PC Tech Let's hear about your first gaming PC

[HGLatinBoy]

In the summer between 7th and  8th grade my family agreed to get me a computer for school as I was often over at family member's house working late at night on HW assignments that needed to be typed ( 2 finger typing yay!) So my uncle took my parents and I to Korea Town in L.A. and they got me a complete system with Pentium 1 @ 100 MHz, 4 MB of RAM and an ATi Video card, and CD-ROM This computer was interesting because it came with a removable 1 GB hard drive that could be pulled from the case with a special handle. I had some Sony Speakers that were fucking amazing and lasted me 15 years. We were there all day and we went out to dinner while they worked on the computer, finally  we came back in the evening. I was so fucking happy i was  getting a computer but I kept eyeballing Doom II and while my Dad was finalizing the deal he  went ahead and got it for me as well. And I played the shit out of that game when i was 14

[Keyser_Soze]

Probably a Commodore 64 (if that counts)

 

The next closest thing (that I  gamed on) was some shitty Dell with onboard video

 

Then later my friends built me a cheap gaming PC sometime in high school!

[Bacon]

I still have it. A friend and I built it in January, 2011. Somewhere between the 1st and the 12th. That was a major fucking hassle and a lot of mistakes were made. It has a white case, 4 or 8 GB of RAM, 1tb HDD, super shitty intel mobo, an i5 that I think came out in 2010, and the original graphics card was a EVGA GeForce GTX470 I believe. the card died, and someone on here gave me a replacement card 100% free. Can't remember who it was tho. Also can't remember what kind of card they gave me. 

 

I got the PC because I I was super pumped for Star Wars: The Old Republic. El Oh fucking El. I also really wanted to play the PC version of DA:O after seeing how good lit looked on a YT video. I got DAO on pc about 2 years after I got my PC. It is my the 11th game I got on steam. First was KOTOR which I never beat lol. I got that in 2010, a few months before I got my PC. I thought my shitty laptop(porntop) could play it. It could not. 

[Mr.Vic20]

Its my name!  

[AbsolutSurgen]

My first gaming PC was an Intel Pentium 66MHz with a VGA card and an AWE32 that I bought in the summer of '93.  I built it (with the help of a friend), with parts I purchased from a local computer store.

 

The first computer I played on was the family Commodore 64, the first computer I purchased myself was a Commodore Amiga 500 (I think I purchased it mid-'88).

[dualhunter]

3 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Its my name!  

 

Technically that was my first gaming PC too but I always thought of it as more of a console since the games were like Atari games and a TV (in my case that was mostly a black & white TV) was the display. I had 3 in total all used with various games and accessories. One was an older model with a different power adapter and didn't work and having 2 of the other power adapters came in handy when one of them started smoking and smelling nasty. I had games on cartridges (had some doubles and also had a ram expansion cart) and also some on tape (thus began my hatred of tapes for data storage). The old one that didn't work and the second working one were given to me by family friends. Once I finally got a NES, I didn't use the Vic 20 much. My favorite game that I had for it was Load Runner.

 

What I think of as my first gaming PC was a P3 500MHz, with a TNT2, 128MB of ram, 20GB HDD. My first 2 games were Command & Conquer 2 and Final Fantasy VII though I had a bunch of demo discs. I had been playing PC games on other people's PCs before then and had even finished disc 1 of FFVII though I started over even though I still had my saves.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

My Dad’s custom built PC with an Intel 8086, running MS DOS. It had ROMs of Pong and Space Invaders. 

[rossi_84]

166mhz packard bell

 

Makes me think that I'm only on my 5th pc

 

[AbsolutSurgen]

2 hours ago, dualhunter said:

 

Technically that was my first gaming PC too but I always thought of it as more of a console since the games were like Atari games and a TV (in my case that was mostly a black & white TV) was the display. I had 3 in total all used with various games and accessories. One was an older model with a different power adapter and didn't work and having 2 of the other power adapters came in handy when one of them started smoking and smelling nasty. I had games on cartridges (had some doubles and also had a ram expansion cart) and also some on tape (thus began my hatred of tapes for data storage). The old one that didn't work and the second working one were given to me by family friends. Once I finally got a NES, I didn't use the Vic 20 much. My favorite game that I had for it was Load Runner.

 

What I think of as my first gaming PC was a P3 500MHz, with a TNT2, 128MB of ram, 20GB HDD. My first 2 games were Command & Conquer 2 and Final Fantasy VII though I had a bunch of demo discs. I had been playing PC games on other people's PCs before then and had even finished disc 1 of FFVII though I started over even though I still had my saves.

