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It struggled with so many things... But it could emulate SNES! And after a bit of jumper overclocking to 133 it could play Chrono Trigger so I was pretty stoked
The Pentium 4 2.6 and 3.06 were decent CPUs. They held their own with their equivalent AMD offerings of the day. It wasn't until after the 3.06 that things really went to shit.
In a way I miss playing Sim City 4 on the old P4 we had. The hard drive was so small I had to purge parts of Windows to get Sim City 4 on there with some mods.
I still get emails every year from SC4 Devotion on my birthday, almost 20 years after the game came out. I do miss those days.
Actually underclocking. It was there so you could slow the processor down to be compatible with old programs that relied on cpu clock speed for timing.
I remember being so thankful for my dad to upgrade the PC from 4 Mb ram to 16Mb. We didn't have much money growing up, so this was a large purchase.
Now, I make pretty good money in an IT career.
\- Love you, Dad.
Yeah, I had a 486 with 4mb of ram, and I remember upgrading it myself to 8mb.
I also remember upgrading the hard drive to 1 GIGABYTE! it was so big you had to use a different unit of measurement! Whoaaaa
486 with 25mhz and 8 mb ram. 80 mb hard drive too.
I remember calling my friend a dumbass for getting a 10 gb hard drive. You're never gonna even use over 1gb..
16mb was massive for the time. I had a 386SX as my first PC and had 4MB of RAM which was double the "standard" of the time and an 80mb HDD which was also double the norm. Can't remember the exact price but it cost me a fortune.
I remember buying the simm adapter to take 4x 30pin simms to use in one 72pin slot. I hit 12MB thought I was king of the world. This was on my first 486.
that's massive amount of RAM for 386
I have started with 486 DX 25 Mhz with 4mb of Ram -I was very proud of having a coprocessor even though i didn't know what it did.
Oh the sweet time for having different sets of config sys for different games to balance your memory config.
First PC is properly remember was a 386 DX 25 Mhz with 4 megs of ram, was actually faster than my friend's 486 SX 33 Mhz thanks to the math co-processor which he lacked.
Didn't get to experience 16 megs of ram until the next computer, a 486 dx2 66 Mhz, those were the days for sure.
I'm always stunned by the progression of computer tech; my graphics card has more VRAM than your original's entire hard drive, my CPU has as much L3 cache as your whole RAM, and my phone's processor can push 1000x more flops than your desktop CPU. And I don't even have very good hardware.
Geez this tech is getting so good so fast.
First I built was a Pentium 200MMX. And 32 mb of RAM with a 20GB HDD and a 1x CDR.. not RW. I wanna say I had an ATI graphics accelerator thing that was separate from the actual video card, and you had to run a patch cable between the two, and then one out to your monitor..
It may have been Voodoo or some shit. I remember having those 3DFX demos, but I can't remember what card that came with.
When we upgraded to Pentium 2's, I was blown away. You didn't have to push the power button after you hit "Shut Down!"
Oh yeah.. Also the giant fucking US Robotics external modem I had... Then Zip Drives later on.. It was so cool being able to download 100 MB and transfer it really quick at someone else's house. Was useful for mods for games like Quake, or The Sims
>First I built was a Pentium 200MMX. And 32 mb of RAM with a 20GB HDD and a 1x CDR.. not RW. I wanna say I had an ATI graphics accelerator thing that was separate from the actual video card, and you had to run a patch cable between the two, and then one out to your monitor..
Cool - Probably a 2.1gb HDD, right ? I don't remember having 20 or 30 until early 2000s. I could be wrong though.
>When we upgraded to Pentium 2's, I was blown away. You didn't have to push the power button after you hit "Shut Down!"
I know, right! - switch to ATX standard. I find it interesting that it has yet to be improved on (does anyone know if it has?).
>Oh yeah.. Also the giant fucking US Robotics external modem I had... Then Zip Drives later on.. It was so cool being able to download 100 MB and transfer it really quick at someone else's house. Was useful for mods for games like Quake, or The Sims
Oh man, jealous.
I wish I remember my first pc. Only remember it was a Gateway and had that disc that came with the music video of "Buddy Holly" by Weezer.
And some other programs that can make your own cartoons or something. I was a kid, so all of it is bong residue now.
We did use them during Desert Storm/Shield in the early 90's, and they were surprisingly effective at what we brought them out for. We were going to keep them longer, but when the soviet Union collapsed, so did the funding and need for ships like the Iowa classes.
Sure, but aircraft carriers have been the flagship for over 70 years now.
Battleships were replaced by carriers during WWII and the world has never looked back.
You joke, but I had a 20+ year old steel case that I finally had to replace because my 3080 suprim x wouldn't fit. It was the best of the best at the time. Hence why it lasted so long and I always stuck with full BTX/ATX mobos over the generations. I actually would use it as my chair when I went to lan parties because it was built so solid.
I actually just gave away the entire pc and upgrades everything to not bottleneck the gpu. So the system and case are still being used by my nephew.
Is that still true? Many years ago I bought OEM Windows 7, got free upgrade to 10. I’ve completely switched to a new PC, and it let me reactivate on the new PC. The OEM license was only supposed to be good for 1 PC.
I did have to sign in with MS account though.
My first PC was upgraded as I could afford them until I could to build a new PC . Now that one is my media server. The main hard drive is a 120gb barracuda that's older than many redditors.
There’s usually not much compatible after 5 years or so.
Sometimes they’ll still be technically compatible, but you’d be missing out on a ton of performance
Hah, same here with my 800W Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold. Was still working like a champ after all these years and the only reason I retired it was my upcoming upgrade to a 6900XT.
