You Paid what?

[JDub02]

It was a 486DX/33 with 4 whole megs of RAM .. somewhere around 1990. I think that bad boy cost around $3k.

 

[sdifox]

P60 1000
MB for P60 750
Video Card 400 (GeForce256 I think)

rest don't remember.

Before that I had a 286 for the longest time.

 

[mrCide]

Heh.

Officially, first PC we bought and kept was a stripped down Micron with a P90 in it, had mobo/cpu/ram (16 megs i think) and 1gb hard drive. Purchased a matrox something or other video, a scsi 4x caddy cd-rom drive, and an SB AWE32. I think the base price was over $2k without the extra parts. Short while later I bought a cheap packard bell that lasted a little while (8 megs of ram). After that a P200mmx Micron (didn't strip down) for $2200 i think it was.

Actually mommy paid for all this stuff. I was 12 or 14. Around and after age 16 i was able to buy my own parts, went from a K7 (i think? amd) 6 or 700 mhz to a TB1ghz to a P4 3.0 and currently 2.4 core duo. I'm 27. Come to think of it I used a 386 b/w acx (something or other) laptop my father got from work, which i learned DOS3 and other things with at age 11 or so. another laptop i played with was a 286 (3 foot long) laptop, don't recall the brand.

Good times.

 

[TwiceOver]

My first real PC:

AMD K6-2 450
8gb Hard Drive
32mb Ram
Aureal Soundcard
3dfx Voodoo Banshee

I think it was $1300 for the tower alone.

 

[Nohr]

This is what I paid for parts for my first build in late 1998. Or I should say my parents paid for it, this was the family computer. It was our first upgrade from an IBM 286! I wasn't good at shopping around for the best prices back then.

Celeron 300A $130
Asus P2B Slot 1 mobo $135
128MB PC100 RAM $300
Maxtor 10GB HDD $310
STB Riva TNT 16MB AGP $200
Soundblaster Live $200
Cambridge FPS1000 4.1 speakers $100
Hi-Val TrueX 40x CD-ROM $130
Zoom 56k modem $100
Mitsumi 3.5" floppy $14
Enlight EN7237 case $58
MS ergonomic keyboard $59
MS Intellimouse Pro $59
Windows 98 $161

Total: $1956

 

[Evadman]

My first was a heathkit, and I was way too young to remember. My parents got it for me. Also have an Osborne, but I didn't build it; it came prebuilt.

 

[ryan256]

Gateway 400MHz P2
160MB SDRAM
13GB Hard drive
DVD-ROM <- hot stuff then
17" CRT


Purchased sometime in 98 for a whopping $3200.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Too old to remember (seriously)!

My first PC was 8086 Tandy running at 7.16MHz with 384KB of ram and two sexy floppy (5.25") drives. Cost $1600+. Added a 20 MB HD later for $379.

This was in 1987.

my parents had something like that when i was growing up.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

If you call the first round of upgrades the first build:
Permedia 2 card: $100
AWE64 sound: $100
DXR-2 kit: $200 (DVD ROM drive plus decoder card)
32MB EDO: $60 used
233K6: $230
Asus TX97-XE: About $120 iirc
ATX case+PSU: $75
3.2GB HD: $215
Viewsonic PS790: $560

Total: $1480

The first completely new build (aside from a few peripherals):

Pioneer 18X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model DVR-212DBK - OEM
$28.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
$66.99
MSI N9600GT-T2D512 OC GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
$174.99
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996558 - Retail
$88.99
HEC 6C11BBX585 Black 0.8mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 585W Power Supply - Retail
$54.99
ASUS M3A AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
$89.99
AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor Model HD960ZWCGDBOX - Retail
$229.99
Subtotal $724.93
Tax $52.05
UPS 3 DAYS $26.97
Promo code -$7.00
Order Total $796.95

Yeah, that upgrade path from a P133 involved hobbits and a ring.
7 CPUs
6 MBs
8 sets of RAM
6 HDs
9 optical drives
4 cases
11 video cards

 

[microAmp]

1st build? Back in 1999, to far back to remember price.
1st PC, 1997 $1700 Dell refurbished computer.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Heathkit with a mighty 8088 processor. 1 meg of ram soldered to MB, one 3 1/2" Floppy drive and, two 5 1/4" Floppy Drives. No hard drive. Green monochrome display. I think it was 1980 and cost $150 which was BIG money then. Came as a huge bag of parts with a wiring diagram. Everything had to be assembled and soldered including monitor, power supply and the three drives. I remember staring at the bare CRT Tube thinking this was the most awesome project ever. It took about 2 weeks to solder and screw everything together.

