What was your first computer?

[Vigilante505]

Athlon XP 1700+

GeForce 2

 

Was my first custom build. 

 

First computer I have no idea but it had a 5.25" floppy drive and dos. Right after that we bought a $3k Gateway pentium 3 lol

[tatte]

The first CPU I paid my own money for was a 2.8GHz Celeron (as a part of a full build), the first CPU I bought as a part of my first build was E2160. The first CPU I owned was just like @Sprawlie's, a C64 CPU (if that counts). I had several PCs as a kid without a clue what CPU I had (back then I got PCs for free from/via my older brother).

 

That Celeron came with a Radeon 9200 IIRC, my first touch with hardware happened when it broke down and I had to get a replacement, which was a Radeon 9250. I do know that whatever I had before that 9250 supported newer DirectX version, which turned out to be a great lesson in tech. The first GPU I bought with planning was a 7600GS (9250 just happened to be the best card I could afford in a pinch). I got 8500GT with that E2160.

 

I of course had whatever GPUs with all those PCs that came after C64, but the only card I know I had at some point was a GeForce 4.

 

Bonus fact: I have rescued a 9250 and a GeForce 4. I try to grab pieces of nostalgia whenever I can find them for a reasonable price and have means of using, which is why I don't have a E2160 around despite of its low price (finding the right motherboard is much harder).

 

 

[oskarha]

An AMD Mobile Sempron 3200+ and an ATI Radeon Xpress X1150 if i recall correctly.

[Sir Asvald]

My first ever CPU and GPU? Well the CPU was a P3 the GPU was either ATI (before AMD bought them, yes kids it was known as ATI ) or Voodoo3. Windows 95. I was a baller. 2 years old and my own pc.

 

 

[xDanielxOossiex]

First CPU and GPU that I bought myself:

CPU: New i5 4590

GPU: 2nd hand EVGA GTX750

[Archeval]

This right here was my first and here's the shell

 

it's a Gateway E4100 desktop with Windows XP i got for free from an office who had a surplus of desktops

 

Pentium 4

4GB DDR2 RAM

later added ATI HD2400 (pretty much what it looked like)

400W PSU

146GB storage

16x CD-ROM drive

 

ran with that for about 8 years before my current desktop that I've iterated over the years

 

first computer i used that i didn't own in the household was an apple IIE with a 6502 and no GPU

 

 

Edited January 17, 2017 by Archeval

[leelaa14]

31 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

fuck that's a pretty beasty first spec

Yeah I moved from console (PS4) and wanted to make sure it was a huge step haha.

[Clanscorpia]

[A10-FTW]

2 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

your picture = my first cell phone 

[MrDynamicMan]

2 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

fuck that's a pretty beasty first spec

4690k 970

if laptops count sandy bridge i3 and ayymd discrete something. (i was 10, ok?!)

 

1 hour ago, Clanscorpia said:

Ha! Gai! (That is turing, right?)

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

 

Ha! Gai! (That is turing, right?)

Not sure just googled Eniac lol 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

4690k 970

if laptops count sandy bridge i3 and ayymd discrete something. (i was 10, ok?!)

 

Ha! Gai! (That is turing, right?)

you mean Buttercup Cumbersnatch?

[NTDaws]

I remember my first laptop cpu was Intel Atom and it was in a netbook? my First desktop cpu was a AMD Phenom II x4 955

[JoeCoke]

My first PC had this (not my image)

lmao

[XenosTech]

GeForce Fx 5950 ultra and Intel pentium 4 extreme that was first setup not the first system I built but that was my first pc

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

-Dual core E5300 that i had OCed to 3.2Ghz using an FSB piece of software

-A Radeon 6450 2GB

[NerdyCoder]

My first CPU was a Intel Centrino 2.

My first GPU was some Intel integrated chipset.

[RGProductions]

First custom build

i5 6500

GTX 660 (now RX 470)

First PC

P4

1gb ram

no dedicated GPU

in 2010

 

[TetraSky]

CPU : Pentium 3 733Mhz

GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 256

 

Because THIS was my first PC.

It was garbage. Had to ship it back for repair maybe 5 times in the first year. We upgraded the RAM to 192(then 256 and then 512 near the end)and the OS to Windows XP when it came out.

[Archeval]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

you mean Buttercup Cumbersnatch?

Who? i think you mean Bendystraw Cabbagepatch.

[NumLock21]

Pentium 3 800MHz slot 1

ATi Rage XL 2MB AGP

[madmaxsrb]

Pentium II Processor 400 MHz

ATI Radeon Rage Ultra 128 32MB AGP.

[MoonlightSylv]

My first laptop had some Atom chip with HD Graphics.

My family's computer that I used more than anyone else had a Pentium 3 (we upgraded to a Pentium 4 machine later)

My first custom build had a Pentium E5400 and an R7 240.

 

I'm really not proud of that 240 but it played the games I wanted to at the time at 1280x1024.

 

Edit: Picture of first custom rig

Edited January 17, 2017 by ShadowTechXTS

[Wolther]

350m, 4gb ram, 240 hdd 720p display. It was a laptop.. can't remember what else there was there 

[bossman1]

Intel 4004 then 4040, 8008, 8080, 8086 and so on so forth.

Intel 4004

White ceramic Intel C4004 microprocessor with grey traces
Produced	From late 1971 to 1981
Common manufacturer(s)	Intel
Max. CPU clock rate	740 kHz
Min. feature size	10 μm
Instruction set	4-bit BCD-oriented
Transistors	2300 [1]
Data width	4
Address width	12 (multiplexed)
Successor	Intel 4040 Intel 8008
Application	Busicom calculator, arithmetic manipulation
Package(s)	16-pin DIP