What was your first computer?

[themctipers]

On 7/7/2017 at 5:28 PM, ShadowTechXTS said:

Oh boy this one's bad, I built it when I was 12 and just starting to get into PC gaming. Honestly for a 12 year old I don't think this was too bad, and it worked for gaming at 1280x1024.

 

Pentium E5200

AMD Radeon R7 240 (sorry Linus)

HP Slimline motherboard

2GB of DDR2 memory

Corsair CX 430 PSU

Some random cooler

Some hard drives I took out of dead laptops

A DVD R/W drive

and a modded Rosewill Ranger M with a custom plexiglass window.

 

Anyway it looked like this:

arent you like 14?

 

 

 

 

 

my first pc (2008 ish)

2500+ sempron

FX 5200

80gb IDE drive

i had a fucking dvd burner !

1gb ram 

 

second pc (2009 ish)

pentium 4 extreme (still socket 478 though)

FX 5900 Ultra FX 5200 ..

160/200GB IDE HDD

4gb ram (ddr!)

 

third pc (2010 ish)

i5 760

GT 430

16GB Ram (4x4gb)

1.5TB WD Green

 

third pc upgrades (2012)

Intel 520 SSD

2TB WD Green

3TB WD Green

GT 430 -> GT 610, a month later it went back to a GT 430

 

 

third pc upgrades (2014)

GT 430 -> GTX 760

 

fourth pc (late 2015)

i7 3770k

GTX 760

Asus P8Z77-V LE

8GB (1x8gb)

 

fourth pc upgrades (early 2016)

overclocked from 3.5ghz to 4ghz (still stock cooler)

R9 380

3x8gb = 24gb DDR3 (1600mhz)

 

fourth pc upgrdes (mid 2016)

stock cooler -> 212x, 4ghz -> 4.5ghz overclock

 

fouth pc upgrades (late 2016)

4.5ghz -> 4.4ghz (105c loads on 212x to 90c loads on frostwin v2)

212x was thrown out and replaced by deepcool frostwin v2 (212x was defective)

4x8gb ram now (32gb, 1600mhz)

Intel 520 SSD -> 850 Evo 

 

fourth pc upgrades (early 2017)

R9 380 -> GTX 1070

 

early/mid 2017, lots of ram problems, 1066mhz was what i was running until i hackintoshed (windows fucked up), 1600mhz.

then magically after, 1600mhz ram works in windows (yes ive tried memtest/fresh install/bios reset/using only 1/2/3 sticks of ram)

 

 

[TheLaserCucumber]

My first custom PC had an Athlon II X2 260, 4GB DDR3 and a GeForce 6600GT.

I think i also had an 80GB IDE drive  Man this thing was terrible...

Unfortunately i don't have any pictures, but the case this was in still lives on. It houses my brothers PC.

[wolfsbane3083]

Oldest one I have pics of. Pentium D 945 with a 7900GTX. I believe this was 2006.

 

 

That screen size though.

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/ulRd1

[bowrilla]

First one: a used Amstrad CPC that used to be my brother's … probably around 90/91 so at the age of 4 or 5 . After that in 92 a 486DX2 with 8MB RAM, then a some Pentium 2 model, a P4 after that and then some Core models – nothing left to this day and mobile computers excluded.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

The first several pictures are my own first computer.  They're presented in chronological order.

 

Not included in the above invoice are a few parts we already had:

• my parents 21" ViewSonic PF815 CRT,
• MS keyboard,
• mouse &
• HP inkjet printer;
• my 80GB WD800BB IDE HDD from 2001
• my 250GB WD2500JB IDE HDD from 2004
• my 750GB WD7500AAKS SATA HDD from 2007

 

Taken Oct 6, 2008.

 

Taken Dec 15, 2008.  Yes, we STILL had the 5.25" floppy drive from my dad's first PC.  (More on that farther down.)  No we didn't have a way to hook it up, unfortunately.  I think we may have gotten rid of it since then since I haven't seen it in the last year or two.

 

On 4/29/2009, I bought another 2x1GB RAM, bringing the total installed RAM to 4GB.  As you'll see in a screenshot down a bit, only 3GiB was accessible.

 

That was the desk setup, taken Jun 1, 2009.  The cat in the picture passed away later that year.

 

On 9/23/2009, I bought a 750GB WD7501AALS Black HDD and two 1.5TB WD15EADS Green HDDs.

 

An example of typical use / multitasking.  Screenshot taken Mar 10 2010.  Looking back, I wish I could have afforded an i7-920 and GTX 285 instead of the A64X2-4000+ & X1250, or at least a Q6600 + GTX 260 or similar.

 

Who hasn't seen one of these?  Taken Mar 22, 2010.

 

And, the last picture of the system's internals, taken Mar 18, 2012.  The system was dead within a week or two at the latest, IIRC.  (It may have already been dead then, just can't remember now.)  The video had died on the motherboard, and IIRC I was told there were other things on the same chipset, so just getting a video card wouldn't have gotten me back up and running.

