How bad was your first computer purchase?

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I got my first one in 2001. P4 1.5Ghz, 256 MB Ram, 845Chipset , 15"CRT for Around 14k (Jugaad tha shayad :D )

Roadrash and Max Payne that I played on it is still my best gaming experience even with the likes of Crysis 2 and Metro 2033 around...

The best thing was i didn't even know that my parents are buying a PC. I reached home from school and found a shiny new PC in my brothers room :)
 
My first unit (with my own money) was a D101GGC. Still remember sitting at NP for like 4-5 hours, ordering parts and getting it assembled. Was quite a noob then since knew nothing about hardware. The person expediting (friend who worked there) kept trying to convince me that 1 GB RAM is way way too much. For some reason, at that time, the RAM costed more than the CPU. Guess was royally ripped off.

But that system had good memories. It was the first:

1. Gaming rig. Gaming after like a gap of 10-12 years. (Vice City and Halo 1)

2. First to install a GPU on.

3. First to re-wire myself.

4. First to install bling bling fans on.

5. First DVI + LCD screen (19") experience.

:)
 
My second comp which I got in 1998:) (don't remeber and specs and price of the first comp as it was bought by my bro)
Monitor: Microtek 15" CRT
HDD: 17.6GB (big leap from a 8GB HDD which used to sell at that time)
Processor: Intel PIII
Board: don't remember
Ram: 128MB SD ram (ppl said 32MB was enough but we wanted to play games heavily:) so paid 8.9k for the 128MB rRAM)
GPU: 4MB dedicated (don't remember the brand)- I later on upgrated to Riva TNT 32MB GPU for some 5k extra
SMPS: the local 400-500 bucks
speakers: Samsung 2.1 Kevlar multimedia speakers
shit ass keyborad and mouse
CD writer: 4x HP which cost me 9800 bucks

The whole thing set me back by around 96k Yr 1998
 
Mine was pretty bad.Bought it in 2002 I think.It was a P3, MSI motherboard, 512MB RAM, with 17" monitor by Proview along with UPS called Softtree.Guess what?I paid close to 50K for it.Got majorly duped.The UPS wouldn't give back up for more than 1 min.I was too lazy to get it repaired as it was too heavy.Plus I had just started college.I didn't know the value of money untill I started working and sold my soul to the coroporate world!
 
Well.. Family first PC was a commodore 64 in '88~'90. I was like during my KG or 1st std then. :D

It had the 5.25" floppy drive and a single button 2 axis joystiq and was only to be connected to TV. the Transformer/PSU was like very heavy. But i had so much playing that game where u wont allow the ball to fall. :S. Paid around 70k for it. It was used ofc.

First PC that I was aware was a 386(40~66Mhz i guess) in '93~'94. 4MB RAM, 500~700MB HDD, 5.25" Floppy, 14" monitor, 3 button mouse etc.. From a vendor called Yuko Computers. Around 1.25Lacs. It was state of the art. We did put some upgrades like 486DX2, 3.25" Floppy, 2x CD ROM, 2 button mouse etc. In 4th std

First PC that Me and my borthers called shots was a P2 in ~'97. 256 MB RAM, 1 GB HDD, 15" COLOR Microtek monitor, Creative SB Multimedia Kit etc. Costed around 1Lacs i think. We put in a 10x Plextro CD Writer in around 6 months. I burned so much pron. In 7th std. Right around this time the VCD madness was there. :D. :D. :D. I converted few of our special VHS to CD. :D.

First PC that was FULLY MY decisions was around '99~'00. P4 1.6GHZ, 512MB, 40GB, 17" Samsung, 24x sony Writer, samsung multimedia keyboard etc.. costed around ~50k. In 10th~11th std.

Thank God for my parents. they were supportive during this thrift. :(.
 
Mine was in Sep 2007

Intel Pentium D @ 3.0GHz

Intel D945GCCR

Transcend 1GB DDR2

WD 160GB HDD

LG CD/DVD Drive

A simple Frontech cabinet(That Rs. 1000/- ones)

LG CRT Monitor

Microsoft KB + Mouse

Creative 2.1 Speakers

And after that on 2009 added XFX NVIDIA 9500GT 1GB DDR2 for soft gaming and specially HD Movies.

Upgraded my monitor to Viewsonic LCD.

Added another 2GB DDR2 Module of Zion.

Got a Iomega 1TB External HDD(Where I store my HD Collections)

That's all, just using this till now with Win 7 and Ubuntu dual boot :ohyeah:

Well, I was really happy that time, as 1GB RAM was just in the market and my friends used to lust like "Wow...1GB!!" :P
 
Mine was in 2002, and it wasn't a bad experience. My dad bought me a HCL BEANSTALK top model. Worked pretty good for almost 5 years, until i shifted to my Sony Vaio. I dont remember the Specs though but yeah HCL was good.
 
My first PC purchase was in 1997.

