What was your first computer?

[it_dont_work]

The first that was actually mine was a Pentium II 233 with mmx! and  2mb trident 3d card.  Family had a commodore and some Packard Bell thing as well.

[laquine]

First ever CPU and GPU for me would be a pentium 4 and BFG 8400 GS. Ran FSX like a champ.... well back in the day it felt like that.

[porina]

14 minutes ago, ArcThanatos said:

im 27 mate haha, I'm not old, just yrs haven't been kind! XD. yeah I had 2 210Mb (WD) and a Maxtor 80mb. a 4x ROM, 1 floppy and a 5 1/4. I remember the 386 SX haha,

actually I have a MX200 at home I just remembered. I should do it up and post it up here! haha I would love to OC a old ass cpu  , mate how awesome would that be getting some old shit and doing old school overclocking. break out that led pencil!

I may have made bad assumptions... if you had a 386 new at the time, you might have been installing playing Solitaire before you could walk  

[kelvinhall05]

4 hours ago, MrDynamicMan said:

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

You thought your first laptop was bad.

Mine had a Ivy Bridge Celeron 1007U, whatever iGPU was on it, and 4gb of RAM...

[ArcThanatos]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

I may have made bad assumptions... if you had a 386 new at the time, you might have been installing playing Solitaire before you could walk  

I was in yr 3, so I would of been 9ish I think when I did my first build. but the computers and parts were all 2nd hand, my dad got them from his work as they were going to ditch them so we got a bunch of PC's and I started building..... nostalgia kicking in fo some old pc parts!!!

[Arc_Jester]

Single core Celeron @ 2.2 GHZ from the early 2000s and an Intel GMA.

[thefrecklepuny]

8086 with 640k RAM!!!

[Marinatall_Ironside]

First CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K

First GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB FTW ACX 2.0+

 

Gonna be upgrading the GPU now that I'm playing at 1440p and would like to turn up dem graphics settings.

 

Give you an idea, The Witcher 3 had to have all of the settings turned all the way down to hit high FPS numbers in 1440p with the GTX 960.

[Bleedingyamato]

10 hours ago, TetraSky said:

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.

May I ask your age please?   (Serious question not being mean I promise.)

 

You could pm me if you'd rather not say publicly.  Or if you don't want to tell me that's ok too.

 

6 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The first computer in my name had an Intel Celeron running at 600MHz and some integrated GPU. It could run Half-Life at like 30FPS.

 

The first gaming purpose built computer had a Athlon XP 2500+ and a GeForce FX 5600.

 

The first computer that I built myself had an Athlon X2 3800+ with a GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB.

 

I think the very first computer I used was probably an IBM 5150 or close to it at a school.

Same question: I'm curious about your age in relation to the first computers you owned and used.  Again a pm would be ok if saying here is not preferable to you. Also again if you don't want to tell me that's ok.  

[handymanshandle]

Desktop ?

Welll then this I suppose,

(i3 6100)

 

I don't have a GPU yet but it will probably be a RX 460.

[Noyu]

Laptop: 5.5 years old now wee

CPU: Intel Core i5-2410M 2.30 GHz (up to 2.90 GHz)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT525M

 

PC: RIP 2017, upgraded to current build

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.20 GHz (OC'd to 4.20 GHz)

GPU: SAPPHIRE NITRO RADEON R9 380 4GB

 

we had a Pentium 4 back in the day, but that wasn't really "mine"

[divito]

My first, I couldn't tell you. My dad worked for Digital (DEC) and we had a few computers when I was little, running DOS and the like. The next tower we had was a Digital with a Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU.

After getting obsessed with Counter-Strike, the first computer I actually paid for was a:

Pentium 4 - 1.7GHz

GeForce 2 MX 64MB
512MB RAM
60GB Hard Drive

Then I was down the rabbit hole into building my computers, doing the cold cathode tube thing, overclocking and nerding it out in my youth.

