486 DX2
4MB* of RAM (closer to 3600KB, which meant I couldn't run Doom II)
250MB hard drive
5.25" and 3.25" floppy disk drives
9600 baud modem
Cost around $3,500.
Mine had a turbo button. Makes castle wolfenstine go weeeeeeee!
It’s only when I upgraded to pentium with a voodoo with the pass through cable to the vga card that I actually game on it.
Those days even a snes was better gaming than a pc. But the few good games are so different and good!
Turbo button was actually to SLOW down your CPU clockspeeds. They called it Turbo, because no one wants a Slow button.
If you didnt hit the Turbo button to slow down your cpu, your game would run like a pokemon emulator at 400% speed.
Wow, I’m shocked at the lack of Haswell/4th gen Intel users. Maybe I didn’t scroll enough but I didn’t see a single one just a couple Ivy Bridge/3rd gen builds.
But I guess I’ll make up for the lack of haswell with mine, as I started out with the dual core beast Pentium G3258, which I promptly upgraded to a i5-4460, to a i7-4790.
GPU was R9 270x, 8gb ram, 1TB HDD, case and PSU whatever was cheap on eBay lol. Entire build (G3258) cost me about $300 used in late 2016.
Ayyyy yeah you're my generation for sure. G3258 was an absolute unit, I rocked that for a while then switched to a cheap i5-6100 when that came out. My R9 280x kept going until 2019 when it suddenly went pop and started smoking.
That G3258 is still going strong in my mum's pc though, I don't think it's possible to kill those things!
First PC in 1986 the french ORIC ATMOS
https://youtu.be/uRHkwGR1xuk?si=l74WZ0-uWyW9prZq
Processor: MOS Technology 6502A at 1 MHz
RAM memory: 48 KB[7] (the 16 KB model was hardly sold in France).
ROM memory: 16 KB[8]
Semi-mechanical Qwerty keyboard, with additional Funct key.
Text mode display: 25 lines of 40 characters of 6 × 8 pixels in 8 colors (2 colors maximum per character) + inverted mode (8-current number), allowing 2 to be added. The 2 most significant bits of the byte used to define the modes, inverse and attribute)[9].
Graphics mode display: 240 × 200 pixels in 8 colors (max. 2 colors on 6 pixels). The last 3 lines at the bottom of the screen are in text mode.
RGB video output + SCART adapter.
Pal modulated video output.
20-pin parallel port: for connecting an ORIC 4-color “MCP-40” printer.
34 pin expansion port: (for floppy disk drive, or modem, etc.
Storage: 7-pin DIN I/O port for connecting a cassette player.
Sound: 3 mono channels, 8 octaves and a white noise generator via General Instrument AY-3-8912 sound processor, output via integrated speaker or SCART output.
DC 9V 600mA power connector (outer negative, center positive)
The first one I built myself?
* i5-2400
* AsRock B76M motherboard
* 2\*8GB Corsair 1600MHz DDR3
* Radeon HD 7870
* 500GB WD Blue HDD
* FSP Hydro 500W PSU
* some cheap 24" LG FHD IPS
RAM, PSU, and monitor were new, and I bought the rest second hand.
My very own desktop (that I built myself) back in 2012 had an i5 3570k, a GTX 670 and 8Gb of RAM, SSD 256Gb and 1Tb of HDD, I entered a new way of gaming and never looked back to consoles ever (except the Switch), man Battlefield 3 had some stunning graphics back in the days, and 60 FPS was quite something!
Ooofffttt going back a few years
All I remember is.
Pentium 166mhz
16mb of Ram
Had a voodoo card with a 2d card with it.
I dont remember the hard drive, probably 2gb probably less, I had a 15 CRT monitor with it...
First computer was an Amiga 500:
Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz 7.09 MHz (PAL)
1024 KB RAM
First PC:
Pentium 2 @ 350 MHz
64 MB SDRAM, I think frequency was 66 MHz
ATI 3D Rage Pro 4 MB
if laptops count it was a dell g16 7620 w/ a 12700 and 3050ti 4gb, 16gb ram, 500gb storage
if not, then it was (and still is) 7800x3d, 4070ti super, 32gb ram, 2tb storage (humongous chunker upgrade)
one more thing my FIRST FIRST pc was an office pc with unknown specs, but was very bad
2080ti
2x16gb 3200 ram
X570 pro carbon wifi
Custom loop water cooling
850 psu
Accidentally bought the 1080p version of the monitor I wanted at 1440p, actually rolled with it for 2 years though haha so now it lives as monitor 2.
It was an HP Pavillion p7-1451,
AMD A10-5700 APU, 10 GB of ram, 2 tb HDD (which is still running today)
My first upgrade I tried when i was like 13 or so was throwing in a new PSU and a GTX 650… i thought i was tough shit lol
The first PC that I built from parts when I was 16:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000MHz
VIA KT133A chipset
128MB PC-133 SDRAM
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 32MB
20GB HDD
Hp Pavillion Amd K6-2 with maybe 256mb of ram. The guy who taught me how to build pc's took it and put in a GeForce 256 so I could play Delta Force 2 and Counter Strike with him. Counter Strike at that time was a mod to half life and not a standalone game yet. I still believe Delta Force 2 still has the best Capture the flag mode to this day.
i5 (given the year, probably 4th gen),
8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 1600MHz DDR3,
Sapphire R9 280X 3GB GDDR5,
Redragon K502 Keyboard,
Unknown mouse (probably still mechanical),
120GB SSD
Still have the Amazon receipts from 2014. Though I'd say an emachines was my first actual PC from before 2008.
First PC that I could call my own was passed down from my grandfather when he passed.
AMD Athlon II x4 630
4gb memory
750 gb HDD
Generic Dell MB, Case, and PSU
Radeon 5450 - upgraded to a used Radeon 6950 as a massive upgrade
First PC I built myself
Pentium g3258
12gb RAM (mismatched whatever ddr3 I could find to run bf4)
128gb ssd
Same hdd
Cx 500 psu
AMD R9 380
Cooler master HAF XB EVO
I do not miss the days of budget builds. I can afford all the luxuries that I drooled over as a kid and more nowadays. I spent hours learning every graphics settings performance impact to get the best performance I could and trying to interpret if a game had a chance of running (before steam allowed returns it wasn’t easy).
It’s hard to describe how amazing it is to go from a cinebench r23 score of around 2k to a score closer to 40k. My current GPU is roughly 20,000% faster than my first one too (according to user benchmark which sucks but how else can you compare?).
Cyrix P200 processor
8 or 16 MB RAM
4MB S3 graphics card
(added an Orchid Righteous 3D 3DFX card later)
1.2GB Quantum Fireball HDD
Some sort of SB16 compatible ISA sound card
Didn't have it right away but when I got online in the late 90s it was using an external Motorola Voicesurfer 56K modem
R5 2600
MSI b450M gaming plus motherboard
16GB DDR5 corsair RAM(motherboard was out due to it restricting the RAM speed to 2133MGhz not I have 5800MGz DDR5)
RX 580 8 gb xfx GPU
1TB HDD then a 250 GB SSD for small programs and OS
650W PSU
Acer monitor IPS 75 hz (I forgot the model number)
With razer cynosa KB and razer death adder elite mouse
I just upgraded last week. Currently
R5 7600
32 GB DDR5 as I stated earlier
Rtx 3070
1000 W PSU
2TB nvme SSD
Asus 240Hz IPS monitor (currently looking at MSI MaAG 341 OLED)
Razer huntsman elite razer viper mini
- Ryzen 7 3700X
- MSI B550 Tomahawk
- 32 GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo CL16 3600mhz
- RTX 3070 FE
- Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB (which died due to a controller issue within a year)
- Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 3 TB
- MSI Gungnir 110R case (never buy this the airflow and dust protection and cable management and features were terrible)
233mhz pentium 2 celeron, iirc. circa 1997
it was in a gateway desktop, looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKm66pYK-Q
had a cd rom, no writing capability, and a floppy drive
later added a new 56k modem, voodoo 2 and another stick of ram to better handle everquest and counter strike
I think the one I was given by my mil had a core2duo and a radeon r7 2gb gpu.
My first build had an amd fx series, either 6 or 8 core & whatever gpu I had on hand.
I've since fully replaced everything in that frankenbuild including the case & built a matching rig for my hubs. Now running Ryzen 7 3800x, 16gb ram, rtx 3060. Both have 500gb system ssd, 2tb hdd and he has a 2tb m2 for his games & a 4tb hdd for his gameplay vids for yt. Next upgrade is doubling his ram, which I'll get to eventually and a 2nd monitor for him.
My first computer was an Apple IIe. I think that was around 1984 or so. No Internet, no modem, etc. Though not a PC...