Pentium MMX 166 Mhz, 16MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 1Mb Cirrus Logic Graphics Card (PCI), ESS Sound Card (ISA), 24x Creative CD ROM Drive, 14" Shampo Alphascan SV Color Monitor. Cost 70k and a Free Color Inkjet (Epson Stylus 200) was bundled. I had researched for 6 months before buying it and it was the best deal at the time I got it.

I had opened the side panel and started tinkering around within the next 4 months and after that, I have only bought components and built my own rigs.
 
My first was back around 1999-2000 IIRC, don't remember the specifics much but I know it was a branded Zenith PC. P3@700Mhz, 64MB SD RAM, 20GB HDD and some 15-16" CRT Monitor for ~45-46k. A color inkjet HP printer came bundled with it.
 
unixguru said:
I got my first computer about 10 years ago. I was in 10th standard that time and had zero clue. My father was completely bought up by Intel's marketing, more mhz. mean better and ended up buying the then state of the art P4 1.5 Ghz/ Intel 850 GB motherboard and 128 MB RD RAM (800 Mhz.). It also came with the super fast 16 MB riva TNT2 M64 graphics accelerator! The entire thing costed an amount which I am even ashamed to mention. In about 6 months time I got hooked on to Anandtech and realised how I could have got a much better AMD rig for much lesser, and how the Riva TNT2 M64 was destroyed by the Geforce 3/Geforce 4 cards. What was your first purchase and how bad was it?
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mine was the same case as yours. Got it in june 2001 and all spanking new pentium 4 with the latest rd ram 128mb with a 20gig hard disk for about 75k. Then after 2 months came to know that newer ram has come which was cheaper. So i got stuck with that pc for long. As the case is with our expenditure if an appliance is working you do not upgrade. The system never failed on me till the 2009 when replaced it with a dual core one for 25k.

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unixguru said:
I got my first computer about 10 years ago. I was in 10th standard that time and had zero clue. My father was completely bought up by Intel's marketing, more mhz. mean better and ended up buying the then state of the art P4 1.5 Ghz/ Intel 850 GB motherboard and 128 MB RD RAM (800 Mhz.). It also came with the super fast 16 MB riva TNT2 M64 graphics accelerator! The entire thing costed an amount which I am even ashamed to mention. In about 6 months time I got hooked on to Anandtech and realised how I could have got a much better AMD rig for much lesser, and how the Riva TNT2 M64 was destroyed by the Geforce 3/Geforce 4 cards. What was your first purchase and how bad was it?
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mine was the same case as yours. Got it in june 2001 and all spanking new pentium 4 with the latest rd ram 128mb with a 20gig hard disk for about 75k. Then after 2 months came to know that newer ram has come which was cheaper. So i got stuck with that pc for long. As the case is with our expenditure if an appliance is working you do not upgrade. The system never failed on me till the 2009 when replaced it with a dual core one for 25k.
Felt that first pc was a big mistake.
 
p3 800MHz + 810e board + 128MB SD RAM + 20GB HDD + 15" CRT + CD-ROM and other basic stuff - ~35k Summer 2001

upgraded to 40GB later in 2yrs :P

sold for 13.5k in 2004

p4 prescott 2.4GHz :@ + intel865gbf + 512MB DDR + 17" FLAT CRT + 80GB HDD + CDRW (yup burned porn and also sold to local vcd vendors in the vcd era :rofl:)

cant reember what much was paid but it was less than 30k

afaik.

upgraded to 160Gb Sata drive and 1.5GG DDR later.

The board had a random issue impossible to figure out and prescott died of heat. in 2007.

Athlon X2 5200+ Windsor + Asus M2A-Vm + 1GB DDR2 + Zeb Bijli + other parts from previous setup. cost me around 12-15k i think in 2007.

This one was complimented by HD4850, 2GB DDR2, SunbeamtechCCF 120mm and vx450 in 2009 afaik. Upgrade cost around 18.5k

This athlon was overclocked to it's limits on air with that board.

Windsor and bijli sold when m2a-vm failed on me.

Then came

Phenom II X2 550BE unlocked to X4 + Biostar TA790GXBE + previous setup soon in 2009. paid around 10k for the upgrade.

Complimented with BenQ G2412HD for 12k.

Also changed HD4850 to HD4890

Swapped Biostar for Gigabyte 880GM-UD2H + Gskills Ripjaws 2x2GB DDR3 in Q4 2010.

in the mean time..i cant remember time..but hdd upgrades went as..

2001

20 -> 40 -> 80 -> 160 -> 500 -> 500+640 -> 500+750 -> 500+750+1TB -> 750+1TB+1.5TB -> 750+1TB+2TB -> 750+1TB+2TB+2TB+2TB

present

i lost much interest in PC upgrades since beginning of 2010 and inclined towards smartfones.

