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

[trader]

so many.......those mentioned already plus props to doom, wolfenstein, and many of the early vid card games like milo miner, duke nukem, maze, commander keen and others - wife liked crystal caves

 

[tapehoser]

The first PC I ever paid for myself was a 233 Ghz Pentium in 1997.

 

[bc22wm]

Bassbob does not play games.

Only child so I had to do the chores for all my brothers and sisters I didn't have. After milking the cow (by hand) feeding the chickens, pigs, damn pasture pets AKA horses, tending the garden, chopping wood, lugging water, (Dad "we got running water. The boy runs to the spring and runs back with a bucket full) schoolwork, working around for other farmers, and helping neighbors with their winters wood, left little time for hunting and fishing. Video games ranked so far down the list I never thought about them. We did play cribbage sometimes after super in the winter, assuming wasn't I shoveling snow. If it wasn't for spotty electricity, and the rattle trap car in the driveway ya might have thought it was the 1860's not the 1960's. Had a great childhood, But I 'm not interested in doing it again. Maybe that's why I get so tickled at the "I want to move to... and live off the grid". Surprise it ain't all sunshine and rainbows.

 

[OldGrunt]

Only child so I had to do the chores for all my brothers and sisters I didn't have. After milking the cow (by hand) feeding the chickens, pigs, damn pasture pets AKA horses, tending the garden, chopping wood, lugging water, (Dad "we got running water. The boy runs to the spring and runs back with a bucket full) schoolwork, working around for other farmers, and helping neighbors with their winters wood, left little time for hunting and fishing. Video games ranked so far down the list I never thought about them. We did play cribbage sometimes after super in the winter, assuming wasn't I shoveling snow. If it wasn't for spotty electricity, and the rattle trap car in the driveway ya might have thought it was the 1860's not the 1960's. Had a great childhood, But I 'm not interested in doing it again. Maybe that's why I get so tickled at the "I want to move to... and live off the grid". Surprise it ain't all sunshine and rainbows.

I actually have a tee-shirt of this.

 

[caroolynwells]

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.
I also love building PCs, swapping out components, and customizing everything. Things have improved significantly now, of course; I have a Ryzen 7 with an RTX 3070, and the performance is amazing. Since then, I've become increasingly accustomed to working with computers and enjoying the process of creating everything myself. So for me, building isn't just a hobby, but a whole philosophy. Sometimes I want to take a break, so I switch to online games, like Dolphin Treasure at https://pokieslab1.com/free-online-pokies/dolphin-treasure/, which I read about. I enjoy this simple entertainment without any technical headaches. Ultimately, just like with a PC, the main thing is to find a balance and enjoy what you're doing.

Ohh my first in 2008, my grandparents gave me a PC. It was a good PC at the time.