What was your first computer?

[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.

[Hopalonghacksaw]

MY first CPU and Gpu Are the ones u=in my system right now 2600k and GTX1060

[arbellason55]

First cpu I bought which was not in a prebuilt was an pentium e8400 with a gts 250 from BFG tech.

[SansVarnic]

First CPU I purchased myself.

CPU: Intel® Pentium® III Processor 933 MHz, 256K Cache, 133 MHz FSB

[PianoPlayer88Key]

My first CPU:  AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+

My first discrete GPU of any kind:  NVidia GeForce GTX 970M 6GB

My first discrete GPU not in a laptop: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB SuperClocked

 

My dad's first CPU (I was too young yet to buy my own): 286-12 (idk if it was AMD or Intel, but I'm guessing Intel based on the $939 he paid for the CPU+Board+RAM+5.25"FDD+kybd)

My dad's first GPU: EGA, on an ISA card.  (Don't remember the vendor or model # though.)

[TheLaserCucumber]

My first PC was a Athlon II X2 260 paired with a 6600GT. Man was that a shitty Card.

[Adreyu]

I had laptops for a while but I don't count that really. I went from a dual core 2010 HP pavilion to an MSI GTX 770 Gaming edition and an i5 4670k

[Bleedingyamato]

9 hours ago, Ithanul said:

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.

 

Do you mind if I ask your age?

 

I don't mean to seem too nosy or rude but I'm curious since you said the computer had what has to be a rather old version of Windows.  

[Spudbilly]

Pentium ii w/MMX. Total war shogun needed the mmx instruction set if I remember right. 

 

First dedicated PCI GPU was an ATI Radeon 9250 paired with an Intel Celeron at 2.4 ghz 

 

Then moved to an Athlon 64 x2 6000+ with a Radeon HD 6670

 

Then a phenom ii x6 1045t with a GTX 650 ti boost

 

Then a i5 3470 with an r9 270x

[Train27]

First CPU:   Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 (1MiB L3 caché, 2.00GHz)

First (dedicated) GPU:   Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M (4GB GDDR3, 1.00GHz)

 

...obviously they were bought with many years of difference

[RhinoMcD]

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 
GPU: Sapphire AMD Radeon 6870 

[SirRedwood]

First personal build?  

 

Pentium 200 MMX

Matrox 4mb VGA card w/ Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Voodoo) passthrough

All fitted into a fancy circa-1989 Gateway 286 desktop case.  

 

Ahh memories...

[JDMFTW]

Lol at some of these newer pc's 



Athlon XP 2100+
BFG FX5500

No pictures of it but i started getting pictures of every iteration there after