ITT: First PC

What was your first PC like Jow Forums ? I'll start:
>3 GHz Pentium 4 (pic related)
>Geforce 6200A 128mb, AGP
>2 X 256mb RAM
>7200RPM160GB PATA HDD
>330W PSU

It ran Halo CE and Runescape. Shit was SO cash.

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Memories fuzzy but:
>386SX/25Mhz (SX = no FPU, later bought a math coprocessor for that)
>1-2MB RAM initially, we later upgraded to 4
>HD: don't recall, but if I had to guess ... 80MB or less?
>Sound Blaster (Dr. Sbaitso anyone?)
>1st modem: 2400 baud
>1x speed CDROM, unbelievably slow

Very disappointed how hard it was to play Wing Commander on that thing. My dad hired some computer guy to try to get it going, because it required tweaking the CONFIG.SYS / AUTOEXEC.BAT. Those two files were always such an asspain whenever you just wanted to play something :(

I'm glad I started on DOS, though. Makes me appreciate all the stuff we have now and take for granted.

>268/10MhZ (if i remember right)
>VGA graphics
>2MB RAM
>100MB HDD
>both floppy drives
>offline
used it until 1998

PIII

I don't really remember too much else about it, I think it had a 30 or 40GB hard drive.

No idea I knew nothing about computer hardware back then

486 dx4 66/100mhz motherfucking turbo
16mb ram
i think it had some 200-something hd. i remember that mechwarriors 2 full install would take a fucking large part of it
creative sound blaster awe 32 with a x4 speed cdrom
shit was comfy. played pretty much all lucas arts adventure games plus lots of sierra ones on this bad boy

>Pentium MMX 233MHz
>Some onboard Cirrus Logic 2D chip with 2MB VRAM (it was some IBM desktop with onboard graphics)
>Later expanded with S3 Virge 4MB + Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Voodoo)
>16MB RAM later expanded to can't remember how much, maybe 64
>Sound Blaster 16
>200~MB HDD

Before that I had an Amiga 500

My first PC that was my own had:
>Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 754)
>512MBs DDR
>Geforce FX-5200 256MB
>80GB HDD

I didn't pick the parts as I was 14 and didn't know very much about PCs. That FX was a pile of shit.

>gtx 670
>intel i5 3570k
>2x4gb ddr3
>650w modular psu
>120GB ssd and 1TB hdd

286 @6Mhz 64Kb of ram, 20MB hdd and Hercule 4 scales of grey graphics card.
MS-DOS 4.0.
What a fucking beast, I could play Superski at like 10 fps.

>Q6600
>3GB DDR2 RAM
>8800GTX 768MB VRAM
>1TB HDD
>CM690 (Gen 1)

Good times

That'd still work today for some light gaming lol

Comodore C16+4, followed by an C-64, then an Amiga 50+Atari ST512. Followed by my first "real" PC, an 486 Dx66 with 250 Mb Harddrive and 4 MB Ram. Good old Times scripting a Start-Disk for every single game and powering up your Rig with an Sondblaster and Adlib/Roland-Extensions^^.

The oldest computer I remember using was a PC jr., but I didn't use it regularly. That would be a Pentium II based computer, don't remember what GPU it had. Then we got a Pentium 4 3GHz PC with a GeForce4 Ti 4200 and 1GB memory. The first computer that was mine was a Lenovo trashfire with an Athlon dual core and Nvidia nForce 7025 GPU and 2GB DDR3, which I replaced less than two years later with my first custom build.

>FX-6100
>GA-990FXA-UD3
>8GB DDR3
>HIS 1GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 6790
>chinkshit Apevia "680W" PSU
>reused HDD from Lenovo

The first PC built for myself that wasn't a second hand rig... AMD Athlon II with 4GB DDR3 1333 and 250GB WD black. 8600GT 256MB. Win Shitsta and Debian dual boot.

Dell SmartStep 115D
>900MHz Celeron(p3 based)
>Some kind of nvidia gpu I can't remember
>1x128MB DDR RAM
>20GB 5400RPM PATA hard drive
>150 Dell power supply
Was garbo, but played stuff like Serious Sam first encounter nicely, but kind of struggled with n64 emulation.

One of these badboys.

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First family computer was a dell latitude c610 laptop, pentium 3 m with 512mb ram.

