Quake 3 was the game that forced me to switch from the old arrow keys+ctrl to shoot layout from Doom to the wasd+mouse scheme of today.
Oh my gosh. This is EXACTLY the same computer I had! Mine was default, too, I didn’t give it anything cool. I was just wondering what it was called. Thanks for the memories! Loved that little cover for the sockets 
[COLOR=‘DarkOrange’]Rise! Rise from the unknown!
my first PC was a 486. The first PC I used for any proper gaming was a PII 233MHz “beast”.
My first gaming rig per se was a P4 1.5GHz system. cue nostalgia influx
Those were the days.
200MHz Intel Pentium 32MB of ram 2GB HD. I found me an ATI Rage 128 Pro 8MB card to put into it for $12 back in 2001 (WOOT GARAGE SALES!)
About 6 months after that a friends parents got a new computer and had tossed their old one out. Needless to say I had him pull it out. =P upgraded to a 333MHz Celeron, 128MB ram, 4GB HD (Fit looooads of Half-Life mods!) and stuffed the ATI card in it. I freaked out when it ran Half-Life in 1024x768 in OpenGL! It looked so amazing!
No number meant it was a Pentium 1 : )
First one…c64
second one 286x 10 MHz XT 256KB graphic-card no sound 2 MB RAM
Third one 386x AT 20MHz 512 KB graphic-card soundblaster 2 MB RAM
fourth 486x DX2-66 1MB Cirrus Logic graphic-card Creative PCI128 8 MB RAM
fith 486x DX4-100 1MB Cirrus Logic + Diamond Monster 3DII Creative PCI128 64MB RAM
sith IBM Cyrix x86 166+ Cirrus Logic + Diamond Monster 3DII Creative PCI128 96MB RAM
…and a lot more…good old times
Now Intel i7 3770K HIS Radeon 7970 16GB RAM SSD…blaa…
My first PC was mostly for gaming.
286 16MHz, 1MB RAM, 20MB HDD running MSDOS 5.1 (you will never fill that HDD up, not matter how many years you have the computer).
The full 1MB of RAM was never used, so I set up a RAM Drive of around 384KB (from memory) and set that as the temp file location. I swear it was almost twice as fast with loading times after that
i cant even remeber what brand it was. all i can recall is a 386 with commander keen, jill of the jungle and cosmo. still i thrashed that thing.
i can’t really remember but i know it had Windows 98 and the ram was bad so it was really slow and would BSOD alot but i could play most dos games at the time.
I had a 200 mhz pentium pc with 64 mb of ram, an s3 video card with 2mb of Vram and a voodoo grafix 3d accelerator with 4mb of vram. a 20 gig hard drive and a cd burner rounded it out
lol pretty late for the gaming party
my first low budget “gaming rig”
Windows 7 home edition
Pentium dual core E6700 3.2 ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
Intel G45 express chipset with 1.76 gb memory
1 terabyte sata drive
handles most games reasonably well i can play black mesa at bout 40-80 frames per second with medium settings
THE DAYS OF YORE
As for me, my first rig built specifically for gaming is this one I’m on right now. It’s pretty much unchanged since it was built 5 years ago with the exception of a little graphics card upgrade.
started with an i7, 6GB of ram, and a gtx260. Switched to a 470 a two years ago.
This was my only gaming machine for the better part of my first decade alive.
Around 1998 we had a Windows 98 Second Edition PC. I think it was an HP Pavilion with a Pentium III processor. But hey, it was what I first played Rainbow Six on.
FIRST RIG:
AMD ATHLON 3500+ 2.2GHZ
2GB RAM DDR
160GB HD IDE
ATI RADEON HD4650 AGP
ECS MOBO
WINDOWS XP PRO 32BIT
But I had an older PC
was like:
8GB HD
128MB RAM
8MB VIDEO ONBOARD
don´t remember the rest but I was happy playing Duke Nukem 3D in my childhood.
This was also my first gaming rig and i wish i still had it, lots of great memories on this little system!
This was my first computer and the first one I used extensively for gaming. Gateway Profile 2 (year 2000)
I used it so hard that in 2 years I reinstalled windows 98 at least 100 times and the LCD backlight burned out after 2 years. This computer was such a piece of shit that it ran GTA III with 99% graphical glitches at 0.003FPS but somehow ran max payne and many other games just fine. The thing came with a 500mhz Celeron, 64mb of RAM and a 20gb Maxtor. Also no VGA or PS/2 ports(so the 2000$ machine was an instant permanent brick when the LCD died) and blue screen of death during Windows XP install, so it was confined to windows 98 or ME.
I tried opening it once and almost cut off my finger, on google there are certified computer technicians who still can’t open this thing. After I grew 5 years older and managed to crack it open, I realized that there is unused circuitry for the VGA port, and the single stick of ram was soldered to the main board. Certainly the most retarded computer I’ve ever seen.
I kept telling everyone how shitty it was but I loved this PC, it had a TFT panel in the time when all my friends were staring at blurry CRT screens.
I’ve never had a good computer. That’s why I still play Half Life 1 and Source games.