Rebuilding our Childhood Gaming PCs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Back in 2013 Matt and Jackson were some young TH-cam scrubs and had been uploading content to different channels for years! They both ended up getting into custom gaming PC's around 2013 and ToastyBros was started in mid-2014. Today we replicate and purchase all of our original PC parts to see just how they work in modern-day gaming!
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**Jackson's PC **
AMD FX 6300 6 Core 6 Thread with stock cooler
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MSI Radeon 7770 1GB GDDR5
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8GB G. Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz (2X4GB)
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1TB WD Blue HDD 7200RPM
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MSI 760GM-E51
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Raidmax Blue LED 430W (Give or take)
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Raidmax Viper GX Red Tower
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DVD Drive
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*Matt's PC*
i7 2600 4 core 8 thread CPU
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Hyper 212 Evo
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ASRock Z77 Pro 3
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8GB GSkill Ripjaws DDR3 1600mhz (2x4gb)
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6850 1GB
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WD Blue 1 TB HDD
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Corsair CX500 PSU
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Coolermaster Master Half 912
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Jack’s having a full on nostalgia moment whereas Matt’s just trying to win the game 😂
Ngl that thumbnail was funny af 😂
Yeah lol 😆
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@@nednelp9051 why
@@theburger_king It was just soooooooo funny
@DiamondAxeGamingCatshow old are you 6? 💀💀💀
It's really insane how timeless TF2 graphics are. Feels like it could have came out last week and it would be more than acceptable amongst todays games
Yeah graphics stagnated thanks to consoles holding PC gaming back and then coronaphobia causing the chip shortage.
Thank goodness that's over.
@@philcooper9225 graphics did not stagnate. There just isn’t much to improve on. The next best thing that we have coming in gaming is bigger and much more detailed maps/areas, and faster load times.
@@suppressed_viii Yeah graphics don't have too much toom to improve, devs can only make things look like real life to a certain extent
@@suppressed_viii Actually you're right they didn't stagnate, they regressed. Valorant runs on a potato!
that's a good thing but it's still true. Hell I can run it at well over 1000 FPS
Valorant isn't the only example, it's a shame how long graphics stagnated!
The new consoles should have double the GPU power they have.
Take this L in peace.
@@philcooper9225 if we just pushed for more and more graphically impressive titles, nothing short of a supercomputer would be able to run them. CGI today is very impressive, but it is a massive challenge to make it run in real time. Graphics aren't only for gaming, after all.
Let's see, it was Christmas 1990, and I upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an AMD 286 12 Mhz. It came with 1 Meg a ram soldered to the motherboard and I paid $300 extra to get the Oak VGA card connected to a 14-inch VGA monitor. and then 2 weeks later I paid $300 for an Adlib Pro sound card. I did all of this, just so I could play Mechwarrior 1 and Wing Commander. Those were the days.
Oh Jesus I remember Wing Commander I used to play it on my brother's PC around the start of the 90s at the ripe old age of 10/11 years lol Good times.
I don't exactly remember the specs but we had a Pentium 66 that my dad bought in 1994 when I was 12. That is when I discovered the awesomeness of DOS games like Doom and Alone in the dark...and finding out how fun it was trying to get Dark Forces to run by messing with extended memory in config dot sys. I miss DOS and I don't miss DOS at the same time.
Seeing videos like this make me want to get out my long white beard and cane and tell these damn whippersnappers "In my day...!" stories. Which I guess I just did. Crap.
God, I remember the commodore! Man I'm old, lol😅😂
@@lesroth7835wow I didn't even exist lol and I'm 20 now lol sorry for making you fell old
Now you have to do a sleeper build with those cases!
definitely one of my more favorite videos on this channel, my first gaming PC was back in 2018. specs were an i5 3470S, RX 560 & 16gb of ram. I don't remember the psu or case but I remember getting 200fps in Minecraft haha, good times
2012 i was 28 then XD you guys are so young but awesome, keep up the fun vids. My first pc was a 1998 Packard Bell.
my childhood pc was a tandy 1000 rsx (a 386!). it sported a 50 mb hard drive, svga graphics, a cool 1 mb of ram, and a smoking fast 2400 baud modem. ahh the good ol days of 1992 technology.