Moved onto a pentium 4 monstrosity a little while later that is still being semi used for photos and music

>Pentium III 800Mhz
>some GPU with 8MB vRAM
>80GB HDD
>512 RAM

I must admit it was pretty good

oh, I also remember my older brother coming home from a friends house and being really impressed by how quick a Pentium 4 machine booted lol

133mhz Pentium running Windows 95 then later SuSE
I don't remember the rest

Pentium 4 512mb ram and Radeon 9200

Similar to this guy my first PC was
> Commodore 128
> 128 Kilobytes RAM
> 2 Processors
> Custom Chipset with Audio and Video
> 40- and 80-Column Display Modes
> BASIC instant boot
> GEOS on floppy

Like all good Commodore 8-bit computers, they were all pretty awesome except for the incredibly slow floppy drives. Oh my God, those slow floppy drives.

Amiga 500 with 1MB expansion.

DOS is easy as fuck though. How could you not master CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT when dealing with DOS?

Dad's PC. Only thing i know about it is that it had some old nvidia with gold-colored heatsink with a small fan and their old logo. It could play minecraft preety well... good times...

I feel sad for everyone who started off on DOS and Windows machines. Those used to suck so badly in comparison to all the other cool stuff that was out there. It's like you missed out on a totally different era. An era where things were cool.

First pentium 4 1.9ghrz
256 DDR
80gb 7200rpm
Mx200 geforce 2

It was good when I got it. GPU was garbage and upgraded to ATI.

Pc run well till I blew it all up when i tried to oc it when i was 15yo.

My first PC was an IBM Aptiva I got back in 98. Don't even know the specs

My mom had a laptop when I was in 1st grade but I have no clue what it was. I played Moonlander on it mainly. We had one of those fuckhuge floppy plastic case things with a bunch of games on it. I only remember Moonlander though. This would've been around 1993 so imagine the specs based on that.

I know I had a Pentium II 266Mhz and a Pentium III 533Mhz at some point. I also had a CPU that was purple, I think it was pic related.

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A Gateway desktop
>4GHz Pentium 4
>Radeon 4350 512MB RAM AGP based card
>4x 256MB DDR
>320GB IDE Hard drive

Played World of Warcraft, Runescape, and Diablo 2.

I don't remember much about the first family computer at all, other than that it stemmed from around 1995 and had a Pentium 75. I have a bunch of PC parts from that time in the attic, as well as the original case with "motherboard broken" written on it, but I can't tell which of the parts belonged to the computer, nevermind putting it back together and booting it.

The first computer of my own that I've paid for with my own money was a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo prebuilt in 2004 with an Athlon 64 3200+ (p good), a Geforce FX-5500 (p bad but I was easily impressed by the 256 MB VRAM in the ad), 512 MB DDR RAM, a 500 GB hard drive, and I've also installed a Soundblaster Audigy and riced it with lights and a fan cover. This is the only photo of it.

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maybe cuz he was a fucking kid and his dad probably wasn't a computer scientist... just guessing

I just remember we had 256mhz cpus not sure if amd or intel running win95 and it had a sound blaster sound card and could play quake 2 as well as quake doom duke nukem shadow warrior terminal velocity ect ect. Had a modem for hentai

First PC that I ever touched: A Toshiba 286 laptop
First PC I've ever built for myself: k6-II 550 with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, and a Quantum Fireball of some size. FIC motherboard

In the mid 90's software rendering for 3d games was the norm

this bad boy, don't know the specs though.

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33mhz with a turbo button to 66mhz. Don't remember anything else.

Hand-me-down HP Pavillion from my brother, 700MHz Celeron with 64MB of RAM and Windows ME but it did have a DVD drive!

Tbqh, I didn't appreciate it at the time because I wanted to play GTA Vice City with mods and it just couldn't. Ended up opening it up and that basically made me want to build my own PC.

If I could go back, I would have gotten a programming book but at the time I thought coding was just for adults. So much wasted time..

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I dont really remember what was in it but it was something like;

pentium 3/4
32gb harddrive, got a 160 one later on.
some amount of ddr2
a video card comparable to nvidea 3 series ( is what my brother told me, so amd or voodoo i guess)
floppy drive, cd reader
17" crt
win95/98

my first pc I was involved with picking the parts / helped my brother build was:

amd athlon x2 (2.4 ghz i think)
4gb ddr2
gforce 6600gt (got a 8800gt later on)
the 160gb hdd from my old pc, later upgraded to a 500gb one.
dvd read/writer
pic related as my pc case

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MSI 815E Pro
Pentium III 800EB
4X128MB SDRAM paid a lot for
ATI Rage 128 Pro then ATI 4650 1GB AGP
80GB Maxtor HDD now SSD via adapter
I still have and works

My old Quake 3 machine

486 dx2-66 8mb ram 540mb hd dunno about the graphics

>Pentium 4 2,4ghz
>512mb of ram
>a nvidia 256mb but i don't quite remember the model (probably 5700)
>80gb WD harddrive that I have somewhere do this day

