What was your first computer?

[Age of 9394]

amd phenom ii x2 550

Evga 9800GTX+ 

WD 250 HDD

4GB Ram

ASUS M4N72-E motherboard

600W cooler master power supply

cooler master V8 CPU cooler

Gigbyte cause 

[kiloalpha09]

My first PC is from 20years ago

Specs 
Pentium 1 200Mhz
32MB EDO RAM
5GB Hard disk
Tomato Motherboard with VIA Chipset

SiS 6215 1MB PCI  graphics card (AGP slot had not entered the market yet)
14 inch Monitor (can't remember the brand)
Creative 24x CD ROM with remote

Floppy drive
AT&T Keyboard (The only thing that remains with me)
a 56k Modem (can't remember which brand)

Microsoft Mouse with 3 buttons

Creative Sound Blaster sound card

Creative 2.0 speakers

[DimasRMDO]

i5-4690 stock cooler

MSI B85-G43

Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB

MSI GTX 970 (whoops sorry it was MSI R9 270, I forgot that I'd replaced it)

120GB Kingston V300

1TB WD Blue

Corsair CX500

VenomRX Jaeger (local product chassis)

 

The chassis is not the best, but when I planned my PC I just wanted to cheap out my chassis and went all out on the others.

[Automobili3XF]

First ever build:

 

Mobo: Asus P5KPL-AM/BR

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 with stock cooler

RAM: 2x 2gb DDR2 Markvision 800mhz

Video: Point of View 9800GT

HDD: 1tb WD Green

Case: Generic "Leadertech" case

PSU: AcBel whatever i picked up used

Monitor: AOC 212VA (i still have it somewhere)

Keyboard: Dell L100

Mouse: Razer Boomslang CE (hand me down from a cousin)

Headset: C3 Tech Mammoth (it sucked)

[Princess Luna]

My very first build?

 

Core 2 Duo E7600 3,4ghz

4GB RAM don't even remember if those were DDR2 or DDR3

GTS 8600

RANDOM ASUS BOARD

RANDOM 450W PSU

DVD BAY! those were the days.

a 1024x768p120hz CRT Monitor.

 

later upgraded to an EVGA Bronze 550w PSU to support a Zotac GTX 560 Ti and a 1366x768p75hz LCD monitor.

 

used this computer for all my childhood... my first "modern day" build was:

 

Intel Core i7 6700 3.6ghz all cores locked

8GB DDR4 2133mhz Corsair Value Select

EVGA Superclocked GTX TITAN X

Asus h110m-C board

Zalman ZM700-GLX 80 Plus

 

Which was replaced by the current build on signature January this year.

[AncientNerd]

First computer - TI-99/4a with a whapping 4k of memory and a cassette tape drive for mass storage.

First custom build - IBM PC "clone" 8086- 640k of memory, 2x 5.25 floppy drives and a CGA card. Later upgraded to a 5MB hard drive, then a 10MB HDD and a EGA video adapter.

[rcorkum]

first pc vic-20 and that had a few hardware mods,

 

first build a used 80486dx who had one serial port (one was blown so I had a choice I could run my mouse at the time or my modem but not both) I was given it because the mouse port was dead (well it wasn't the mouse port per say it was one of 2 serial headers on the MB, so I simply opened the the case swapped the header to swap between mouse and modem.

[Inversion]

First PC was an old Compaq tower. No clue what was in it. Then I had a Dell desktop with a pentium 4. Then a Toshiba Satellite with an E-450 APU, 6 GB RAM and a 320GB HDD.

 

First custom build had a:

• AMD A6-6400K APU
• Cooler Master Hyper 103 Cooler
• ASUS A88XM-A FM2+ MicroATX MOBO
• 8GB HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz
• 128GB SanDisk SSD
• 2TB Toshiba Canvio Basics External HDD
• CiT Xecutioner Case
• EVGA 500W PSU
• Generic DVD Drive

The APU was later replaced by an Athlon X4 860K and a GTX 960. Now I have a new build (see signature). Only the storage, disk drive and the GPU came over.