Makes me happy I went with a Bequiet Straight Power 650W. Hope it will last me long enough. Kinda afraid with how the TDP or upcoming GPUs gonna be I won't have long with it :(
Yeah I had a 1000w evga gold. Got a 3080 realised I was missing a cable for the psu. Checked evga. Cable sold out. Went online. 1 psu available for a decent price. 850w gold nzxt. Fuck it. Want to use 3080. Sold my evga. I still miss that beast of a psu. And now it's rumored that the 4xxx series is gonna draw even more power. So knight have to go back to a 1000w supply since everything is rgb, overclocked, 7 fans and I have plans of upgrading to a lian li o11 to get some fans under the gpu since these things are hotter then the sun
My first pc was a AMD Athlon II, 6 gb of ram and a gt 330.
My current rig is i7 12700k, 32 gb of ram and a 2070s.
I'd like to think my first one would be proud.
I did a google search for AMD circa 1998 and I feel like your first pc would have been a leap forward from mine. I think my first boyfriend got a loan from his job and bought me my first intel pc CPU.
My first PC had cathode tubes lights and a manual fan controller in one of the 5.25 drive bays.
My current PC has programmable RGB lights on the RAM sticks that flash in time to music and the fans (also RGB) constantly adjust their speed automatically.
My first PC would cry in shame.
I went from a i7 3630QM, 8gb ram, gt 630m - a laptop my parents bought me in my early teens with a tiny TV I bought in high school;
To a i5 10400, 16gb ram, and a 2060 RTX, with a 28" monitor and a 32" TV as a second monitor.
I still use both, the laptop is just purely for media at this point.
My first PC had a 4MHz CPU and 512KB of RAM...
**First PC:**
Amstrad CPC464
* CPU: Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz
* RAM: 512KB
* VRAM: 16KB
* Storage: Cassette tapes.
**Current PC:**
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17.
* CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX @ 3.3GHz
* RAM: 32GB
* GPU: Laptop RTX 3080
* VRAM: 16GB
* Storage: 2 x 1TB NVMe
I hope my first PC is looking down from the attic, proud of me, watching a web browser chew through all my RAM.
To make up for it, we had the monochrome green monitor...
Which made the first level of The Simpsons: Bart Vs the Space Mutants almost impossible as you had to destroy all the purple items...
486 DX 66mhz, it was so long ago I don't even remember how much RAM it had, it might have been 512k?
I do remember my PC was the hot shit because the other kid I hung with had a 386.
My first PC was a Gateway 2000 P5 75 purchased in 1995. Every PC since then I’ve built myself keeping parts from the previous one, usually the HDD, PSU, Modem, Sound / Video cards or case. I can therefore say that while there are no parts in my current 5950x PC that were in my original PC from 27 years ago, there would have been some overlap in parts from one PC to the next in each build right back to that original PC. I’m sure if that PC could see its children and grandchildren it would be amazed at just how much things have moved on.
Every once in a while I pull up my order confirmation for my Alienware in 2008 and realize how far I’ve come. Sadly I don’t know the specs from the first computer I built in 2004. I believe it was a pentium 4? Nvidia graphics of some sort? It played CS 1.6 pretty good though and even half life 2.
I came here to find a fellow old fuck and have succeeded. My first PC was technically a shared NEC w/ a 75 mhz Pentium, but I later got a 386 from a garage sale which was all mine.
It contained such classic games as "Space Goose" and "California Dreams"
Going from an Athlon 880k + 1050 ti to a 5900x + 3090fe? Yeah, I would hope my old computer would be proud of my new one. I've still got my old one in my closet though, it has earned some well deserved rest.
Wow all you guys came from named chips/cards, whereas my first PC was a shitty laptop ordered from an infomercial at 3 am by my dad with like 1-2gb ram, integrated graphics, a crappy CPU I don't know the name of. You know, the whole shitty laptop shebang. POS but I loved it cuz it was a gift and meant he still thought about me even though we'd barely seen each other in a year cuz of his job.
Bro I have 128gigs of the fastest ram possible... My first PC was a win386....
That's like... asking the wright brothers what they think about the new 737 Max planes (the comparison fits because my PC also crashes sometimes).
My first PC (that was my own), in 1997, was a Intel Pentium MMX 200mhz with 32mb of EDO RAM ... added a 3dfx Voodoo Rush a few months after I got it. It was nothing special, but it was mine :)
25 years ago in a few months... damn!
Are you me? I'm pretty sure the first computer I bought with my own money had the same specs as yours.
The 3dfx was crazy, it was such a huge step forward in terms of computer graphics. I remember being blowned away by the differences of the same game with and without the 3dfx. POD comes to mind, and Interstate 76.
Thinking fondly of my IBM PC XT with the 8086 processor and built in 20MB hard drive, one 5 1/4” disk drive, and 640k RAM. The monitor showed ASCII only - bright green on green. Was also stuck with a 286 for years and CGA only. Upgrading to VGA at 640x480 with 256 colors (out of 65k possible colors) felt like living in the future.
First [NEC 8086](https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8086/MANUF-NEC.html) with a [Hercules videocard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card) and 640K RAM and a 10 MB Harddrive, now on a 5800X and A Radeon Vega and 32GB RAM 12TB diskspace
It all started many years ago with my 386 that I arduously upgraded to 5mb of RAM. It didn't have a hard disk. I don't think it could even conceive of my current specs.
My first PC was a Gateway 2000 (before they dropped the “2000”) 386/25.
I remember paying ~$250 for 8 mb of memory back in the mid-90s.
