What was your first computer?

[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 

[Shiv78]

On 1/12/2017 at 1:11 PM, 2Buck said:

Thanks for creating this thread, I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

NP!

 

Those two retro rigs seem like great little monsters lol

[Ithanul]

On 1/19/2017 at 1:30 AM, Bleedingyamato said:

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.  

27.  That was my first computer I got to use when I was little.  My Dad bought it so I could have a head start learning how to operate one.  Figuring out MS-DOS terminal commands to load games off a floppy was a strong incentive back when I was young.

 

These the games I grew up with. 

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I wonder, how many remember this little stinker.

 

Graphics sure have changed in just a few decades.

[NoCarrier]

first CPU was an NEC V20 8088 clone, running at 10mhz turbo speed.  Unlike you kids with your fancy boost clock, to go from the bog standard 4.77mhz  (yes megahertz) to 10mhz, you had to press a turbo button.  The reason you wouldn't leave the turbo button depressed all the time was because it was TOO FAST for some games.  No active cooling, no heatsink even.  At full chat you can put your finger on it no problem. 

 

first GPU was a taxan CGA adapter.  Though it's not accurate to calling it a GPU since it didn't do a whole lot of processing.  It was probably longer than your fancy pants 1080.  How many stream processors and memory you say?  Well, not sure about memory, but it reserved 16k of RAM for it's frame buffer.  The defacto display mode was 320x200x4 colors.  People did some pretty creative things with black, white, magenta and cyan back then. To be fair it had a couple of different palettes and if you dropped the resolution lower I believe you could have gotten up to 16 colors.   8bit ISA bus, none of this PCIe business.  

 

Throw in a 200watt PSU, a case, dual 360k 5.25 floppy drives (no hard drive), a ISA Floppy controller, an ISA Serial/Parallel controller (none of this stuff was built into the motherboard back then), a motherboard and 640K of RAM, a keyboard, no mouse, and a CGA monitor.. that first build was $880 USD.  Which is like a billion dollars in today's dollars.

 

[WkdPaul]

My first CPU was a Pentium 4 1.8Ghz ... that thing overclocked like a boss (easily ran at 2.8Ghz for 4 years)

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And my first GPU (that I got with the P4) was a GeForce 2 MX ... of course!

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[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Ithanul said:

27.  That was my first computer I got to use when I was little.  My Dad bought it so I could have a head start learning how to operate one.  Figuring out MS-DOS terminal commands to load games off a floppy was a strong incentive back when I was young.

 

These the games I grew up with. 

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I wonder, how many remember this little stinker.

 

Graphics sure have changed in just a few decades.

Your dad sounds nice.  ?

 

My parents didn't buy me my first personally owned computer until I started college.  

 

Yeah things defintely look a lot prettier now.  ?

 

 

Two two of the first pc games I can remember playing I think were both crazy old Star Trek ones.  One was Next Generation I'm sure and the other was Original Series I think.

 

I think the Next Generation game was maybe for W95 or W98 but it could've been a different older version.  I'm guessing about some of this but I think you moved between systems and in each you could run into enemy ships or I think hazards like black holes or planets.  You had a limited number of torpedos but also could use phasers.  I forget if there was a limit to phaser use like running out of power.  

I only played it a few times on some computer my uncle had.  

 

The Original series game was older I think and I'm not sure if it was Star Trek of just heavily copying it.  The game was again divided into box shaped systems that you warped between and I think you could set your direction (degree number out of a 360 degree circle) and warp speed on a sort of clock looking screen.  Faster warp speeds consumed more power I think.  The graphics had a strange color pallet I think.  

 

 

I wish I could remember the names of those games.  Or get to play them again. But I can't remember.  ?

[asand1]

First GPU I bought was a gt 6600. Can't remember my 1st CPU, second was Athlon 3000+ 2.08GHz single core.

[Sors]

 

[8uhbbhu8]

Pentium 3, 521MB Ram, igpu, later on a TNT2 32MB

[Aniallation]

 

 

 

EVGA 8800 GTS 512MB

 

This was in 2008 so was a plenty decent system for the time.

[f688xt6]

The MOS 6502 in the Commodore VIC20 was the first one the family had.

 

Personally though, 486/33.

 

I don't really know about the GPU though.

[CyberJeff3000]

These are the specs of the first desktop I ever owned (around 2003-2004)

[SirWendall]

CPU: FX6300

GPU: EVGA 660ti SC

[Mug]

I don't have my first computer any more :'( Gave it to a mate because he needed one for Uni back in the day and haven't asked for it back.