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Do you remember your first gaming pc you bought or built?

Annihilator

Annihilator

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I remember my first gaming pc, when AMD first came out with their Athlon processor, I got one immediately, got one in a bundle, case, MB, 650mhz processor, power supply and fan. Installed a Voodoo16 video card, 4 mb of ram, Soundblaster 16 sound card, 750mb HD, 4x CD burner and 8x CDRom, 28.8 modem, Win98, 15” monitor, stereo speakers with sub-woofer. MS mouse and keyboard. Ran my games great, played Quake II, and the original Unreal Tournament, many great hours of pc fun.
 
TEXASforLIFE

TEXASforLIFE

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Don't remember the brand or what components were in it, but was stuck with dial-up (a noise you'll never forget). It had a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disc drive (about '95 or '96). Doom was the only installed game. I did buy a dyno engine building software though. So I could keep check on weather forecast and HS sports I added a homepage iron from a local news station. Around 10:30pm on Friday nights I would click on it and check football scores.......................................well that wasn't what appeared on screen.......I "X"ed out of page and retried and the scores came up. I laughed so hard at what 1st appeared I had to show the wife. It took 2 or 3 times for the surprise to reappear..........well you might have guessed, PORN! I thought how in the heck can clicking on ABC, NBC and/or CBS news get this? She also laughed and made a joke about it (don't recall the comment). So, if the speakers were on I would say "Just checking the news"? Seriously! I've bought a few comps since then, but decided too build my own. I've built 3 since '01 or '02 and will never buy a built machine again (unless it's a laptop).
 
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Magnum50

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Funny... A Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer. It had a tape player that saved and loaded files, you would have to play the tape from the beginning till it found the file to load.

My first computer game was from a magazine. You would type in code for days, get syntax errors and search for your mistake. Finally, it ran, a racing game where your box was the car and you steered with the keys as you went down 2 lines on each side that moved like a road. lol Memories. BTW early 1980's.
 
Keystone19250

Keystone19250

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I don’t remember the particulars of the internal components of the PC but it was a very high end (Gateway) dual monitor gaming system that I purchased for my son, he used that for over ten years.

I thought Gateway had gone out of business but saw a new Gateway laptop on sale at Walmart yesterday.
 
ddeuce22

ddeuce22

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First PC I built was an AMD Athlon, 8 gigs of DDR2 RAM, Nvidia 6800GT video card, and one of those new (at the time) Western Digital Raptor HDD's - the ones that were 10k rpms. That was unheard of at the time haha. Goddamn what a trip down memory lane. Now we all carry phones in our pockets that are 20x better. Technology is wild.
 
Sld1959

Sld1959

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Lololol so superior sounding. Be careful you will go cross-eyed looking down your nose like that.

Never built one specifically for gaming, being in the business they were all mostly work machines.

Unlike Bassbob though I have and do play games on them occasionally. I particularly liked ROTT Rise of the triad
 
Old_Me

Old_Me

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Annihilator said:
I remember my first gaming pc, when AMD first came out with their Athlon processor, I got one immediately, got one in a bundle, case, MB, 650mhz processor, power supply and fan. Installed a Voodoo16 video card, 4 mb of ram, Soundblaster 16 sound card, 750mb HD, 4x CD burner and 8x CDRom, 28.8 modem, Win98, 15” monitor, stereo speakers with sub-woofer. MS mouse and keyboard. Ran my games great, played Quake II, and the original Unreal Tournament, many great hours of pc fun.
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i cannot recall the name, but i am thinking Unison or something like that, i bought for the kids (like a million years ago) a game like "pong" that was in black and white, and slow as frozen molasses in the wintertime. but back then, my kids loved it....

much like this


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SaltyMonkey

SaltyMonkey

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Can’t say I ever played on pc other than poker.
First console was Atari 2600. Pitfall and Donkey Kong were my first two cartridges. I had a Nintendo 64 then quite gaming till picking it back up during COVID. Now on PS5.
Man it’s changed a lot. At first I hated the online experience now I kind of enjoy the competitiveness.
 