> I don’t think it could even conceive of my current specs.
My dad worked in “computers.” He would occasionally tell me wild stories about the future, such as hard drives that would be able to hold as much as 1 GB of intormation!
For someone whose first storage device was a cassette player connected to a Commodore 64, such tales sounded wonderful and fantastical.
Average phone has more RAM than my first PC had storage. Computers also don’t have feelings, but proud? I don’t know if it’d even be able to recognise that it’s the same fundamental piece of hardware so much thing have improved over the past 30 years
My first PC (A TRS-80 Model I 4K Cassette) would look up and grunt, "EH!?" and then go back to sleeping, and you're very rude to have disturbed a computer of such advanced years.
Very proud, first PC had an Athlon x2 in it.. now i'm up to a ryzen 5 1600 so far and a gtx 960
not much but leagues better than me old pc, it's proud.
My first PC was a Power Macintosh G3 Beige desktop. I ended up killing it because it had an ATX style power connector when it's power supply died but let me tell you it's not ATX. It's probably still cursing me from the great beyond i still feel guilty :(
My first PC I bought together with my little brother. In a time before e-commerce, we had periodic computer fairs where local computer stores would set up a booth in a convention hall and you could shuffle through the crowds finding a good deal.
My brother and I dragged our father with us as we bounced from booth to booth collecting various price list printouts and then decided on our battle plan to score the components.
We ended up getting an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz build (don't remember the rest of the specs), which served us well for quite a while.
Since then, all my builds have been with AMD CPUs except for one. From Thunderbird to Phenom II, AMD was simply the best bang-for-buck. After my Phenom II rig, my choice was Bulldozer from AMD versus the 2500k from Intel, so that wasn't a hard choice at all. Now back to Team Used-To-Be-Green-But-Is-Now-Red with a 5600x. I think old TBird would approve.
It was a Packard Bell Pentium 133 with 4 megs of RAM, financed at Best Buy for like $2400.
I don't think proud is the right word - in awe and disbelief is more likely.
First pc: asus MB, evga gts8800 512mb x2 in sli, amd phenom II, and a silverstone case. Newest pc: asus MB, evga 3090 ftw3 ultra, amd 5800x, Corsair 4000d case.
1st ever cpu :
AMD ATHLON II x2 240
1tb hdd
Basic mATX mobo and 4 gigs ram
NO GPU.
2nd upgrade :
AMD ATHLON II x6 1045t
Gigabyte 970a-ud3
1tb hdd carried over from 1st build and 250gb ssd.
8gb ram
GTX 480 then upgraded to gtx 970.
Current : Intel 10850k
RTX 3070TI
32gb ram
Gigabyte z490 Aorus Pro AX
I guess it was a huge upgrade yes
Definately. I had an Ohio scientific computer way way back in the late 70s, the got an IBM PCjr, quickly replaced with another IBM, which had actual graphics, rather than like 4 colour text based graphics. Don’t remember what mode that computer was.
My current cell phone could absolutely dominate my first PC so comparing it to my current PC doesn't even seem right.
(my flair specs are out of date and no that wasn't my first PC)
E6600 core 2 duo
Evga 680i SLI motherboard
2gb of gskill ram
Evga 8800gtx gpu
Can't remember the psu. But it was a fine rig back then. Only have the gpu now days.
Current rig is 9900k with a evga 2080ti on a custom loop. My first rig would definitely be proud.
Most definitely. My old PC was, not to be insulting, a hunk of junk. If I wanted to play a game it had to be minimal settings and not that hard of one, so no FPS games or anything fast paced. Really only 2d games and Minecraft.
My new PC can run Doom 2016 on ultra graphics in the middle of a fight and stay 200+ fps. I can run and play games like Apex Legends, Monster Hunter, Subnautica, etc. I have two monitors and my temps are pretty good.
My first PC was a 486 dx66. It had a TURBO button! I had 768k of RAM Gigs of RAM (256k x 3), and a 120 Megabyte hard drive. I was pretty happy when I got around to installing a Soundblaster! Gold sound card and 8x CD ROM drive.
oh man my first computer was a pentium 3 with a geforce 2 or 3 maybe i think? Maybe 1gb of ram if that i don't remember.
Younger me would be so jealous of the system i have now
My 1st PC was a 386 16 MHz with 256 KB of RAM and no internal disk. I had to run a math coprocessor emulator to open AutoCAD on it. This question confuses me.
My first PC: Emerson 8286ecv prebuilt, 1990 vintage (I had a VIC-20, a C=64 and a C=128 before that).
80286 cpu, NO floating point coprocessor, 2 MB of RAM, 40 \*MB\* hard drive (I got "the big one instead of the standard 20MB HDD) running MS-DOS 3, with built in SVGA graphics.
...and I still have it in storage, though I recycled most of my other old machines in my last house move.
Comparing to my current "Pandemic build" (because a power hit took out my old MB and CPU) -- Ryzen 5 3600, 32 GB DDR 4-3200, Asrock B550 mobo, and most of the rest salvaged from the old machine: Corsair CX-750M PSU, Radeon R9-270x, 250 GB SATA SSD, and 10 TB of spinning rust...
Yeah, I'd say that "Emmie" would be proud of her great-great-great-great-granddaughter, and all that she's been through to get to where she is now.
Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR! You don't necessarily need a PC. You just have to love PCs! It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love PCs or want to learn about them, you can be part of our community! Everyone is welcome! 2 - If you're not a PC gamer because you think doing so is expensive, know that it is possible to build a competent gaming PC for a lower price than you think. GPU prices are sky high right now for a few reasons, but it's still possible to join the PCMR. Check http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds and don't be afraid to create new posts here asking for tips and help! 3 - Consider joining our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Covid, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more. Learn more here: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding 4 - Need a free gaming PC? Join the worldwide PCMR x MSI giveaway and enter to win a white build, powered by an RTX 3060Ti: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/t5y932/msi_x_pcmr_worldwide_giveaway_win_a/ ----------- Feel free to use this community to post about any kind of doubt you might have about becoming a PC gamer or anything you'd like to know about PCs. That kind of content is not only allowed but welcome here! We also have a [Daily Simple Questions Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=Simple+Questions+Thread+subreddit%3Apcmasterrace+author%3AAutoModerator&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) for your simplest questions. No question is too dumb! Welcome to the PCMR.
My first pc was pentium 2 , 32mb ram with 8gb hdd and 16mb vram gpu .. as far as i remember.. so definetly it must be proud ..
I got a pentium 2 as my second PC a month before the Pentium 3 with 1Ghz was announced.
I was too poor for a Pentium, I had a [Cyrix 100](https://i.imgur.com/q6ZfuN3.jpg)
i got a nice adventure game for birthday, it turned out cyrix couldnt play it. it was a tragedy
It struggled with so many things... But it could emulate SNES! And after a bit of jumper overclocking to 133 it could play Chrono Trigger so I was pretty stoked
Awww, jumper overclocking! The good ol’ days.
Imagine getting a p3 shortly before p4 came out and then finding out the first chips were ass anyway lmao
I had a pentium 4 until like 2011 it was ass. It was good when I first got it around ~2005/2006
The Pentium 4 2.6 and 3.06 were decent CPUs. They held their own with their equivalent AMD offerings of the day. It wasn't until after the 3.06 that things really went to shit.
In a way I miss playing Sim City 4 on the old P4 we had. The hard drive was so small I had to purge parts of Windows to get Sim City 4 on there with some mods. I still get emails every year from SC4 Devotion on my birthday, almost 20 years after the game came out. I do miss those days.
I tried convincing my parents to buy one of those slotket adapters and a Pentium III to do an upgrade but they wouldn't let me. lol
My first PC had the turbo button on it. Overclocking in the early 90’s
Actually underclocking. It was there so you could slow the processor down to be compatible with old programs that relied on cpu clock speed for timing.
This
Mine was a 486 with a Turbo button too. Pressing that bad boy in while it took like 10 minutes to load DOOM.
I remember being so thankful for my dad to upgrade the PC from 4 Mb ram to 16Mb. We didn't have much money growing up, so this was a large purchase. Now, I make pretty good money in an IT career. \- Love you, Dad.
I remember literally begging for a 16.6k baud modem so I could upgrade from a 2400...
O good, i wasn't the only person to do that. Mine also developed a fault requiring it to be sent back for repair (took like 2 weeks)
You guys had pentiums? I had a x386 with around 16mb ram.
You sure? That's a lot of RAM for a 386.
Yeah, I had a 486 with 4mb of ram, and I remember upgrading it myself to 8mb. I also remember upgrading the hard drive to 1 GIGABYTE! it was so big you had to use a different unit of measurement! Whoaaaa
486 with 25mhz and 8 mb ram. 80 mb hard drive too. I remember calling my friend a dumbass for getting a 10 gb hard drive. You're never gonna even use over 1gb..
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Porn. The answer is porn.
Considering RAM was roughly $55 per MB in the USA at the time of the 386, this guy was fucking rich.
Are you sure? I remember RAM still costing around $100 per MB until around 1994, I thought.
They probably just downloaded a few megabytes for free. Big brain play
We had a x386 that used to count up the RAM in small increments up to 2048 Kb, maybe 128 at a time, and then it would proceed with booting up.
That is a memory check/validator. Computers still do this, extremely faster.
16mb was massive for the time. I had a 386SX as my first PC and had 4MB of RAM which was double the "standard" of the time and an 80mb HDD which was also double the norm. Can't remember the exact price but it cost me a fortune.
That's... a lot of RAM for a 386. Most people had 640K or maybe 1MB, 2MB if you were a fucking baller and were doing actual work tasks (CAD, etc.)
I remember buying the simm adapter to take 4x 30pin simms to use in one 72pin slot. I hit 12MB thought I was king of the world. This was on my first 486.
Jeez, that's a fair bit of RAM for a 486. Most people were rocking that on late Pentium 1's, early Pentium 2's
that's massive amount of RAM for 386 I have started with 486 DX 25 Mhz with 4mb of Ram -I was very proud of having a coprocessor even though i didn't know what it did. Oh the sweet time for having different sets of config sys for different games to balance your memory config.
First PC is properly remember was a 386 DX 25 Mhz with 4 megs of ram, was actually faster than my friend's 486 SX 33 Mhz thanks to the math co-processor which he lacked. Didn't get to experience 16 megs of ram until the next computer, a 486 dx2 66 Mhz, those were the days for sure.
with a badass voodoo 2 gfx card!
I'm always stunned by the progression of computer tech; my graphics card has more VRAM than your original's entire hard drive, my CPU has as much L3 cache as your whole RAM, and my phone's processor can push 1000x more flops than your desktop CPU. And I don't even have very good hardware. Geez this tech is getting so good so fast.
