Post your first pc's specs!
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My first computer was am Spectrum ZX81 with and 15k ram pack. My first real computer that I bult myself was........
AMD Barton 2500
Abit NFS-7 Mobo
ATI 9700Pro GPU
1Gb TwinMos Ram
Plextor DVD Rom Drive
80GB Seagate HDD
Q-Tec 550w PSU
AMD Barton 2500
Abit NFS-7 Mobo
ATI 9700Pro GPU
1Gb TwinMos Ram
Plextor DVD Rom Drive
80GB Seagate HDD
Q-Tec 550w PSU
My parents bought me my first one in 2003 when i started secondary school for around £1,000! :O
Celeron 2.7 Ghz
512 Hynix mb RAM
80GB HDD toshiba (maybe)
Nvidia Fx 5200 64Mb (i think)
17" TFT monitor
The spec looks awful, but it allowed me to play war hammer 40k and MFS 2004
We were still using it as a HTPC up until runner last year when it retired in place of an ASUS eeBox
Celeron 2.7 Ghz
512 Hynix mb RAM
80GB HDD toshiba (maybe)
Nvidia Fx 5200 64Mb (i think)
17" TFT monitor
The spec looks awful, but it allowed me to play war hammer 40k and MFS 2004
We were still using it as a HTPC up until runner last year when it retired in place of an ASUS eeBox
i just built my own pc, which i purchased all components myself
AMD FX 6100
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
4gb Corsair Vengence 1600mhz RAM
500gb HDD,
80GB HDD (Running Win7)
EVGA GTX 550 TI 2gb
Corsair H80
quite impressed with myself managing to save money and build it myself!!
AMD FX 6100
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
4gb Corsair Vengence 1600mhz RAM
500gb HDD,
80GB HDD (Running Win7)
EVGA GTX 550 TI 2gb
Corsair H80
quite impressed with myself managing to save money and build it myself!!
My first computer - Amstrad CPC464
My First PC - 386SX-16 of some description.
My first PC I actually bought with my own money - Pentium 200MMX with 32Mb ram and a 1Gb hard drive.
Oldest hardware must be my Zip100 parallel drive that I still have. Discs are all blank, and I do not think I even have a PC with the correct port on anymore! Unless my mITX system for the laser does. It might!
My First PC - 386SX-16 of some description.
My first PC I actually bought with my own money - Pentium 200MMX with 32Mb ram and a 1Gb hard drive.
Oldest hardware must be my Zip100 parallel drive that I still have. Discs are all blank, and I do not think I even have a PC with the correct port on anymore! Unless my mITX system for the laser does. It might!
Olivetti M15 8088 laptop (I use the term lightly, it would cripple you), with less than 1MB of RAM, no HDD but two 3.5" floppies (not high-density). The keyboard could come out on a flexible curly cord, and the display had a bezel that was around 5" thick, and was monochrome.
So Intel 8088 @ 4.77MHz
512K of RAM
16K of Video RAM
2x 3.5" floppies (double density 720KB, not high density 1.44MB)
620x200 monochrome display (with an aspect ratio of 1:2.4)
So Intel 8088 @ 4.77MHz
512K of RAM
16K of Video RAM
2x 3.5" floppies (double density 720KB, not high density 1.44MB)
620x200 monochrome display (with an aspect ratio of 1:2.4)
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Amstrad 2086
CPU 8Mhz 8086 Processor
RAM 640KB
Video Extended VGA adaptor that supports MDA, CGA, Hercules, EGA, MCGA, VGA, and enhanced VGA
I/O Ports Mouse Interface, 1x Parallel and 1x RS232 Serial
Expansion 3 full size 8 bit expansion slots
Sound Built in 'PC Speaker'
Drives 3.5" 720K Floppy Drive and 32MB RLL hard disk with hard disk model. I got the 40Mb version though.
Operating System MS-DOS 3.30
CPU 8Mhz 8086 Processor
RAM 640KB
Video Extended VGA adaptor that supports MDA, CGA, Hercules, EGA, MCGA, VGA, and enhanced VGA
I/O Ports Mouse Interface, 1x Parallel and 1x RS232 Serial
Expansion 3 full size 8 bit expansion slots
Sound Built in 'PC Speaker'
Drives 3.5" 720K Floppy Drive and 32MB RLL hard disk with hard disk model. I got the 40Mb version though.
Operating System MS-DOS 3.30
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First PC which was just mine ... end of '93
486DX33
4MB RAM
245MB HD
CirrusLogic Graphics
8bit Sound Galaxy NX Pro
2x (speed not number of drives) CDROM
14" 1024x768 Goldstar Monitor
Over my time at Uni this was upgraded to a DX2/66, 8MB, and a second 250MB hard disk added.
First PC I had access to at home was a machine my Dad had from work
6MHz 286 (on a pre-production motherboard)
287 Maths Co-Processor
640KB + ~16MB of memory on expansion cards
1.2MB 5.25" Floppy
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy (required a bios patch)
20MB 5.25" full height Harddisk
256KB EGA Graphics (full length card with full length daughter board)
EGA screen
IBM Model M keyboard
MS Mouse (v1)
(We had a BBC B too)
486DX33
4MB RAM
245MB HD
CirrusLogic Graphics
8bit Sound Galaxy NX Pro
2x (speed not number of drives) CDROM
14" 1024x768 Goldstar Monitor
Over my time at Uni this was upgraded to a DX2/66, 8MB, and a second 250MB hard disk added.
