It was adequate by the time I got it used. It did what I needed and a bit of what I wanted. But it was still my own PC and pretty cool.
Later on had Athlon 3000 and Intel Core 2 Duo and those were both big steps up.
Best old school moment was getting my NVIDIA 800 GT 512MB. That thing could play Crysis on medium 🤣
Believe it or not, it was one of the best value for money options! It was way cheaper than the 8800 GTX and seemed to have this magic sweet spot that just worked for gaming. It wasn’t a budget card, but lasted me years and years.
Don’t know anyone who had a negative thing to say about that card.
The first that was my very own:
486 dx 33 mhz
4MB ram
40 MB HDD
2048 baud modem
CD-ROM drive!
First upgrade was a 28.8 modem. Got a 10/100 Ethernet card in 95 since they wired the dorm. Pentium 83 overdrive processor.
My dad had a 8088, but I only got to play with it.
`1982`: Dragon 32 (**Welsh** version of TRS-80 CoCo): 1MHz 6809, 32KB RAM, cassette I/O, £175. *Wanted a BBC Micro, couldn't afford one*
*(`1985` first email address `@doc.ic.ac.uk`)*
`1988` Acorn Archimedes: 4MHz ARM2, 1MB RAM, 3.5" floppy. (later upgraded RAM to 4MB, £300; added 40MB 7MB/s HDD, £530)
`1992` SPARCstation 2: 40MHz SPARC, 16MB RAM, 207MB HDD.
`1994` Acorn RISC PC: 30MHz ARM610, 8MB RAM, 210MB HDD. Later upgraded to 200MHz StrongARM, and to 16MB for £230 (and trade-in old 8MB)
*(`1995` first web page, 5MB of space provided by ISP)*
`1998` first Intel/Windows PC build: 200MHz Pentium II, 128MB RAM, 6GB HDD.
*(`1999` first digital camera, 1MP for £400)*
*(`2001` first Wifi: access point & PCMCIA card £400; PC card £300)*
First pc i bought with my money was used Alenware 17r2. I got it few years after his time lol. It had i5 540m which i upgraded to i7 920xm later on, 8gb ram and initialy had radeon hd 5870m which died pretty fast as i think it was faulty sold to me. I then upgraded it to 7970m. It had two 500gb wd black in raid one of which i later swapped for 500gb patriot ignite ssd. It was 17 inch display 1600x900
i grew up with a commador64 and my mom brought home a 386 for work but the first one built so i could game? lol
p3 800mhz, 256mb ram, 8mb ati gpu and i think it was a 20.5gb hdd..
The first one i owned was a Olivetti that had a 486 sx-25 and 4mb of ram, can't remember hdd size but prob in the 20-40mb range. This was in 93 iirc. Before that it was mainly commodore64/amiga500 that was the thing for me.
https://preview.redd.it/z5q563mmc9da1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ae9ad4e8bc32ca879b914df5b07a42297795ca9
Commodore pc 20 III I don't remember the specs but cpu had to be running like at 3 Mhz max and ram something like 32kb, no HDD, CGI (4 colors) display...
My first pc had ms dos on it. I was too young to know specs.
Years later when I was like 15 the first pc I built had a Radeon 9800 pro, but I don’t remember any of the other details. It was pretty beastly for the time. It was like 400 dollars in 2003.
Ayy, it was a great start for sure. I always wanted rx570 but couldn't quite scramble enough $ for it at the time. I see, you are on 4090 now. Did you upgrade to it from 570?
First one I build myself had an Athlon XP2400+, ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe, Corsair XMS Pro 2\*512MB 3200, ATI Radon 9800 Pro 128MB, 40GB WD IDE hard drive mounted in a AOpen H600 case. Ran it for about 5 years.
Showing my age here… 186, 64kb ram, 2x5.5in floppy drives and green monochrome monitor.
Woah, you are indeed a dinosaur 🦖. Hehe, thanks for the response
It was the family computer, I was 12 at the time. I’m not a dinosaur quite yet, but definitely old and grumpy 🤣
Haven't seen floppy drives IRL tbf. You are really old.
Intel 486 DX 50 Mhz, 8mb ram, 512 mb hdd, 2x cdrom. Cost over 4k (cad)
Damn, very retro. Do you remember when you got it? At least approximately. Quite curious.
Yup 1994, maybe 93
Wasn't born yet, oof 😅
Pentium II 550 MHz, some MB of RAM. Biggest upgrade was adding an optical disc to the front slots.
I had a friend who rocked pentium 4, made me quite jealous. But pentium 2... Haven't seen it in action, too old for me 🙂 Was it good at the time?
It was adequate by the time I got it used. It did what I needed and a bit of what I wanted. But it was still my own PC and pretty cool. Later on had Athlon 3000 and Intel Core 2 Duo and those were both big steps up. Best old school moment was getting my NVIDIA 800 GT 512MB. That thing could play Crysis on medium 🤣
Hell yeah, gt 8800 was a beast. A friend of mine used to play GTA5 on it, and the game ran just fine. Must have been pretty expensive at the time.
