Your first PC Gaming Rig

[devotedsniper]

Massive snip....

So far I can't complain about the 660TI, it runs everything at a solid rate and so far i haven't really seen it drop. Hell my one runs the new crysis at a solid 90FPS, and skyrim at a solid 60 with mods and the high res texture pack.

Not really related but have you seen the Readeon 7990?

It's utterly ridiculous. Not sure what you'd do with it.

I want one.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2012/12/07/club-3d-radeon-hd-7990-6gb-review/1

As impressive as it is i've never really been that big a fan of ATI cards (while the one i did try was good the drivers constantly crashed), but if i was rich and could afford a card like that i would go for the new Titan, the exterior design makes me drool.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2013/02/21/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-6gb-review/1

Unfortunately till i have a job (uni student) i'll have to stick to the mid to high range gamer cards (#60-#90) which play just about anything at maximum anyway.

 

[Zipa]

My first gaming PC was technically a old Commodore 64 that was a hand me down from my brother and sister. My first brand new PC was bought for me as a xmas present from my parents in 1999, it had a Pentium 3 processor 512mb of RAM and a voodoo 3 graphics card. I loved that PC to death, and my love of PCs and gaming really ignited from that point on. (The first games I played on it was the original Starfleet Command, Diablo 2 and Populous the beginning.)

I owned a couple of PCs after that with better specs but they were all bought.
My first fully self built PC is my current one,

AMD Phenom II 6 core processor.
ROG crossfire v formula MB.
8GB DDR3 RAM
850w PSU
Nvidia Geforce GTX680 (was a upgrade from a 470 that melted its own poor ass) and a GTX 570 which I use for my second monitor that I watch TV on while doing other stuff on my PCs main monitor.
1x320GB SSD
1x 1.5tb Standard HDD
Asus Xonar DX sound card
1x Blu ray drive (dvds and cds also work in it)
Oh and I have a closed liquid cooling system for my processor because AMD stock fans are pretty damn poor.
Win 8 64 bit with Start8 (mostly because the dual monitor support is vastly improved over 7)
Idk the total cost as a lot of the parts were added over time (like the SSD and the extra graphics card) But I would say at most about a grand, I bought some of the parts when they were cheaper than they are currently like the original hard drive and the RAM.

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

My current rig is my first rig. I build it around June 2012.

Rosewill Future Gaming Case
Antec Earthwatt 650 PSU
Gskill 8GB Ram
Samsung Seaggate 7200 RPM 500 GB HDD ( More like 465)
Asrock Z77 Pro 3
Intle I52500K CPU
XFX Double D Radeon 6879 1GB DDR3
Coolermaster Hyper 212
LG DVD Burner
An Xbox 360 Controller.

I plan to upgrade my GPU to one of the 7900 series, and put in an SSD later this year.

 

[Oltsu]

My first one was a Pentium III based system that was expensive as hell.

The first one I actually built myself was:
i7 860
Asus P7P55D
4GB Muskin 1600mhz DDR3
Two Radeon HD 5870s from XFX
500GB HDD from samsung
Some old NZXT case
Some old LC power 750W horrib PSU

Was probably my best bang for buck gaming PC too, since then I've gotten way too much into the enthusiast stuff and today I'm running something that looks like this:

Spoiler: behold

[img=314x472]http://i.imgur.com/iWY7HIj.jpg[/img]

Nothing is bang for buck anymore when you want to run your CPU at 50 degrees below zero (C) and like messing with liquid nitrogen when the -50C isn't enough.... I even recently bought a 1000? GTX Titan because why not. Damnit.

captcha: fool's paradaise. Indeed.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

My first computer was bought in 2000. These are the specs:

Intel Dual Core 2.2

2GB Ram Corsair

ATI 9600XT which overheated and burned very early where I switched to Nvidia, 5600 in this case, and swore off ATI forever.

80GB HDD

 

[Doom972]

All I remember about it is that it had a 486 CPU, 8MB of RAM, and the two kinds of floppy disk drive. It was later upgraded with a Sound Blaster Pro sound card and a 2x speed CD-ROM drive.

I sometimes miss all those sounds it did when it booted up.

 

[Warped_Ghost]

First actual gaming PC was the one I built for myself about 2 years ago.
It cost about $800.
-Phenom II X6 1100T
-8 GB RAM
-1.5 TB 5900rpm
-AMD Radeon 6850
-550W 80 plus certified power supply
-Gigabyte motherboard
Gotta be honest after a lot of research I should have gone lower with the CPU.
Building computers for other friends I find the best price/performance is about $700.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Regarding my current rig. I remember I payed around 1000Euro for it in 2011:

Cooler Master HAF 922 black

Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz box

MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Hawk 1GB DDR5 256-bit

Corsair 650TX Power supply

500HDD Western Digital

Samsung 940N SyncMaster (only old thing i had from my old computer)

With this specs I managed to run all current games on high (except Crysis 3 which is a resource hog).