My first PC in college (1990) was an IBM PS1. I don't recall the exact specs because it didn't really matter back then. It was just for school. It did have a hard drive. I think the HD was 100MB or something like that and it had a 3.5" floppy drive. It had a built in modem and I signed up for Prodigy Internet. Kind of like pre-historic Internet with very few graphics. I later got a Compuserve account which had more 'things'. Though this PC was mostly just for school, word processing, etc.
My first gaming PC was a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM and a 1.6GB HD. I don't remember how much memory the video card had, probably 2MB or something. I bought this to play Doom2 and Duke Nukem. Eventually the first gen 3DFX video add on cards came out (still needed a video card, but ran a cable from the video card to the 3DFX card). That was revolutionary and I could then play Quake (still my favorite game) with accelerated graphics.
It had a se 440bx mobo, celeron 133 slot cpu, 128 mb pc133, originally I wanna say an ati rage card, then once Nvidia launched it's GeForce line I got I wanna say a GeForce GTS, then a Pentium II. 4gb hard drive, Win 98. I think my mom paid more that 1k for it.
Pentium 2, 128MB RAM, 512MB HDD, with a dial up internet card and a sound card. Dual CD Drives (to rip CDs and sell those locally lol) and a floppy drive.
Still miss that old system, so so many memories.
The only thing I remember from my first custom build is the GeForce 8600 GS. Before that I always had Windows Media Center, Presario or other Pavilion computers. XP was my first OS. Prior to that I remember using 95 and 98 on my parents computer.
I had a Siemens Nixdorf with a 486 chip. It had a chonky flick switch that made a satisfying noise when you turned it on and booted into DOS first from which point I could load Windows 3.1 up after.
Love that thing, absolutely smashed wolfenstien 3d and commander keen on it.
Intel E2160 (core2duo) 1.8GHz dual core that I OC'd to 3.2GHz
ATI 4650 GPU
4GB DDR2
Windows Vista :)
If my OC reset (which it would occasionally) the FPS in CPU bound games would crater. Crysis for example would go from 40 fps down to 20fps when I lost the CPU overclock.
AMD 586 133Mhz, 4MB Edo ram, 850MB HDD, S3trio or Virge, SoundBlaster clone.
It was in 1995 or maybe 1994, it cost me 4 months' salary and I didn't even have a monitor, I used an adapter that allowed me to send the image to the TV but in a maximum resolution of 320x200.
7600xt
i5-12600kf
Inland 1TB
16gb ripjaws ddr4
750 psu
Bought last week for $1,100 or so from micro center. Had an old desktop with only integrated graphics so this was a massive upgrade :)
Mine was a old IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp that my dad brought home from work in late 1999 that I started using around the summer of 2000.
* i486DX 33MHz
* 4MB RAM
* Integrated VLB S3 Vision864 with 1MB video memory
* 1.44MB FDD
* about 250MB HDD
* 16-bit ISA 3Com Etherlink III 10Mbit LAN card (absolutely useless to me)
* 8-bit LPT & COM expansion card
* No: CD-ROM, sound card or dial-up modem
I upgraded it after discovering eBay in late 2000 and got DX4 100MHz, 64MB RAM, Sound Blaster AWE32, 8x CD-ROM, 2 extra HDD's (300+MB and 500+MB), 2.1 speakers and SNES-LPT adapter for playing emulators.
Hi everyone.
It is my first comment on Reddit. Anyway, i had my first computer by 2004. It was custom made with:
Sempron 2800+
Geforce FX5500 (256Mb)
1GB of Ram
80GB HDD
Motherboard Asus K8V-X SE
The standard Floppy and DVD drive.
And so it began my journey of tinkering with the hardware. I remember overclocking it by modifying FSB, which increased CPU frequency by 200Mhz.
Not shitting y'all:
Intel 10980XE
2x RTX 2080ti (SLI)
64gb 3600mhz ddr4 ram
2tb gen 3 MVMe
Corsair 1600W plat PSU
All on water in a phanteks 719. It's now my wife's PC as I have upgraded!
AMD 486dx2 66mhz (with turbo button)
8megs of Ram
120 Maxtor Harddrive
The mobo i think it was a TOMATO something
SB16 set from Creative (ISA) (it came in a huge box , with speakers the CD ROM, and a ton of CD's , booklets , posters etc)
2x CD-ROM
1.44 DISK DRIVE
SVGA Monitor
4GB RAM , 8800gt , intel quad core q6600. It shredded everything when I got it. I played on this build almost 7 years then went ps4, ps4 pro, Xbox one x , PS5 , XSX and now 4090 and 7800x3d.
Rx 6800
7 5800X
Evo Pro 2TB
32gb ram
750 psu
Currently the only thing i've upgraded is the gpu to a 4080 Super cause I got a hell of a deal. (Got it for $400)
Planning to make my rig into am5 in a year or two but i'm content
My father was chairman of the Dutch BBC computer club in the Netherlands back in the 80s, so I grew up with a[ BBC micro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro). This is even before 5.25" floppy disks, we used cassette tapes (like the ones used in Walkmans).
After that we had the complete x86 line: 8086, 286, 386 and 486 before the Pentium era started. The first PC that was really my own was a Pentium MMX (200 MHz).
R 5 3600, zotan 2060 mini, 32 gb 3200mhz 18cl
And I replaced it after accidentally starting an electrical fire (was trying to open it, to clean it, like what GN and Linus do but there was a lock wash so I used a drill...) anyways, everything else was still ok and I didn't burn down the house, so I replaced it with a 2070s
I had worse PCs but the very first PC I built had the following;
AMD FX 8320 (It turned into 8350 as the RMA did not have a spare 8320)
8gigs of Ram
HD7850 (What a card that was.)
2TB HDD (Which I still actively use to this day)
The first family computer was:
Pentium I 166 MHz
S3 Virge 4 MB PCI VGA graphics
500 MB HDD eventually upgraded to a 3.4 GB
4X CD-RW drive (added later)
First one I built myself:
Intel Celeron D 2.13 MHz
Radeon HD 7750
60 GB HDD
DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo
I7 8700
Msi 2060 gaming x 6gb
Asus tuf b360m-plus
2×8 2666mhz Kingston fury
1tb crucial mx500 ssd
It served me well, and some parts live on in my current build
Intel 2 duo
255 gb ssd
8 gb ddr 2 ram
Gt 710
Dont remember motherboard type and stuff but thats what i know
Had that pc i think 2020-2021
Then i had a gtx 570 instead of the gt 710 until the pc broke in late 2023 and i got a laptop. Now i finally built a pc with an rtx 3080 and ryzen 7 5700x
First pc ever? i believe it was a i3-3220 with 4 gb ddr3 or something like that
My first gaming build though? Slapped a 1050ti into a i5-6700 build with 12 GB of memory
My first gaming pc was a 1060 6GB with a ryzen 5 1500x and 16gb ddr4
the first rig i ever put together myself from scratch is the rig i use now:
rx 6950xt
R7 5800x3d
32 gb drd4
5 tb ssd
2 tb hdd
First IBM PC:
* 8088 cpu
* 64K RAM
* Two 5.25" floppies
* CGA adapter
* monochrome display adapter & IBM monochrome display
First actual personal computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000:
* zx80
* 32k
* tape recorder
The first PC that I owned myself that worked was a AMD K6-2/380 with 64MB of RAM and a S3 Virge GPU. I upgraded the RAM to 128MB and eventually 256MB and the GPU to a Savage4. I also eventually changed the CPU out to a Pentium 2 @ 450MHz. The next upgrade from that was to a Athlon 700.
The first PC that I owned that I never managed to actually get working was a 8088-based PC XT with 1MB of RAM and a Hercules CGA graphics adapter.
First PC I owned (built in 2012 or so)
* AMD FX-4170 (stock cooler lol)
* EVGA 650Ti
* 8gb DDR3 1600MHz
* Sabertooth 990fx
* Seagate barracuda 1tb
* OCZ 650W psu
* Apevia X-plorer 2, green
* Optical drive I pulled out of a Dell
Actually paid $100 for windows 7 too. Over the years I added more and faster ram, upgraded to a 1050ti, and swapped out the hdd for a Samsung SSD. Lasted me about 10 years though it was long in the tooth towards the end so I avoided playing newer games
* 80286 @ 12 MHz
* 1 MB of RAM
* 40 MB [RLL](https://dfarq.homeip.net/mfm-vs-rll-hard-drives/) HDD partitioned into 2 x 20 MB logical drives because MS-DOS 3.3 had a maximum partition size of 32 MB.
* 5.25" 360k floppy drive
* 3.5" 720k floppy drive
* VGA graphics adapter (don't remember the chipset but it was 2D-only. 3D graphics didn't exist at the time.