When I was younger, I never heard anyone refer to a Commodore/Apple/Atari as a "PC" -- I always heard the referred to as a Commodore (or a "64"), an Apple, or an Atari (or an "ST").  I agree, in many ways those computers were almost a "bridge" between consoles, and the IBM PC.

[Nokt]

My first gaming PC was just my family computer that I popped a Nvidia GPU (GT 220 maybe?) that I bought at BestBuy. I ended up buying a Radeon 4850 off a guy from a Halo Myspace group and he advised me I should get more RAM as well.

 

I didn't build my own PC until the i5 2500k. Same guy that sold me the 4850 helped me pick out the parts for this build and walked me through how to set it up.

[ApatheticSarcasm]

On 2/9/2020 at 2:10 PM, Nokt said:

My first gaming PC was just my family computer that I popped a Nvidia GPU (GT 220 maybe?) that I bought at BestBuy. I ended up buying a Radeon 4850 off a guy from a Halo Myspace group and he advised me I should get more RAM as well.

 

I didn't build my own PC until the i5 2500k. Same guy that sold me the 4850 helped me pick out the parts for this build and walked me through how to set it up.

Its a similar story for me, it was the family IBM Aptiva. I bought a Voodoo 3 2000 from CompUSA. My first self built PC used an Athlon Thunderbird and I don't remember what card I threw in first, just that I had more than one. I wanna guess it was an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. 

[Rbk_3]

Besides my family PC bought in 1999 that I have no idea what the specs were, for my first actual gaming PC I got a local PC Store to build me an e6600 8800 GTS rig in 2007 that ended up being a huge waste of money.

 

 

[Remarkableriots]

TI-99/4A

TMS9900 @ 3 MHz

16 KB RAM
256 bytes scratchpad RAM

[Ghost_MH]

I'll count my first gaming PC as the first PC I bought with my own money. Let me think, this was back in 2000...

 

AMD Thunderbird @ 1.something Ghz

256MB RAM

2x 40GB HDD

Radeon All In Wonder

 

I, honestly, don't remember why I went with an All In Wonder. I don't remember ever using the tuner in that thing, but even still, I do know I upgraded to the Radeon 9000 All In Wonder a few years later. However, in that case, I build a Media Center PC on Windows XP.

[Rev]

I had a Commodore 64 as a kid but when I was about 13, my parents finally bought me my dream computer which was my pride and joy and sucked up like 90% of my waking hours for the next 4 years or so: a 486 25mhz with 4mb of ram and an 80 mb hdd (iirc).

[TomCat]

my first gaming pc was a commodore 64 with a tape drive. took 45min to an hour to load the game and better not have a mistake and have to start over man. But the first one i bought was a 450mz window nt machine  and a Matrox graphics card  Freespace 2 was prop my fav experence

 

[Link200]

My first "gaming" PC was an Athlon 1 GHz CPU with a GeForce 4 MX440.

 

My first good gaming PC was an Athlon XP 2500+ OCed to 3200+ and a Radeon 9500 Pro. The 9500 Pro is possibly my favorite graphics card. Hit the exact sweet spot for power/performance that I needed.

[Dre801]

First:

Athlon XP 2700+

Nvidia mobo with SoundForce Audio

Radeon 9600 XT

1GB RAM.

 

 

Now(more for workstation use, but very capable for gaming):

Ryzen 9 3900X

Radeon 5700XT

64GB of RAM.

 

[Dodger]

The one I built like 5ish years ago on this board that was something like an i4790k and a R290 or something. Anyway it was great for about a year when I started having problems with it and eventually just stopped working on me. I'm not the tinkering kind of person to want to do a bunch of shit to fix it so uh yeah that was that and went back to console gaming. 

[cusideabelincoln]

Right as I was graduation HS, sometime before my first semester of college, I went to CIRCUIT CITY and customized a prebuilt Compaq:

 

Circa 2003:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

ATI Radeon All In Wonder! 7500

512MB of RAM

120GB HDD

Soundblaster Audigy SE

Creative 5.1 speakers... which I'm using for my HTPC to this day

 

And within a few months, after finding out you can buy your own parts from retailers, I gutted the system and built one so I could play with overclocking.

[silentbob]

I’m a console gamer, always have been. So today I finally turned to the dark side and bought my first Gaming PC. My brother said it was a good prebuilt PC 

 

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