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What were the specs/components of your first computer/PC? (lemmy.world)
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Did you build it yourself? What OS did you use? Did you have internet access?

Feel free to outline the component brand names and model (if you remember them) and let us know if you still have access to the computer.

This was in Jan 1997. It was running Windows 95 (Windows 98 wasn't released yet). No internet (we got dialup later in the year; maybe in the late summer). It was built by my parent's colleague (company system admin), I was too young to build my own PC.

*Pentium I 133 MHz *1.5 GB HDD *CD-ROM Drive *FDD *Sound Blaster 32 (remember getting Sound Blaster Live! In the next build). *32 MB RAM *S3 ViRGE 325 (4 MB RAM if I remember correctly).

I think the colleague who built it sold it off when we got a new build.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First computer I ever used was probably some crusty old gateway with windows 95.

I pretty much only had access to my parents old desktop computers until I hit highschool when they bought me some dell POS that could barely run cs 1.6 in windowed mode.

First PC I built myself was a 770 and some first or second gen i7 that my buddy sold me for 20 bucks lol.

Been building my own computer every few years since. I am currently on a 3080 and i7 10700k that I have overclocked on all cores to 5.2ghz.

I'll probably build a new system in a year or two when the 6000 series cards drop. I am foolishly hoping that Nvidia has some change of heart about pricing by then lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CS 1.6 in windowed mode sounds awful.

Jensen and Co are not going to have a change of heart about anything. Willing to bet good money on this. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do not miss my barely 30fps windowed mode laptop gaming life haha

Yeah it's really disappointing honestly. AMD cards just don't have the raw performance and the it seems even though Intel's second gen cards were doing alright they don't want to keep going down that path which sucks. Nvidia needs proper competition and amd hasn't been giving them a run for performance in a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

At one point I was also reliant on a gaming laptop, (thankfully 17 inch and with a dGPU), but desktops (with nice ~30 inch monitors) are just so much better.

Both AMD and Intel want to be in the position Nvidia is in right now. ~3 players is not enough for a true free market.