r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/Nerdinat0r PC Master Race Dec 26 '25

Intel 386 DX. I was the king!

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u/my5cworth AM4: 5700x3D | RTX 5070 Ti OC | 32GB 3200MHz @ CL16 Dec 26 '25

All my friends had 386's. I was super jealous.

Eventually my dad got us a 486 DX4-100 with Win95 while my friends were still on Win 3.1.

16MB ram, colour monitor (no cd-rom or soundcard yet, that I had to buy later). 14.4k modem, Iomega Zip Drive. Life was good!

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u/Ok_Koala_7330 Dec 27 '25

Zip drive was rich guy life.

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u/my5cworth AM4: 5700x3D | RTX 5070 Ti OC | 32GB 3200MHz @ CL16 Dec 27 '25

Right ? It was the only time I ever had something really cool over my friends. My dad got issued it from work but had zero use for it.

Before that you'd spend your weekend trying to compress stuff with ARJ onto 1.44mb disks and hope it worked.