May 2010 - Spica

Dec 2010 - Blade

Jan 2011 - Captivate

Feb 2011 - Vibrant

March 2011 - Atrix
 
Mine was celeron 466mhz with mercury mobo in 1999..
RAM -64MB,Seagate-8GB HDD installed with windows 98SE
Creative CD ROM&speakers
Mercury cabby&PSU..\
Forgot to add samsung samtron 14" monitor..:P

then again in 2002 bought secondhand-
P3 1.2ghz with intel 810e mobo
HP RAM 256MB
This PC was just the kind of upgrade i needed..
I still have this with me..

then in mid 2006-
PD 2.66ghz
intel D101GCC mobo
RAM 1GB...
I could have got myself conroe processor but then i was being told PentiumD are much better..i didnt have any h/w knowledge,neither bothered to check out reviews of intel next gen processors..then i realised that i was a fool to go for older gen arch based processor,more power consumption also gets easily beaten by AMD Athlon X2...

Now finally upgraded to intel's C2D E4300 with intel mobo..but want to get E7XXX based processor...that will be my final upgrade to processor...
 
madnav said:
i lost much interest in PC upgrades since beginning of 2010 and inclined towards smartfones.
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Same boat. I seldom use the PC for anything. Just browse, Manage my HD/Music/Pics, sync my camera, Download oodles of stuff.

Lost the love. :(.

Nowadays just into gadgets. They are more fun rather than putting more money into a single box and do the same stuff. :( :(
 
Oh man My first PC was so horrible I was flabbergasted at that time...

Intel Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz (after purchase ,My friends told me that perhaps this was the worst P4 made by Intel)

128 MB SD RAM( Can you guys believe it? I got SD Ram bcause The shopkeeper told my big Bro,"DDR naya hai,Jyada bharosa nahin hai)

Vintron Motherboard(I should have gone for Kobian!!)

some cd drive,I think Samsung.....

The star feature of this configuration was a UPS , which with its menacing looks and flashy leds did manage to grab attention of the senior citizens in our joint family.

"Ah","My grandpa exclaimed, That's the real comp isn't it?

total damages 40k I think.
 
A P3 based HCL Beanstalk - Around 40K :O

A Cabby+internals upgrade (P4 config) - Around 19K. :S

Learnt a lesson, taught myself how to assemble a computer, sought some purchase related advice from folks at TE and put together my very first computer! There was no looking back... :D

Love my current rig. :happy:

EDIT: Nice thread, BTW! :P Brings back memories.
 
my first PC was in 1998
intel PII 333MHz,
32mb RAM
2.1GB HDD
14" CRT
this was a branded PC from Ventron(?) for ~55k

I still remember the first time I saw Roadrash demo on it...it was a jawdropping moment for me..the best game I had ever seen! Played the demo like crazy
along with that enjoyed dave, allan border's cricket, alladdin, wolf 3d, lion king etc..
then started buying magazines like PC World, Digit etc..and used to install every piece of software that came with it :D

I remember once my uncle had brought a game CD and I wanted to copy it (EA Sports Cricket WC 99) and blank CDs were expensive..so I asked him..u can use my old magazine CD if you want :P

then started going into cyber cafe and got to know the mindblowing world of internet...again jawdropped to the floor the first time I used yahoo mail...I was astonished how it can be free!! :P
at that time I used askjeeves or something for searching..there was no google! used to download songs from saregama or some site like that and used to carry those songs home through floppy disks :D 32-48kbps songs..1 song ~500kbps so 2-3 songs per floppy...and I used to have 10 floppy set with me everytime :cool2:

ahh...those were the days :ohyeah:
 
Mine was a 486 based system bought when i was in 2nd. Dad paid 40k for it.

Had win 95 on it. Used to play games and all...

Later sold it for 20 k after an year :(

Heck i dont even remember the RAM HDD and other details :P
 
My first family PC was in 1990-1991 or so, it was a 386. Then P1 in 1996 or so. Then P4 in 2002. My first personal PC was an almost awesome and well balanced rig at 65k in 2005. AMD 64 3200 + Asus A8N E + 6600GT + everything balanced.
 
my dad got my first pc when i was five in 1995

intel 486 16mb ram(or 4 cant rem) 1.1gb hard disk

windows 3.1

got for 30k

i rate it better than my current pc in those days

had a hell lot of fun playing dave,home alone,wolf 3d(scared the hell out of me...i used to make my mom sit near me ..)

and how he hell did i forget pop1 and pop2

nevr got past 3rd stage in pop1 (i was 7 then played it till 5 std)

after that no gaming till 9std..

got

second pc p4-prescott 865gbf 512mb 80gb no gfx in 9th std maybe 2004

so only played nfs2,ut2004,and other such shitty games till 12std..then the pc got too old

got third one just 6months back..

and games here i come!!!!
 
my first purchase was in 2000 , when my dad and my business accountant asked for a PC for doing tally work..

So, blindly my dad followed him as he was regarded as a real geek and under his guidence my dad bought (got assembled) the first PC in which the accountant also earned a big commission from the retailer x( ...

It was P3 1.1 Ghz

Some shitty mobo i dont know

20Gb HDD

125W PSU

CD reader

Floppy drive

128mb sdram

At that time i was in class 3rd or 4th and i was the first person in my class to own a PC , a showoff gadget for me...

I still have that PC
 
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