 

If I could have afforded it, I would have built a new system around like an i5-2500K, GTX 460, etc, or something like that.  I was pretty broke, so I had to resort to using my T-Mobile G1 smartphone (and later my Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G), plus my dad's Dell D830 laptop (Core 2 Duo T7250, 2GB DDR2-667, 500GB WD5000BPKT HDD, Intel GMA iGPU, etc) until I was able to save up $ to build my current system in January 2015.

 

 

And, as I mentioned earlier, a couple pictures of my parents' first computer, the one I cut my computing teeth on.   (This doesn't count the Apples I used the year or two before that on trips to a home education center or something like that.)

 

We got this computer about a few months before my 8th birthday.  I wonder how good of a computer he could get now (or after ThreadRipper is out) if he spent the same amount, adjusted for inflation?  (Assume SSD, RAM & GPU prices have come back down to where they should be.)  For a monitor, assume a single 4K 60Hz 27-32" IPS maybe 10-bit non-G-Sync good-quality display, or something like that.  They're not gamers, so an iGPU, or if there is no iGPU, a GT 710 / GT 1030 / RX 550 would be plenty.  I do remember them running a 3D design program on one of their few computers in the past, and IIRC its performance would have been best described as "MPF", not "FPS".  (Maybe a decent dGPU, like a 1080 or 1080 Ti or RX Vega, might be necessary if they wanted to run a program like that again in the future?)

 

And lastly, a collage of pics of that computer...

No, that's not a BSOD in the one picture, it's a DOS text editor / word processor (PC-Write) we used extensively back in the day.  Also, I think Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego is probably one of the most graphically intense games my parents have played.  Otherwise, they're not really gamers at all. My dad has played JezzBall in the past on Windows, and my mom does play Solitaire and Spider on the D830 now and then.

[Shreyas1]

not a desktop, but dell latitude d620

 

[JR1911]

First computer:

 

First PC (don't have any pictures of it):

486DX2 66Mhz

4MB RAM

343MB Conner HDD

512KB VLB video card with a Cirrus Logic chip, either a 5424 or a 5426, can't remember anyomore.

15" CRT monitor

3,5" floppy drive

[NumLock21]

Don't have any pics of my first PC, but it has the following specs

Intel Pentium 3 800MHz slot 1

Some combo slot1/socket 370 motherboard, where it can run a slot 1 or socket 370 cpus, but not both at the same time

128MB SD-RAM

20GB Hard Drive

1.44MB floppy drive

50x CD-ROM

ATi Rage XL 2MB agp video card

56K PCI modem

Creative Sound LIve! PCI sound card

ATX case with built in 250w power supply

Microsoft Windows Me!

HP Printer (still using this today)

17" CRT monitor

Standard speakers

Generic keyboard

Microsoft mouse

[yaya1]

Hey!                                                   TLDR: What did/does your first build/computer consist of?

 

First off, I hope a thread like this doesn't already exist, although I couldn't find one(If so, please tell me  ). EDIT: Oops, seems like I forgot about the "Show Off Your Setup" thread, it makes this one redundant, does it? 
Also, I hope I chose the right section for the thread.

 

Basically, the idea is to discuss what you started off with.

 

My first "build", which - to be honest - I didn't assemble when it was new(early 2016), as - to be honest - I was afraid of breaking something by shorting parts out with static energy, although I re-built it for the sake of swapping the case. It consists of:

 

• an i5 6500 with the stock cooler
• Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H
• 16GB of RAM(in the beginning, it had 8GB, I upgraded it to 16GB in December of 2016)
• 3TB of HDD storage(initially, it only had a 1TB one, in Dovember or December of 2017)
• OCZ Trion 100 225GB SSD
• Sapphire R9 380 Nitro 4GB OC
• Xilence 630W 80+ Bronze PSU
• a DVD drive
• Zalman A1 case, which, the other day, I swapped with a Fractal Design Focus G Mini
• a Cooler Master Silencio FP 120 3-Pin, which I think I added in march of 2016

This is the very build I still use today. And although it's not that old, I think it held up pretty well, considering how much my workloads changed; I can even edit 4K video on this machine, although there's always some room for improvement...  

 

To be honest, this is far from my first PC. But apart from a notebook I bought back in early to mid 2014, I've only used computers that were about built when I was born, making it difficult - to say the least - to track down the parts in them, especially given the last time I "really" used one of them, I was about eleven years old...

[Brooksie359]

Fx 8350 some Asus board I can't remember with 8gb of ram. A gtx 960 for the gpu. It was a decent build for the price but I would have built a different pc if I new more at the time. 

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Jonas_2909 said:

 TLDR: What did/does your first build/computer consist of?

a Cyrix Cx486DLC for the CPU

PC66 (IIRC, it was a while ago) SIMM modules, 4MB (yes, MB...not GB) worth

Asus motherboard

Orchid Fahrenheit VLB video card with 4MB RAM

Original Soundblaster ISA card

20MB Conner hard drive.

14" CRT

14.4k external serial modem

Panasonic KXP-4400 Laser printer.

Nakamichi 4disc cd-rom changer unit

20MB "floptical"

parallel port 100MB Zip external drive.

