@@RandomGaminginHD And you make us all laugh and happy everytime you make these great videos, keep doing more, and we'll always be here to watch and adore what you make! :D
@Coldlight Oracle I hate RU-vidrs that repeat the same thing 5 times in order to hit the 10 minute mark. Same thing cannot be said for this guy, he is a legend.
"Can this still be called a gaming PC if the parts are just sitting on a desk exposed to dust and other elements?" Yes, it's called, "integrated extreme cooling solution"
@Cockney John sorry but, that build is shit. Everyone knows that 4 way sli is actually slower that 3 way sli. Sell that fourth shitty 3090 and you should get even higher fps
Austin Evans made a video about a toaster that makes a Bob Ross portrait on your bread. 😂 Imagine that, a picture of Bob Ross's face on your morning toast.
The laptop i had as a young adult in around 2003 due to finding it in a bin is a Dell Latitude XPi P133ST which has more interesting specs: CPU: Pentium I 133MHz RAM: 24MB 72-pin (EDO?) Video: Neomagic MagicGraph NM2070 40K on 800x600 256-colour TFT panel Audio: ESS ES1888S with ESFM, mono speaker, stereo line-out. Digital volume control using Fn-key. Other: 2x PCMCIA, 1x docking station port (with ethernet and SCSI). Made in Japan! i vividly remember playing Temple of Elemental Evil, on this computer and a game called Exile by a company called spidersoftware,. in hindsight i spent a long time looking the specs for this up haha
My first laptop was also a Pentium I (Compaq). Second hand but very well preserved. Me, my brother and my girlfriend went through Master's degree with that one. Windows 98. 32mb ram. 500 mb HDD, swappable CD/floppy. IR port for connecting to a mobile phone. I installed a USB PCMCIA card in it and got WiFi and flash drive storage. Played the socks off of Age of Empires 2 on that sucker. Had it all the way until 2007 when I got a shiny new Athlon dual core (first laptop dual core ever).
If you're going the illegal route, a clipboard and a high visibility jacket will get you into most restricted areas with a good cover story. Then you just need to "confiscate" a random PC with a vague need to take it in for further investigation and nobody will be the wiser until you're long gone
Good one... It's nice to see that someone out there is producing videos about budget parts whilst most people focus on hardware that is inaccessible to most of us. I'd like to see it compared to a Core 2 Quad and see if the the 12 year old 4 cores are better than this year's 2 cores.
I used a pentium dual core 1.8Ghz@2.7ghz with an HD6570 a while back. GTA V barely run at 20-30fps at low on 720p. The procesor couldn't handle newer games (2013-ahead). Maybe an Core 2 Quad or Xeon would do the trick though. Also 775 Chips can be overclocked to hell even on cheapo motherboards. I used an Asrock one on mine to achieve 2.7Ghz from 1.8Ghz.
With about 450 gts,550 ti n similar or xeon, they play even cod ghosts,black ops,battfild 3,4! n many more at low settings. Memory 8 means xeon may run infinite warfare
my own first pc was a 2013 pentium I sadly don't know which windows 7 4gb ddr3 ram. All I played anyways was minecraft running at 50 fps or lower on the APU. I later got a gtx 1050 that gave me 60 fps, and since my broke friend is rocking that same 1050, that i gave to him.
Hi, 1MB of RAM looks very strange against "huge" 2GB hardrive. 1MB was standard in 286/386 time period, when hardrives have about 40-200MB. 2GB size drive is more from Pentium era, whem PC need at least 8-16MB of RAM to be somehow usable. Mine first was Pentium 100MHz / 8MB RAM / 1MB graphics / 1,6GB HDD later upgraded to Pentium 166MHz / 96MB RAM / 16MB Voodoo3 and second 1,6GB HDD
it's fine having the pc parts exposed like that the very first 'home' computers where build on wooden board's sorta like having the mobo on its own box back then one had to solder the components on the mobo one self :) :) p.s that was my first real job soldering components on pcb's and mounting/connecting the pcb's in filters for cellphone masts
It was the computer kits that looked like that right? I don't need a case, you can get a testbench and as long as it's safe from animals or kids and stays clean it's fine
My first build was a Ship of Theseus, a 286 my dad got secondhand in the late 80s that we slowly upgraded piece-by-piece all the way up to a Cyrix 686. But the first build I bought with my own money was an Athlon 64 x2, which I believe was paired with a 9600GT. It may have started with a 7300LE because it was my work PC first... at any rate, I bought a Ryzen 3400G yesterday which will be my new gaming rig.
