PC Peripherals Nostalgia, what was your first build??

Rahul Rao

Rahul Rao

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Hi guys sharing one of my oldest pc pictures,
I will share my other rig soon and hope you will share your pc rig.

Bought this pc in 2010-11, I am very happy that every component is still working.
i7 960
intel DX58S0 board
zotac GTS 450
corsair XMS 1333Mhz 8gb ram
CM 600watt PSU
CM Elite Case

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So true, that's why I have uploaded my third rig (but first personal for gaming and 3d).
I think I clicked that pics from Nokia N70 or N95, so much memories, feeling nostalgic.
 
nRiTeCh said:
For posting my oldest rig, at that time camera phone wasn't even in the minds of scientists on earth and clicking it on a kodak negative roll was a luxury and also digicams were just emerging as an apple type luxury.
What I have are only memories...
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Agree.
Mine was if remembered correctly.
Pentium 450 mhz (not really sure)
8 mb ram
512 mb hdd
Black n white Monitor
Used windows 95

Used fdd to reformat OS..
(around 6 OS bootable floppy drives)
 
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This is the oldest photo of my setup, probably amongst the first five builds that I've used as my main system. The wallpaper puts this somewhere in 2003, so this'll be a Northwood Pentium 4.

Before this was a 386 in '97, Pentium 166 MHz in '98 and a Pentium 3 450 MHz in '99. There were a few Celerons, Cyrix's and other Pentium 3's but I don't remember much about them.

I stuck with those dual CRT's for a few years, they saw at least two more systems before I ended up with a Macbook in 2006.
 
I just remember that it was a P3 around year 2000. I had no say in its configuration, my uncle dictated the configuration and entrusted the dealer to assemble and give it to me.

In 2002, it was a P4, 128 MB RD RAM (it was new those days, didn't get popular), biostar motherboard, VIA chipset for Intel CPUs. Assembled it with my friend - we both knew half the steps for assembling.
 
My first rig dates back to 1997. Unfortunately, cameras existed in reel format and never bothered clicking a photo of it.

P1 200Mhz
32MB EDO RAM
SiS 6215 1MB PCI graphics card

I don’t remember the motherboard (VIA chipset), it predominantly came with large ISA slots and couple of PCI slots.

Creative 32x CD rom with its own remote.

AT&T keyboard with an old DIN connector.

It had separate serial and parallel ports mounted on one of ISA slot.

It was an old AT cabinet which displayed the clock speed and had a turbo button lol.
 
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kalph09 said:
My first rig dates back to 1997. Unfortunately, cameras existed in reel format and never bothered clicking a photo of it.

P1 200Mhz
32MB EDO RAM
SiS 6215 1MB PCI graphics card

I don’t remember the motherboard (VIA chipset), it predominantly came with large ISA slots and couple of PCI slots.

Creative 32x CD rom with its own remote.

AT&T keyboard with an old DIN connector.

It had separate serial and parallel ports mounted on one of ISA slot.

It was an old AT cabinet which displayed the clock speed and had a turbo button lol.
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I still have the creative remote somewhere in the boxes.
I remember once we used that remote to make fool of others kids -see magic it's open/close automatically...
But in real usage remote was useless.
 
I don't remember properly but in year 1995-96 i used to play prince of persia and wolfenstein in my tution teacher computer.
After that we bought our first pc somewhere around 1996-97, don't remember any spec.
Then upgraded to P2 , P4, dual core quad core, i7, ryzen cpu's...
I think this is a never ending process for tech lovers
 
Haven't got a single photo of my first computer. But it was P4 with 128mb ram. Ran everything from win 98 to longhorn on it. overclocked snot out of it.

But talking about photos of older builds...
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That's me sleeping at the office after building half a dozen machines for the team. Those were athlon 4000 or 5000 something, with geforce 5600? I don't remember much. It's from 2007.

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2009, my personal second build with dual monitors with phenom II 940 proc. First and last thick boy case.
 
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Mine was from 2003...
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Asus A7N266-VM [Had an integration NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX with max 32MB shared memory]
256MB DDR RAM
40GB Samsung IDE HDD
52X Sony CD ROM Drive
Samsung 15" CRT monitor
Frontech Cabinet, PSU and speakers.

Lived 6 years with that system with few upgrades over time [HDD, RAM, GPU, in that order].
Have fond memories of playing some of the best games of my life, like Max Payne, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, and a lot more. I still remember getting scolded for spending more than 14 hours in front of my PC almost everyday. :D
 
mine was from 2004. P4 800Mhz i think. 128 or maybe 256mb ram and 40gb hdd. samsung 15" crt and a CD writer. bought it for "college", used it to play Red Alert2 Yuri's revenge, Age of mythology and NFS.
 
Oldest PC was an IBM Aptiva in, 1992 no PCMR, Instagram or camera phone then. Using a film camera to click a photo of that would probably have led to me getting a slap from my parents.

Here is my oldest Photo worthy pic. Manually cut the side of the case to make a window. Window cases were uncommon or unaffordable back then. I had uploaded it to 'Metkumods' if anyone remembers that.
 

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