card I bought was a 8600GTS... and Pentium 4 something... but my first ever PC was an IBM running win98 which I don't recall anything about its specs

[Enderman]

i5 2500k

GTX 460SE

[Glennieboyyy007]

idk. pc was from 1998 i think. and was born in 19999 so it was older than me. windows 98 or 95 was my first windows

[captain cactus]

First PC was an old Gateway from the 1998 era with some Pentium.

 

Then we got a Dell with a Pentium D 820, 2GB of RAM and a nVidia 6800 "Family edition", then that thing died and now it has a GT220.

[cj09beira]

a pentium 3 with no external gpu

[davidna2002]

Commodore 128

 

then

 

Intel Pentium Pro 1.6MHZ w/ 3dfx Voodoo1

[typographie]

My first CPU was a Motorola 68040 at 33 MHz in a Mac Performa 580 in about 1995. I have no idea what it used for video output. Those were the days when video performance was measured by whether or not you had 24-bit color at 640x480.

 

Later on I used a Voodoo 3 3000 in an old second-hand Power Mac, and a Geforce 2 MX in a Compaq office PC.

[Bigbootyjudy]

cpu: pentium 4 ht

gpu: some random ass gpu from dell

still have that pc, it just needs a new mobo and Im replacing the cpu with a core 2 duo so i can browse the www

[HongkingGong]

e8400
gt 620

[TheRandomness]

Why can I stay still long enough to take a picture? Anyway, that's the C2D T7200 from my old laptop and Nvidia Go 7700 (12 Pixel shaders, 5 vertex shaders and 12/8 TMUs and ROPs).