 

[ph0b0s123]

My fathers work provided HP Vectra 286, that he brought home so he would work from home.

Specs in the link.

http://www.cs.cuw.edu/museum/Vectra286.html

ooooohhhhh, 16 color EGA screen.....

Was lucky enough to survive on my fathers work provided PC's until I had to put my hand in my pocket to get a 486 when I went to University.

 

[Bvenged]

I've been gaming for 15 years, though never on a "gaming machine" other than a games console or a bog-standard desktop PC. I just bought one myself precisely 1 month ago - It's my very own PC bought entirely with my own money, and I saved many months for it.

- Zalman Z11 Plus case
- - with 3 intake fans, 2 extraction fans, and 3 dust filters
- 450W super-quiet PSU, system only uses 330W's
- Intel Core i5 3570 3.4GHz
- 8GB DDR3 dual channel RAM clocked at 1600MHz
- Sapphire RADEON HD 7770 1GB, GHz Edition
- - 20% fan speed at idle, 0 wattage and temp of around 29C. Peak temp, 50C is the most I've seen it with benchmarking tools and overlays like CPU-z.
- 500GB WD CB 7200 w/ 64mb cache

Grand total of ~£700 ( ~$1060)

It can play anything and everything at 60fps, from Guild Wars or Blacklight, to Shogun 2 - except PlanetSide 2 and Metro 2033. It can do PS2 at 55fps maxed in warpgate and 25-30fps is supermassive battles; Metro runs at 28fps in combat - 'dat physX, subsurface scattering and tessellation! I just turn flora off and shadows to medium in PS2 and I get 70fps and 35 in battle. Still looks phenomenal with everything else maxed out.

I have Skyrim modded with ENB and about 30 other graphical mods (not including fps-devouring grass, trees and flora mods) at a solid 60fps.

I also run Backbox v3.0 in a VM and I use it to practice hacking my old P4 2.6GHz, 2GB RAM XP machine, which I'm trying to put a server on but am failing miserably; probably because it's a knackered computer I've been using for 8 years. to think I'd gone from 15fps in UT2004, to 70fps in PS2.

 

[Altorin]

I don't even know what was in it, I think 700-800 mHz, pentium 2ish.. All I can remember off the top of my head was it was when Diablo 2 first came out and I played a LOT of D2 on it, but eventually I gave it up so my mother could have a computer (as I often did back then, hers were prone to breaking down)

 

[Creator002]

2GB Raedon 6590 (I think)

Most likely a HD6950. All the weird numbers can get confusing.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Mixed the 5 and 9 around and forgot the HD. Thanks. I'll edit my post. ^.^

 

[Jfswift]

My first gaming PC I threw together back in the early nineties. It had the following specs (using a giant six bay server tower):
- kingston cpu running at 133mhz
- 20mb ram
- 160 mb hdd
- 3.5 (1.44) disk drive
- 5.25 disk drive (I never used it, found it on sale for five bucks somewhere, thought it was amusing to look at)
- 4x cd-rom
- diamond graphics card with 128mb ram?
- sound blaster 16
- 28.8 modem
- DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11
- VGA monitor (at some point I upgraded to a ridiculous 22 inch CRT monitor but I don't remember if it was on this PC or the next)

It cost several hundred dollars but was capable of running all PC games currently on the market. It was fast for it's time.

The most cost efficient PC I've ever built was a factory bought one from a company called Median. I bought it for about 500 bucks, installed a fancy graphics card for another 100 and was done upgrading. I bought it back in 2004 I think but I can't remember the specs. It was a really good deal with tons of free software, a full windows installation DVD and everything.

 

[Signa]

My first PC was a HP pre-built, because I didn't have the balls to build my own. BIG mistake. By the time I was done with it, I had basically rebuilt it. That machine was 933MHZ with 512mb RAM and a 40GB hard drive. It also came with Windows ME. Fuck. I'd crash by hitting shut down.

The next was a 2.4GHZ P4 with hyperthreading. That one was a lot better.

 

[Vault101]

- 160 mb hdd
.

....wow

I know you said it was the early 90's but...wow there was almost as much storage on your graphics card as there was on your hardrive

 

[Vault101]

I don't even want to talk about my First PC (piece of overpriced Dell shit) however here's my latest one:

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I cant work out whats going on in that pictre.....are those two graphics cards? what are those things on the mother board?

yes I'm a computer noob

 

[Vault101]

snip.

huh....

is that a computer without a case laying on its "side"?