What was your first computer?

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-650 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($207.90 @ Newegg Marketplace) 
Motherboard: Asus - P7P55D-E ATX LGA1156 Motherboard for an old 1156 board, it had modern features. you get Sata 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 OR a full Pci-e 16x slot. yes, OR, it couldn't have everything at once 
Memory: Kingston - ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($37.31 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($29.79 @ Newegg Marketplace) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Hitachi - Deskstar 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($63.99 @ Amazon) this was the boot drive, until i got an SP550 the year after.
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card leadtek card, not asus.
Power Supply: Thermaltake - Smart 530W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply Smart SE to be specific, uses the old corsair VS platform so it was pretty shit.
Total: $383.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-11 22:12 EDT-0400

used some generic ATX case from some local company. built this in 2015, though nearly everything was gone as soon as i got the money for it.

[Guest]

Mobo: IDK but it was socket 478

Processor: Intel Celeron. Ran at 2GHz on a good day. 

RAM: 1GB DDR

Video: Nvidia 6600GS

HDD: 30GB

Case: IDK but it was beige

Monitor: Denon or something 15" 4:3 flat-screen (but before I had a CRT)

Keyboard: Microsoft Media

Mouse: Microsoft Mouse

Speakers: Milford Audio, still have them. 

 

Ran Lego Star Wars like a champ, Windows 7 preview better. 

[TVwazhere]

Technically the build in my signature was my first build (2014). Before this I had never physically handled a CPU or plugged in a 24PIN connector and installed a GPU.  (Posting a screenshot because in about a year it will most likely get updated)

I'm still relatively new  things like GTX280's and Q6600's are lost concepts on me

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 6/8/2018 at 5:49 PM, Inversion said:

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.

I didn't even bother upgrading on FM2 lol, I jumped all the way to Ryzen.

[Mira Yurizaki]

The very first computer I ever used regularly was one of those Packard Bell's with a Pentium 66 MHz machine. Then it was quickly replaced with some other OEM that had a 90 MHz Pentium.

 

The first computer I could call my own was an HP Pavailion with a Coppermine Celeron. It had integrated graphics, but it still let me enjoy late 90s, early 2000s games.

 

Then I got a custom built gaming PC which worked well for early to mid 2000s. But it was really showing its age by 2005.

• AMD Athlon XP
• 512MB of RAM
• GeForce FX 5600
• 10GB + 60GB hard drive

 

Then the first PC I built myself had

• AMD Athlon X2 3800+
• Some A-Bit nForce 4 board
• 2GB of RAM
• GeForce 7800 GTX
• 300GB hard drive

I think I still have the NewEgg invoice for it on my history.

[Inversion]

On 6/12/2018 at 8:53 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

I didn't even bother upgrading on FM2 lol, I jumped all the way to Ryzen.

I knew my Dual Core APU would seriously bottleneck the GTX 960, and Ryzen was still a year out, I got the 960 for £140 in the days before the GPU crisis. I would have waited but I wanted to play stuff like the new Tomb Raider games and the APU was gonna die

[bbpb]

Haha, nice thread.

 

My first build consisted of:

 

APU: A10 7850k

MOBO: GAfmh2-h (or something like that, can't remember honestly)

RAM: 8GB 2133 Mhz hyperx Savage.

PSU: Cheap-o brand bundled with the case.

SSD: Samsung 850 evo.

HDD: Good old 1TB WD blue.

 

I wasn't planning on buying a graphics card anytime soon so that's why I went with the APU, can't complain too much because I was able to play Doom at 720p 40fps thanks to Vulkan.

[DarrenKC53]

On 6/12/2018 at 2:55 AM, Canada EH said:

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/commodore.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

 

Before any of your guys' time!

Yeah some of these youngsters here lol.

 

My dad had a Commdore 64. I had an Amstrad CPC 6128.

 

After that era I had an Amstrad PC1640

Some sort of IBM PS/2

A Compaq Prolinea 486 (breaks my heart now that both of these were just disposed of)

and then first build some Cyrix 133+ based system in a beige mini AT case , wow did those Cyrix things run hot!