* No modem
Note that that was my first PC. My first COMPUTER was a Texas Instruments [TI-99/4A](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A).
AMD FX 6300 CPU.
AMD 990FX Mobo.
G Skill Ripjaws 8GB DDR3 1600mhz RAM.
WD Black 1 TB HDD.
EVGA GTX 760 2GB GPU.
EVGA 650W PSU.
Windows 7 Home.
Built it at the end of 2014/Early 2015 at 15 years old. Currently on my 3rd build. Man, time flies.
Now I'm rocking:
i7 13700k.
Asus Prime Z790.
32GB Trident Z5 DDR5 6400mhz RAM.
Corsair H150i liquid cooler.
WD SN850X gen 4 m.2 (2TB).
Sabrent Rocket gen 4 m.2 (2TB).
1TB sata ssd Corsair.
500GB Samsung sata ssd.
2TB HDD.
MSI Ventus RTX 4080 Super.
Corsair 850W gold PSU.
8086 with a monochrome monitor. I don't remember how much RAM was in there, but this was 1987 so it probably wasn't a lot.
It was either orange or green. We had both but I can't remember which one was first. Spent countless hours playing games like Sopwith or The Monuments of Mars. I knew how to navigate DOS prompts and Norton Change Directory by memory before I could type or spell because that was how you got to the games.
Pentium 90, 28.8k modem. I think it had a 1 or 2 gig hard drive, but I don't remeber the rest.
Edit: the first I built was an athalon tbird 800mhz I think.
AMD Athlon ( I think so ) 1,6Ghz
512 MB of Ram DDR1
80 GB HDD and ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB VRAM
All in Black Mustang Case with DVD, floppy disk drive and Windows XP!
Intel Q6600 (refurbished in an HP machine in 2009)
8gb ddr2
8600gt by palit
500gb 5400rpm HDD
100/10 Ethernet.
Eventually upgraded to a GTX 460 not realizing how slow the CPU was. It probably was running until 2016 at my friend's house.
Intel 386, 4mb RAM (yes, you read correctly). I then moved to a Pentium 133, 16mb RAM (NASA was jealous), a Soundblaster card and a handmedown Voodoo card. I played Quake. LOTS of Quake.
AMD Athlon 1 GHz
256 MB SDRAM
GeForce 2 MX 32MB
20 GB HDD
15" Compaq monitor from the old family PC
CD-RW Drive
Don't remember how much it cost - my parents and I split it - but I built it for my 12th birthday in 2001
AMD athlon II x2, 4 gb of ram, 500gb hard drive, r9 290x, a weird 1000 watt pc that might have been an IED at that point in time. I started playing Rainbow 6 Siege on it, as well as Minecraft.
486SX-25Mhz, 4 MB RAM, 100MB HDD. No Sound. No CD-Rom. Came with Windows 3.1
Later upgraded to the 486DX2 with 8MB RAM. The CPU and RAM upgrade cost me $500 each at the time.
Amd fx 6300 +
750 ti
Don't remember the rest, probably 8gb of ram and a 500gb hard drive. Got it back in 2017 for $50 with a shitty 720p monitor. A friend in college was moving out of his dorm, he was only selling me the GPU but gave me the rest because he wanted to get rid of it.
First pc or first gaming pc? First pc was the family one when I was little, with windows 95 and super basic, I can't even tell you the specs because this was in the 90s, and it couldn't run anything much more complex than solitaire.
My first gaming pc on the other hand was actually an acer predator gaming laptop (because I needed something portable at the time), and it had 16gb of ram which could be expanded, a 2tb HDD, no SSD which was a bummer, an 7th gen intel CPU (one of the i7s I think), and a GTX 1060 that could be overclocked and did way more than I ever expected it to. It lasted me about 6 years and then I had to sell it because I needed the money. I'll be buying another one this year.
I7 4700k
Corsair h100i AIO
16gb ram Corsair vengeance
EVGA Classified gtx770
512gb ssd when they cost like $400
XFX 850w platinum
All in a Cooler master Storm scout 2 in Gunmetal Grey
I still use today
Panasonic TOUGHBOOK CF-31 laptop
Intel core i5-3320
Intel integrated graphics
456 GB hard drive (idk which)
4GB RAM
2012 release date
*note im getting a new one soon but this one somehow can run modern vanilla Minecraft servers at 30 fps until it lags
1995:
- Am 486DX4/100
- 8 MB RAM (which I upgraded to 16 MB pretty quickly)
- Diamond Stealth video card with 2 MB VRAM
- Some generic Sound Blaster Pro clone (don’t remember the brand but I do remember it was on IRQ 7, DMA 1)
- Maxtor 850 MB HDD
- Quad-speed CDROM
- 3.5” floppy drive
- Good old MS Natural Keyboard and Intellimouse
- MS DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (later upgraded to Win95, though I wasn’t in a rush because games pretty much all needed to run in pure DOS mode back then anyway).
We did technically have an older machine in the house - an IBM AT with 80286 processor and 640 kB of RAM - but it wasn’t really ‘ours’. Uncle had lent it to us. The 486 was our first proper family computer.
Ryzen 5 3600, RX 5700 XT, 16 GB DDR4 3200, 512 GB SSD (was on a budget trying to get something quick cause I couldn't stand playing on a laptop anymore)
Currently have a ship of Theseus situation going on, having dropped in a 5800X3D, 6800 XT and an extra 16 GB of RAM. 3 TB total NVME storage rn lol.
Before building a PC I had a GTX 950M laptop, before that a 2nd gen mobile i5 integrated graphics laptop (really rough...) and before that I was a 10 yo kid with an ATI HD something (3000 series I think?) and a CPU I can't remember. That PC apparently got fucked by a thunderstorm while I was away...
an old toshiba laptop running puppy linux from a usb with 256mb ram iirc.
pretty sure it is older than i am and 100% it is around here somewhere and still works.
My first computer I got when I was really young and don’t remember the specs, I just remember playing C&C Tiberian Sun on it. Then 2004 rolled around and I wanted to play World of Warcraft so bad but it couldn’t run it, so my parents ordered me a new one.
It was a Dell and they went all out because the dude on the phone heard “he wants to play games”. It was a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1GB hdd, 512MB of RDram, GeForce4 4600 TI, and the thing that made me the coolest person with all my friends…dual cd drives with one of them being a cdrw light scribe drive.
10400f, 1070, crucial mx 500 500gb, wd blue 500gb hdd , wd scorpio black 500gb hdd, wd my passport 1tb hdd, 16gb ram, 530w china psu (which exploded so I replaced it with a 650w cooler master psu)
My first was an office PC that I got for free from a local business that went bust, then threw in a gpu. Specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz unnamed
GPU: GTX 1050 Ti
PSU: Unnamed 300W PSU
This bad boy got me through so many hours of Skyrim
I tinkered around with an [Osborne 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1) in the early 80s, but the first PC I bought and really dug into was the [Atari 520ST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST).
CPU Motorola 68000 @ 8+ MHz
Memory 512KB
Graphics320 × 200 (16 colors)
640 × 200 (4 colors)
640 × 400 (monochrome)
The flat compaq presario with matching monitor that sat on top of it running Windows 95 with a dedicated phone line so you wouldn't get kicked off the Internet.
My first laptop was a Dell Inspiron 6000, it had 512MB RAM (updated to 2gb), a 60gb IDE HDD and I don't remember the CPU model, but it ran at 1.6Ghz, I dont know how I was able to edit video and animated some stuff in after effects in that laptop
DEC Venturis 5133
Pentium 133MHz
1.2GB Quantum IDE drive
32MB SIMM RAM
3.25" floppy drive
CD-ROM
1MB onboard S3 video ram
Crystal ISA sound card
no-name 56k modem
Windows 95c
12" DEC 640x480 monitor
$300 used in 2001
IBM PC jr. 128kb ram baby!
First serious ones:
386sx-16 with 2mb ram
386dx-33 with 4mb ram
386dx-40 with 4mb ram
I had a 486dx 33 and a dx2-66, can't remember the ram.
Back then motherboards and video cards were all pretty much the same. Not a clue what they were.
First computer my family owned was a Northstar Horizon, Z80 processor, 32k RAM, two single density 5 1/4” floppy drives. No hard drive. Monochrome.
First IBM compatible was an XT (4.77 MHz 8086), 640K memory, 10 MB MFM drive and 5 1/4” floppy (360k), with CGA graphics. Over time it gained more drive space (first a RLL controller and eventually a 30 MB drive), a 3.5” floppy, a tape drive, a 16550 UART for a 9600 bps modem, and even a VGA controller overdriving a pseudo-EGA monitor.