I knew you guys were young but I didn't think you were that young. In the 8th grade just 10 years ago lol! Its awesome to see how far you guys have come. I love your channel. Keep up the good work guys. This was a fun video to watch.
True I was 31 10 years ago 🤣
Right? I think I'm older than them, or at least very close, and I'm 24!
My first gaming PC had an AMD A10 7850k and the only reason I had the money was because my mother had just gotten the life insurance money of my father and gave my brother and me part of it, there's no way in hell my parents would've bought me an i7 in those years because I wanted one.
I'd thought about doing something like this, but 1993-era 25MHz 386s are hard to find in working order...
My first Gaming pc straight from the trashes of my neighborhood Luckiest find ever. Which Is asus b470 gaming mobo, Ryzen 7 1700, 32gb ram, Gtx 1070. And all i had to do was clean it and reset the ram.
EDIT: There was 2 different sets 3600 and a 3000, took the 3000 set out and it's been working ever since i got it.
My first gaming pc was an Asus desktop that had an FX 8300, R9 255, 12gb of ddr3, and a 1tb hdd. It was able to play Battlefield 4 with like 60 fps on medium settings, which was enough for me when I was playing that game at its peak with my friend group
Mine was a
I5 9400f
1660 super
16gbs of ram
I have used another gamingpc but that was not a gaming pc , granted I played madded,nhl tiger woods, sims on it, this was when dvd or cd roms could be inserted.
Always was a console guy why idk. But gaming pcs are epic
Mine
Was 5800x 3080ti 2tb sdd 32 3600mhz 1000wat
Brought for $1.2k from friend
Rebuilt with Lian li case that was my first built ever by watching video
Mine was gt210 some old Intel cpu and 256mb of ram
I can't believe that their childhood PCs were like this 😂
Mine was Ryzen 5 5600 Rx 6600 16gb ram
@@Deegan787 dayum so u must still be in ur childhood
@@nvrgongiveyouup I'm 15
@@Deegan787 k
Yeah, they still can order those parts of the shelve!
Can't see me ordering a 286 processor and a 20MB harddisk nowadays..
I'm in love with this channel ❤️
yea :)
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I wish I could remember my childhood
My first gaming pc (which I still own) had an Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 4GB of DDR2 ram and a 1GB 9600GT. Quite a machine back in those days, I had a limited budget at the time.
I can't remember the exact pc but i remember starting on DOS and windows 3.1 lol. Duke Nukem 3d was wild back then lol. I beat Doom way to young. Castle Wolfenstein was good but it gave me motion sickness if i played for too long.
Yeeeah I don't want to talk about my first gaming PC.
I always played on my dads or sisters pc but my first build was an i5-4690k with a gtx960 in an nzxt s340 white case. Legendary times and good memories. Great video guys
I had the same cpu in my first pc
First PC of mine was nearly 2 Years ago. Saved up money for a couple years (working on lawns and also receiving money as opposed to gifts from many birthdays and holidays) I still have this system and its awesome for 1440p high refresh rate and even medium 4k with some dlss! Unfortunately was $1300 because of the shortage
Ryzen 5 3600
Hyper 212 BE
MSI B550m VDH Wifi Pro
16gb 3600mhz DDR4
500gb Samsung 970 evo (pcie gen 3 nvme)
2tb 7200rpm Seagate
TUF RTX 3060
Evga 750w 80+ Gold
Lian Li 205m Black
Yay more quality content
I started scavenging several old PCs and parts from garage sales/yard sales with old Pentium I/II/III with windows 95/98 in around 2003-09. 2006 i got my fist 900Mhz Pentium III capable of running WIndows XP. Then around 2009 I bought my first all new parts PC with a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, Core 2 Duo E6600, 2x1GB XMS2 800Mhz DDR2, WD 10k RPM VelociRaptor drive, XFX 9800GTX+, Corsiar HX750W built in an NZXT Tempest case. I Still have my original parts except for the motherboard. Still use same power supply in my current main build.
