My first computer

My first contact with a PC, at least the one I remember, was years ago when I saw my father play a game on his PC. Back then I didn't understand how the game worked. But the view of dozens of settlers moving around the screen, carrying resources, doing mundane tasks almost hypnotized me. That moment also sparked my interest in computers over all and it continues on up to this day.

I remember playing different games, but games that mostly got my interest were the strategy ones like Sudden Strike or The Settlers series. It would be sacreligious to not mention Age of Empires which occupied a lot of my Computer time back then. In my childhood my interest in technical aspects of computers wasn't really big, but with time I would start to wonder how does it work, paying close attention to my IT classes at school.

My actual first pc came around the year 2009 soon after Windows 7 got released ( I'm so glad that I didn't get a PC with Vista ). I remember it having an AMD Phenom II CPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, a whooping 4GB of RAM and a dedicated ATI Radeon GPU. I remember how stoked I was when it would run all the games that I wanted to play smoothly and without hiccups.

When it comes to the monitor screen that it had, it was some Samsung 4:3 ratio screen, but now thinking back it actually survived quite long before it broke.

Time was passing and I've noticed that my PC started slowing down, not because of it being flooded with bloatware but because software and games started using more resources than my PC could provide. That got me interested into technicalities even more, which CPUs were on top, which GPU was on top of the benchmarks, how the brands performed with their newest hardware. I started saving money to buy upgrades for my computer, it started with seemingly small one which was a purchase of more RAM, then a NVIDIA GTX 770 - which was quite powerful at those times. Sadly as time passed I've noticed that replacing the CPU wouldn't make much sense and this PC's times are coming to an end.