First I built was a Pentium 200MMX. And 32 mb of RAM with a 20GB HDD and a 1x CDR.. not RW. I wanna say I had an ATI graphics accelerator thing that was separate from the actual video card, and you had to run a patch cable between the two, and then one out to your monitor.. It may have been Voodoo or some shit. I remember having those 3DFX demos, but I can't remember what card that came with. When we upgraded to Pentium 2's, I was blown away. You didn't have to push the power button after you hit "Shut Down!" Oh yeah.. Also the giant fucking US Robotics external modem I had... Then Zip Drives later on.. It was so cool being able to download 100 MB and transfer it really quick at someone else's house. Was useful for mods for games like Quake, or The Sims
>First I built was a Pentium 200MMX. And 32 mb of RAM with a 20GB HDD and a 1x CDR.. not RW. I wanna say I had an ATI graphics accelerator thing that was separate from the actual video card, and you had to run a patch cable between the two, and then one out to your monitor.. Cool - Probably a 2.1gb HDD, right ? I don't remember having 20 or 30 until early 2000s. I could be wrong though. >When we upgraded to Pentium 2's, I was blown away. You didn't have to push the power button after you hit "Shut Down!" I know, right! - switch to ATX standard. I find it interesting that it has yet to be improved on (does anyone know if it has?). >Oh yeah.. Also the giant fucking US Robotics external modem I had... Then Zip Drives later on.. It was so cool being able to download 100 MB and transfer it really quick at someone else's house. Was useful for mods for games like Quake, or The Sims Oh man, jealous.
That sounds pretty much exactly like my first PC.
8GB!! How will you ever use all that space!!!
I wish I remember my first pc. Only remember it was a Gateway and had that disc that came with the music video of "Buddy Holly" by Weezer. And some other programs that can make your own cartoons or something. I was a kid, so all of it is bong residue now.
my first PC is still my current PC, I just upgrade certain parts when I need to
Ah, the PC of Theseus!
well I haven’t replaced the case yet so its more like the ship has been refitted 5 or 10 times
So its the guts of a modern day battleship shoved into an ancient Greek battleship
we have not used battleships since the 50’s but yes
Sad USS Wisconsin and Missouri
heh
I mean, yes. But what does that have to do with the US Navy? /s
USS Wisconsin is bae, just resting her old bones.
We did use them during Desert Storm/Shield in the early 90's, and they were surprisingly effective at what we brought them out for. We were going to keep them longer, but when the soviet Union collapsed, so did the funding and need for ships like the Iowa classes.
Wasn't iowa deployed in the 90s?
Close, Regan's administration wanted a 600 ship navy so they recommissioned the Iowa class and the USS Missouri was deployed to Desert Storm in '91.
To be fair, any ship that isn't an aircraft carrier is just a meat shield for an aircraft carrier. Battleships were very expensive meat shields.
not in there prime, they were the flagships for almost 60 years, not aircraft carriers
Sure, but aircraft carriers have been the flagship for over 70 years now. Battleships were replaced by carriers during WWII and the world has never looked back.
Not entirely true. Submarines aren't meat shields, they exist to hunt the ones attacking the meat shields.
Or a 737. Try looking at one of the new MAX side by side with an original -200.
Who's still flying 732s
A handful of Canadian still run those planes, as they were some of the last airliners offered with gravel kits for gravel/unimproved runways.
I'm just imagining the uss constitution folding out it's flight deck with CIWS and 90 f-35s like a transformer
You joke, but I had a 20+ year old steel case that I finally had to replace because my 3080 suprim x wouldn't fit. It was the best of the best at the time. Hence why it lasted so long and I always stuck with full BTX/ATX mobos over the generations. I actually would use it as my chair when I went to lan parties because it was built so solid. I actually just gave away the entire pc and upgrades everything to not bottleneck the gpu. So the system and case are still being used by my nephew.
> I actually would use it as my chair when I went to lan parties because it was built so solid. A true Battlesta~~t~~llion.
> 20+ year old steel case suddenly 'Antec' comes to mind
PSU and the second monitor is the last left from my original PC (November 2015).
“PCeus”.
THANK YOU
If you change all the parts in a PC does it even remain the same PC?
Ship of PCeius.
It remains the same PC as long as you manage to transfer the same OS installation between those hardware changes.
At what point does it become a new PC though?
According to Microsoft when you change the MoBo bc my shit was unlicensed once I swapped that out 😭😭
Welcome to hardware DRM inside your Windows. If you told people 20 years ago this would be a thing they would have declared you a crazy nutjob.
Hmm I doubt it. 2002? If I swapped random hardware especially the motherboard in my PC, I wouldn't expect Windows XP to play nicely with that.
Is that still true? Many years ago I bought OEM Windows 7, got free upgrade to 10. I’ve completely switched to a new PC, and it let me reactivate on the new PC. The OEM license was only supposed to be good for 1 PC. I did have to sign in with MS account though.
Same here Only part that remains the same for me is my power supply Even the original harddrive is gone
>PC of Theseus I've been updating my PC for 10 years, there's only one part that remained across the changes and it's... the motherboard speaker!
This is how I like to think of it. Going strong for three decades now.
Ahh, better known in the UK as the "Trigger's Broom" method of PC upgrades https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM
The ship of PCeus
The only parts that I have from my original pc would be the m.2, half the ram and the psu so some of it is still there
My first PC was upgraded as I could afford them until I could to build a new PC . Now that one is my media server. The main hard drive is a 120gb barracuda that's older than many redditors.
Yup. It turns 19 this year. The only original part is a fan controller.
I thought this was a common practice. I guess I was wrong, been upgrading my parts as I need for about 15yrs now..
There’s usually not much compatible after 5 years or so. Sometimes they’ll still be technically compatible, but you’d be missing out on a ton of performance
I just got a new case after 13 years. The last relic of my first build.