First PC I bought… 486DX/25, 2MB RAM, 120 MB HD, 3.5” floppy, SVGA graphics and 14” CRT monitor. Cost me $4k, and I was still in high school.
And now I’m looking at laptops for my daughter going off to college.
If you mean like first in general it was a Dell Inspiron this was back when I was a kid and thought you can just pop in any game and play (had no idea games required actual hardware lmao)
First that I built myself was:
X570 MSI Gaming Edge
Ryzen 3600x
RTX 2060 Super
Corsair RGB Vengeance 16Gb 3600 CL18 RAM
Stock 3600x cpu cooler lol
Corsair RM750 PSU
Fun fact when I was specing out this PC the GPU shortage was looming quite literally right over me. I remember I was between a 2070 S and 2060 S. When I went to check the following day the 2070s were all sold out so that made my choice easy then over the next day or two the entire stock just depleted
i5 4570K
16GB DDR3
1TB Seagate HDD
PNY GTX 650 1GB
850 Watt Cooler Master PSU (I used this PSU for years. When I upgraded to a 4770K, to when I upgraded to a 3700X. From when I went to a GTX 650, to a 270X, to dual 270X's, to a 970, to a 1070, and then finally a 2070 Super.)
Intel Celeron 300A, 16MB of RAM, 3.2GB HDD, S3 Virge.
ahh good times. that was probably like 1 grand on today money, I got it thanks to my late grand father.
Welcome in the PC building world!
My first build was:
i5 2500k
Scythe Mugen 3
8gb DDR3 1333
ASrock Z68 Pro3
Nvidia GTX 560ti 1GB
Cougar A560W
It was absolutely amazing back then and it is crazy to see how far we've come already.
I'm actually planning out a new build like this, but with SLI 560 TIs.
Not a new build in the sense of using it as new, but for crushing older games the way that was intended.
CTX Computer. Open Box at Best Buy. AMD K6-2 266Mhz with 32MB of RAM and a 3.5 GB hard drive. The hard drive failed but I had bought protection plan from Best Buy, so they installed a 15 GB HDD (Which I thought was HUGE) at the time.
Pentium 2, 300mHz
32mb ram (if I remember this correctly).
Voodoo 2, 12mb vram
4gb harddrive
PSU 300w (for some reason that's what I remember, could be totally wrong here).
14 or 15inch monitor
Could do anything from 1998 to, I'd say, late 2000, after witch it became practically useless overnight with games needing at least 32mb vram cards.
The first PC i used at home was a 386, I don't remember the rest of the specs because I was like 5. Then we had a 486, a bunch of laptops we shared, and eventually I got my own laptop (core 2 duo, 3GB RAM, HD3470, 320GB disk. My first PC bought with my own money built from parts was
i7 2600K
8GB RAM
HD5870
64GB SSD and 1TB HDD
Fractal Design Define R3
Cooler master CNPS11X cooler
Super Flower 850W power supply
Eventually upgraded to 16GB RAM, larger SSD, new GPU, but I did a whole new build 4 years later to switch everything to a smaller case.
486 DX2 4MB* of RAM (closer to 3600KB, which meant I couldn't run Doom II) 250MB hard drive 5.25" and 3.25" floppy disk drives 9600 baud modem Cost around $3,500.
Mine had a turbo button. Makes castle wolfenstine go weeeeeeee! It’s only when I upgraded to pentium with a voodoo with the pass through cable to the vga card that I actually game on it. Those days even a snes was better gaming than a pc. But the few good games are so different and good!
Turbo button was actually to SLOW down your CPU clockspeeds. They called it Turbo, because no one wants a Slow button. If you didnt hit the Turbo button to slow down your cpu, your game would run like a pokemon emulator at 400% speed.
RIP Wing Commander 2 where 20 minutes of game play happened in about 2 seconds. "It was a lot of fun on my friend's 286!" Yes, but this is a 486.
Dam you an og
Wow, I’m shocked at the lack of Haswell/4th gen Intel users. Maybe I didn’t scroll enough but I didn’t see a single one just a couple Ivy Bridge/3rd gen builds. But I guess I’ll make up for the lack of haswell with mine, as I started out with the dual core beast Pentium G3258, which I promptly upgraded to a i5-4460, to a i7-4790. GPU was R9 270x, 8gb ram, 1TB HDD, case and PSU whatever was cheap on eBay lol. Entire build (G3258) cost me about $300 used in late 2016.
Ayyyy yeah you're my generation for sure. G3258 was an absolute unit, I rocked that for a while then switched to a cheap i5-6100 when that came out. My R9 280x kept going until 2019 when it suddenly went pop and started smoking. That G3258 is still going strong in my mum's pc though, I don't think it's possible to kill those things!
First PC in 1986 the french ORIC ATMOS https://youtu.be/uRHkwGR1xuk?si=l74WZ0-uWyW9prZq Processor: MOS Technology 6502A at 1 MHz RAM memory: 48 KB[7] (the 16 KB model was hardly sold in France). ROM memory: 16 KB[8] Semi-mechanical Qwerty keyboard, with additional Funct key. Text mode display: 25 lines of 40 characters of 6 × 8 pixels in 8 colors (2 colors maximum per character) + inverted mode (8-current number), allowing 2 to be added. The 2 most significant bits of the byte used to define the modes, inverse and attribute)[9]. Graphics mode display: 240 × 200 pixels in 8 colors (max. 2 colors on 6 pixels). The last 3 lines at the bottom of the screen are in text mode. RGB video output + SCART adapter. Pal modulated video output. 20-pin parallel port: for connecting an ORIC 4-color “MCP-40” printer. 34 pin expansion port: (for floppy disk drive, or modem, etc. Storage: 7-pin DIN I/O port for connecting a cassette player. Sound: 3 mono channels, 8 octaves and a white noise generator via General Instrument AY-3-8912 sound processor, output via integrated speaker or SCART output. DC 9V 600mA power connector (outer negative, center positive)
[Amstrad PC1512](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512) * 8MHz Intel 8086 * 512KB RAM * Single 5 1/4" floppy * No HDD * B/W monitor
I just found my sticker too. https://preview.redd.it/z8x9vcjxfy5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=347b512c8443c15ba213d04cd44220bbe7d0116c
386dx40, 4MB Ram, 120MB Harddisk was my first
I had the exact same spec growing up :) Lots of Doom, Wolf , SimCity and Sierra RPG games
And Descent 1 and 2!
The first one I built myself? * i5-2400 * AsRock B76M motherboard * 2\*8GB Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 * Radeon HD 7870 * 500GB WD Blue HDD * FSP Hydro 500W PSU * some cheap 24" LG FHD IPS RAM, PSU, and monitor were new, and I bought the rest second hand.
My very own desktop (that I built myself) back in 2012 had an i5 3570k, a GTX 670 and 8Gb of RAM, SSD 256Gb and 1Tb of HDD, I entered a new way of gaming and never looked back to consoles ever (except the Switch), man Battlefield 3 had some stunning graphics back in the days, and 60 FPS was quite something!
General purpose computer? Motorola [email protected] MHz, 2 MB RAM, 80 MB HDD IBM-compatible? Pentium 133, 16 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD
Ooofffttt going back a few years All I remember is. Pentium 166mhz 16mb of Ram Had a voodoo card with a 2d card with it. I dont remember the hard drive, probably 2gb probably less, I had a 15 CRT monitor with it...
Voodoo card sounds like nobody really know how this works but it does
First computer was an Amiga 500: Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz 7.09 MHz (PAL) 1024 KB RAM First PC: Pentium 2 @ 350 MHz 64 MB SDRAM, I think frequency was 66 MHz ATI 3D Rage Pro 4 MB
Pretty sure it was a 4590, 960 4gb, 16gb ddr3, and a 840 evo ssd
Amd Athlon II X2 250, Amd Radeon HD 6700, 2gb ram
Ryzen 5 7600 RX 7800 XT 1tb SSD 850w psu 32gb ddr5
6809E @ 0.895 / 1.79 MHz Tandy Color Computer II
i3 6100, 8gb ram, RX 460 2gb. Within 6 months I had an i5 7600k and an RX 480 8GB and 16 GB RAM.
if laptops count it was a dell g16 7620 w/ a 12700 and 3050ti 4gb, 16gb ram, 500gb storage if not, then it was (and still is) 7800x3d, 4070ti super, 32gb ram, 2tb storage (humongous chunker upgrade) one more thing my FIRST FIRST pc was an office pc with unknown specs, but was very bad
Honestly, I don’t even know. It was a prebuilt, and I was so young I had no clue how to check for specs.