2015-
AMD A10-7870
MSI A78M
16 GB G Skill Sniper
EVGA 960 2gb
Zalman Z3 Plus Case
It was pretty dope, I didn't get into gaming till College, still have all these parts, I used it in my brothers shop PC, minus the 960. 😄
My first puter was an IBM clone with a 386 dx20 w/co processor. 4mb ram. 1mb video and a 20mb IDE spin drive. Windows 3.11 on top of Dos 6.0, Didn't really "game" on those though. My first "gaming" pc was a 8350fx 16gb ram and a GTX 750ti
i still use my first pc as i bought it a year ago
cpu: i3 10100f
gpu: gtx 960 4gb
ram: 16gb ddr4
motherboard: EX-B560M-V5
storage: 1tb hard drive
ssd: 237gb
power supply: idk
cant play any games with good graphics like GTA5 , warzone i only play fortnite and overwatch now
My first "high end" card was an 8800GTX. It was $599 back then at CompUsa. The dude that rang me out said they never had anyone spend that much on a video card. Today I'm rocking a 4080, with a slower memory bus. 😝 Good times.
I made my first pc in late 2021, and it is my current PC. It has an i7 10700k, rtx 3060, 16gb ddr4 3200MHz, 480gb SATA SSD and a 2tb HDD.
my first pc was a 486/33 mhz ibm. I put the stacker 5x86 cpu in there and I tracked down and installed a VESA video card. It ran Warcraft 2 like a badass
Ahh, you two were so cute back in tha' day LoL ;) My first gaming PC was a Pentium 100 with a whopping 6GB HDD. Played the real old shooters - Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D mostly on it.
The FX-6300 and HD 7770 was my first build but I was 22 in 2013. I rocked that for a year and grabbed a 970 upon release. I eventually upgraded to a R5 1600 v CPU as well. That lasted me until last week when I put together a R5 5600x+RTX 3060 build.
I am still rocking the HAF 912 I bought brand new from 2015. It's a good case if you don't care about RGB.
Mine was a Pentium 2 with a midrange(?) Nvidia MX400 Can't remember too much about it but it was free from my science teacher because I helped him edit some logos he was working on at the time in paint. I think I had a Pentium 3 system as well eventually after that. Then my first PC I built myself was an Athlon XP 3200+ CPU with maybe that same graphics card from before when I was working at McDonald's. Lots of fun with those old systems. I used to play Age of Empires 2 and Colin McRae Rally all the time with the occasional Command and Conquer thrown in. I miss the optical drives honestly so I tend to use that type of case when building PCs.
2013! awesome. My first PC build was an AMD 386 DX-40. My first PC Experience was on a Commodore VIC-20. So I'm older than dirt.
Hi bro can you please review the most sold graphic card from aliexpress Mingzhou rx 580
My poor brain. I was thinking "why are they so young looking, 2012 wasn't that long ago..." FML
My first gaming pc that wasn’t a laptop was an old Dell Optiplex 360 with a core 2 quad q6700, 4gb of ddr2, a 1tb enterprise hard drive, and an r7-350 2GB. I was wowed by the performance difference from my amd a6 laptop.
lov your vid
Bro neither of yall had that Zalman cooler that everybody cut themselves on trying to install and leave small blood stains like a badge of honor. LOL
My first PC i built was a AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 1GB ram, 20GB HDD, VooDoo GPU and Windows XP sometime in 2001
My first build was with the FX6300 and radeon 7770 too classic budget setup from that era
having a gaming pc in ur childhood is luxurious and a privilege, what's more is one that actually has a childhood
0:10 is so wholesome. Look how freaking cute they are. It’s so easy to forget that adults used to be teenagers like us
You guys make me feel old. I turned 25 in 2012. I remember having DDR 2 RAM in one of my first gaming computers back in 2006
I was 30. The first computer I could say was "mine" used SDR in 1998. It had a whole 4MB of VRAM!