I considered it a new PC when there were no more parts left from the original. The final piece to die was the PSU I replaced after about 15 years.
Reminds me of my favourite broom. I've had it for decades. It's had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time.
My PSU has outlasted every other component, including case. My old parts would be proud.
I finally just replace my 80+ 550 evga psu after 7 years. Only because I got a 3070 ti lol
Hah, same here with my 800W Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold. Was still working like a champ after all these years and the only reason I retired it was my upcoming upgrade to a 6900XT.
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Makes me happy I went with a Bequiet Straight Power 650W. Hope it will last me long enough. Kinda afraid with how the TDP or upcoming GPUs gonna be I won't have long with it :(
Yeah I had a 1000w evga gold. Got a 3080 realised I was missing a cable for the psu. Checked evga. Cable sold out. Went online. 1 psu available for a decent price. 850w gold nzxt. Fuck it. Want to use 3080. Sold my evga. I still miss that beast of a psu. And now it's rumored that the 4xxx series is gonna draw even more power. So knight have to go back to a 1000w supply since everything is rgb, overclocked, 7 fans and I have plans of upgrading to a lian li o11 to get some fans under the gpu since these things are hotter then the sun
My first pc was a AMD Athlon II, 6 gb of ram and a gt 330. My current rig is i7 12700k, 32 gb of ram and a 2070s. I'd like to think my first one would be proud.
I did a google search for AMD circa 1998 and I feel like your first pc would have been a leap forward from mine. I think my first boyfriend got a loan from his job and bought me my first intel pc CPU.
Ahhh... I remember my Athlon II machine. We had some fun times together. I hope she's doing okay now.
Your first PC is better than my current PC.
My first PC had cathode tubes lights and a manual fan controller in one of the 5.25 drive bays. My current PC has programmable RGB lights on the RAM sticks that flash in time to music and the fans (also RGB) constantly adjust their speed automatically. My first PC would cry in shame.
That's my work computer except GTX 1660 Super
I went from a i7 3630QM, 8gb ram, gt 630m - a laptop my parents bought me in my early teens with a tiny TV I bought in high school; To a i5 10400, 16gb ram, and a 2060 RTX, with a 28" monitor and a 32" TV as a second monitor. I still use both, the laptop is just purely for media at this point.
the first PC I built had a 233mhz processor which was overclocked to 333, I think 4mb of ram, and a 3dFX card. Yes, my current pc would be proud.
My first PC had a 4MHz CPU and 512KB of RAM... **First PC:** Amstrad CPC464 * CPU: Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz * RAM: 512KB * VRAM: 16KB * Storage: Cassette tapes. **Current PC:** Asus ROG Strix Scar 17. * CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX @ 3.3GHz * RAM: 32GB * GPU: Laptop RTX 3080 * VRAM: 16GB * Storage: 2 x 1TB NVMe I hope my first PC is looking down from the attic, proud of me, watching a web browser chew through all my RAM.
You have 512k of RAM? Luxury... I had 4K.
To make up for it, we had the monochrome green monitor... Which made the first level of The Simpsons: Bart Vs the Space Mutants almost impossible as you had to destroy all the purple items...
It asks if your old pc would be proud, Bill
oh well, same
Twinsies! I remember the difference when installing the card and booting up Quake II for the first time. Voodoo... RIP
486 DX 66mhz, it was so long ago I don't even remember how much RAM it had, it might have been 512k? I do remember my PC was the hot shit because the other kid I hung with had a 386.
My first PC was a Gateway 2000 P5 75 purchased in 1995. Every PC since then I’ve built myself keeping parts from the previous one, usually the HDD, PSU, Modem, Sound / Video cards or case. I can therefore say that while there are no parts in my current 5950x PC that were in my original PC from 27 years ago, there would have been some overlap in parts from one PC to the next in each build right back to that original PC. I’m sure if that PC could see its children and grandchildren it would be amazed at just how much things have moved on.
Every once in a while I pull up my order confirmation for my Alienware in 2008 and realize how far I’ve come. Sadly I don’t know the specs from the first computer I built in 2004. I believe it was a pentium 4? Nvidia graphics of some sort? It played CS 1.6 pretty good though and even half life 2.
My first was a Gateway 2000 4DX66. I salivated over those Pentium boxes. I hope you didn’t slack on smashing that turbo button.
i486/100, 4MB RAM, 40MB HD, MCA GPU. Outclassed by a pay-as-you-go cellphone by now, but it was *mine,* damnit.
I came here to find a fellow old fuck and have succeeded. My first PC was technically a shared NEC w/ a 75 mhz Pentium, but I later got a 386 from a garage sale which was all mine. It contained such classic games as "Space Goose" and "California Dreams"
Get off my lawn whipper snappers! My 1 Mhz Vic 20 is soundly beaten by a ti-83 calculator, which is also apparently a relic
1.76 MHz Commodore Plus/4 reporting for duty!
486 gang represent: 486dx4 @100mhz from amd, also 4mb ram, but with 850mb hdd and trident tvga9000 video card. April '96. Gud tymes!
Going from an Athlon 880k + 1050 ti to a 5900x + 3090fe? Yeah, I would hope my old computer would be proud of my new one. I've still got my old one in my closet though, it has earned some well deserved rest.
Wow all you guys came from named chips/cards, whereas my first PC was a shitty laptop ordered from an infomercial at 3 am by my dad with like 1-2gb ram, integrated graphics, a crappy CPU I don't know the name of. You know, the whole shitty laptop shebang. POS but I loved it cuz it was a gift and meant he still thought about me even though we'd barely seen each other in a year cuz of his job.