[geo3]

It was a Celeron 266

GPU was a 3Dfx Voodoo 2

Don't remember any of the other specs, but I overclocked that thing to 433Mhz!

[TheLaserCucumber]

My first one was like a Pentium 4 with 128mb of RAM on windows XP.

I think it didn’t even have a graphics card, though I am not sure about this one.

I didn’t build it myself, I got it in 2005 or 2006.

 

The first build I actually build myself was a Athlon II X2 260, 4GBs of RAM, and a Geforce 6600GT on an Asrock M3N78D.

At the start it was also running Windows XP, but I remember also using it with Windows 7, so I must‘ve switched the OS in the time I used it.

Dont remember the rest of the system.

[kelvinhall05]

The first PC I remember using was an SFF Dell Optiplex with presumably some Core 2 Duo in it. The first computer I remember gaming on, however, was my Asus X200CA with a Celeron 1007U, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and integrated graphics.

 

My first build, however, was yet another Dell, but this time it was a Studio XPS 8100 with an i5-750, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD which I still use to this day, and a 7950 which I killed while attempting to overclock (I think, it may have been on its way out and I just pushed it too hard).

[TetraSky]

First build:

 

Windows XP Pro SP2 (bought retail, still got the disc)

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
512MB of DDR1 RAM, upgraded to 1GB later on.
Used integrated graphics until I got a Radeon X800 XL AGP GPU

MSI K7N2 (not sure which model exactly, just know it was K7N2)

I don't remember the first case I had for it, but I later got a "Coolermaster Centurion 531" case.

As for the rest, I'm pretty sure I used a shitty PSU and then used the shitty PSU that came with the Centurion.

 

I used that until Q2 2009. Then I got an AMD phenom 965 build, it was UTTER shit, kept getting Hypertransport sync flood error no matter what piece of hardware I changed (CPU, motherboard, ram, etc...), endured that for months. Following that, in 2010 I saw that Intel released a new CPU right before their new lineup and got that. So I bought the CPU and a motherboard for it, reused everything else and it's been perfect since. Made me hate AMD so much, even though I used to like AMD... When you reuse every single parts, but get rid of the AMD only components, only to have everything works... Yeah fuck AMD. I might give them a chance again in my next build like in a year or two... still undecided on that.

[Colb]

First computer 32bit BBC mirco b 

 

First pc -  all I remember about it , is it has around 500mb hard drive and either 16 or 32mb of ram . It was cream and dos based .

 

 

[EPENEX]

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/YD4qqs

 

[xXxAdamxXx]

First PC I ever used was an IBM PC with DOS, used those big 5" floppy disks and only did word processing and spreadsheets.

 

First PC I ever modified was putting an Ati Rage 128 in a Compaq Presario so I could run Episode 1 Racer, IIRC that was the first online purchase I had ever made in my life (back when buying stuff online was still new and weird).

 

First PC I ever built was an AMD Athlon with a Geforce 256 and a snazzy Viewsonic monitor, sucker's motherboard died on me 6 months later though and it took the CPU with it.

[JoeCoke]

First one I ever built was:

Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8ghz)

Radeon 9600 Pro

1GB DDR RAM (2x512mb)

500w Cooler Master PSU

1TB HDD that died and made me lose data I still cry myself to sleep at night over

Windows XP SP3

 

Second one, which was in early 2013, was:
Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz

Geforce 9800gt 512mb

4GB DDR2 (4x1gb)

Windows 7 64 bit

 

I felt like I had nasa shit when I built the second one.

 

First computer I ever used was a 266mhz AMD K6-2 and 16mb of RAM.

My first PC I owned was a 533mhz celeron with 64mb of RAM. It also ran Windows ME, and actually, it was a great experience, never had issues.

[Philip B]

My first build was just surplus from my dads company at the time. I think I was 11 or 12 years old at the time. 

all I can remember was it was Celeron based and had an AGP based graphics card and I could play counterstrike at a healthy 9-20 fps on low settings.