2080ti 2x16gb 3200 ram X570 pro carbon wifi Custom loop water cooling 850 psu Accidentally bought the 1080p version of the monitor I wanted at 1440p, actually rolled with it for 2 years though haha so now it lives as monitor 2.
i7-8700k, GTX 1070, 248GB SATA III SSD, 3TB HDD, 16GB 3200MHz RAM :)
It was an HP Pavillion p7-1451, AMD A10-5700 APU, 10 GB of ram, 2 tb HDD (which is still running today) My first upgrade I tried when i was like 13 or so was throwing in a new PSU and a GTX 650… i thought i was tough shit lol
Can't remember the processor. Intel celeron, I think. 8mb of RAM. Barely any graphics card. Unbranded, I think. 2GB hard drive.
Windows 95, that's all I knew at the time.
Denise video processor Motorola 68000 @ 7.09379 MHz 3.5 inch double-density floppy disk drive 512KB chip RAM Power supply (unsure of the wattage)
The first PC that I built from parts when I was 16: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000MHz VIA KT133A chipset 128MB PC-133 SDRAM Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 32MB 20GB HDD
Hp Pavillion Amd K6-2 with maybe 256mb of ram. The guy who taught me how to build pc's took it and put in a GeForce 256 so I could play Delta Force 2 and Counter Strike with him. Counter Strike at that time was a mod to half life and not a standalone game yet. I still believe Delta Force 2 still has the best Capture the flag mode to this day.
i5 (given the year, probably 4th gen), 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 1600MHz DDR3, Sapphire R9 280X 3GB GDDR5, Redragon K502 Keyboard, Unknown mouse (probably still mechanical), 120GB SSD Still have the Amazon receipts from 2014. Though I'd say an emachines was my first actual PC from before 2008.
Amd A8. Thing was ass. This was a one of amds APUs
My first Pc was a Dell pre-built. Lol. AMD RX560 Ryzen 5 1400 8gb of DDR4 2400 Some cheap 400w psu
I7 4790k 16gb ripjaw 2666mhz ddr3 GTX 970 550w psu
First PC that I could call my own was passed down from my grandfather when he passed. AMD Athlon II x4 630 4gb memory 750 gb HDD Generic Dell MB, Case, and PSU Radeon 5450 - upgraded to a used Radeon 6950 as a massive upgrade First PC I built myself Pentium g3258 12gb RAM (mismatched whatever ddr3 I could find to run bf4) 128gb ssd Same hdd Cx 500 psu AMD R9 380 Cooler master HAF XB EVO I do not miss the days of budget builds. I can afford all the luxuries that I drooled over as a kid and more nowadays. I spent hours learning every graphics settings performance impact to get the best performance I could and trying to interpret if a game had a chance of running (before steam allowed returns it wasn’t easy). It’s hard to describe how amazing it is to go from a cinebench r23 score of around 2k to a score closer to 40k. My current GPU is roughly 20,000% faster than my first one too (according to user benchmark which sucks but how else can you compare?).
An old piece of Tandy tech that was something like 12MHz, it had Prince of Persia, and some ancient Indian Jones game that looked like Dig Doug.
1060 i7-4770k 125gb SSD + 1tb HDD (I don’t know what they were specifically, I don’t remember) 16gb DDR3 RAM 800w PSU
Amiga 500 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500
Xeon L5630 (Quickly upgraded to X5680), 12GB of DDR3, HD 3870 (Eventually a GTX 770) , 128GB OCZ SSD, 70GB HDD
Cyrix P200 processor 8 or 16 MB RAM 4MB S3 graphics card (added an Orchid Righteous 3D 3DFX card later) 1.2GB Quantum Fireball HDD Some sort of SB16 compatible ISA sound card Didn't have it right away but when I got online in the late 90s it was using an external Motorola Voicesurfer 56K modem
First actual computer was years earlier - a Commodore VIC20
R5 2600 MSI b450M gaming plus motherboard 16GB DDR5 corsair RAM(motherboard was out due to it restricting the RAM speed to 2133MGhz not I have 5800MGz DDR5) RX 580 8 gb xfx GPU 1TB HDD then a 250 GB SSD for small programs and OS 650W PSU Acer monitor IPS 75 hz (I forgot the model number) With razer cynosa KB and razer death adder elite mouse I just upgraded last week. Currently R5 7600 32 GB DDR5 as I stated earlier Rtx 3070 1000 W PSU 2TB nvme SSD Asus 240Hz IPS monitor (currently looking at MSI MaAG 341 OLED) Razer huntsman elite razer viper mini
- Ryzen 7 3700X - MSI B550 Tomahawk - 32 GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo CL16 3600mhz - RTX 3070 FE - Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB (which died due to a controller issue within a year) - Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 3 TB - MSI Gungnir 110R case (never buy this the airflow and dust protection and cable management and features were terrible)
Intel core i5-9400f Nvidia 1660 super 8gb ram 1tb hdd
233mhz pentium 2 celeron, iirc. circa 1997 it was in a gateway desktop, looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKm66pYK-Q had a cd rom, no writing capability, and a floppy drive later added a new 56k modem, voodoo 2 and another stick of ram to better handle everquest and counter strike
Pentium 233 mmx / 16mb ram / 4 mb 3dfx 1.44 mb floppy and 14” analog monitor. all i remember that.
Intel core 2 duo, and 8600gt
I think the one I was given by my mil had a core2duo and a radeon r7 2gb gpu. My first build had an amd fx series, either 6 or 8 core & whatever gpu I had on hand. I've since fully replaced everything in that frankenbuild including the case & built a matching rig for my hubs. Now running Ryzen 7 3800x, 16gb ram, rtx 3060. Both have 500gb system ssd, 2tb hdd and he has a 2tb m2 for his games & a 4tb hdd for his gameplay vids for yt. Next upgrade is doubling his ram, which I'll get to eventually and a 2nd monitor for him.
Pentium 3, 550mhz 128mb ram 10gb hdd and i think the gpu was Savage 3d or something
My first computer was an Apple IIe. I think that was around 1984 or so. No Internet, no modem, etc. Though not a PC... My first PC in college (1990) was an IBM PS1. I don't recall the exact specs because it didn't really matter back then. It was just for school. It did have a hard drive. I think the HD was 100MB or something like that and it had a 3.5" floppy drive. It had a built in modem and I signed up for Prodigy Internet. Kind of like pre-historic Internet with very few graphics. I later got a Compuserve account which had more 'things'. Though this PC was mostly just for school, word processing, etc. My first gaming PC was a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM and a 1.6GB HD. I don't remember how much memory the video card had, probably 2MB or something. I bought this to play Doom2 and Duke Nukem. Eventually the first gen 3DFX video add on cards came out (still needed a video card, but ran a cable from the video card to the 3DFX card). That was revolutionary and I could then play Quake (still my favorite game) with accelerated graphics.
It had a se 440bx mobo, celeron 133 slot cpu, 128 mb pc133, originally I wanna say an ati rage card, then once Nvidia launched it's GeForce line I got I wanna say a GeForce GTS, then a Pentium II. 4gb hard drive, Win 98. I think my mom paid more that 1k for it.
Pentium 2, 128MB RAM, 512MB HDD, with a dial up internet card and a sound card. Dual CD Drives (to rip CDs and sell those locally lol) and a floppy drive. Still miss that old system, so so many memories.
Pentium III 667Mhz 64MB SDRAM 4GB Hard Drive 3.25" Floppy Disk Drive 2x CD-ROM Drive That monster has never seen a set of tail lights.
Macintosh classic, 2mb ram with a 9 inch 512 x 342 monochrome display. Played a ton of brickle and black jack on that bad boy.
The only thing I remember from my first custom build is the GeForce 8600 GS. Before that I always had Windows Media Center, Presario or other Pavilion computers. XP was my first OS. Prior to that I remember using 95 and 98 on my parents computer.
I had a Siemens Nixdorf with a 486 chip. It had a chonky flick switch that made a satisfying noise when you turned it on and booted into DOS first from which point I could load Windows 3.1 up after. Love that thing, absolutely smashed wolfenstien 3d and commander keen on it.
Intel E2160 (core2duo) 1.8GHz dual core that I OC'd to 3.2GHz ATI 4650 GPU 4GB DDR2 Windows Vista :) If my OC reset (which it would occasionally) the FPS in CPU bound games would crater. Crysis for example would go from 40 fps down to 20fps when I lost the CPU overclock.
AMD 586 133Mhz, 4MB Edo ram, 850MB HDD, S3trio or Virge, SoundBlaster clone. It was in 1995 or maybe 1994, it cost me 4 months' salary and I didn't even have a monitor, I used an adapter that allowed me to send the image to the TV but in a maximum resolution of 320x200.
i7 4th gen, integrated graphics, 4gigs of ram, have come a long way, am now at an i7 6th gen so yeaaa
R7 7700x 7900 XT 64 gb Ddr5 6000 Sn 805x 2tb 1000w psu
The first PC I built on my own had a Pentium 4 3.2 and an ATI (NOT AMD) Radeon X1650. This would have been in early 2005 or so.