Great video, I still use a q9450 and a gtx 260 4gigs of ram on Windows 10. Never had any crashes or weird things happen. Old yes but feels quick. Sound card is a 7.1 creative labs and it all just works as you expected given that it was all second hand components.
On Sunday I got a GTX 750 Ti stormx for 40 quid! The guy also gave me 8gb of ram. I spent 60 on my pc which had an i7 860 and a GT 210 so I've spent 100 on a pc that can play the games I play well
@@Vorkuta_ what do you mean, I don't play any triple A titles and the main ones I do I already have on PS4 plus this pc should also be fine for stuff like rendering and CAD
1st computer I owned (if memory still serves in all details): Pentium II, 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB ATI Xpert 128 graphics card, 10 GB hard disk, a Hauppauge TV card and a 17” CRT monitor, Win 95 with usb support. This cost me around £1200 new in 1999. The monitor pushed the price up by a fair bit, if I recall. Unbelievable to me still that I can occasionally find this stuff - and a whole lot better - on the side of the road now.
25 dólares seriam em torno de uns 150 reais né? Mas isso se for converter o preço em dólares pra reais, aq no Brasil é só colocar um adesivo de alguma marca famosa, uns RGB e vai valer uns 1.500 reais
My first PC had an Intel Core 2 duo 6300 in it. Onboard graphics, 240gb 7200rpm HDD (I later upgraded it to 500gb), 2x1gb ram (I later upgraded this to 4x1gb). Have used it from 2010-2019.
I recently bougth a Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 MT for 100€ - total lowspec - Pentium G3220, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD I threw an i5 4590 into it for 27€ I had Samsung 850 EVO 500GB and RX 460 2GB at home ... and I bought 3x 4GB HyperX modules for 30€. I have 550W PSU sitting unused at parents place. So I plan to sell the RX 460 and get RX 580, 1660, 1070, 1080... or something similar if I find a good deal. It’s pretty solid. Occasional CS:GO and GTA V are comfortably playable. And it’s great for everyday tasks as it’s now my only Windows machine ... my ThinkPad T430s runs macOS primarily and Ubuntu for occasional use. Great content btw! Inspiring that you don’t have to spend a fortune if you are not a hard gamer.
You could have used a cardboard box as a case. Cardboard boxes usually cost anywhere from 'free' to 'cheap'. As for the first PC that I bought for myself, it was a Dell Dimension 4500 I bought in May 2002. Dell listed it as a $2,000 computer on sale for $1,200 and bundled with a 17 inch screen, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. It's specs were a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64 MB, 256 MB DDR memory, 275 W PSU, CD-ROM Drive, floppy drive, and ZIP Drive. Over the time I owned it, I upgraded the graphics card to a Nvidia GeForce 5700 LE 256 MB, added a stick 512 MB DDR memory, and added a Plextor DVD-Burner Drive. I bought it with Dell's payment plan and it took me 4 years of minimum payments to pay it off, but it lasted until the end of December 2008 before permanently BSOD. Fortunately, I had ordered the parts for the first PC I ever build myself during the Black Friday sales in November 2008 and spent between Christmas and New Years putting my new machine together.
My first PC was a pre-made - Super Socket 7 board, AMD K6-2 300, 1x32MB SDR100 RAM, onboard 8MB SiS6326 AGP graphics, onboard C-Media 8738 sound, 4.3GB Seagate ATA100 HDD. It used the AT form factor, so you had to physically turn it off after shutdown, plus the monitor power lead actually came from the rather beige case. I grabbed an extra 64MB DIMM a year or so later, but that was a very temporary measure (a few weeks) before I got fed up, took the plunge and made my first DIY PC after not even 18 months - ALi Super Socket 7 board, AMD K6-2 450, 1x128MB SDR100 RAM, Diamond Stealth S540 Savage4+ 32MB AGP graphics, Videologic Sonic Vortex 2 sound, 20GB Maxtor ATA100 HDD. The first machine could barely run games, perhaps 10fps in 320x240 in 16-bit colour in small Unreal Tournament maps like DM-Fractal, and everything was as dithered as a PlayStation game, but I still managed to play and beat Half-Life with it. The second machine ran everything at around 60fps in 640x480 with far superior image quality and it had soft power on/off (thanks to ATX), though I needed to find a spare power plug for the monitor. :)
My first PC: Celeron A 333MHz, 64 megs of 66MHz RAM, Riva TNT 16MB + VooDoo2 12MB, 4.3GB HDD, SoundBlaster AWE64, 15" Hyoundai CRT monitor... Costed around 800 euro back then, this rig ran about every game back then (althrough not in 60 FPS), and i even OC'd the CPU up to 450MHz - WITH the stock cooler. Man, that brings back the memories!