 

[Strk]

$1500ish, I think, but that was in the mid 90s, so it's kind of hard to remember. The biggest cost was a 19" Sony monitor (still have it in a closet) for a little under $600.

 

[Jadow]

I don't even remeber. But I remember paying $180 for a 4MB stick of RAM, and $150 for a sound blaster 8-bit.

First PC was a Magnavox Headstart 286, 12.5 mhz, 1mg ram, 40mb HD. And loved every second on it.

 

[buck]

celeron 500
around 800ish

 

[Jadow]

Originally posted by: Jadow
I don't even remeber. But I remember paying $180 for a 4MB stick of RAM, and $150 for a sound blaster 8-bit.

First PC was a Magnavox Headstart 286, 12.5 mhz, 1mg ram, 40mb HD. And loved every second on it.

ohh yeah, $550+ for an 18GB IBM Ultrastar HD

 

[nutxo]

celeron 333 @500 on an asus p2bf
voodoo3 3000
soundblaster live
10g hdd
compusa case
15 inch monitor

I think Like 600 bucks

 

[Regs]

Athlon 2800 89.00, 512MBs of DDR 60.00, 400Geforce MX4 50.00, Via chipset 400 with onboard sound 90.00, WD 80 GIG 7200RPM HDD for 45.00, antec 380 watt psu 40.00, and a really crappy case 50.00. Total was around 420 dollars.



Before that, I just ordered a Dell and it was a celeron. All I needed at the time was e mail, net, and word processing.

 

[NetGuySC]

33 mhz computer built by a local company. Bought it for $2100.

I remember being envious of a person on AOL bragging about their 100mhz computer

 

[rpanic]

386dx40 with math coprocessor, SoundBlaster 16, 2400baud modem. Don?t remember what video card or memory it had but it was around $1200.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I don't know, less that a grand easily.

Celeron 300 clocked to 450
3dfx video card

On a Abit B?-6 motherboard

I had a Diamond Voodoo Banshee 16MB 3dfx card. It was awesome back then.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I don't remember the details at all, but my first build was in 1996 and it was on a Pentium 120 that I overclocked to 133GHz. The motherboard was a dual processor Tyan Tomcat 2.

I don't remember the hard drive or RAM, but I remember that I bought most of the parts mail order from ASA Computers... and I probably still have the receipts!

The most expensive part was the Sony 15-inch Trinitron where I dropped $450! I had that monitor until it crapped out in 2002. The rest of the parts lasted only until the summer of 1999 when I did my first major rebuild.


Great thread OP!

 

[xSauronx]

my first custom build i still have, though a little altered

epox something, their higher end mobo at the time. paired it with an athlon xp 1700+ and a radeon 8500 from FS/T and 512mb ram

still have the rig, but i burned the mobo trying to OC and have an asus a7n8x Deluxe in it now, still OCs to 1.9ghz without a problem (from 1.47)

 

[JM Aggie08]

Athlon 64 3000 - $250
1gb ddr400 - $50
TnT Ultra....lol - $Free.99

About $450-500 total.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Blue chieftec case with PSU: $114 shipped
Floppy drive: $12
CDRW drive: $25
HSF: $16
Athlon XP 2800+ T-bred: $368
A7N8X: $124.99
ti4600: $227
512MB PC2700: $116
17" NEC LCD: $400
Tax: $57.97
Shipping: $6.00

Total: 1466.96

My current CPU (e5200) cost me $58 shipped. . .

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
3.2GB HD: $215

The most expensive single component I ever bought was probably an external 1.2 GB SCSI hard drive that I bought when I was ~15 for $450-500. :Q My internal drive was 250 MB.