well, the first PC I ever gamed on was a TI-99-4A. The floppy disk drive on that thing was about the size of a home theater receiver and had no hard drive at all. No clue how much it cost as I was 7. I loved that thing. Especially when we got the speech module and it would talk! It used a regular 13 inch tv instead of a monitor and you could load text based adventure games on it from a cassette player. Oh the sounds it made. Imagine having to listen to a modem handshake for 15 minutes before playing a game that was nothing but a wall of text! Twas the shit back in the day.
Mine was an outdated windows 98 compaq laptop, and I don't know the specs. My dads work upgraded laptops and he managed to get a few old throw away laptops for my brother and me. If i wanted to play newer games I would go on my dads pc.
Oldest thing I've used was some old Macintosh to play Lode Runner. Might have been an Apple II? I was a primarily console gamer until I got my 3rd hand-me-down in 2006-ish; I've been a PC gamer first and foremost since. I did pick up a used BC PS3 (160GB HDD in it) for $130 a year ago. Enjoy that too (though console graphics can be so frackin' ugly, lol)
Pentium II @233MHz
Some tiny amount of RAM...
Maybe a Nvidia TNT video card? Whatever it was, think it had 32MB of memory.
Sub 10GBs of harddrive space
Played The Sims at about 5 FPS; about 1 FPS when everything was on fire. StarCraft lagged on it when everyone had their armies built up.
Pentium III @833MHz
256MB RAM (I upgraded it to my MoBo's max of 384MB )
Nvidia 4 or 5000 series? (I upgraded it at some point to something Nvidia...)
80GB HDD
I remember having this when Oblivion was being shown... and it recommended like a 1.8GHz dual-core (and a min. of 2GHz Pentium IV), I was so far behind xD.
WarCraft III and Counter-Strike ran great though.
Two Xeon Dual-Cores @3GHz
Nvidia 6200? (I upgraded this to the fastest AGP card I could find, a Nvidia 7800GS 256MB)
2GB of RAM (Used to have 4GB, had to remove 2GB cause stuff kept crashing. Stumbled upon this fix, didn't know about the limits of Win XP and 3GB of RAM back then)
160GB HDD, 80GB HDD
This computer played TF2 pretty well, but I remember avoiding 32 players servers cause my framerate would tank. I think the most advanced game it ever could play was Left 4 Dead 2.
M4A78 Plus ASUS MoBo
AMD Phenom II x2 @3.1GHz (upgraded to: Phenom II x4 @3.5GHz
4GB DDR2 Kingston HyperX RAM @833MHz (Upgraded to 8GB, for no good reason xD)
Radeon 4650 (Sold that almost immediately and bought a Radeon 4870 1GB; currently am using a ATI 6950 2GB
Runs every thing I want to play well enough; it sucks at modern MMOs like Tera and Guild Wars 2. Think I'm CPU or old MoBo limited. Planning on building a new rig within the next year or so. But might wait longer, most games I like aren't very demanding and I run mostly everything at high settings with no AA at 40+ FPS, most often 60 FPS.
So, how much did it cost (most recent, bottom spoiler)? Well, I started with a weak prebuilt and buoyed it up from there. If I had been more knowledgable, I would have been able to get more for less. Unfortunately, I was pretty clueless a few years ago, but that's the past.
Built in Jan. 2010; upgraded over time; last upgrade: May 2012 (well, bought RAM for no reason in Oct. 2012)
Pre-built: $550 shipped ($550)
Sold included GPU: $40, Bought 4870: $162-40: $122 ($672)
Sold included CPU: $40, Bought Phenom II x4 970: $150-40: $110 ($782)
Replaced case fans: $25 ($807)
Sold 4870: $40, Bought 6950: $200-40: $160 ($967)
Bought 4GB more RAM (because I'm stupid; DDR2 is more expensive than DDR3, btw): $70 ($1037)
Total from Jan 2010 to Oct 2012: $1,037 ($550 initially + $487 in upgrades and ignorance-tax). Technically, I got the new processor for Christmas, so take off $150 if you like.