I wish I had that MB. it's precisely the one I need. Looking online though they're well over 50 dollars! ARGH I have an a8 3850. And yeah you're totally right about them being overpriced.
@@mattparker9726 in that case $50 isnt that overpriced for a motherboard and ddr3 is pretty outdated. the same with a8 3850s. gimme a budget if you're building and i can make a list
It's kind of crazy to think a miserable GTX 560ti which can be found for as low as 35$ but usually around 50-55$, would make this build an entry 60-90fps LOW 1080p setup already. I love these kind of setups.
FM1, now that's a name i haven't heard in years. i used to have an A4-3300 too :,), poor thing would struggle back then in rocket league. don't even get me started on gta 4
you call that a weak system my system has a 1.7ghz procesor and it runs csgo on 5 fps and gta v wont run and all on lowest the only thing that runs on it is eve online on all low settings.
my 1st pc was a emachines EL1352-07E with 4gb of ddr3 500gb hdd win 7 64 bit amd athlon x2 220 2.8ghz with nvidia 6150 se nforce 430 onboard graphics. at the time it was just so i could watch youtube videos and play cod 4 zombies. i eventually added a 1gb ddr2 radeon 5450 from diabloteck so cod 4 would be smoother when the zombie levels got higher for like $13 then changed ram to 6gb then 8gb as i changed out its 2x2gb sticks for 4gb sticks seperatly. got a new cooler master case after then a 1gb gt 610 and new motherboard and fx 6300. and the emachines factory ddr3 sticks were insane without voltage changes i got the 1333mhz ram up to 1600mhz with cl 7 7 7. my friend gave jipjaws and those only got 1600 at cl9. slowly the prebuilt parts started to get replaced with choice upgrades like a new board that supported the am2+ cpu's and am3+ so i went from the x2 220 to a fx 6300 on the new board. the prebuilt emachines was $280. back in 2011. and when i bought the new motherboard for $50 i used the x2 220 until i had the money for the fx 6300 which i got fairly close to its release date. thats why i went for that specific board to cause it supported both the am3 x2 220 and the new fx 6300 so when i got the $ it was a simple swap. i didnt know much about computers at the time.
My first PC was an Amstrad Mega PC- a 386SX 25MHz running MS-DOS 5 from a 40MB hard drive, and with a built-in Sega Mega Drive. Within a year I'd performed my first upgrade, taking it from 1Mb to 3Mb, upgraded the graphics, and in the process accidentally disabled the Mega Drive. I was about eleven, so I didn't really know how to fix stuff, but I didn't really miss the Sega in the end. I'm sure I broke my mom's heart that day, but here I am, 25 years later, still messing around with PCs...
On Saturday, I saw a NEW i5 9500 CPU for sale on a major PC parts website for $17.11. Yes, a i5 9500 CPU for $17.11, I almost fell out of my chair ordering it. It arrived this afternoon, a small brown package. Inside was no CPU box, no cooler, all there was inside the box was a wad of bubble wrap with the unmistakable plasitic CPU blisterpack in the very middle. ( I had gotten scared at first and thought they just sent bubble wrap!! LOL) I quickly turned on a light to get a good look at it... There it was, a shiny NEW i5 9500!!! $17.11!! I didn't want to test the $17 i5 9500 on my 9700k gaming rig, for obvious reasons. lol So I grabbed spare parts I had laying around. I installed the i5 9500 with a Coolermaster 171c cooler and a ASUS Z370 Prime motherboard and 16 GB of DDR4 and a EVGA 600watt PSU in a Fractal case. The i5 9500 is working flawless. I can't believe a deal too good to be true... finally came true. Thank you UNNAMED major PC parts website!!
you should do a pc building series where you double the price for each build. This build was 25$. Next you should see what you can do for 50$, then 100$ and so on
My first PC from Tiger Direct in 1998 was a AMD K6-2 350MHz CPU, 500MB RAM, sound card, 2X CD Rewrite-able and a 8MB GPU. Quake II and Diablo II are the games I played on it. I still have it and the AMD K6-3 400MHz CPU is in it. I doubt these games ran at more than 20 FPS. Took many years after that to be able to get hardware that would provide a steady 30 FPS, then Crysis came along.
