Do you remember your first computer?

[Kingoberv]

Building these for my girls today got me to think about that very question. I remember sometime early 1990s. I was 5-7 range somewhere around there. Went in the middle of a tornado with my parents to pick up a 25mhz gateway system running windows 3.1 with dos. Imagine my disappointment when i found out it only played minesweeper and hearts. Lol. But then. . Came wolfenstein 3D. . . MEIN LABEN !!!! And i was hooked. 

Now i build my 5-6 year old daughters a pc that they will not have that kind of temporary disappointment with lol. 

If anyone is a computer enthusiast or is wanting to build a computer, now is the best time since before 2020 to do it. Prices falling like rocks. 

[MarcPoulet]

I wish I was good enough to do this. Have fun!!

[Kingoberv]

7 minutes ago, MarcPoulet said:

I wish I was good enough to do this. Have fun!!

I could literally walk you through it in a matter of about 2 private messages and some YouTube links. It ain't like the old days. It's basically plug and play unless you wanna get advanced. I have done it on the side for about the last decade. Building for other people. I basically can take any budget, and give people the goods on what to get. 

[Kingoberv]

First one done. I call this one "pink puke". But my daughter loves it lol. 

Anyone interested in specs.

Gigabyte Aorus elite ax z690 (got a good motherboard for a mediocre processor to be able to upgrade it later.)

Intel i5 12400f

Tforce Vulcan ddr5 6000 32 gigs 2 x 16

Msi ventus 2x rtx 3060 12 gig 

Evga ba series 600 watt psu 

Patriot burst 240 gig ssd (widows only)

Teamgroup l44 m.2 pci 4.0 1TB (gaming drive)

Thermalright assassin king 120 se cpu cooler

3 thermalright fans + thermalright led light controller.

Around 900-1000 usd. 

 

[Goztow]

My first computer was a Pentium 1 133 MHz. Back in 1997 this was t3h 1337

[Kingoberv]

28 minutes ago, Goztow said:

My first computer was a Pentium 1 133 MHz. Back in 1997 this was t3h 1337

That was a crazy period of time. You went from that p1 133 to p3 and then p4 up to 4 ghz within a matter of a few years. Compare that to 2009. . Where you can still use an i7 860 quad core even unto this very day for most things. 

[Goztow]

Yeah games like crysis were developed for the next generation video cards. When u were to buy a new game u often had to consider getting a new computer. Consoles changed this. 

[Itai795]

My first PC in 1995 was a 486 with 16MHz clock, but it had a turbo button that accelerated the clock to 33MHz. So the turbo was always on. Except for one time that my (older than me) cousin came and we played a video game that the developers must have designed the "game clock" accordance to the processor's clock, hence the game was too fast with the turbo and unplayable so he turned the turbo off ("My dad said never to do that :O" "That's okay young Itai, only for this game")

[JOMOMMAUSA]

i remember the days of win millenium i was always at my buddys house reformatting for a new windows so glad we are past it lol

[Xtreemo]

Oh, yes I do remember.

It was a 2002 computer with a Pentium 4 with 2.8 GHz, no videocard (I believe it didn't have one) and a modest 256 MB of RAM. My father bought me 512 MB more RAM a year later, and I thought it'd make it an ultra-speedy PC back then. Oh dude, what did I know lol

Yes, it did run Renegade – In fact I had that computer till 2011. It ran Renegade, and the heaviest game I could play on it was Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. The lightest games were Army Men II and Tiberian Sun.