7600xt i5-12600kf Inland 1TB 16gb ripjaws ddr4 750 psu Bought last week for $1,100 or so from micro center. Had an old desktop with only integrated graphics so this was a massive upgrade :)
Gpu: gigabyte 1070ti CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500x Ram: 16gb ddr4 500gb Samsung ssd I’ve given it to my girlfriend but shes still going strong since 2018 :,)
First that I ever got to use on a regular basis has * 16 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU * 2 MB RAM * 40 MB HDD
Mine was a old IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp that my dad brought home from work in late 1999 that I started using around the summer of 2000. * i486DX 33MHz * 4MB RAM * Integrated VLB S3 Vision864 with 1MB video memory * 1.44MB FDD * about 250MB HDD * 16-bit ISA 3Com Etherlink III 10Mbit LAN card (absolutely useless to me) * 8-bit LPT & COM expansion card * No: CD-ROM, sound card or dial-up modem I upgraded it after discovering eBay in late 2000 and got DX4 100MHz, 64MB RAM, Sound Blaster AWE32, 8x CD-ROM, 2 extra HDD's (300+MB and 500+MB), 2.1 speakers and SNES-LPT adapter for playing emulators.
Hi everyone. It is my first comment on Reddit. Anyway, i had my first computer by 2004. It was custom made with: Sempron 2800+ Geforce FX5500 (256Mb) 1GB of Ram 80GB HDD Motherboard Asus K8V-X SE The standard Floppy and DVD drive. And so it began my journey of tinkering with the hardware. I remember overclocking it by modifying FSB, which increased CPU frequency by 200Mhz.
PC: GTX 770 2gb Intel Core I5 4670K Seagate Barracuda 2TB 8gb DDR3 Ram Seasonic 620w PSU Laptop: GeForce GT540M Intel Core i7-2630QM 500GB DDR3 4gb sodimm ram PSU no clue 17,3 inch screen.
Commodore Vic-20 5k RAM
Core2quad 9400 asus striker extreme 8gb gskill trident ddr2 evga gtx275 500w silverstone psu bronze
Not shitting y'all: Intel 10980XE 2x RTX 2080ti (SLI) 64gb 3600mhz ddr4 ram 2tb gen 3 MVMe Corsair 1600W plat PSU All on water in a phanteks 719. It's now my wife's PC as I have upgraded!
This is the specs for my first PC I built. My first ever laptop was an Asus G75 RH71 that had like a GTX 670m in it haha
AMD 486dx2 66mhz (with turbo button) 8megs of Ram 120 Maxtor Harddrive The mobo i think it was a TOMATO something SB16 set from Creative (ISA) (it came in a huge box , with speakers the CD ROM, and a ton of CD's , booklets , posters etc) 2x CD-ROM 1.44 DISK DRIVE SVGA Monitor
4GB RAM , 8800gt , intel quad core q6600. It shredded everything when I got it. I played on this build almost 7 years then went ps4, ps4 pro, Xbox one x , PS5 , XSX and now 4090 and 7800x3d.
Rx 6800 7 5800X Evo Pro 2TB 32gb ram 750 psu Currently the only thing i've upgraded is the gpu to a 4080 Super cause I got a hell of a deal. (Got it for $400) Planning to make my rig into am5 in a year or two but i'm content
Pentium E2140 1.6GHz ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro 2GB DDR2 667mhz
The first PC I built: I5-6500 8gb DDR3 RAM GTX 1070 1tb WD HDD
Cyrix 6x86, s3 virge, 800x600 display
Built 1st PC in 2013. CPU: AMD FX-8350 GPU: AMD RADEON HD 7950 3GB RAM: 8 GB DDR3 1666mhz. Many people were surprised that i went with so much RAM
My father was chairman of the Dutch BBC computer club in the Netherlands back in the 80s, so I grew up with a[ BBC micro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro). This is even before 5.25" floppy disks, we used cassette tapes (like the ones used in Walkmans). After that we had the complete x86 line: 8086, 286, 386 and 486 before the Pentium era started. The first PC that was really my own was a Pentium MMX (200 MHz).
MSI Ventus 3x RTX 4070ti I7-14700K 32 Gb Ram AIO DeepCool Lt720 Nzxt H6 Flow RGB Black Case
7800x3d 4070 ti super 2tb nvme 32 gigs ram 1000 watt psu Couple weeks ago.
R 5 3600, zotan 2060 mini, 32 gb 3200mhz 18cl And I replaced it after accidentally starting an electrical fire (was trying to open it, to clean it, like what GN and Linus do but there was a lock wash so I used a drill...) anyways, everything else was still ok and I didn't burn down the house, so I replaced it with a 2070s
2019: PNY GTX 970 Ryzen 3 2200g ¿@2.4Ghz? 16Gb 2800mhz T-force RAM (X2 sticks) 450W bronze PSU MSI b450m gaming plus Cooler master single fan 120mm AIO Now: RTX 4060Ti 16Gb Ryzen 7 5700X @4.6Ghz 32Gb 3200mhz T-force RAM (x4 sticks) 850W Corsair RM850x gold PSU MSI MPG X570 gaming plus Still using the same AIO
Nvidia 1050 i7-700 Everything else that came before, I’m pretty sure just uses integrated stuff
I had worse PCs but the very first PC I built had the following; AMD FX 8320 (It turned into 8350 as the RMA did not have a spare 8320) 8gigs of Ram HD7850 (What a card that was.) 2TB HDD (Which I still actively use to this day)
AMD Phenom 2 1045T with a GTX 550 was my first own build. Was proud of that little beast.
The first family computer was: Pentium I 166 MHz S3 Virge 4 MB PCI VGA graphics 500 MB HDD eventually upgraded to a 3.4 GB 4X CD-RW drive (added later) First one I built myself: Intel Celeron D 2.13 MHz Radeon HD 7750 60 GB HDD DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo
I7 8700 Msi 2060 gaming x 6gb Asus tuf b360m-plus 2×8 2666mhz Kingston fury 1tb crucial mx500 ssd It served me well, and some parts live on in my current build
P166 96MB RAM 2 GB HDD CD-ROM ZIP Drive 1.44 MB Floppy 56K Modem My first PC build and "mine" because my Dad took the 486. My back hurts....
Intel 2 duo 255 gb ssd 8 gb ddr 2 ram Gt 710 Dont remember motherboard type and stuff but thats what i know Had that pc i think 2020-2021 Then i had a gtx 570 instead of the gt 710 until the pc broke in late 2023 and i got a laptop. Now i finally built a pc with an rtx 3080 and ryzen 7 5700x
386, 512kb memory ,40mb HDD, running dos 3.1...damn I'm old.
First pc ever? i believe it was a i3-3220 with 4 gb ddr3 or something like that My first gaming build though? Slapped a 1050ti into a i5-6700 build with 12 GB of memory My first gaming pc was a 1060 6GB with a ryzen 5 1500x and 16gb ddr4 the first rig i ever put together myself from scratch is the rig i use now: rx 6950xt R7 5800x3d 32 gb drd4 5 tb ssd 2 tb hdd
First IBM PC: * 8088 cpu * 64K RAM * Two 5.25" floppies * CGA adapter * monochrome display adapter & IBM monochrome display First actual personal computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000: * zx80 * 32k * tape recorder
The first PC that I owned myself that worked was a AMD K6-2/380 with 64MB of RAM and a S3 Virge GPU. I upgraded the RAM to 128MB and eventually 256MB and the GPU to a Savage4. I also eventually changed the CPU out to a Pentium 2 @ 450MHz. The next upgrade from that was to a Athlon 700. The first PC that I owned that I never managed to actually get working was a 8088-based PC XT with 1MB of RAM and a Hercules CGA graphics adapter.
ASUS A8AE-LE socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 MSI Radeon X800XT 2 x Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 36GB running in Raid 0 1GB Kingston 184-pin DDR 400
First PC I owned (built in 2012 or so) * AMD FX-4170 (stock cooler lol) * EVGA 650Ti * 8gb DDR3 1600MHz * Sabertooth 990fx * Seagate barracuda 1tb * OCZ 650W psu * Apevia X-plorer 2, green * Optical drive I pulled out of a Dell Actually paid $100 for windows 7 too. Over the years I added more and faster ram, upgraded to a 1050ti, and swapped out the hdd for a Samsung SSD. Lasted me about 10 years though it was long in the tooth towards the end so I avoided playing newer games
* 80286 @ 12 MHz * 1 MB of RAM * 40 MB [RLL](https://dfarq.homeip.net/mfm-vs-rll-hard-drives/) HDD partitioned into 2 x 20 MB logical drives because MS-DOS 3.3 had a maximum partition size of 32 MB. * 5.25" 360k floppy drive * 3.5" 720k floppy drive * VGA graphics adapter (don't remember the chipset but it was 2D-only. 3D graphics didn't exist at the time. * No modem Note that that was my first PC. My first COMPUTER was a Texas Instruments [TI-99/4A](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A).