Sheeit, I was 25 in 1996. DOS 6.0 and Win 3.11 were the OS of the day. sigh, you all make me feel ancient.
My first pc was a 750 ti 2gb, an i5 4690k and 16gb ddr3
The C64 was my gaming PC from my childhood so not much to build but more fining one in good condition and still working.
Yall might have gotten a higher fps on higher settings than you remember because of driver optimization. Would be cool to see the drivers from 2012 installed to see how much better it is now compared to then.
im geting a gaming pc for chrismas im building mine this is my fist desktop pc so exited
My first pc was the family pc… it had a dual core pentium of sorts and 2gb single channel ddr3. This was a hp pavilion. I played the crap out of Phoenix RC 5. I also played Arctic Drift almost too much. Can’t find Arctic Drift anywhere and that makes me sad. Now I’ve got a 10400 and a 3070 with 16gb ram.
This takes me back to my g3258, h81m-k motherboard (because I thought the k meant you could overclock on it) same ram as you guys and a sweet strix 750ti
It's funny bc the build I have rn uses the same cooler master case but uses a amd FX 6300, the motherboard is a msi gaming motherboard 970, 500w power supply, and a nvidia gt 1030, and one 8gb stick of ram
Insane how similar the build is lol
Wow , does ur pc perform ok?
@@EzraSwannellFishing it can play overwatch 2, and all of halo master chief collection but apex not so much mostly around 32 fps besides a few games
my childhood pc in high school was an AMD k5 (kept overheating), you guys are young and really enjoyed the easy times of modernish processors.
My first one was just an optiplex with GT 1030 inside 🤣 that was the only thing i could afford that time
It is fun to be nostalgic, just like I am for my Commodore 64. I did watch that C64 you guys tried also :). We had a IBM clone. But my actual first computer was the c64 was my personal computer. Our IBM clone was what I guess you could call a XT. If was copy of the 5150 IBM. The company got sued by IBM as it was pretty much an exact replica for way less.
You probably won't believe me when I say that I'm very grateful to be gaming on an FX8320, Radeon HD 7950 3GB Twin Frozr iii GPU, and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. 😊
Wow you guys had awesome hair!
i remember gaming in the late 90's.
we didn't have "gaming" PC.
we just payed games on regular PC's using integrated graphics.
no RGB, we would use box fans to cool down the PC...
i remember taking a class in high school where i would learn about PC repair and components, this was years before youtube, where people show you how to build a PC in under 10 min. these days, everyone knows how to assemble a PC.
My first gaming PC was in early 2017 with a i5 7400, 8Gb of ram and a GTX 1050 Zotac ! Great moment, today i run a Ryzen 3 4100, 16Gb of ram and a RX470 4Gb !
great video. made my first PC build pretty much at the same time as you guys did. just wondering, what made you become more of a PC gamer instead of console gamer?
Worked a summer job and saved up 450$ and bought a barebones kit on New Egg, the specs for the PC was.
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition
RAM: 8GB DDR3-1333
GPU: Radeon HD 4650, Later upgraded to GTX 550 Ti
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-990XA-UD3
PSU: 450 Watt Thermaltake
HDD: WD Blue 500GB
I was still rocking a Q6600 and 2 HD 5750 (I think) in crossfire back in 2012. Damn I'm getting old...
My first PC had a Celeron 333MHz, 384MB RAM, NVIDIA Riva TNT, Diamond Micronics C400 motherboard. After that I had a netbook, some Pentium 4 and Core2 Duo systems, until my first modern gaming capable PC which was a HP Z400 Workstation in 2013/2014 with a 4c/8t Xeon W3520 (same as i7-920), 12GB DDR3, GTX 660 DCII OC
FLASHback! DAMN! I had a Raidmax-s cobra or so, red one.. man that brought me back to memory lane 2003/4 ish! 😲
The first decent one was an i5 2400, GTX 750 back around then. I now use 12600K gtx 1060 6GB this needs an upgrade now.