First I don't know. It ran windows 95 had no internet or games. I went through the whole HDD double clicking everything trying to find games.
Next one was netburst celeron 1.7 ghz, 256 mb ram, sis integrated graphics, 30gb hdd. Used until 2009, it was terrible. I never thought about upgrading because I was clueless. I spent all my time researching bicycles

Father had some 2005 era laptop that I burned down by launching ~3x Postals2 in the same time, good times playing CS 1.6 with out any NPC or actual player lol

My first personal rig -

AMD Phenom II X4 965
some chink mobo
500gb seagate
GTX 530ti
2x 4 1333 no name

My first PC ~10 years ago

Ran WOLTK with legendary freezes at Dala, also Crisis 3 wasn't a huge problem

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pentium 4 2.2ghz
hdd 20gb
256mb ram
32mb gpu
windows xp

First one was a Siemens Nixdorf, looked like pic related.
i guess it had about 33 or 66 MHz, 8mb ram, 40Mb Hard disk. It had a button which let you switch between 33 and 66 Mhz.

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win 95 had a lot of games.
at that time, we still had the older windows version (don't remember the name, was some dotted number...)
i envyd all my friends, that had pcs runing with win95 and coould play games like need for speed or C&C.
Win95 also had that fancy labyrinth screensaver

My first was a prebuilt that I didn't even know what the specs were.

My first build however was
>2600k
>HD6950
>8gb ram
>win7pro
>650w Corsair

>first PC in the house
some kind of 80486 iirc
>first PC I actually owned
Athlon64 3000+
512 MB RAM
Radeon X600 Pro
120GB WD Black, still works
It was a prebuilt because I knew shit about computers back then. Based vendorbro built it on SATA and PCI express which were relatively new in 2005. Thanks to that I could upgrade it easily.

I'm zoomer trash so my first PC was pic related. Lasted a couple years until my dad killed it with porn viruses and I was stuck using my grandma's old Gateway that I don't remember anything about.

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Commodore 64, way back in 1987, mr. zoomer.
yep. the bestest.

they weren't too bad. i remember them.

Everything has cool shit and its own problems.

t. someone who’s used pretty much everything

>I feel sad for everyone who started off on DOS and Windows machines
what the fuck is wrong with DOS? are you retarded? take your zoomer cancer somewhere else, faggot.

Guess when it was purchased:

433mhz
128 mb ram
8gb hdd
8mb video memory

In 1998 I built an AMD K6-2 with almost exactly that spec. I did it on a budget though, so... 1997?

>Celeron D 330 2.66 GHz
>PCchips M925G
>128 MB DDR266
>S3 integrated graphics
>40GB HDD
>""""450W"""" PSU
>CD Burner, no DVD

latter upgraded to 384 MB DDR 266, Geforce 6200 128 MB and a DVD burner

that was in late 2005, what a fucking piece of shit

how fucking old are you grandpa?

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>""""450W"""" PSU
It's funny how this world turned out. The reason you "need" a 600w PSU these days is because your computer draws 300w.
I remember powering most of my computers on 200-250w PSUs in the 90s - and this was when we had such Spartan motherboards; every little thing you wanted to do required an expansion card.

Sounds about right.

Here's a (you)

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>E5200 no O/C
>8400 GS no O/C
>2 GB RAM
>1 TB
>Windows 7

I literally threw one of those away two weekends ago. I gave up trying to find a new motherboard for it years ago.

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I'm a zoomer. So no Pentiums or 486 stuff
> Compaq Presario SR2020NX
> Athlon 64 x2, 2.2ghz
> 512mb ram
> some obscure motherboard igpu
> Windows XP "Media Center Edition"
The first computer I ever bought for myself, I still use which is a Thinkpad x60.

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I don't know how things were in the rest of the world at that time but in my country OEMs used to put the shadiest $5 chink PSUs on their PCs, those literal house fire PSUs were rated as 450W, 500W even 600W but could barely deliver 200W without catching on fire.

Fake and gay. 386 33mhz SCREAMER here. We had to upgrade to get a 10mb hard drive. Not some insanely huge 80mb or 100mb. So you kids are making shit up.

>some Cyrix 233MHz CPU
>32MB RAM
>~2GB HDD
>1MB VRAM video card, no 3D acceleration
>Windows 95
It was later upgraded to 64MB RAM and some 4MB S3 graphics card, this time with 3D acceleration.

based turbo button

First PC I built?
>Phenom II 555 BE unlocked from a dual to quad core
>2x2GB 1600MHz DDR3, eventually got another kit when BF3 started making shit chug
>HD 5770
>Ultra LSP PSU that I remember watching videos that Logan made back on TigerTV
>$20 DVD drive that I never actually bothered installing, still have it in the same bin I threw it in 9 years ago
>Random usb keyboard we had and a ball mouse I found in the basement
>1440x900 19" monitor that I used for years
Good times

based tandy TRS-80 poster

based cyrix poster

That's a relatively recent thing by my observations. The Firechink 500W that could barely get you to a Windows desktop without blowing a fuse was mid- to late-2000s - and we still haven't recovered from that. However, 20th century PSUs generally did what they said on the box.