The first PC I bought and build myself consisted of: AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.2GHz under a Artic Freezer 64 with AS4, for the mainboard I went with the Asrock 939Dual SATA2 as I wanted to futureproof my GPU possibilities to which we come next: nVidia GeForce 6800GS 128MB that had 1 extra quad of Vertex Pipelines unlocked. For RAM I went with the 2x2GB OCZ Titanium 250MHz. Finally for storage I had a OCZ Core Series V2 SSD 30GB for Windows XP Pro and 3x320GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 in Raid 0. I think I had an Enermax 500Watt PSU but I'm not sure and I had a case made by DeLUX...
You very well can affect performance if you set the right electrical source near it. The whole reason cases are metal is to reduce electrical interference. Coffee spills are secondary.
My first PC? Oh, this is gonna date me. It was a Packard Bell Legend series featuring an Intel 486/SX25, 512mb of ram, a 240gb IDE hard drive, and was loaded with Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.1. The package included a color monitor, keyboard and mouse. Moreover, this magnificent beast cost me some $1000 in 1991. Almost immediately, the thing suffered some kind of error that required reinstalling DOS and Windows, and PB had not shipped video or modem drivers with the system, so I slapped in a screaming fast 14.4 modem, an original ISA Sound Blaster card, an IDE CD ROM Drive and an S3 graphics card when I had it open. I would then use this machine for almost four years before selling it to my landlady, who wanted to modernize her office. I hope it served them well. Packard Bell did include a case, at no additional charge!
My first ever gaming PC was an H81M motherboard with an i3-4130T and a GTX 750TI. I actually bought this back in 2018 with the money I saved up from working odd jobs after dropping out of college. Right now I have a Xeon E3-1230 v3 and a Radeon RX 580 that get's me by just fine. I mostly play League of Legends, Valorant and GTA Online
My first PC. Spent around $1300 CAD a little over a month ago. Ryzen 5 3600x GTX 1660 Super Gigabyte B550M Mobo GSkill 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHZ Ram. 240GB SSD. 2TB HDD EVGA 500W PSU. Using the stock cooler because I don't plan on overclocking, and I had to buy a desk, monitor, keyboard and mouse, headset. So I saved some money on not getting a cooler. The computer itself was around $1300. Spent around $2000 on my whole setup.
Aah my first system. A PCSpecialist custom build from October 2012, I'd just turned 15. Here we go: -AMD FX 6200 (OCd to 4.4GHz almost immediately) -Radeon HD 7850 (powercolor 2GB) -Asus M5A99X EVO -Some Hyper212-esque cooler -2x4GB DDR3 1333 -1TB WD Black -450W 80+ house-fire from FSP group (blew up within a year) The concept of building a computer hadn't crossed my mind before September 2012. A friend of mine got a PCSpecialist i5 3570k/GTX670 system in Sept. He told me about it and introduced me LinusTechTips. I ordered the above system on 4th October 2012 for the grand sum of £881, built and delivered to my door. I had £12 left in my bank account after that. Not much for games :( Within a year I'd swapped out the air cooler for a Corsair H80i (idk why really, "water cooling" sounded way better. My unit was faulty and the fans ran at 100% from the built-in fan control. I didn't know how to post anything so I didn't return it and just used my board's headers, sacrificing my sweet 200mm side-panel fan in my awful inwin case. My friend had a GTX 670, so it wasn't long before I wanted one too, but I never ended up getting one. The PSU blew up before a year had passed, so I got a "powercool" 700W modular PSU from amazon for like £40, and unsurprisingly that also blew up after a few months. A Corsair CX550M did the trick eventually. I also threw in a 240GB Sandisk SSD in 2015 just before I moved to england for uni. That PC was still my summer/christmas gaming machine for the uni breaks, but I've since graduated, so it's now just gathering dust in my parent's house in Ireland. I want to salvage it eventually for a little media PC or something like that. My 2nd PC, I built an i5-6600k/GTX 970 rig in 2016 for uni. That became an i5 6600k/GTX 1070 system, then an i7 6700k/GTX 1070 system, and finally today it's an i7 6700k/RX 5700XT system. After this evening's announcement, it might get a shiny new Ryzen 5000 CPU. I've still got a soft spot for AMD as my first system was all AMD. You asked about my first PC, but you got my entire PC hardware story. Lucky you! Love the videos as always.