 

 

[Eduard the weeb]

Dell OptiPlex GX620

 

CPU - Pentium 4 

 

RAM - 512 mb of DDR2

 

Storage - 80gb HDD

 

Graphics - Intel GMA 950

 

If I'm correct my parents bought it in 2006 or 2007 

[Augurian]

On 14/06/2018 at 3:12 PM, DarrenKC53 said:

Yeah some of these youngsters here lol.

 

Agreed! If it's a partspicker list (or any build from this century), it's a youngster by my reckoning!

 

I did have a C64, but I wouldn't count it as a "build". I took the first machine I put together for that.

It was an awesome time though... Had the cassette version and it took ages to load programs. And the frustration when you had a loading error! I used my parents' cassette deck to rewind the tapes, as it was no fun having to use a pen/pencil to rewind them.

I'm so happy we have SSDs now! ^__^

[8uhbbhu8]

First computer I built by hand was a Core 2 duo machine With an e8600, some acer board i grabbed at a garage sale, 3GBs ram I had laying around, HD4650 gpu, and an 80gb Western Digital HDD.

[AngryBeaver]

My first true custom pc build was a long time ago. It used an old first gen AMD64 chip. Want to say it was a 3200 model (ran at 2ghz, but was comparable to a 3.2ghz intel chip).

 

I went from there to a Core 2 Duo e6600, which was later upgraded to a quad core q6600.

I think my next machine was a 2600k i7, and then I built a new pc about every year as my yearly income had took a recent massive increase.

[hisupmalik]

Pentium 4 

1gb ddr

win xp

40gb ide drive

intel extreme graphics(ofc)

250w off brand dell psu

[Imanuglyone]

My first computer was a IBM PS/2 with a BLAZING fast 16 MHz 386, 20 MB HDD and 2 MB of ram! But my first build was an AMD Athlon K-7 650 MHz with a 10gb(i think) HDD and i believe 2 512mb sticks of ram. I believe my GPU was a Diamond card at the time(though i dont remember much about it).

[rukspuks]

Cpu: Celeron D 2.26 Ghz 1 Core/ 1 Thread [1]

GPU: Don't know! I don't remember it having one but It must have as Celeron D didn't have igpu AFAIK

[R.BGH83]

Pentium D.....

It was great tho... for that time lol.

[AskTJ]

13 hours ago, rukspuks said:

Cpu: Celeron D 2.26 Ghz 1 Core/ 1 Thread [1]

GPU: Don't know! I don't remember it having one but It must have as Celeron D didn't have igpu AFAIK

Dead thread revived. 

 

CPU: FX 8350

GPU: R9 270X 4GB

[Willowwizard]

Well since it seems everyone else is reviving this thread, might as well have a go at it.
CPU: Intel Pentium II at a blazing fast 266MHz, with 64 whole megabytes of SDRAM
GPU: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV with 2.5 MB of VRAM

(Was a laptop, Sony VAIO PCG-808; I was like 8 years old when I had it )

[Norseman4]

On 1/17/2017 at 11:44 AM, 7850OC said:

show me your first CPU and GPU

cpu: Sempron (with 1 core at 2000 mhz)
gpu: HD 4350 with 80sp (that was a waste of money lol) 

CPU: Zilog Z80 @3.58 MHz

Graphics: Texas Instruments TMS9928A

 

This was a Coleco Adam

[Textosterone]

my first build about a few years back. originally came with an R7 265 but eventually upgraded to an R9 280 (shown in picture) and an AMD FX 6300

[Phentos]

Secondhand AMD Athlon 6000+ (wanted a 1st gen Phenom but it was way too pricey) and the Radeon HD 4850. 

 

Served me well, though the Athlon was a bit of a bottleneck. Could handle Crysis on med-high settings pretty well though.

[God Speed.]

pantium 2  it was a literal desktop and we used to put the box monitor on top of it ...

[A10-FTW]

today i use a A10 

that is my CPU

and my GPU

and i am so happy with him 

 

thanks all for the many replies 

[jiyeon]

First CPU was a first gen Intel Core i3-550 from way back. First GPU was an MSI Nvidia GeForce GT 710 1GB model, crappy by today's standards.  

[Tigerbloodz]

I've been using computers since Windows 3.1 but the first one I bought myself was a premade HP with a Pentium 4 with 256mb of ram I think.