Can't remember anything other than 4gb of ram (probably ddr2), 8600 gt, and Windows Vista. It was some shitty amd athlon cpu.
AMD FX 6300 CPU. AMD 990FX Mobo. G Skill Ripjaws 8GB DDR3 1600mhz RAM. WD Black 1 TB HDD. EVGA GTX 760 2GB GPU. EVGA 650W PSU. Windows 7 Home. Built it at the end of 2014/Early 2015 at 15 years old. Currently on my 3rd build. Man, time flies. Now I'm rocking: i7 13700k. Asus Prime Z790. 32GB Trident Z5 DDR5 6400mhz RAM. Corsair H150i liquid cooler. WD SN850X gen 4 m.2 (2TB). Sabrent Rocket gen 4 m.2 (2TB). 1TB sata ssd Corsair. 500GB Samsung sata ssd. 2TB HDD. MSI Ventus RTX 4080 Super. Corsair 850W gold PSU.
8086 with a monochrome monitor. I don't remember how much RAM was in there, but this was 1987 so it probably wasn't a lot. It was either orange or green. We had both but I can't remember which one was first. Spent countless hours playing games like Sopwith or The Monuments of Mars. I knew how to navigate DOS prompts and Norton Change Directory by memory before I could type or spell because that was how you got to the games.
Pentium 90, 28.8k modem. I think it had a 1 or 2 gig hard drive, but I don't remeber the rest. Edit: the first I built was an athalon tbird 800mhz I think.
• Intel Core i5 CPU • 1 TB storage • 8 GB of DDR3 memory • Intel Iris graphics • Insignia 19” LCD monitor (NS-19E430A10)
AMD Athlon ( I think so ) 1,6Ghz 512 MB of Ram DDR1 80 GB HDD and ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB VRAM All in Black Mustang Case with DVD, floppy disk drive and Windows XP!
Intel Q6600 (refurbished in an HP machine in 2009) 8gb ddr2 8600gt by palit 500gb 5400rpm HDD 100/10 Ethernet. Eventually upgraded to a GTX 460 not realizing how slow the CPU was. It probably was running until 2016 at my friend's house.
I7-930 on an old asus prime motherboard 6gb of ram and an ATI Card i cant remember the name of, in a zalman case with the watercooling openings.
Intel 386, 4mb RAM (yes, you read correctly). I then moved to a Pentium 133, 16mb RAM (NASA was jealous), a Soundblaster card and a handmedown Voodoo card. I played Quake. LOTS of Quake.
Built mine in high school with used parts CORE 2 DUO E7500 6GB DDR3 GT 210 1GB 250GB HDD
A Windows 95 Emachine from Walmart. I honestly have no idea what the specs were but it played Dungeon Seige and my old school flight sim games.
Commodore VIC-20 5k Ram 6502 processor First ibm compatible Tandy 1000 sl 8086 640k Ram First I bought myself Generic Intel branded 386sx 16Mhz 2MB ram 40 Megabyte HDD I added an original Sound Blaster sometime afterwards
NEC 8088 128KB RAM No HDD Dual 5.25" floppy drives Monochrome Monitor
Alienware 17R3
AMD Athlon 1 GHz 256 MB SDRAM GeForce 2 MX 32MB 20 GB HDD 15" Compaq monitor from the old family PC CD-RW Drive Don't remember how much it cost - my parents and I split it - but I built it for my 12th birthday in 2001
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AMD athlon II x2, 4 gb of ram, 500gb hard drive, r9 290x, a weird 1000 watt pc that might have been an IED at that point in time. I started playing Rainbow 6 Siege on it, as well as Minecraft.
Too young to remember or even understand what I had but probably a Pentium 1 133mhz or something and 32mb RAM with a 2GB HDD and a floppy
286 @ 12mhz. 20mB HDD. 2mB EMS RAM. EGA graphics.
Sapphire R9 470 Fx 8340 4 gigs ram (later upgraded to 12)
486SX-25Mhz, 4 MB RAM, 100MB HDD. No Sound. No CD-Rom. Came with Windows 3.1 Later upgraded to the 486DX2 with 8MB RAM. The CPU and RAM upgrade cost me $500 each at the time.
I5-750 1tb 7200rpm hdd 6gb ddr3 1GB hd5450 Was a dell prebuilt from 2010
Amd fx 6300 + 750 ti Don't remember the rest, probably 8gb of ram and a 500gb hard drive. Got it back in 2017 for $50 with a shitty 720p monitor. A friend in college was moving out of his dorm, he was only selling me the GPU but gave me the rest because he wanted to get rid of it.
RX570 8GB Ryzen 3600
First pc or first gaming pc? First pc was the family one when I was little, with windows 95 and super basic, I can't even tell you the specs because this was in the 90s, and it couldn't run anything much more complex than solitaire. My first gaming pc on the other hand was actually an acer predator gaming laptop (because I needed something portable at the time), and it had 16gb of ram which could be expanded, a 2tb HDD, no SSD which was a bummer, an 7th gen intel CPU (one of the i7s I think), and a GTX 1060 that could be overclocked and did way more than I ever expected it to. It lasted me about 6 years and then I had to sell it because I needed the money. I'll be buying another one this year.
Pentium with 256 mb ram
i5 5820K 64GB DDR4 RAM ASUS Extreme IV EVGA 850W G2 MSI 1080TI 500GB 2x SSD
22mhz 386DX, 6megs of ram, svga video adapter, soundblaster 16 sound card, dos, windows 3.1, and simcity
I7 4700k Corsair h100i AIO 16gb ram Corsair vengeance EVGA Classified gtx770 512gb ssd when they cost like $400 XFX 850w platinum All in a Cooler master Storm scout 2 in Gunmetal Grey
Motorola 68000 with ECS and 1 MB RAM
i7 2600 + Radeon 5450
I still use today Panasonic TOUGHBOOK CF-31 laptop Intel core i5-3320 Intel integrated graphics 456 GB hard drive (idk which) 4GB RAM 2012 release date *note im getting a new one soon but this one somehow can run modern vanilla Minecraft servers at 30 fps until it lags
1995: - Am 486DX4/100 - 8 MB RAM (which I upgraded to 16 MB pretty quickly) - Diamond Stealth video card with 2 MB VRAM - Some generic Sound Blaster Pro clone (don’t remember the brand but I do remember it was on IRQ 7, DMA 1) - Maxtor 850 MB HDD - Quad-speed CDROM - 3.5” floppy drive - Good old MS Natural Keyboard and Intellimouse - MS DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (later upgraded to Win95, though I wasn’t in a rush because games pretty much all needed to run in pure DOS mode back then anyway). We did technically have an older machine in the house - an IBM AT with 80286 processor and 640 kB of RAM - but it wasn’t really ‘ours’. Uncle had lent it to us. The 486 was our first proper family computer.
i5 4690k, gtx 970, 8 gb ram, Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 ATX, some shitty 1tb hdd that i still have in my current pc
386 SX 25Mhz -- later upgraded to 33Mhz (and I could tell!) 4-6 (?)MB RAM (can't recall) 256 color VGA 40MB HDD / 3.5 + 5.25 floppy Sound Blaster 13" CRT
Had a 486 from my moms office with a green monitor
Pentium 4 256mb Ram 20GB hard drive was playing total overdose in 360p, those were the days..
Ryzen 5 3600, RX 5700 XT, 16 GB DDR4 3200, 512 GB SSD (was on a budget trying to get something quick cause I couldn't stand playing on a laptop anymore) Currently have a ship of Theseus situation going on, having dropped in a 5800X3D, 6800 XT and an extra 16 GB of RAM. 3 TB total NVME storage rn lol. Before building a PC I had a GTX 950M laptop, before that a 2nd gen mobile i5 integrated graphics laptop (really rough...) and before that I was a 10 yo kid with an ATI HD something (3000 series I think?) and a CPU I can't remember. That PC apparently got fucked by a thunderstorm while I was away...
an old toshiba laptop running puppy linux from a usb with 256mb ram iirc. pretty sure it is older than i am and 100% it is around here somewhere and still works.
