I have a rig, of which age I can't remember, but I've been adding new stuff into it occasionally. The latest purchases have been the new harddrive and graphics card. I really shuld buy new memory as well, or just change the mobo, memory and CPU. But overall it is a decent setup, it even plays Witcher 2 on ultra, so I can't complain.

MOBO
Asus m4n78 se

CPU:
AMD Athlon II X4 (4 cores) 2.90GHz

RAM:
4 gigs (can't remember the brand)

GPU:
Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 gigs of memory

HDD:
1.3 terabytes, can't remember the models, but the one is 1 terabytes and the other 300 gigs.

PSU:
Seasonic 450W

OS:
Windows 8.1 Pro

When i went to 7th grade, i bought my very first computer for which i selected every single component myself (had amiga, 386 and 486 before that, but they were packages).

Anyways, so i got 3,2gb HDD which i thought never end. After all, the old one was like 120 mb's, so jumping up to 3,2gb was huge. Nvm upgrading ram from 4mb to 16mb :D

Better not even think how much those computers cost.

I have a powerful gaming PC.. from 2009:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz
Geforce 650ti (2012)
5 GB RAM

Today I will make it sweat with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

When you say "Ultra", do you mean with "ubersampling" turned on? Because I have a similar, slightly faster computer, and I can play TW2 in 1080p with most settings at max, but ubersampling tends to bring the framerate down too much. ( Not that I care much, since it still looks really nice with just regular AA, but just wondering. )
Heh heh... Do share how well it performs, if you get to test the game. For what it's worth, it seems to be fairly well coded, and it comes with a nice selection of graphics/performance settings.

Ehh, old crap, I guess. Everything works though so I won't be upgrading yet. Maybe for The Witcher 3.. maybe.

Asus P5K-SE (bought in 2007)
Intel C2D E8400 3Ghz (bought in 2008)
6Gb DDR2 800Mhz (upgraded to 6Gb in 2011 when I had a faulty memory module)
AMD HD6870 (bought in 2011)
WD Black 1Tb HDD (bought in 2011)
SB Audigy ES (bought in 2004)

The SB Audigy ES, as well as a Logitech MX510 mouse that I'm still using, I bought in 2004. That's 10 years for a mouse in daily use & still working, nice :)

My MX518 (used just as a MX510, with a single speed rating to be able to use the buttons around the wheel for smth else, as the speed change is hard coded on those on top of anything you customize them for) is from 2006, think it'd do better if I could open it up and clean it inside a bit. For a while the button above the wheel (which I use as middle) seemed dead, so remapped the one below for that, but that seemed to last less than a year, yet now the one above works just fine again. Wheel keeps getting stuck though, have to press it to get it to move often, but had pressing that as no action from the get go just to avoid accidental presses, so just a small annoyance at the moment.

A fine build that has served me well:

Build Date:
Jan-9th-2013

MOBO:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z ATX

CPU:
AMD FX8350 at factory default 4.2 GHz (there's so much juice in that CPU, overclocking isn't a priority)

RAM:
16GB (2x8GB) Mushkin DDR3 @ 1600Mhz

GPU:
Gigabyte AMD HD7950 3GB GDDR5 overclocked and in Crossfire with another identical GPU

HDD:
2TB Seagate Barracuda (with another identical mirroring for backup)

OPTICAL DRIVE: LG BD-RW

PSU:
Intertech Nobility 900W 80+Silver rated and modular

CASE:
Antec P280 black.

OS:
Windows 8.1

MONITOR: Dell U2713HM 27" 1440p IPS connected with DisplayPort

What I've learned from this build is the following:

A) I'll never buy Mushkin RAM again, ever - overpriced and just not worth it.
B) Gigabyte is a third rate company that makes second rate products and I should have gone with ASUS or MSI.
C) ASUS makes the best motherboards on the planet. Wow.
D) Crossfire is insanely nice.
E) Even though the P280 case is pretty large, it should have been a bit larger for my taste.
F) Even the best monitor in the world is only as good as the coating on the panel. The monitory I have has a seriously good panel, but it has a coating that leaves faint diagonal lines across half of the screen. I will never buy a Dell monitor again, since I've found that this is a known issue and ignored by Dell.
G) BD is great and I'd feel handicapped without an optical drive.

Edit: added monitor and optical drive

Heh, actually I think the mouse I have started to make a strange noise when pressing the LMB, that was a couple of years ago. But then it stopped and I was relieved that I don't have to buy a new mouse already, I mean it was ONLY 8 years old at that point :D

Yeah, I have ubersampling on as well as all the other bells and whistles. The game is fully playable. I should check out what fraps or some other gives as framerate, but it does look pretty solid to me.

my first computer was a commodore pentium 1 120 mhz
with 16 mb of ram
a 2 mb diamond 3D bideo card
a 24 speed cd rom
windows 95
and a 1,5 gig hd

that was HUGE now adays i download speed runs that are bigger then that

i followed that commodore up with a pentium II laptop
233 mhz
32 mb of ram
and 4 gig hd

i still have that laptop

its running on an 8 gig cf card

Technically my first computer was a 48k ZX Spectrum clone, hooked up to a black and white TV and a casette player.
First PC, 386 SX 16 MHz, 512 kb video card (Trident I think), 2 Mb RAM and I think a 120 Mb HDD, though may have been 80 Mb as well. Then 486 DX2 66 MHz; same video card, 4 Mb RAM later upgraded to 8 for Warcraft 2, 540 Mb HDD. Then the first one I selected myself, and took apart and put back together the next day with help, a Pentium II 266 MHz, S3 Virge 4 Mb, 32 Mb 66 MHz RAM which were upgraded to 64 Mb after a couple of years, 3.2 Gb HDD which became secondary when a 20 Gb one was bought after a few years. Then first I selected all components and built myself, 2 GHz Pentium 4A, GeForce 2 Ti 64 Mb, 512 Mb 266 MHz DDR RAM that for its last year and a half or so became 256 Mb after a module failed, initially that 20 Gb HDD but replaced with a 160 Gb one a few years later. And then the one I still have.

Current mental upgrade path (after delaying plans this year as well, as long as things will hopefully keep working till at least next spring), a Core i5 4690S or whatever its equivalent will be in the next generation, 16 Gb RAM (1600 MHz CL9 at the moment, we'll see if next gen CPUs will deal with faster natively) and possibly a GeForce 960 when it'll be out, specs and price depending. Looking into a SSD, but costly, and also wary of some things, at the moment not quite convinced by the price/performance/size/warranty package of any.

386DX/40MHz
4MB RAM
SVGA 1MB
Sound Blaster Pro
14" SVGA non interlaced monitor
3.5" 1.44MB FDD
80MB HDD
2400 baud modem

that machine is a BEAST !

My best days in gaming...

technically my first pc was a commodore pc 20 model III from 1990
with an 8088 ( why commodore thought they coudl get away with that in 1990 is anybodies guess )
at 8 mhz
640 k of ram
a 20 mb hd
and a couple of floppies
and dos 4.01
and wp 5.1

i didnt do much with that machine and didnt started to really use pc's untill that second commodore ( dur purdy winders 95 )

im using that p2 laptop mostly for games that wont run under 7
( yes discworld i mean you )

but it struggles with some games
trespasser and midtown madness 1 it seems to hate with a passion