Your first rig

[QuietOne]

I'm not sure if this is the right section for it. I couldn't find anywhere this would fall into

Mine was an amstrad 486 sx25
CPU: Intel 486 SX 25 Mhz
Ram: 4MB 72pin SIMM type
HDD: 240MB ATA33 I think
OS: Windows 3.1 & DOS

Later we installed an Adlib card and remember the first games played on it was Indycar racing and Alone In The Dark. Great times

What was your first rig?

 

[JR23]

This was my first rig when I finished it on 17/8/11

Intel i7-2600k
ASUS Sabertooth P67B3
SLI Gainward GTX570 Phantom 3's
Corsair Vengeance 1600C9 2x4GB
Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD
Corsair TX850v2
Corsair Graphite series 600T

JR

 

[barnsley]

The first rig I bought myself (my dad used to have high end PCs previously so I don't count those as my own) was a Dell Inspiron 530 (I think) with:

i3 550
4GB ram
500GB hdd
gt 210

It got upgraded pretty quickly as soon as I could afford a better GPU and power supply.

 

[Lazlo]

Mine was a
A gigabyte Board (don't remember the model)
AMD k5-166+
8MB EDO Ram
Matrox Mystique 2MB
Soundblaster 16
2GB Quantum Fireball HDD
Single Speed CD-Rom Drive
Standard Case with standard PSU
Logitech Keyboard and Mouse (which had a ball in it)
Win95 and Dos (was needed for some games)
Later it got a generic netwoek card

 

[Dicehunter]

I don't have a pic but my first proper rig was built into an NZXT Lexa Classic which had a cool little LCD screen at the top that displayed either the temp of the CPU or the time, I later built the whole system again into an Antex 1200 but this was my first proper rig -

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 clocked to an almighty 3.40GHZ


Asus Silent Knight CPU Cooler -

Asus P5Q Deluxe -

OCZ Reaper Z 4GB DDR2 800MHZ -

Sapphire ATI 4850 2GB -

BFG AGEIA Physics card -

Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro with front bay add-on -

A 600W Tagan PSU -

Cable wise it was extremely clean inside as I routed everything I could, Shame I never took any pics.

 

[hmmblah]

I purchased my first PC in 1998 for about $600:

Cyrix PR233 CPU
32MB RAM
2GB hard drive
Onboard graphics
800x600 CRT Monitor
Windows 98

I've built my own since then, but that's the PC that really got me started.

 

[Wraith]

IBM 5150

Intel 8088 (4.8Mhz)
256K Expansion
Twin 5.25" floppy drives
Dos 1.0

 

[Ghosthud1]

My first endenvour into building my own rig started with the following.

E8400
2 4850 from sapphire i think?
4GB of ocz platinum ram 1066mhz
DFI LANPARTY DK P45-T2RS
cm stacker 830 nvidia edition (with ati cards, such a rebel)

 

[Greenback]

My first pc was an Amstrad cpc 464

first built had a
Pentium
GeForce 2
256 ram
20MB hdd
Abit motherboard iirc

 

[SuB]

AMD 2100+
512MB Ram
Geforce MX 200
20GB hard drive

and let me tell you, for it's time it was EPIC!

 

[AverageNinja]

Don't know the specs of the first rig I had, but the first one that was actually mine was the Antique Rig.

AMD Sempron 2400+
Nvidia GeForce FX5200
GIGABYTE 7VT600-RZ
1GB DDR1 RAM
40GB Maxtor IDE HDD (later added another one)
400w Codegen PSU
Unknown case.

 

[Dark NighT]

Technically it wasnt mine, but eh yeah C64 is where it all started.

 

[shadow]

P1 75
8mb of ram. (later upgraded to 16mb)
500mb hdd quantum fireball.

It could play this in 1994.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_USA_(video_game)

Anyone else remember having to set manual irq's ?

 

[SuB]

Technically it wasnt mine, but eh yeah C64 is where it all started.

Oh, if we're going that far back, I had an Amiga and a Commadore 64

 

[chrismjurd]

You always remember your first,
Pentium P60
2 x 4MB simms
Segate Medalist ST3491A 400MB
SB Awe 32
Cirrus Logic 5428 2MB graphics
Wfw 3.11 and dos 6.22

absolute monster PC, never crashed till i upgraded to windows 95 and the big direct x patch, possibly direct x2.0

P1 75
8mb of ram. (later upgraded to 16mb)
500mb hdd quantum fireball.

Anyone else remember having to set manual irq's ?

aww man, setting io irq and dma's good times, 220H irq 5 or 7 dma 1,3,5 why oh why did my tvtuner always want to go onto irq 7... arghhh..

damn man them fireballs were mega fast drives back in the day.. was it the big 5"1/4 one? /edit " ok i just farted my brain. those were the bigfoots. lol.. oh how fun it was back then " /edit

 

[Tolemac]

Oh, if we're going that far back, I had an Amiga and a Commadore 64

I had a Sinclair ZX81 was my 1st computer

 

[Dark NighT]

Oh, if we're going that far back, I had an Amiga and a Commadore 64

Still got 3 working Amiga's

 

[AlienALX]

Samsung 386 25mhz was my first actual PC. My first other computer was a 16k Spectrum at launch in the 80s and my first game console was a Binatone in 1980.

 

[Lazlo]

You always remember your first,

aww man, setting io irq and dma's good times, 220H irq 5 or 7 dma 1,3,5 why oh why did my tvtuner always want to go onto irq 7... arghhh..

damn man them fireballs were mega fast drives back in the day.. was it the big 5"1/4 one? /edit " ok i just farted my brain. those were the bigfoots. lol.. oh how fun it was back then " /edit

Yeah IRQs could be a pain in the behind sometimes. You're correct. The Big one was the apptly named Quantum Bigfoot.
There is a company around that does enterprise storage solutions called Quantum now, but I am not sure if it is the same company.