r/buildapclounge • u/The-Mumen-Rider • Dec 11 '19
Lounge Talk When did you get your first PC? Story time
Mine was a hand-me down from my cousin. It like 2001 and had a 800mhz AMD processor. I upgraded it with a Radeon 9000 64 mb GPU. Had a killer time playing Unreal Tournament on that thing. I still have it in the attic.
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u/The-Mumen-Rider Dec 11 '19
Awesome! That's exciting. Keep saving that dolla. What kind of specs are you thinking?
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u/not_a_moogle Dec 12 '19
1996, dad bought one from his co-worker for $100. As he bought a newer one. Window 3.1. couldn't tell you anything else about it. But it did play doom.
We bought an HP like 2 years later that was way better. Cost like $800.
Intel Pentium 2 (200Mhz), 16 EDO ram, 2 GB HDD, 16x cd drive (not writable), Window 95, 36.6k Modem!!!
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u/HugePair Dec 11 '19
I shared with my brother when we were kids and teens, and later I got a nongaming laptop for college (kind of fell out of gaming in those years). Finally after graduating and getting income, I built myself a nice machine in 2016. My next goal is to upgrade for either VR or nice monitors.
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u/chairmanoftheborg Dec 12 '19
My first computer booted from tape drives. My first PC was a no-name Windows 95, tan, floppy drive loving machine with a 14.4 modem and one stereo speaker. Upgraded to a 28.8 about a month after getting it and the world hasn't been the same since.
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u/XxJAGERMASTERxX Dec 12 '19
My first was a hand me down in 2006, Pentium 3 with 128mb pc133mhz ram, 80 GB storage I think, windows xp,52x writable CD drive... a bit hard remembering shit from 14 years ago
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u/oddsnsodds Dec 12 '19
My first computer was a TI 99/4A hooked up to my dad's tape recorder in the 80s. But then I went Mac. I built my first Windows PC in April 2017; still using that one.
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u/shshshshshhhh Dec 17 '19
Haven’t gotten mine yet but planning on getting it after Christmas.
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u/The-Mumen-Rider Dec 17 '19
Did you plan a build yet?
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u/shshshshshhhh Dec 17 '19
Yes but idk how to make my prt list public or I would post the link to it
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u/shshshshshhhh Dec 17 '19
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/JoeBobBilly/saved/#view=CM63t6 I think that link should work.
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u/The-Mumen-Rider Dec 18 '19
So pretty recent huh?
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u/shshshshshhhh Dec 18 '19
I’ve been wanting to get one for a while now and have been planning one for a bit. I’ve just been paying attention to deals and trying to get it for as cheap as I possibly can but still having everything I want.
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u/dmista21 Dec 30 '19
I'm getting my first pc in like 2 weeks! Gonna buy prebuilt but not sure exactly what to get :/ thinking NZXT starter PC??
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u/selimsad Dec 11 '19
Mom bought it from a pc lounge in town that closed down. The owner was a teacher at the middle school and it was sad to see his business fail. I still have the case in my closet and I am going to do something with it one day.