 

[KarathKasun]

First "from scratch" build

 

AMD K6/200

32mb SDRAM

Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" 4gb HDD

Sony 56x/24x/4x CD-RW

ATI Rage II+ 4mb graphics (PCI)

Creative Labs SoundBlaster (PCI)

56k Modem

20" 1600x1200 CRT monitor

[Voxels-Box]

i7 4770

Gigabyte mATX mobo

8gb ddr3 1600mHz

MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr

120gb SSD

1tb HDD

raidmaxx 750 PSU

Cooler Master HAF 912

RCA 24" 1080p monitor

 

Circa 2013 my first ever PC, age 19

[Pixel5]

my first custom build that i did not build by myself at the time was the following, purchased in 2006 for 1800€ 

Athlon X2 5000+

2GB of Ram  

Geforce 7950GX2 

2x 160GB Samsung HDD´s (these are still functional today)

And some generic case.

 

i still have the bill at home, the most expensive part was the GPU and it sucked so hard, typical multi GPU microstutters all the time...

[Quadriplegic]

The first PC I used...

If I remember right, it consisted of Celeron CPU, forgotten motherboard, 8MB Voodoo video card, 10 GB HDD. I can't remember how much RAM it had, but it was enough to run Windows XP on it.
That PC was bought in 1999 or something like that, so you can imagine the pure performance it had..

 

Since then, there were other pre-built PCs, laptops.

My first completely built system (that was partially finished on Monday):
Ryzen 5 1600X;

MSI B350 Tomahawk;

Zotac GTX 1060 3GB;

128 GB Samsung SSD (an older one, not 850 Evo or something like that);

2 TB Seagate Baraccuda HDD;

2x8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX @3000 MHz;

Meshify C case with some ThermalTake Riing fans (but controller doesn't work, so waiting for a replacement one).

 

[Lathlaer]

Nothing too crazy:

i5 2500k

GTX 570

Asus Sabertooth Mobo

16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (don't remember the speed)

Haf 912 Plus case

 

It was the first that I build myself. Obviously there were others before but apart from knowing they had CPU's like Duron, Celeron and Athlon, I can't really remember more.

[CaptainExotic]

Im still rocking my R5 1600 and GTX 1060 3gb SC and 8GB 2666 Ram. 

[NMS]

That would be some Intel single core system with hardware that I don't even remember.

But my next one, I do remember:

AMD Athlon 6400+ Dual Core

Asus Nvidia GTS 250 (I still have it to this day and it still WORKS)

4GB DDR3 from Crucial (2*2)

And some drives that I don't remember.

[Virus__]

It was an early 90's Macintosh LC II

It had; 

Motorolla 68030 @ 16Mhz

4MB Ram

40MB HDD

 

My first Windows based machine was an early 00's single core 32-bit CPU from AMD, pretty sure it was 1.6GHz & I had a massive 256mb of RAM & an 80GB HDD.It ran Windows XP like a champ.

[pentotark]

My first build made from scratch was:

CPU: AMD k7 700MHz
RAM: 128 MB SDRAM PC 133
MOBO: Biostar M7MKA
GPU: Matrox Millennium G400 32 MB
AUDIO: Sound Blaster 128 PCI
HDD: 10GB Quantum Fireball

 

Cool thread, brings back memories!

[Christophe Corazza]

Rocking a 2" screen with integrated graphics and dual 1.5 V PSUs. FPS was a bit disappointing though...

 

VTech Baby's Light-Up Laptop:

[yaya1]

3 hours ago, Virus__ said:

[...]

My first Windows based machine was an early 00's single core 32-bit CPU from AMD, pretty sure it was 1.6GHz & I had a massive 256mb of RAM & an 80GB HDD.It ran Windows XP like a champ.

I think I used to have a PC with similar specs, but I got it as a christmas present back in 2010. (At that point in time, I was 8 years old and my father gave it to me, as he had stopped using it for work  )

[Trippik]

i5 3570k @ 4.5GHz

8GB GSkill RAM

MSI Mobo (Cant remember which)

Cooler Master scout case

1TB HDD

XFX HD7950 GPU

600Watt Novatech ownbrand PSU

Added a 250gb Samsung SSD when I saved up a bit, cost me about £250 back then! God it's crazy how SSD prices have changed

[Unhelpful]

Pentium 4 Prescott

4gb RAM

Raid 0 250GB IDE Hard Drives

8800GT

550W PSU that came with it

 

Succeeded by

i7 950

EVGA X58 Mobo

24GB of RAM

2x GTX 470 (double toaster)

GS800 PSU

1x Agility 2 SSD 64GB

1x Vertex 3 SSD 128GB

1x Velociraptor HDD 600GB

 

Succeeded by

i7 3770k

Asus P8Z77-V LK Mobo

16GB of RAM

GTX 780

HX850 PSU

1TB Samsung 850 EVO

[IsaacThePooper]

Probably this one:

- Q6600

- some gigabyte board idk

- 16gb of ram idk

- R7 260x

and ya