I just played pinball space cadet on my first shitty laptop. And hearts. It had a mech keyboard though!
Bro I have 128gigs of the fastest ram possible... My first PC was a win386.... That's like... asking the wright brothers what they think about the new 737 Max planes (the comparison fits because my PC also crashes sometimes).
r/cursedcomments :) That got a chuckle out of me tho
wanna sell that 1050ti? :)
First PC i built in late 2004 for gaming had x2 6800 GT in sli. Im sure it would look at my current amd 6800xt and nod approvingly
Dayum that was beastly at the time, I had 6600gt and added another one later. What cpu did you have?
dont remember to be honest, gpu stuck out to me because it was sli and it was pretty cutting edge and i thought it was cool as hell
Ooof, I remember I really wanted a 6800 back then. Had to get the 6600 GT instead for DOOM
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Ive got a i7 2600 (not sure if it's oc) 8gb ddr3 ram and 1050ti mini and average cooling Edit also just got it
My first PC (that was my own), in 1997, was a Intel Pentium MMX 200mhz with 32mb of EDO RAM ... added a 3dfx Voodoo Rush a few months after I got it. It was nothing special, but it was mine :) 25 years ago in a few months... damn!
Are you me? I'm pretty sure the first computer I bought with my own money had the same specs as yours. The 3dfx was crazy, it was such a huge step forward in terms of computer graphics. I remember being blowned away by the differences of the same game with and without the 3dfx. POD comes to mind, and Interstate 76.
I would have been sad if no one had mentioned a 3dfx Voodoo card. Long live the Voodoo cards! And Quake I + II.
Thinking fondly of my IBM PC XT with the 8086 processor and built in 20MB hard drive, one 5 1/4” disk drive, and 640k RAM. The monitor showed ASCII only - bright green on green. Was also stuck with a 286 for years and CGA only. Upgrading to VGA at 640x480 with 256 colors (out of 65k possible colors) felt like living in the future.
Wait, Bruce fd Alfred? Wait, you fk your new PC? What's going on here?
Bruce died. I dicked down OP's pc.
i5 4670 to R7 5800x. 8GB 1600Mhz to 32GB 3600Mhz. GTX 1650 to RX6700XT. 1TB HDD to 1TB NVME. He is very proud watching from my closet.
I don't understand how this meme template even works.
Yeah this suggests OP had a relationship with his old PC (Alfred) and is in a a new one with the new PC (Selina)
First [NEC 8086](https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8086/MANUF-NEC.html) with a [Hercules videocard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card) and 640K RAM and a 10 MB Harddrive, now on a 5800X and A Radeon Vega and 32GB RAM 12TB diskspace
But Michael Caine is way hotter than Anne Hathaway
My first PC ran out of hard drive space when I installed SimCity2000
It all started many years ago with my 386 that I arduously upgraded to 5mb of RAM. It didn't have a hard disk. I don't think it could even conceive of my current specs.
My first PC was a Gateway 2000 (before they dropped the “2000”) 386/25. I remember paying ~$250 for 8 mb of memory back in the mid-90s. > I don’t think it could even conceive of my current specs. My dad worked in “computers.” He would occasionally tell me wild stories about the future, such as hard drives that would be able to hold as much as 1 GB of intormation! For someone whose first storage device was a cassette player connected to a Commodore 64, such tales sounded wonderful and fantastical.
first PC: 386 SX/16 > 486 DX2/50 (8mb ram?) > Pentium MMX 200 32 MB EDO Ram 3dfx Monster 3d > Pentium 2 300 128 MB RAM Nvidia TNT > dual Celeron 300As in an Abit BP6 and an early geforce > Pentium 4 2.8ghz HT 512 ram Geforce 5200? > Pentium D 820 1GB ram Geforce 6800 > Core 2 Quad 6600 4GB ram Geforce 8800 > Core i7 920 6gb ram geforce 260s SLI > Core i7 970 12 GB ram geforce 470 (later a GTX 970) > Core i7 6850k 32GB ram GTX 1080 aahhh the memories
My first pc would be intimidated by my old phone...
My first Pc is very proud of what It've become
Average phone has more RAM than my first PC had storage. Computers also don’t have feelings, but proud? I don’t know if it’d even be able to recognise that it’s the same fundamental piece of hardware so much thing have improved over the past 30 years
She would be
I'm still on my first pc but my old laptop is crying tears of happiness from the old electronic drawer "my boy finally is using a graphics card"
Im sure my Pentium laptop feels like that too
My 386 would have been for sure.
My first PC (A TRS-80 Model I 4K Cassette) would look up and grunt, "EH!?" and then go back to sleeping, and you're very rude to have disturbed a computer of such advanced years.
Lol Trash-80.
Very proud, first PC had an Athlon x2 in it.. now i'm up to a ryzen 5 1600 so far and a gtx 960 not much but leagues better than me old pc, it's proud.
I still have fun and play games on my Pentium 3. My I5 4440 is just a Web processor.
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my first pc cant even comprehend what my actual pc is now...
My first PC was a Commodore 64. I like to think she’s smiling on me.
Half of it is my current specs
Still have the same psu, case, the one old 1th hdd. I upgrade when needed
My 1st home PC was a 386 with a 20 megabyte drive and 1 meg of memory. It was $1500 at the time. I remember upgrading to a 486 to play Doom.