Eat shit, stupid LARPing zoomer. Someone as young as you, and sees three Cope Lake refreshes a week no conception of how "wide" the timescales for machines were back then.
ATs came along in 1983, and were in use into the early 90s for DOS business apps. I've seen 286s completely without hard disk, and seen one with a 200MB SCSI disk.
386s came along in 1987 (Deskpro), and again, I've seen some fucking funny configurations. RAM from 1MB to 16MB, hard disks from 40MB to over 1GB (using OnTrack and other hideous hacks).
486s, Pentiums - in fact, everything up to Core 2 was all over the place regarding RAM, storage and video. Simply because you didn't have to replace everything in your computer if you got a new motherboard, like you do now.
TL;DR: shut up kid, the adults are talking.

a 1999 or 2000 IBM thinkpad of some sort. i don't remember the model, but i know it had a sticker that said "designed for windows 2000". my mom's employer gave it to her, and it eventually made it's way to me. i used to experiment with many linux distros and had a lot of fun with it. i miss that thing

I'm at the zoomer/millennial border so I grew up with the Firechinks only and never touched 90's hardware

First memory of using a pc was my dad's old win95 pc. No idea what the specs were. My fondest memories were on the family windowsXP machine. I believe it had a pentium 4, 512MB of RAM, some IDE drive of unknown cappacity, and a NVIDIA GPU. My first computer that was mine was a Apple iBook G4, which made me gay at the ripe age of 10 :-)

This tremendous piece of shit.

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HERE COMES ANOTHER CHALLENGER!

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A fellow connoisseur of keyboard-related suffering I see.

>Pentium III Coppermine 800mhz oc'd to 933
>384mb SDRAM
>Intel 82810 integrated graphics
>15gb Quantum Fireball HDD
>CD burner
>Windows XP

It was enough to play Half Life 1 and 4x4 Evo 2, but I would have loved a graphics card. No AGP slot though, oddly enough.

Going from that to an Pentium Dual-Core E2140 oc'd to 3ghz and an ATi 5450 1gb was something else though. Being able to actually play some games was so foreign to me at the time.

>I would have loved a graphics card. No AGP slot though
Many AGP cards were internally PCI anyway so their PCI version usually performed exactly the same. Like fucking everything 3dfx made.

>AMD Turion SL-something 1.6GHz
>512MB DDR400
>GB 7300GT 256MB GDDR3 Silent
>80GB HDD
>300W PSU
>Abit or Albatron MBO, socket 754 I think?

Tandy 1000. 386 woooo. Later replaced with a AMD 486sx for Dune 2, Tie Fighter. Then AMD K6-2 450ghz cause the best MMO Everquest was coming out.

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TI-99/4A with a cassette player.

Some 386 or 486 from the early 90s.

I haven't been alive for too long, but:
>AMD FX 6300
>Geforce gtx 750 Ti
>2 X 4gb of ram
>1TB HDD
>500W PSU

I was about 6 and wanted to run Minecraft without it crashing because of Java

great sound chip

On my second machine, a P233, I had the original GeForce card. It was smooth as fuck. Played HL1 like nobody's business.

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AMD K62 @ 400MHz
500MB PATA HDD
64mb RAM

Prob around 1999 and it was second hand parts.

Compaq desktop:

>Sempron 2000 2.0ghx
>512mb RAM
>64mb VIA Graphics

later added:
>1gb RAM
>Radeon 9250

it was dogshit.

>80-conductor
Too new.

>32MB ram with 1MB video card
Not sure if larping...

I hated those things, thank fuck they're dead now

You could play rebel assault on that bad boy. Origin has all those games available for win 10 by the way.

>386/33
>10 MB disk
fuckin' lol, maybe if you were booting off of a sundisk. 40-80 MB was pretty much the standard for 386 machines.
the fuck are you talking about, 1MB cards were a little anemic but still common as fuck at that time.

why is it always the least knowledgeable posters bitching about "kids" and larping?

One of those big colorful macs, you know the one.
It ran runescape without sound.

Pic related.
Running a 1MB card in a machine spec'd high enough to be running 32MB and an M-II or something could have happened possibly depending on your upgrade path but it makes no fucking sense at all. You wouldn't even be to drive the display at 1024x768 unless you were particularly fond of 8-bit color.

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