 

With a graphics config pasted from the internet I remember I settled for a minimum framerate of around 25 fps and became addicted to counterstrike for probably 6 months before I got an upgrade to Dads old pentium 3 and possibly another AGP?! card from an actual shop!

 

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

My first computer was probably some Celeron running Windows 98 or something. My first actual build is the one in my signature. 

[Jito463]

On 6/7/2018 at 2:59 PM, Radium_Angel said:

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.

 

While my first computer was a Commodore Amiga 2000, the first one I built wasn't too dissimilar to this.

Technically it was an AOpen computer, but it came as a kit that I had to build myself.

 

AMD 486 DX/2 66MHz

640KB RAM (not even 1 full MB)

500MB HDD

 

I honestly can't recall the remaining specs offhand, though I do remember I was running MS-DOS 6.22 (I later installed WFW 3.11).  The best part is when I compressed the HDD, then filled it to the brim.  It took around....oh, 5-10 minutes just to boot up into Windows.  

[Total Epicnessᴭᴺ]

My very first computer would probably be a windows 2000 school computer with a Pentium 3 or an early 2000s mac AIO can't remember.

 

First computer built is the one that I am trying to use now is literally troubleshooting hell.

Cpu:i3 7100

Mobo:b250pc mate

Ram: 2 gskill nt 4gb sticks

Gpu:zotac 1060 6gb amp

Case:phanteks p300

 

Hitting one of the only downfalls of pc building right at the beginning. Now that's bad luck.

[PastaDwarf]

I think mine would be the worst one haha. But this thing got me into PC gaming back those times haha.

AMD A8-5600k
Gigabyte F258M-DS2
Kingston Value RAM 1x4GB DDR3 @1333Mhz 
R7 240
Fortress 700W PSU (Not even 80+ HAHA)
250GB Toshiba 7200rpm
 

[Jito463]

9 hours ago, Total Epicnessᴭᴺ said:

First computer built is the one that I am trying to use now is literally troubleshooting hell.

Cpu:i3 7100 (Intel CPU)

Mobo:b350^* pc mate (AMD chipset)

Well, I think I found your problem.

 

_{^*For the record, the Intel chipsets are B360.}

 

In all seriousness, I'd probably say start with getting rid of that PC Mate motherboard.  I wouldn't use PC Mate boards in a system that I was giving to my enemy (well, depends on how much I really don't like them).

[Sir Asvald]

I had a Dell dimension 4600

Specs below

https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dimension-4600-pentium-4-2-8ghz-512mb-ram-80gb-hdd-xp-home/specs/

 

Second PC I built myself specs are in my signature.

[Total Epicnessᴭᴺ]

4 hours ago, Jito463 said:

Well, I think I found your problem.

 

_{^*For the record, the Intel chipsets are B360.}

 

In all seriousness, I'd probably say start with getting rid of that PC Mate motherboard.  I wouldn't use PC Mate boards in a system that I was giving to my enemy (well, depends on how much I really don't like them).

I typo'd b250 gg. 

Why is the PC mate bad?

 

The issues with my pc? Well long story short, it got so unstable to the point where you cannot even boot into the windows installer usb due to "critical files corrupted".

[Misanthrope]

I used PCs all the way since 5th grade with some 268ers back then but the first one I had at home was this:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario_2200#/media/File:Compaq_Presario_2200_Desktop_PC.jpg

 

Cyrix 486 equivalent that clocked at 180mhz and 16gb of ram. It was a novelty since it was a fairly budget PC but that still offered a cdrom so that was neat.

 

I also remember that it was not powerful enough to listen to MP3 without windows 95 basically freezing due to the incredible slow down. It's "winmodem" was putting too much stress to be online and with a gui and mp3 playing altogether so I actually learned how to install Linux on it so I could still join text based IRC chats while playing MP3 songs. Sadly my winmodem was too difficult to work out but later on I would get an ISDN connection so I was back up in IRC while listening to MP3 for obscure goregrind bands and trading insults with people on mp3 sharing channels on IRC

 

Technology has sure progressed quite a bit but I still find myself listening to music youtube videos while trading insults with people on Twitter and these forums so the more things change the more they stay the same actually.