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papa

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Dadgum young whippersnapper ! I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday morning and you are asking about a game -a - thing puter something or other??? :unsure:

Shucks man , I wouldn't even knows hows to turn one them dadblamed things on. 😧 😀
 
Bassbob

Bassbob

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Sld1959 said:
Lololol so superior sounding. Be careful you will go cross-eyed looking down your nose like that.

Never built one specifically for gaming, being in the business they were all mostly work machines.

Unlike Bassbob though I have and do play games on them occasionally. I particularly liked ROTT Rise of the triad
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Not looking down my nose, I’m just not in that generation. I had an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I just never got into video games. Nothing against gamers ( though I do routinely tease youngins at work about it) I just choose to waste my time doing other stuff.
 
SaltyMonkey

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Bassbob said:
Not looking down my nose, I’m just not in that generation. I had an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I just never got into video games. Nothing against gamers ( though I do routinely tease youngins at work about it) I just choose to waste my time doing other stuff.
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For me it was the perfect way to get into another room with a tv while the wife watched her housewives shows.
😎
 
PunchySunshine

PunchySunshine

Elite
The first video games in my house were the Atari back in the VERY early 80s. Tried to make a TRS-80 fun but eventually caved and got a C-64 in the mid 80s. After that it was all Pentiums, Intels, and AMDs. My current build is still running everything I need it for i7 4790k with a 980ti. I upgraded from my first gen i7 930 with a GTX760 back at the beginning of 2020. My buddy bought my old rig for $200 and I used that to pay $200 for my current rig.
I can't work on cars fer **** but I can fix computers like an old school shade tree mechanic.
 
Old_Me

Old_Me

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papa said:
Dadgum young whippersnapper ! I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday morning and you are asking about a game -a - thing puter something or other??? :unsure:

Shucks man , I wouldn't even knows hows to turn one them dadblamed things on. 😧 😀
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i know what you mean....when back in our cave days, we had the sabre tooth tiger to play with, when the pterodactyl's were hovering over us....eh..????
 
Onewolf426

Onewolf426

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First computer I built was after I met my wife, back in 2001. She had a computer that one of the IT guys from her work built her. A Pentium computer with dial up. It took all day to update or download anything. My first introduction to Newegg. I bought a bare bones pc that needed a hard drive, graphics card, etc. It was the newest Intel chip. And had the RJ45 jack for Roadrunner. From there, I upgraded it for Windows XP. Then I got into actually building them from the Motherboard up. Got my first AMD, the Thuban Phenom II X6, still have it and it still works, and have always gotten the NVIDIA video cards and the Western Digital Velociraptor 10K, which is now a 1TB. I have been AMD since. I currently have the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X on the AsRock X470 Taichi Ultimate board with 16 gigs of DDR4 ram, and the NVIDIA GTX 1060 video card, and a 1 TB SSD. However, since the wired internet connection on the board is shot and only wireless works, I will be upgrading. I have the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero AM4 motherboard and the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Zen 3 processor. Just need to get the RAM, which I will probably be going with 32 GIGS and am looking at the NVIDIA RTX 3070 or 3080. I've built quite a few pcs over the years, a few for family until they could afford something better, and I love doing it. I am a DIYer and tinkerer at heart. I like modding, building, repairing, anything that I can do with my hands. And it keeps me out of trouble, as does my wife.

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10mmLife

10mmLife

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Keystone19250 said:
I don’t remember the particulars of the internal components of the PC but it was a very high end (Gateway) dual monitor gaming system that I purchased for my son, he used that for over ten years.

I thought Gateway had gone out of business but saw a new Gateway laptop on sale at Walmart yesterday.
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Gateway was acquired by Acer a while back. I'm sure the Gateway brand now is just another relabeled Acer.
 
Annihilator

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10mmLife said:
Gateway was acquired by Acer a while back. I'm sure the Gateway brand now is just another relabeled Acer.
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Yea, not the same Gateway like years past, Alienware, my opinion, nothing but junk, cheap parts, one I had was total pile of crap, most of there desktops are integrated, even though I ordered a separate video card, still came with the built in and the one I upgraded to, total conflicts all the time, integrated sound card when I ordered a stand alone card , customer service was practically nonexistent, just my experience with them, yea Dell acquired them, and Dell cheapened up a great product
 
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