What was your first PC spec?

It was something along the lines of a Cyrix 133mhz.
Can't remember how much SDRAM it had, at first it doesn't have a GPU, but when added you heat to loop it from the onboard into the GPU then to the monitor and I could just about play Turok and Kingpin.
Windows 95.
Soon moved onto a AMD Duron 800mhz.
 
My first proper pc was the one i bought before going to uni in 1997

AMD K6 200Mhz
32MB
Matrox Mystique
Some form of Sound Blaster
8x CDROM
Iiyama 15" 1024x768 CRT

I added a Maxigamer 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics to it not soon after.
 
Cyrix 486 DX2 66
8 MB RAM
Soundblaster 16
CDROM (think it might have been 4x)

It was some AST brand computer my dad bought from Dixons I think.
 
The very first computer I got wasn't a PC but an Apple II with twin disk drives and green screen monitor I paid a fiver for it with my pocket money back in 1998 from a carboot sale. Happy days I owned an apricot PC shortly after, another car boot find. I forget the spec tho but it was very low 640k RAM 86PC type of thing.

I was given an AST PC in the year 2000
RAM 8MB
2.5 GB HDD
120 MHz processor
onboard graphics and sound running Windows 95
It was horribly slow and wouldn't upgrade no matter what RAM I tried or what video card I tried on it so I was stuck with it as is but it was free after all.
 
Amd phenom 9950 BE cpu
M2n68-vm mobo
500gb hdd
4GB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (2x 2GB)
Dvd-rw

Bought as a prebuilt many years ago, from a competitor, would add an amd 5670 1gb gpu to it
 
1997's finest:

AMD K6 233
64MB ram, I think
ATX mobo (new at the time)
24x CD-ROM
3.2GB Maxtor HDD
Matrox Mystique
AWE64 sound card.
Windows 98SE

I can't remember what monitor I had at first. I remember buying a Hansol 19" flat CRT, but that was later.
 
First proper gaming PC I built myself was:
i5 2500k
GTX 570 MSI Twin Frozr III
8gb ram
500GB HDD
64GB SSD
BitFeonix Shinobi
 
First PC at home was a Packard Bell with speakers attached to the monitor, and could just about manage playing a CD while doing something else.

Pentium 1 133Mhz
8MB RAM
2GB HDD
Windows 95

Does anyone remember playing Earthworm Jim?
 
So much nostalgia reading through this thread! I don’t remember the full specs but I remember it being and AMD Thunderbird which I somewhat nervously overclocker as a 12 year old. I think I had a Matrox graphics card and it seemed to run UT and Quake III without any trouble so that was all I needed :-)
 
I was in secondary school at the time, I worked part time in my dad's shop and was saving during that time to build my own PC having read monthly issues of PC Gamer and PC Advisor and had some sort of idea of what connects to what.

Whilst I saved up, my classmate who I will call Ross Bell told me his older brother was selling his PC and if I wanted it. I believe it was £150 at the time. It was a Packard Bell desktop case that lay flat not tall, one of those, the speakers were part of the CRT monitor's base and were actually quite decent it has to be said. It was a P133 MMX with Overdrive. I know it had a Soundblaster (maybe a 128) and at time it was used mostly for Flash based web games which were a big deal back then. It played some PC games like Worms, ran Windows 98 SE and used it for Encarta 95. Finally, I no longer needed to use Encarta in the school library shared between 4 "computers" that entire school used at the time lol.

After a year or so I saved up enough and went to the local PC store to buy all the parts for the build:

Enlight 7237 case
Athlon 700MHz OCd to 850MHz
Abit KT7-A board
256MB SDR
GeForce 2 MX 32MB
15" basic CRT which a while later got upgraded to an LG Flatron 17"

Memories.....

celliott said:
Earthworm Jim?
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I had it on the Megadrive!
 
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Honestly don't remember, it was a Gateway PC that my dad had from the late 90's/early 2000's.

It ran:

Soldier of fortune,
MDK
Star Wars: X Wing vs Tie Fighter.
Worms
Half Life
Age of Empires
Lemmings
Commandos behind enemy lines.

Absolute gems at the time and spent endless hours gaming.
 
My first pc was bought from a company who advertised in micro Mart back in the day just a beige box builder:

Was a 286 16 Mhz
640 KB Ram!
20 MB hard drive

Still remember it now such an amazing time. Later I was one of the first in my area with cd-Rom drive single speed! The early public domain demo discs with early 3d graphics amazed me.
 
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