What’s Your Most Expensive Pc Mistake You Have Made?

[R0G]

Also do you have any tips for me, building my first pc on Christmas.

[kelvinhall05]

Tips? Don't rush it. Watch tutorials beforehand. The Verge has a great one.

 

 

 

I haven't really made any expensive mistakes but a faulty PSU blew up (sadly, no flames) and I had to replace that (thankfully it didn't take anything with it and it only happened as I was assembling/testing my rig) but I have overpaid for lots of stuff. $300 (Canadian) for a Dell prebuilt with an i5-750, 6GB of RAM, and a dying hard drive that was kinda nasty inside and like $108 (also Canadian) for a 5870.

[R0G]

5 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Tips? Don't rush it. Watch tutorials beforehand. The Verge has a great one.

 

 

 

I haven't really made any expensive mistakes but a faulty PSU blew up (sadly, no flames) and I had to replace that (thankfully it didn't take anything with it and it only happened as I was assembling/testing my rig) but I have overpaid for lots of stuff. $300 (Canadian) for a Dell prebuilt with an i5-750, 6GB of RAM, and a dying hard drive that was kinda nasty inside and like $108 (also Canadian) for a 5870.

If I follow the verge I’ll end up building a brick. 

[Founders]

4 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

The Verge has a great one.

Haha, no, no it doesn't. But there are plenty of build guides out there, I know LTT has a few.

 

 

[Slayer3032]

Don't over pay for parts just because they have the certain brand, model or spec that you want.

 

Items with low availability will often double or triple in price, also don't buy previous generation hardware for full price or inflated prices when there's better hardware for a cheaper price which is available. Just because it's newer doesn't always mean it's better though.

[Jurrunio]

Bought 16GB of 1333MHz Samsung DDR3, hoping to clock them to 2133MHz maybe CL12

 

and boy, those kit wont post 1600MHz no matter what

[kelvinhall05]

5 minutes ago, R0G said:

If I follow the verge I’ll end up building a brick. 

 

3 minutes ago, Founders said:

Haha, no, no it doesn't. But there are plenty of build guides out there, I know LTT has a few.

 

 

Jesus do I really need to start adding a /s to clearly sarcastic remarks

[RGProductions]

Buying one that didn't suit my needs when I didn't need it at all just because it was a decent deal. 

[R0G]

1 minute ago, RGProductions said:

Buying one that didn't suit my needs when I didn't need it at all just because it was a decent deal. 

Congrats on your 3,500th post

[R0G]

6 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

Jesus do I really need to start adding a /s to clearly sarcastic remarks

6 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

Jesus do I really need to start adding a /s to clearly sarcastic remarks

It was a joke..

[Geralt]

Biggest mistake? Remember that voltage switch on the back of PSUs? Yeah.

[Founders]

13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Jesus do I really need to start adding a /s to clearly sarcastic remarks

I took it as humor as intended, I reacted to your post.

[Founders]

4 minutes ago, Geralt said:

Biggest mistake? Remember that voltage switch on the back of PSUs? Yeah.

[ddennis002]

I built my first PC back in 2005 I was still in HS and i forgot to install Motherboard standoffs in case, I ended up frying 2 PSU's and 2 Motherboards before I realized what was wrong.

 

Good memories there Intel Pentium 4 650 with Hyper Threading

[Automobili3XF]

Biostar X470GT8, by far.

On paper it sounds like a really good motherboard, it had one of the most expensive and well put together VRMs out there by the time it launched but not by love nor money that thing could OC RAM properly.

It was so bad to the point of me just giving up on it entirely and getting a previous generation ASRock X370 Professional which in fact can OC RAM properly.

Thankfully the store i bought it from refunded me the entire value of the purchase even after the return policy was over, because even they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

[amdorintel]

2 hours ago, R0G said:

 What’s Your Most Expensive Pc Mistake You Have Made?

buying an apple pc!

[rabbitanarchy14]

yes same for me buying apple when macbook first came out with intel i series chips and for a few years after. had to replace at least 4 or 5 motherboards in 4 years not good for apple.  buying a lenovo, it needed warranty repair so i sent it in and they stole my corsair 16gb set because it did not come with it and only gave me a single 8gb micron stick, also never gave back my ram or reimbursement. acer nitro 5s the first one with ryzen 5 chipset, had to send it in twice for warranty because battery would fail after a months use. still broke.

[thrasher_565]

my complete build (or not complete) witch ever way you see it....

 

tip plan plan and plan.  worst case scenario you save money buy buying it later....

if you do want rgb plan ahead! also just try a strip first...hell of a lot cheaper

[amdorintel]

7 minutes ago, thrasher_565 said:

my complete build (or not complete) witch ever way you see it....

 

tip plan plan and plan.  worst case scenario you save money buy buying it later....

if you do want rgb plan ahead! also just try a strip first...hell of a lot cheaper

best to save peso's and skip rgb

[thrasher_565]

Just now, amdorintel said:

best to save peso's and skip rgb

haha ya.....i wish i never started....help

[atxcyclist]

I had a cheap-o Antec power supply take out some hardware a long time ago. Magic smoke and everything.

[LogicalDrm]

Crushing Intel socket pins with wrong placed plastic cover. Total of €250 with broken and replacement mobos. Next to that is ordering from another country. Paid almost €90 for fees without any real gains. Next would be burning fan controller with wrong power adapter. That was only €10.

[tatte]

The one time I didn't forget the I/O shield, I inserted the motherboard carelessly and one of the bent cutouts ended up inside a port. After three weeks of heavy drinking and thorough reconsideration of my life decisions, I decided to keep living and to just cut off the cutout. But I have never been the same. Effin' I/O shields.

 

Edit/ It's a mental toll. Perhaps a slight loss in potential resell value.

 

Edit2/ Someone else has been equally [redacted].

[Polyvalent]

Tripped on my cat and grabbed my 27" ASUS monitor so I wouldn't lose teeth.  Destroyed the monitor and ripped the mount out of the wall.  Desk was fine though, still have it actually.

[Mark Kaine]

Buying 8GB DDR4 RAM for ~€80 during the time I built my PC because there were simply no cheaper options... Should have definitely waited a year or so,  but who does this lol... 

 

That or the Ryzen 2200G I bought at the same time thinking, as told, I could just buy a GPU later and everything would be fine and dandy,  little did I know that 4 cores and no hyperthreading is actually trash for gaming, so technically that was even a worse investment than the overpriced RAM.