My first ever pc was also an fx 6300, evga gtx 960 4gb, 16gb gskill ddr3, and a 1tb wd blue all powered by a 500w evga power supply.
Dang you built basically my exact same PC from 2012ish. Except 7790 instead of 7770
I could somewhat do the same, I'd just need GF4 Ti 4200, I do have a GF3 Ti 200 but even with overclocking, it's still slower. I have a similar CPU (Athlon 1GHz) lying around :)
"Childhood"
"2012"
🤣😭 Side-eyeing the 500Mhz PIII that got me through high-school, (the ABSOLUTE BEAST) and turning to dust
Bro how did you have a pcbroo
My first gaming pc 2012/2013 was i5 2500k watercooled with corsair 120 aio overclockd to 5ghz stable no bs/ z68 asus motherboard, which z68 was all the talk back then it was amazing & then 8gigs of corsair ddr3 2×4 & then the gpu I had a 6770 I think 512 mem 80 gig samsumg ssd I paid like 200 bucks for it lol ssds were all the new then and expensive I used a cheap 30 buck thermaltake case
Built my first computer only a few years ago, Core i5 4570 With an R9 290x, ran hot, but was a decent budget build, rocking an i5 10400 with a 3070ti now!
I also had a cx-500 and g-skill ram, was Ares not Ripjaws though the rest was different
Corsair h80 AIO
Radeon 7950, a ridiculous asus triple slot one with 3gb of gddr5
asrock z77 extreme 4 motherboard
i5 3570
1tb seagate hdd
did upgrade to a 64gb ssd that I got on sale but ended up taking it out because it was actually slower than the hdd
I bought everything except the gpu first, built the pc and just ran onboard graphics, then spent im pretty sure the same amount again on getting the 7950 which was a pretty baller gpu at the time
2012 "childhood" PC hahahahahahahahah freaking zooomers, don't know the pain of Playing CS 1.3 at 384p with 56k modem.
Does an apple II plus computer count?
upgraded a month ago from a Fx-6300(played with it since 2015) to a ryzen 5 3600, but for a such old 3 core cpu it has did a good job even in 2023 for cs:go or other older/esport games it is ok ig
you guys are younger than I thought lol. fun vid!
Wow, I wonder if you were that dude that snagged that 2600k off ebay recently from me, I found one for a good price bookmarked it, next day its gone lol.
I main a little newer similarily speced pc and it is doing a great job for me, picked it up for $250 in july last year, also that blue Gigabyte board looks almost the same as my GA Z77 D3H
i've still got my og childhood pc, it has almost been upgraded in every way, got a cpu for it recently 4460 -> 4590
in a couple years I'mma do this exact kinda video, my first ever build was just one year agoso we're not quite there yet, maybe 2032 if I still keep making content in this channel
My first pc was an AMD-FX6300 and GTX 660. I actually still have it, but it's hasn't been used in years.
My first 'good' PC was an Athlon 4400X2, Gigabyte DH 393 Motherboard, 2GB OCZ platinum v.2 (512MBx4), X800 GPU (Later upgraded to a 8800GTS) and Corsair PSU...all in a Thermaltake Soprano case......... Still got it and still working and still in perfect condition.
I have a box with all the invoices and receipts for my pc parts that I compiled into an excel sheet (not really up to date anymore) but from that I can tell you my pcparts at the end of 2012:
CPU AMD A10-5700 Socket FM2
Cooler CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 EVO
MB Gigabyte GA-F2A75-D3H DDR3
RAM Corsair XMS3 1333 MHz 2x2 GB
GPU PowerColor HD 6870 PCS+ 1GB
SSD !! Corsair Force 3A 60 GB SATA
HDD Samsung HD105SI 1 TB 5.400 upm SATA
ODD ASUS BC-12B1ST SATA BluRay/DVD/CD-Drive Combo (it still runs in my 2nd pc up to today)
Case BitFenix Merc Beta BLACK
Monitor Wortmann Terra 2450W 24" 1080p@60 Hz (my first 16:9 monitor)
Windows 7 Home x64
Back in 2008 I built my first PC... My friends called me crazy.