Damn, that's it? I built a 1155 system with a Celeron g530, 3gb of ram, 400w Cooler master power supply, 1tb hdd, and awesome ass mid 2000s case for $25 US. With windows 10 home. Made one hell of a killing off of it
My- OUR, as in the family, first PC was an Apricot Prebuilt with a Pentium CPU. That is, an OG Intel 80586 Pentium. It had an ATI Rage graphics card, and ran Windows 95. I think that we even managed to get it to 800x600. And this was in 1996 or thereabouts. We didn't even have the internet to begin with! And now here we all are, and decent performance can be had for under £500.
I built a gaming pc in a $14 tower that I picked up from a thrift store. It had an athlon 64 x2 a 300w psu and no GPU. Bought a fx6300, a Sapphire HD 4850, and a 450w psu, all secondhand except for the psu. Got me through a year while I saved my penny's. Now I'm rockin a Ryzen 5 3600x and gtx 1660 ti. Don't be ashamed to go cheap if you want to game and that's all you can afford. It'll get your foot in the door until you can afford something better. Happy gaming! :)
My first pc which i bought with my own money had: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T with Noctua NH-U12P SE2 cooler, ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Mobo, Kingston 2x2GB 1333Mhz DDR3 Ram, Power Color Radeon HD6870 GPU, 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Blue HDD, 550W Corsair PSU, LG DVD+/RW DL 22X Drive and NZXT Guardian 921 RB Rev.2 Blue case. It costed almost exactly 1000€ in fall of 2010 :) i still have it as backup computer.
The first pc I bought was a pentium D 3Ghz paired with 2Gb ram and a Geforce 7300Gt 256mb. I remember playing on a pentium 3 700Mhz and a Geforce 4 Mx440 64mb all my childhood days. Good times playing Starcraft, Diablo 2 and Call of duty.
I own the same FM1 but a better clocked a8 3850 upgraded from a4 3300 from ali express thanks to your videos in quarantine about budget cpus and gpus. Paired a 1050ti with it and I am a happy guy. I mentioned this before and i will say it again, your content is relaxing and entertaining. and this will be the last time I shall mention about this backstory lol
AMD A8-7650K 8GB DDR3 1600MHz MSI Grenade (Don't remember the exact motherboard model) 1TB HDD (Western Digital I believe) A literal 750w bomb and about a year down the line: GT 730 Now: Ryzen 5 1600AF 16GB DDR4 3200mhz (I've honestly forgotten what motherboard so I'll come back to this in a minute) MSI A320M-A PRO 2TB HDD Western Digital 7200RPM 500GB SSD Western Digital EVGA 5000W White 80+ (this needs upgrading, im close to getting a new one) MSI GTX 1660 SUPER (With fancy mystic lighting)
a fun fact, on some of the older 2011-2013 HP Pavilions you are able to rip the front pannel off, which has the power button and reset functions rather than having to short it to boot the system
I like these videos. So many people are thinking of thousands of dollars/€/pounds or at least several 100 for a gaming PC. While you can actually have thousands or hours of fun in thousands of great games, even brand new games, for less than 100 quid. Gaming has never been so cheap, people just don't realize it being influenced by Triple A graphics monsters and aggressive hardware marketing.
Well, my first PC was Pentium II 266, 32 MB RAM, and Intel I740 graphics card, can't remember what HDD i had back then ( 1998 or smth like that). Next purchase was 3DfX Vodoo 2 with 8MB RAM, and that was AWSOME improvement. It all happend so long ago...
I bought a HP Pavilion P6 AMD A8-3800 model new when they first released and straightaway removed the HD 6450 Graphics card as the onboard APU was much better and HP's motherboard didn't support dual graphics. FPS increase, just by removing the graphics card. That APU is still in use today in my Dad's PC - I removed the APU when I sold the HP as it was the best part of the PC. Also still got an A8-3870K with an FM1 ITX motherboard sat in it's box gathering dust...... been using an ITX Ryzen 2400G for the last few years and those Ryzen APU's wouldn't be here without the old FM1 APU's.