[Droidbot]

desktop: 

- pentium d something

- nvidia 7300gt

 

laptop:

- i7 something @ 1.7Ghz dualcore

- 6gb ram

- nvidia thermi 540m

 

[TetraSky]

7 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

May I ask your age please?   (Serious question not being mean I promise.)

 

I'm 27. I was 10 or 11 at the time. We were too poor to get a PC before that.

(Also because my parents didn't think it was worth it at the time. If you needed access to a computer, you could just go to a library... Remember those? Man, haven't set foot in one in years....)

[Mitko_DSV]

The first PC I've used had an Intel Celeron 466MHz and ATi 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x 4MB (integrated). Back then I didn't know what I was doing but I played games on it (Tanks and Tarzan). It had Windows 98SE. Later in time (2010/2011) I became the owner of that PC because no one wanted it. But the first PC I bought with my own money in 2012 had an Intel Celeron G530 2.4GHz and AMD Radeon HD7470 2GB. Actually this is still my main PC, well upgraded, but still the same one.

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, TetraSky said:

I'm 27. I was 10 or 11 at the time. We were too poor to get a PC before that.

(Also because my parents didn't think it was worth it at the time. If you needed access to a computer, you could just go to a library... Remember those? Man, haven't set foot in one in years....)

Ok.  Thank you.    

 

I think the first computer we ever had was a crazy old Apple computer.  I think it was this but I'm not certain since it was so long ago:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-IIc-Computer-System-With-Monitor-Works-Mostly-/371831503964?hash=item5692e27c5c%3Ag%3AzTkAAOSwTA9X5FUO

 

Why my parents got that ^ I'm not sure.  The only thing I remember using it for was a couple of games like super bunny or whatever it was called.  

 

Then we got something similar to this but again not sure about the exact model:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-Power-Macintosh-G3-PowerPC-Computer-with-Keyboard-and-Mouse-/361877889611?hash=item54419a624b%3Ag%3AB2AAAOSw5cNYdsVz

 

Our next desktop was a Dell with Windows ME on it I'm pretty sure.  

 

 

 

Please use libraries.  As a prospective librarian I and others like me may depend on people actually picking up those crazy things called "books".  ?

[TetraSky]

2 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Please use libraries.  As a prospective librarian I and others like me may depend on people actually picking up those crazy things called "books".  ?

Nah, I have ebooks. 

[sgtcool]

Cpu: Core 2 Duo 2.94Ghz

GPU: GT 9600

[Bleedingyamato]

7 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Nah, I have ebooks. 

Mean!  ? lol

 

You know libraries can have ebooks too.  Libraries near me have them anyway.  

 

 

[Indus Monk]

Pentium 3 (First CPU)

GeForce GT210 (First GPU)

[chrisholland03]

IBM PCjr with Intel 8088.  GPU wut? CGA card

 

 

 

 

[Jumper118]

 

fx6200@4.3ghz

GT610

and this picture was taken after i upgraded the psu and case and bought an ssd. lol. 

[Domrockt]

My first self buyed PC was an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ thoroughbred with i think  AIXJB stepping so it was overclockable to awsome 2,5ghz which was an 3200+ to overclock that Bad boy we needed to use silverpaste or Pencil to unlock the multis haha

 

GPU at that time was a Geforce 4200 BIOS flashed  and overclofked to an Geforce 4600.

 

Whooping 256 MB/133mhz no Name DDR 1 RAM overclocked to 220mhz what was as far as i think the best clocker in my PC

 

20gb HDD Seagate 

 

Everthing placed on an Abit NF7 nforce 2 mobo.

 

Pretty good PC for my bucks 

[Ithanul]

No clue what was in the first PC I mess with.  Just remember the computer was a old beige Packard Bell with W3.1 on it.

 

First GPU I bought, think it was a radeon 4670.  Sure was bitty one.

[Emberstone]

My very first PC was a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop with a single-core 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 ML-30 and the graphics were driven by an ATi Radeon Xpress 200M. Not sure if that was integrated or if it was a dedicated GPU. I got this PC back when I was 10 years old in 2004.

 

My first desktop CPU and GPU were a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and two Geforce 8800 GT's in SLI.