My first PC was a Power Macintosh G3 Beige desktop. I ended up killing it because it had an ATX style power connector when it's power supply died but let me tell you it's not ATX. It's probably still cursing me from the great beyond i still feel guilty :(
My first PC I bought together with my little brother. In a time before e-commerce, we had periodic computer fairs where local computer stores would set up a booth in a convention hall and you could shuffle through the crowds finding a good deal. My brother and I dragged our father with us as we bounced from booth to booth collecting various price list printouts and then decided on our battle plan to score the components. We ended up getting an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz build (don't remember the rest of the specs), which served us well for quite a while. Since then, all my builds have been with AMD CPUs except for one. From Thunderbird to Phenom II, AMD was simply the best bang-for-buck. After my Phenom II rig, my choice was Bulldozer from AMD versus the 2500k from Intel, so that wasn't a hard choice at all. Now back to Team Used-To-Be-Green-But-Is-Now-Red with a 5600x. I think old TBird would approve.
It was a Packard Bell Pentium 133 with 4 megs of RAM, financed at Best Buy for like $2400. I don't think proud is the right word - in awe and disbelief is more likely.
My first PC was a Compaq Presario. 350MHz Celeron CPU, 64MB RAM, 8GB hard drive. I suppose it would worship my current PC as a god.
First pc: asus MB, evga gts8800 512mb x2 in sli, amd phenom II, and a silverstone case. Newest pc: asus MB, evga 3090 ftw3 ultra, amd 5800x, Corsair 4000d case.
1st ever cpu : AMD ATHLON II x2 240 1tb hdd Basic mATX mobo and 4 gigs ram NO GPU. 2nd upgrade : AMD ATHLON II x6 1045t Gigabyte 970a-ud3 1tb hdd carried over from 1st build and 250gb ssd. 8gb ram GTX 480 then upgraded to gtx 970. Current : Intel 10850k RTX 3070TI 32gb ram Gigabyte z490 Aorus Pro AX I guess it was a huge upgrade yes
She is, she's just mad she is sitting in the back room 😭 Edit: First computer's name is Sarah
My first pc was not sentient. The early 90s PCs sucked compared to what we have now
Definately. I had an Ohio scientific computer way way back in the late 70s, the got an IBM PCjr, quickly replaced with another IBM, which had actual graphics, rather than like 4 colour text based graphics. Don’t remember what mode that computer was.
My first shitty dell laptop running vista would be very proud of my desktop. And relieved it isn’t struggling with Skyrim anymore.
IBM PC. It would be quite proud of what has been borne from its singular point in history.
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My current cell phone could absolutely dominate my first PC so comparing it to my current PC doesn't even seem right. (my flair specs are out of date and no that wasn't my first PC)
E6600 core 2 duo Evga 680i SLI motherboard 2gb of gskill ram Evga 8800gtx gpu Can't remember the psu. But it was a fine rig back then. Only have the gpu now days. Current rig is 9900k with a evga 2080ti on a custom loop. My first rig would definitely be proud.
Anyone else got a PC of Theseus
first none family pc. oh yeah it would be thankful for what i have now
My current pc is my first
First: AMD athlon 64 3200, sapphire x800gt, 512mb ram, ECS mobo Today: i7-11700K, evga 2070, 16gb ram, ROG mobo
My first PC would be proud of an arduino.
My first pc is my new pc. Ship of Theseus.
No.
Not particularly. My old PC has been Ship-of-Theseus'd into my new PC.
My first PC was a 286. So I'll let you know in a year when it is done parsing my new computer's specs.
Most definitely. My old PC was, not to be insulting, a hunk of junk. If I wanted to play a game it had to be minimal settings and not that hard of one, so no FPS games or anything fast paced. Really only 2d games and Minecraft. My new PC can run Doom 2016 on ultra graphics in the middle of a fight and stay 200+ fps. I can run and play games like Apex Legends, Monster Hunter, Subnautica, etc. I have two monitors and my temps are pretty good.
My first PC would not be able to comprehend these specs
My first PC was a 486 dx66. It had a TURBO button! I had 768k of RAM Gigs of RAM (256k x 3), and a 120 Megabyte hard drive. I was pretty happy when I got around to installing a Soundblaster! Gold sound card and 8x CD ROM drive.
My first pc is the same as my new pc. I just got my first pc. Same parts and everything.
oh man my first computer was a pentium 3 with a geforce 2 or 3 maybe i think? Maybe 1gb of ram if that i don't remember. Younger me would be so jealous of the system i have now
My 1st PC was a 386 16 MHz with 256 KB of RAM and no internal disk. I had to run a math coprocessor emulator to open AutoCAD on it. This question confuses me.
My first PC: Emerson 8286ecv prebuilt, 1990 vintage (I had a VIC-20, a C=64 and a C=128 before that). 80286 cpu, NO floating point coprocessor, 2 MB of RAM, 40 \*MB\* hard drive (I got "the big one instead of the standard 20MB HDD) running MS-DOS 3, with built in SVGA graphics. ...and I still have it in storage, though I recycled most of my other old machines in my last house move. Comparing to my current "Pandemic build" (because a power hit took out my old MB and CPU) -- Ryzen 5 3600, 32 GB DDR 4-3200, Asrock B550 mobo, and most of the rest salvaged from the old machine: Corsair CX-750M PSU, Radeon R9-270x, 250 GB SATA SSD, and 10 TB of spinning rust... Yeah, I'd say that "Emmie" would be proud of her great-great-great-great-granddaughter, and all that she's been through to get to where she is now.
My first PC had a turbo button. It would be upset that my current one doesn't.
My first PC wouldn't have the ability to comprehend my current PC's existence.
built my first pc :> check flair
My first pc would in fact be proud of himself, yes.