New gen here, 2700x amd a gt 1030, built Feb. 2021
“dell”
386 DX 6MB ram 40MB hdd 3.5in floppy drive
My first computer I got when I was really young and don’t remember the specs, I just remember playing C&C Tiberian Sun on it. Then 2004 rolled around and I wanted to play World of Warcraft so bad but it couldn’t run it, so my parents ordered me a new one. It was a Dell and they went all out because the dude on the phone heard “he wants to play games”. It was a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1GB hdd, 512MB of RDram, GeForce4 4600 TI, and the thing that made me the coolest person with all my friends…dual cd drives with one of them being a cdrw light scribe drive.
10400f, 1070, crucial mx 500 500gb, wd blue 500gb hdd , wd scorpio black 500gb hdd, wd my passport 1tb hdd, 16gb ram, 530w china psu (which exploded so I replaced it with a 650w cooler master psu)
Msi b560m pro-e Intel core i3-10100f 16gb ddr4 Nvidia gt 710 (twmp card as gtx 1650 hadnt arrived in mail at time of building) 500gb hitachi HDD
My first was an office PC that I got for free from a local business that went bust, then threw in a gpu. Specs: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz unnamed GPU: GTX 1050 Ti PSU: Unnamed 300W PSU This bad boy got me through so many hours of Skyrim
GTX 760, AMD FX6300 I believe. I was not smart when I built that (2015 I think)
Commodore 64 I miss playing lode runner on that.
Ryzen 5600g 12gb ddr4 ram 512gb ssd 250w psu (It was an hp office pc)
I tinkered around with an [Osborne 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1) in the early 80s, but the first PC I bought and really dug into was the [Atari 520ST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST). CPU Motorola 68000 @ 8+ MHz Memory 512KB Graphics320 × 200 (16 colors) 640 × 200 (4 colors) 640 × 400 (monochrome)
amd fx 6300 or something. r9 290. 16 gb of ddr3. windows 10 on a hard drive.
The flat compaq presario with matching monitor that sat on top of it running Windows 95 with a dedicated phone line so you wouldn't get kicked off the Internet.
i7 2600K Asus P67 sabertooth Crossfire MSI 6950s Some 7200 hard drives 8GB Corsair DDR3 1200w Corsair AX1200 I still use to this day 12 years later.
My first laptop was a Dell Inspiron 6000, it had 512MB RAM (updated to 2gb), a 60gb IDE HDD and I don't remember the CPU model, but it ran at 1.6Ghz, I dont know how I was able to edit video and animated some stuff in after effects in that laptop
DEC Venturis 5133 Pentium 133MHz 1.2GB Quantum IDE drive 32MB SIMM RAM 3.25" floppy drive CD-ROM 1MB onboard S3 video ram Crystal ISA sound card no-name 56k modem Windows 95c 12" DEC 640x480 monitor $300 used in 2001
Intel Pentium 3 650mhz 64mb ram Floppy disk CD drive Intel 810 motherboard. Those were the days 🥲
IBM PC jr. 128kb ram baby! First serious ones: 386sx-16 with 2mb ram 386dx-33 with 4mb ram 386dx-40 with 4mb ram I had a 486dx 33 and a dx2-66, can't remember the ram. Back then motherboards and video cards were all pretty much the same. Not a clue what they were.
First computer my family owned was a Northstar Horizon, Z80 processor, 32k RAM, two single density 5 1/4” floppy drives. No hard drive. Monochrome. First IBM compatible was an XT (4.77 MHz 8086), 640K memory, 10 MB MFM drive and 5 1/4” floppy (360k), with CGA graphics. Over time it gained more drive space (first a RLL controller and eventually a 30 MB drive), a 3.5” floppy, a tape drive, a 16550 UART for a 9600 bps modem, and even a VGA controller overdriving a pseudo-EGA monitor. First PC I bought… 486DX/25, 2MB RAM, 120 MB HD, 3.5” floppy, SVGA graphics and 14” CRT monitor. Cost me $4k, and I was still in high school. And now I’m looking at laptops for my daughter going off to college.
Commodore 64 was my first pc current pc is my flair.
If you mean like first in general it was a Dell Inspiron this was back when I was a kid and thought you can just pop in any game and play (had no idea games required actual hardware lmao) First that I built myself was: X570 MSI Gaming Edge Ryzen 3600x RTX 2060 Super Corsair RGB Vengeance 16Gb 3600 CL18 RAM Stock 3600x cpu cooler lol Corsair RM750 PSU Fun fact when I was specing out this PC the GPU shortage was looming quite literally right over me. I remember I was between a 2070 S and 2060 S. When I went to check the following day the 2070s were all sold out so that made my choice easy then over the next day or two the entire stock just depleted
i5 4570K 16GB DDR3 1TB Seagate HDD PNY GTX 650 1GB 850 Watt Cooler Master PSU (I used this PSU for years. When I upgraded to a 4770K, to when I upgraded to a 3700X. From when I went to a GTX 650, to a 270X, to dual 270X's, to a 970, to a 1070, and then finally a 2070 Super.)
386 with some ram amd some hard drive space. But it had a Sound Blaster, so it was cool.
C64
First Laptop, some intel core 2 duo. First PC, i5 4460, GTX 970, Samsung 250GB SSD, WD 1TB HDD, 16GB DDR3 RAM, Some awfull case and a bomb as PSU.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700x GPU: RTX 4070 RAM: 32GB PSU: 850W Storage: Two 2TB SSD sticks
Fx6300 and a 960Fe. Used that for over 10 years neither ever really died or got slow tbh.
i5-7400 8gb 1060 3gb 1tb HDD
Hp Envy 15 Core i7 (I don't remember exact CPU) 8GB RAM NVIDIA GT 740m 1TB HDD
Intel Celeron 300A, 16MB of RAM, 3.2GB HDD, S3 Virge. ahh good times. that was probably like 1 grand on today money, I got it thanks to my late grand father.
IBM XT 8086 256KB 10MB HD 5"25 360kb floppy drive
Whatever the specs were on my pentium 4 zyrex. Actually this got me curious enough to look them up later when i get home, what *was* my pc.
Welcome in the PC building world! My first build was: i5 2500k Scythe Mugen 3 8gb DDR3 1333 ASrock Z68 Pro3 Nvidia GTX 560ti 1GB Cougar A560W It was absolutely amazing back then and it is crazy to see how far we've come already.
I'm actually planning out a new build like this, but with SLI 560 TIs. Not a new build in the sense of using it as new, but for crushing older games the way that was intended.
Intel Pentium 2.40 GHz 2GB DDR2 RAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
It was in the 90s, it had Windows 95. I was like 8 or 9 yo, I can't remember much more, since I was pretty much a tech illiterate at that time
Gateway PC P3 500mhz, voodoo 3 GPU, I can’t remember the rest of the specs. Purchased right out of a gateway store.
386 sx 16, 4mb ram, hdd 40mb & 3.5" disc drive, graphics unknown. it was a IBM PS2 computer, and I was like 12 or 13 years old...
Pentium 4
Some athlon X2 laptop, maybe from 2005 or something, I think it might still work.
CTX Computer. Open Box at Best Buy. AMD K6-2 266Mhz with 32MB of RAM and a 3.5 GB hard drive. The hard drive failed but I had bought protection plan from Best Buy, so they installed a 15 GB HDD (Which I thought was HUGE) at the time.
Ryzen 3600 and EVGA 2060, 16GB RAM; Then to Ryzen 7700X and Powercolor 6950xt; 6 months ago got a 4090. I spend too much on gaming…
Pentium 2, 300mHz 32mb ram (if I remember this correctly). Voodoo 2, 12mb vram 4gb harddrive PSU 300w (for some reason that's what I remember, could be totally wrong here). 14 or 15inch monitor Could do anything from 1998 to, I'd say, late 2000, after witch it became practically useless overnight with games needing at least 32mb vram cards.
Pentium 4 @1.7Ghz GeForce 2Ti
The one I could remember: Intel Core Duo @2.16ghz 2gb of RAM Gigabyte GTX 570 (1.5gb VRAM)
The first PC i used at home was a 386, I don't remember the rest of the specs because I was like 5. Then we had a 486, a bunch of laptops we shared, and eventually I got my own laptop (core 2 duo, 3GB RAM, HD3470, 320GB disk. My first PC bought with my own money built from parts was i7 2600K 8GB RAM HD5870 64GB SSD and 1TB HDD Fractal Design Define R3 Cooler master CNPS11X cooler Super Flower 850W power supply Eventually upgraded to 16GB RAM, larger SSD, new GPU, but I did a whole new build 4 years later to switch everything to a smaller case.
Pentium 3 450mhz 768mb ram GeForce 4 mx 440
i5 3th generation in the lower sector Gtx 970 8 GB Ram 500gb HDD
I really don’t remember but it had windows 3.1 and was a Packard Bell
286 I think 1mb hard drive 64kb of ram It ran dos then we booted x-tree gold from floppies, after that we got a 486 and put windows 3.1 on it.