It is my primary gaming platform, plus I edit videos, browse the internet and do other work and entertainment on it. I'd do it all again, but smarter this time
I'm just guessing there. I can't remember how big my hdd actually was or specifically what graphics card I had back then. I imagine in ten years we'll look back and chuckle about how small a GB is too.
A hand me down Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 16kb ram dongle and high speed 300 baud magnetic tape storage. Played such riveting titles as Froger, Asteroids, Lander, and learned Basic... wrote a simply "monopoly" game on it when I was 8.
Cost
Unit: FREE
10 bucks in blank tapes
20 bucks in books
*leans back in his rocking chair, puffing on his old pipe*
Well, my first gaming PC was a 120MHz Pentium, overclocked to 133MHz with eight megabytes of RAM. 1Gb HDD. S3 Virge video card, which let it achieve the highly respectable resolution of 1024x768, although if I wanted a decent frame rate I would have to drop it down to 800x600. I doubled the RAM to 16MB before long, though, and when the first 3D cards began to appear around a year or so later, I got myself a Matrox Mystique. It cost me just over $1100 to put that together, and another $300 for the Matrox card. This was back in 1996.
Of course, I had been gaming on desktop machines for years before that, this was just my first PC. I had several models of Amiga over the years, and before that a couple of old Z-80 based computers, one with a tape drive only, and the other with an actual 360kb floppy disk drive. I got my first actual computer back in 1985, and my first Amiga in 1989.
My first was a very recent acquirement. Got it late last year.
i7 3770k Quadcore
24GB RAM (Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz) 2*4, 2*8
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
GTX 680 (ASUS DC2T)
ASUS Intel Z77 B3 Revision Motherboard (If anyone cares)
It's watercooled too. It's beautiful and I love it. Cost me about £1000 (1.5k usd) but SO worth it.
Atari ST - it was purchased for me by my parents as an edutainment machine. They thought it would be a good idea to introduce me to new technology in an entertaining manner... it kind'a stuck.
I didn't get into computers from an IT perspective but the self-taught knowledge of damn near 23 years of interaction with the things has come in incredibly handy with any occupation I find myself in.
I did recently purchase an 8 Core AMD which has served me so well it was able to run Impire without any issues, Natural Selection 2 on full settings at over 100 FPS and every other game on ultra settings never droppign below 60 FPS - I am convinced this has been a worthwile investment.
My first gaming PC, I can't remember what was in it, but I distinctly remember that loading screens for Warcraft III took like 5 minutes. Sometimes they froze. If I was lucky, I went to the kitchen, made a shake, and came back to see them unfreezing.
The best price/performance ratio rig is my current. Got it in 2009, it cost about 900 Euro, and can still run everything that was released in the meantime on maximum settings. <3 <3
My first gaming pc was a prebuilt from hp with amd dual core cpu,3gb ddr2 ram and radeon 5450.
now i have a intel pentium, radeon 7750 and 8gb ddr3 ram
my ideal gaming pc would be intel i5-3570k, 8gb ram, radeon 7950 for under $800
The same one I am using now! I just built this thing too. Haven't finished it though, still on a limited budget.
But, anyways
CPU - Intel i5 3570k
GPU - N/A still working on getting that
Motherboard - MSI Z77MA-G45
RAM - 8GB
Power Source - Corsair GS500
500GB of Hard Drive space
In total it costed around $500 USD, and I think it's pretty good; I still need a damn graphics card though.
These are my specs:
Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.121119-1606)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: CLEVO CO.
System Model: W35_37ET
BIOS: BIOS Date: 10/26/12 14:53:27 Ver: 04.06.05
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16272MB RAM
Page File: 4020MB used, 28635MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.02.9200.16384 64bit Unicode
I bought it around December of last year. Cost around 1300, but it was on sale. It can run Shogun 2 total war on max settings, Skyrim on high. So i would say it was a good buy. Bought from Ibuypower
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