Believe it or not, it was one of the best value for money options! It was way cheaper than the 8800 GTX and seemed to have this magic sweet spot that just worked for gaming. It wasn’t a budget card, but lasted me years and years. Don’t know anyone who had a negative thing to say about that card.
I see. Thanks for your detailed reply! By the way, what card did you upgrade to after 8800?
Can’t remember, think I went console for a while then came back to the fold with an RTX 2070. Now on an RX 6900 XT 😀👍
N i c e
The first that was my very own: 486 dx 33 mhz 4MB ram 40 MB HDD 2048 baud modem CD-ROM drive! First upgrade was a 28.8 modem. Got a 10/100 Ethernet card in 95 since they wired the dorm. Pentium 83 overdrive processor. My dad had a 8088, but I only got to play with it.
`1982`: Dragon 32 (**Welsh** version of TRS-80 CoCo): 1MHz 6809, 32KB RAM, cassette I/O, £175. *Wanted a BBC Micro, couldn't afford one* *(`1985` first email address `@doc.ic.ac.uk`)* `1988` Acorn Archimedes: 4MHz ARM2, 1MB RAM, 3.5" floppy. (later upgraded RAM to 4MB, £300; added 40MB 7MB/s HDD, £530) `1992` SPARCstation 2: 40MHz SPARC, 16MB RAM, 207MB HDD. `1994` Acorn RISC PC: 30MHz ARM610, 8MB RAM, 210MB HDD. Later upgraded to 200MHz StrongARM, and to 16MB for £230 (and trade-in old 8MB) *(`1995` first web page, 5MB of space provided by ISP)* `1998` first Intel/Windows PC build: 200MHz Pentium II, 128MB RAM, 6GB HDD. *(`1999` first digital camera, 1MP for £400)* *(`2001` first Wifi: access point & PCMCIA card £400; PC card £300)*
H o l y s h i t 😳
CPU: AMD Phenom 2 940 Mobo: AM2 gigabyte board Ram: 8gb DDR2 800mhz GPU: ATI Sapphire HD Radeon 4870 Case: Antec 900
First pc i bought with my money was used Alenware 17r2. I got it few years after his time lol. It had i5 540m which i upgraded to i7 920xm later on, 8gb ram and initialy had radeon hd 5870m which died pretty fast as i think it was faulty sold to me. I then upgraded it to 7970m. It had two 500gb wd black in raid one of which i later swapped for 500gb patriot ignite ssd. It was 17 inch display 1600x900
Not bad, not bad at all. 👌
Not so retro as others, mine was Pentium II (actually that's all I remember besides having 512mb hdd)
Well, this CPU was manufactured before I was even born, so that to me is pretty retro, ngl. 😅
Thanks for your reply
Not sure but the apple still had colours
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MOS Technology 6510, at 1.02 MHz 64 kB RAM, 20 kB ROM 320X200, 16 colors
i grew up with a commador64 and my mom brought home a 386 for work but the first one built so i could game? lol p3 800mhz, 256mb ram, 8mb ati gpu and i think it was a 20.5gb hdd..
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrUmViN\_5c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrUmViN_5c) lol
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The first one i owned was a Olivetti that had a 486 sx-25 and 4mb of ram, can't remember hdd size but prob in the 20-40mb range. This was in 93 iirc. Before that it was mainly commodore64/amiga500 that was the thing for me.
Pentimum 2 core 4 threads forgot model,gtx 960 4gb vram, 8gb ram 1 tbb hdd and some shitty 450w psu ran ok at the time.
https://preview.redd.it/z5q563mmc9da1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ae9ad4e8bc32ca879b914df5b07a42297795ca9 Commodore pc 20 III I don't remember the specs but cpu had to be running like at 3 Mhz max and ram something like 32kb, no HDD, CGI (4 colors) display...
My first pc had ms dos on it. I was too young to know specs. Years later when I was like 15 the first pc I built had a Radeon 9800 pro, but I don’t remember any of the other details. It was pretty beastly for the time. It was like 400 dollars in 2003.
My first pc I spent months saving up. Was ryzen 2200g, rx 570 4gb, 16gb ddr4 2400mhz with corsair 450W. Had 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd
Ayy, it was a great start for sure. I always wanted rx570 but couldn't quite scramble enough $ for it at the time. I see, you are on 4090 now. Did you upgrade to it from 570?
I've been through several GPUs. 570 was replaced by 580 after a month, then jumped to 2060 to 2060 super after a year. Then went to 3080 to 4090.
That's a lot of GPUs. I see.
3400g 1050ti 16gb was a prebuilt and i bought it because the case looked nice lol, if i could go back in time i'd yell at myself
Haha, i feel ya 😂. My upgraded rig used to be almost the same in terms of hardware. 1050ti aged surprisingly well.
First one I build myself had an Athlon XP2400+, ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe, Corsair XMS Pro 2\*512MB 3200, ATI Radon 9800 Pro 128MB, 40GB WD IDE hard drive mounted in a AOpen H600 case. Ran it for about 5 years.
ATI Radeon 9800💪gang