Antech Twelve Hundres
Core 2 Duo E8400
Asus P5Q Pro
Core Contact Freezer 64
DIAMOND RADEON HD 4870X2
and EIGHT!!! yes COUNT EM EIGHT!!! gigs of DDR2 as 2x4gb sticks.
alongside 2x1tb Seagate Barracuda's that both Bricked themselves as part of that whole fiasco.
That machine ran Windows XP X64 for me Flawlessly Overclocked to 2.6ghz on Stock volts from 2008-2019 when I finally Retired him.
I had a pc with a pentium D 820 cpu, ATI Radeon x600 xt, and 1gb of ddr 400 ram. I still use the same case.
1999 Riva TNT Battlezone II Combat Commander. Yeah...I'm old I used to play this on an Intel 486 x pro (whatever that means). Oh, 16 MB ram. I think. I'm old. I forget things. WOW...did you see that.......!!!!
The power button failed on my old Antec GX500 case some years back so I replaced it with with an "orange & black" Raidmax Ninja II case which came with a "preinstalled" Raidmax RX 500 PSU. A little too garish for my taste, but it was "totally free" after the Fry's Electronics closeout sale price and the Raidmax rebate. Oddly enough, it still looks and works like new to this very day, and I just kept the included PSU around as an emergency backup. I'm actually typing this with that old PC "which I recently refurbished", and I'm currently in the process of installing a secondary SSD to dual-boot Windows 10 with Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, for "purely nostalgic reasons" of my own.
My childhood gaming PCs (all desktops) were a 286, 386SX, 486DX-33 and the Pentium-166 MMX was the last PC I had before I finished school. Then it was an AMD K6-2 400 with an ATi GPU (can't recall which one, it was 22 years ago!), AMD Athlon 64 2.6gHz (San Diego) and then an Intel i5-650 that I used for 5 years (first computer I bought myself, I was poor OK?!). Then it was a Dell Inspiron laptop with i7-5500U CPU and Geforce 840M from 2015 (I still have this and it works) and my current 2 year-old PC with a 2600X and GTX1650 Super (it's a bad GPU and never gets the advertised FPS).
My first pc specs were
-zalman z9+
-gtx 650ti boost
-fx 8120 black edition
-ASUS M4A79XTD EVO A790X Motherboard
-hyper 212evo
-1tb hdd wd blue
-cx850 psu
-ddr3 1600 2x4gb
Later when bf4 released my cpu temps would always go above 90c lol.
My first PC back in 1996 was:
Pentium 100 (soon upgraded to 120)
MB Triton Pentium 430VX
8 mb sdram
VGA S3 Trio 1mb (soon upgraded to Matrox Millenium 4MB)
WD 1,6 GB hdd
200 W PSU
CD-ROM Goldstar 8X
SB Zoltrix sound card
FDD 1.44
15' monitor (soon upgraded to 17')
First two games on this beast were Tomb Raider 1 and Quake 1,BLASTING on Windows 95 :)
Pentium II 350 with an STB Velocity 128 (which was an nvidia Riva 128, probably 8mb?) was my first "gaming" PC as a kid, but I got more serious in the socket 370/478 era. Went laptop in college due to space and money peaking with a core 2 duo/GTX9800M (17" 1920x1200!) I bought for "schoolwork" (and GTA4), and came back to "real" PC gaming with a heavily overclocked G3258 and an R9 270x and on from there. Good times
first pc was an i5 650, 4gb ram, and eventually a 5450 I found in a pc by some trashcans, also found 4gb more ram.
my first pc was a:
CPU: i78700k
GPU: rog strix 2070
RAM:16gb(2x8) trident z rgb
PSU:corsair 1000w 80+gold
motherboard: asus rog z390-e gaming
Case: nzxt noctus 450 ROG EDITION
Two guys in their early twenties taking a trip down memory lane.
Cute.
My trip down memory lane? 🤔
Well,... when I was in 8th grade,... all the way back in 1988,... we didn't have a computer that was "current" for that year.