First PC I had access to at home was a machine my Dad had from work
6MHz 286 (on a pre-production motherboard)
287 Maths Co-Processor
640KB + ~16MB of memory on expansion cards
1.2MB 5.25" Floppy
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy (required a bios patch)
20MB 5.25" full height Harddisk
256KB EGA Graphics (full length card with full length daughter board)
EGA screen
IBM Model M keyboard
MS Mouse (v1)
(We had a BBC B too)
Wow, ill try and remember: 2000 was the year
Athlon 1600+ - but I really wanted the 1800+
2 x 256 Ram - I splashed out!
Second hand Geforce 2 - my friend spent £415 and bought the Geforce 2 Ultra, I thought he was crazy man!!
20gb HDD
W98
17 LG monitor
One of my very first PC games was, Giants: Citizen Kabuto.... and Sacrifice.
Cost me a lot of overtime and weekend work.... and still does today!!
Athlon 1600+ - but I really wanted the 1800+
2 x 256 Ram - I splashed out!
Second hand Geforce 2 - my friend spent £415 and bought the Geforce 2 Ultra, I thought he was crazy man!!
20gb HDD
W98
17 LG monitor
One of my very first PC games was, Giants: Citizen Kabuto.... and Sacrifice.
Cost me a lot of overtime and weekend work.... and still does today!!
Got my first PC for Christmas 2000 when I was 13, an eMachines eTower 633:
Intel Celeron 633MHz
64MB of RAM (upgraded a few months later to 192MB)
Creative Labs 3DBlaster GeForce2MX PCI 32MB DDR
20GB HDD (I think)
17" monitor (was massive at the time)
Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard
MS IntelliMouse Explorer (back when optical mice were the latest and greatest, this thing was awesome)
Windows Millenium Edition
After the RAM and graphics upgrades, it was surprisingly capable - managed Hitman smoothly which was probably one of the more system-intensive games at the time. It was struggling near the end though, games took quite a jump in how demanding they were and eventually it couldn't cope. Bought myself an entirely new system for Christmas in 2003.
Intel Celeron 633MHz
64MB of RAM (upgraded a few months later to 192MB)
Creative Labs 3DBlaster GeForce2MX PCI 32MB DDR
20GB HDD (I think)
17" monitor (was massive at the time)
Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard
MS IntelliMouse Explorer (back when optical mice were the latest and greatest, this thing was awesome)
Windows Millenium Edition
After the RAM and graphics upgrades, it was surprisingly capable - managed Hitman smoothly which was probably one of the more system-intensive games at the time. It was struggling near the end though, games took quite a jump in how demanding they were and eventually it couldn't cope. Bought myself an entirely new system for Christmas in 2003.
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e6300
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
7600GT
+ The cheapest most crappy case imaginable.
I was suited with it! Raven Sheild, Diablo II, BF2..
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
7600GT
+ The cheapest most crappy case imaginable.
I was suited with it! Raven Sheild, Diablo II, BF2..
This, with a 12" black & white CRT and a 20mb HDD which was doublespaced when DOS was upgraded.
The 4xAA bios battery backup was a nice touch.
packard bell
cyrix mx II (i think it was called that) 330mhz
64mb ram ( i upped to 256 )
12 gb hdd
cd rom
on board vga with a pci oracle voodoo1 2mb or 4mb card cant remeber managed play half life in tiny low spec res probably never got past 20fps
win 98
pc was still working till last summer when psu died used it to play frontier elite II.
cyrix mx II (i think it was called that) 330mhz
64mb ram ( i upped to 256 )
12 gb hdd
cd rom
on board vga with a pci oracle voodoo1 2mb or 4mb card cant remeber managed play half life in tiny low spec res probably never got past 20fps
win 98
pc was still working till last summer when psu died used it to play frontier elite II.
P75
32 mb memory
s3 trio card (i think)
sound blaster
NEC cd rom
NEC 15" monitor
Was very happy with my purchase as i used it exclusively for work - that was until i was lent (in the loosest sense of the term) DOOM by a friend.
Then i found out about overclocking (T-birds - pencil trick) and that's when i started spending stupid amounts of money on upgrading/rebuilds...
(Before all that I had a ZX81 with 16mb of external ram, then a BBC before moving onto Amigas - showing my age.)
32 mb memory
s3 trio card (i think)
sound blaster
NEC cd rom
NEC 15" monitor
Was very happy with my purchase as i used it exclusively for work - that was until i was lent (in the loosest sense of the term) DOOM by a friend.
Then i found out about overclocking (T-birds - pencil trick) and that's when i started spending stupid amounts of money on upgrading/rebuilds...
(Before all that I had a ZX81 with 16mb of external ram, then a BBC before moving onto Amigas - showing my age.)
AMD k6-2 350mhz
128mb ram
16mb voodoo banshee
8gb Hdd
woeful PSU and case.
US Robotics something extreme 56k modem... was the best i could get i think it cost more than the cpu lol
Bought and built with my first pay cheque !
Totally owned for HLDM and some new mod called Counterstrike
128mb ram
16mb voodoo banshee
8gb Hdd
woeful PSU and case.
US Robotics something extreme 56k modem... was the best i could get i think it cost more than the cpu lol
Bought and built with my first pay cheque !
Totally owned for HLDM and some new mod called Counterstrike