My mate picked up a Dell Optiplex with a 6th gen quad core Core i5 and 16GB RAM for free because it was going to e-waste. Chucked a 1050Ti into it and it's a good little rig. Inspired by his build I bought an Optiplex 7050 with an i5 7400, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and a GTX1650 4GB for about the same price as just an i9 10850K
Have you ever thought of testing a Core i7-5775c? They're usually $100usd to $135usd on ebay. They overclock to 4.0ghz easily but they usually top out at 4.2ghz. The eDRAM is supposed to he helpful in gaming. The only drawback is the 5775c only works with 9-series (z97, h97) boards because some of the reserved pins function for the eDRAM.
When you said you had amd a4 9 years ago I realized that I still use a laptop with amd a4 3300mx 2 core apu, it had 2 gb I upgraded it to 4x2 1330 mhz ram,500gb hdd to 500gb ssd and finally play GTA V at 15 fps with disappearing textures, cutscenes errors, long loading times, missing dialogues couldn't even complete the repossession mission 😅
I got my First Gaming PC finished in late April to early May, It cost me somewhere close to $950. If you were to include the monitor, keyboard, speakers, and mouse. It was close to 1150 US dollars. My PC includes the following Case: Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1660 SUPER Motherboard: AsRock B450M Pro4 Micro ATX RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB(2x8GB) DDR4-3600 PSU: EVGA SuperNova GA 650W 80+Gold HDD: 1tb Seagate Barracuda 3.5inch SSD: 1.02 tb Intel 660p M.2 NVME Overall I am happy with the build, I could have used some other parts which may have been better than others but was limited on Cash spending. 120 fps in Minecraft 60fps In 7 days to die (Favorite Game) I do have GTA 5 but haven't played it on this PC yet, same for CS:GO. I am also trying to get Valorant, and a few other games as well.
I actually have a 25€ pc, I bought it at an online auction for 12.50+12.85 shipping, and it's actually not that bad, 500GB hdd, 4gb ram ddr3 1600Mhz, 250W psu, amd A8 something with integrated graphics and a lot of dust. But I mean, it works and it has w10 with license
My first pc is what I'm using till now It was built back in 2012, featuring an i5 3330, 8gb ram and a 500gb hdd Later down the line, on 2017 I threw another 500gb hdd and a 256gb ssd with a gt 1030. Still run most games at low, willing to build another one than upgrading this May build a system with a 11600k or an 11700k with either a 3070 or a 3080 or a 6700xt (if gpu price comes low and total price becomes less than $1500 or else till I die)
I wanted to mention. If you have a weak CPU, you are better off using an Nvidia card. The Nvidia drivers are much less demanding on the CPU and you will get a better gaming experience. That doesn't mean that you will get everything out of an Nvidia card, just that with two cards that are roughly equal power. With a weak CPU you are going to get a better experience with an Nvidia card. I experienced this myself with a 7950.
my first pc was also an apu, the later a10 6800k. eventually added a r7 260x to that build and I'm only just selling the parts after downgrading it to a living room pc for the last couple years
I recently got rid of one of my old PCs on eBay for £12, and it had the same model of motherboard and processor as that. I can say that is not pulled out of my old build, because I broke the clip at the end of the PCI-E slot off.
I have a FM2 socket motherboard paired with an A8-7650K and 16gb of ddr3 1600mhz ram which I eventually put a 1050 ti into it later on. I've used that pc since 2016 and still using it to this day. It was around £400 at the time without the 1050ti.
HP530 Pentium Dual Core 1.6Ghz and GMA950. I mostly played SA-MP at 800x600x16bit color low at 20 to 30 fps. Damn that I hated that PC, I remember playing Half-life 2 with swift shader, no shadows at 10fps, completing it. I really feelt happy when I got a PC with an HD5450 that could play half life 2 without weird tweaks.
Well, my first PC was a sort of gift back in 1991: AMD 386 DX40 4 MBytes RAM 210+80 MByte HDDs 3½"+5¼" HD disk drives Tsenglabs ET4000 16 Bit ISA graphics card Got it because it was my fathers and i constantly hogged it. He gifted it to my 9 year old self with the words "Und jetzt sieh zu wie du damit fertig wirst", roughly translates to "And now its your problem", and bought himself a brand new 486. ^^' On my next birthday i got an upgrade to 8 Megs and a shiny Gravis Ultrasound, BTW. :D