In fact the only computer we had was a Texas Instruments data calculator my dad bought in 1982 from RadioShack that used these small magnetic reader strips that had a whopping 512 bytes of data capacity. No,... not 512 kilobytes,... just 512 bytes at 8 bits and stored simple algebraic formulas that were a total of 64 characters/symbols long and could be used to run a simple math script on the calculator for things like graphing or computing a mathematical function that would take someone a good deal longer to work out by hand on paper than it took the calculator.
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So yeah,... you could say that was the first computer I had access to. Now my first Desktop PC I personally owned,...
That was My 333Mhz AMD K6-2 with 3D Now! CPU on a Socket 7 class motherboard with a single 2x AGP slot with an ATi 3D Rage Pro 16MB 2x AGP graphics card, Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card, 2GB EIDE HDD, 16xSpeed CDROM Disk drive, 3.5" floppy disk drive, 32MB of 75Mhz SDRAM in two 16 megabyte sticks, internal 28.8Kbps data fax modem, USB 1.0 Adapter card with 2 USB ports, 250 Watt ATX PSU, mid-tower case by Microstar, Windows 98 that I built in October of 1998. I had a 15" SVGA color CRT monitor with a 60Hz refresh rate that supported 24bit true color graphics from Acer.
Oh yeah,... my very first gaming computer,... it was what I could afford and the ATi 3D Rage Pro 16MB AGP graphics card couldn't hold a candle to the Voodoo II from 3Dfx. But I couldn't afford the Voodoo cards anyway,... so I went the cheap route and got a hot piece of garbage! 🤣 Hey! At east it could run most games before 1996 without too much trouble,... just don't ask it to run Quake or Hexen, or Duke Nukem 3D,... it barely ran Doom II and I did get a playable framerate playing Descent,... but most any AAA title after 1997 was too much for my card.
You little wipper snappers are spoiled rotten these days!
My first gaming PC was a used price/performance beast around 2016/17.
i7 3770s
8GB DDR3
Asrock mobo (cheapest one I could find lol)
EVGA 660ti
120GB SSD
1TB HDD
I think I paid something like $350CAD for all of the used parts, and it was a lot of fun/$! Only replaced the 1155 platform less than a year ago, too!
I am gonna be very honest here, for people who are new and are not ric, rich this channel is AAA Tier cause they are simple and talk on a level where everyone can feel the need to buy a PC and can realte too. Linus tech tip on the other hand just watch " PC wars" by flashgitz. It sums them up.
Just rebuilt a few of my childhood / 20's PC's no that long ago: Am486 DX4/100 with Paradise VLB graphics, K6-2 450 with ATi Rage Pro, and a PIII-933 Coppermine with a GeForce2 MX400. I'm just saving up funds to build an Athlon XP system. I had a Z77 Pro3 years ago, as it was cheap. I would NOT recommend overclocking on that board.
You guys make it sound like 2013 was sooo long ago. It's only 11 years! My first PC was an IBM PS2 5150 with an 8088 processor and a monochrome monitor I got in 1992. CompuServe was just getting started and DOS 1.1 was still the go-to operating system with 2 - 5 1/4" floppy drives. Now THAT'S old!
i had the i5 2500k with an gtx 770 and my very first pc was an intel celeron with an agp graphics card and windows xp i played earth 2150 lost souls and world racing on my very first pc
My first gaming pc
Win95
-pentium 1 133Mhz
-128 mb ram
- 32mb 3dfx voodoo rush graphics card
- 3gb hdd
-crt monitor
Games: carmagedon 1-2
Fallout 1-2
Mk 2
Quake 1,2
Unreal Tournament
Doom 1-2
First computer was a Commodore PET 2001 (1979). 8K RAM. Built in cassette drive, goofy keyboard and integrated green screen monitor. It opened up like the hood on a Ford Pinto. First gaming computer was an Atari 800 (c. 1980-81). 32K RAM, 5.25" floppy drive and a cartridge system for games and other software (firmware??) I still have it and it still works! Well, the floppy drives don't work any more. First home built was much later, say 2008 or so.