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building my current pc instead of buying a 2010 mac pro. i prefer macOS and regret buying this pc a lot. 

 

i'm currently saving up to buy a 2010 mac pro which i will then upgrade using some parts of my current pc. 

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45 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

building my current pc instead of buying a 2010 mac pro. i prefer macOS and regret buying this pc a lot. 

 

i'm currently saving up to buy a 2010 mac pro which i will then upgrade using some parts of my current pc. 

Hackintosh it

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hackintosh it

i'd rather not. the biggest reason i love macOS is stability. if i hackintosh it i lose that. 

 

+ i don't want to get into piracy.

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This is not a mistake per se... Well, at least I really really really hope it isn't. I don't know yet for sure. :)

 

I'm currently in the process of upgrading to Ryzen. Bought my Asus X370 Pro and my 1600x. Discovered my Noctua NH-U14S isn't compatible with AM4. Got a free AM4 kit from Noctua. Took my mobo out of the box today to install the AM4 kit and install the processor (planning to get RAM and finish the build one of these days). 

 

Then, during the process, my screwdriver falls sideways over the socket. It's a plastic AMD socket, no way it could be damaged, and not with the screwdriver falling onto it from like 1 inch height, but I still discover a tiny little dent on the socket. I put in the CPU, and it goes in perfectly, no problems. I even take it out to check if maybe one of the pins are bent, but no, they're all perfectly straight. So I guess everything's fine. If one of those little holes was bent out of shape, the processor's pins wouldn't be able to set in perfectly, right?

 

But there's still that little background fear that makes me wonder if maaaaaaaaaybe that microscopic little dent on the cpu socket is gonna ruin the whole thing and I'm going to end up troubleshooting/returning everything.

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$150 glass implement, knocked it off desk broke over PC...bye PC and expensive glass water thing ;).  ??

 

Recently...last month I was under the influence and gaming.  Crossfire caused artifacts.  Winning, so couldn't do the right thing, so thought F it maybe it wont hurt.  Opened PC case during my revive time and disabled crossfire by removing ribbon cable with cards under load.  Kept gaming, however burned out the bridge, and likely the second GPU's crossfire components on the PCB...new bridge is still on its way from china to test.

 

Hate to admit it. lol

 

 

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Bent my CPU by an accidental misplace on the socket, my mum was talking with me while I was mounting it soo....
Fixed it by miracle using pilers, it started to work.


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7 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Buying an nvidia card. I've just traded my 1080Ti for a vega FE.

Why?

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Not really a mistake moreso I kinda necessitated it, but buying an Athlon X4 950.

Between the Athlon X4 950 and the Athlon 200GE, if you can get the latter nowadays, GET IT. It's Ryzen based, so it already kicks the Bristol Ridge chip's ass, not to mention the X4 isn't worth $60. That being said, at least it worked with my board out of the box.

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Putting my thumb on the screen of my old laptop to adjust the angle & pushing so hard that the screen cracked. 

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I don't remember how old I was, but not very. I don't think I could read properly yet. I remeber I was curious what the red switch on the back of the PC was. You know, the one that lets you choose between 110 and 220. So I flipped it from 220 to 110, while it was plugged in.

Needless to say, the magic smoke escaped.

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Just the other day, I was changing some components and switching to a new case. I had one heck of a fail.

I was mounting my CPU cooler, and failed about 6 times because I did not notice my cpu was not in the socket. It was the plastic cover. After I got it mounted I was so confused on why it wouldnt start until I looked next to my keyboard and my cpu was right there.

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can't say i've ever messed up that bad

I've had my share of forgetting to flip the power supply switch and such , but never in 15 years put a cpu cooler on top of nothing.

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This isn't exactly stupid, but I often forget to snap in the I/O plate. 

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heh... actually i just remembered a good one.....

when i was 14 i had a compaq deskpro that used a non standard gpu bracket on the back. I attempted to cut the slot bigger with a sawsall..... without removing the motherboard from the case. the blade of the sawsall went into the gpu slot on the boardboard destroying the slot and board in the process. lol , good times

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6 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

This isn't exactly stupid, but I often forget to snap in the I/O plate. 

Classic. ;)

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21 minutes ago, NiamhNyx said:

Just the other day, I was changing some components and switching to a new case. I had one heck of a fail.

I was mounting my CPU cooler, and failed about 6 times because I did not notice my cpu was not in the socket. It was the plastic cover. After I got it mounted I was so confused on why it wouldnt start until I looked next to my keyboard and my cpu was right there.

just yesterday i was cleaning and then redoing the cables on my build and i forgot to plug in the CPU 8 pin connector i just routed it right over the plug 

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28 minutes ago, seoz said:

When I had finally completed my PC, and I hit the power button, nothing turned on.

 

Guess what the issue was? I forgot to turn on the wall socket plug.

Installing the PSU. pressing the on the switch and it doesn't turn on. Then realized that it wasn't even connected

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2 hours ago, NiamhNyx said:

Just the other day, I was changing some components and switching to a new case. I had one heck of a fail.

I was mounting my CPU cooler, and failed about 6 times because I did not notice my cpu was not in the socket. It was the plastic cover. After I got it mounted I was so confused on why it wouldnt start until I looked next to my keyboard and my cpu was right there.

Not building a PC, but opening my laptop I used a box cutter because I didn't have any plastic thingys. Took a few chunks out of the side of the laptop and (thanks to my using it really short to avoid potentially hitting anything that matter, and it being a box cutter) broke some of the little clamp things (can't think of the names).

 

Also somehow managed to have a screw fall out...the screws are all locked in place (not the best explanation, lol).

 

And why did I open up the Laptop....no reason. Just wanted to take a look.

 

On the bright side, I won't be making that mistake again. I try my best to only do stupid things once ;)

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Got a little ahead of myself and pulled out a GPU on a live system. Immediately saw what I did and facepalmed. Nothing bad happened though.

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in the older days, i had a modded promise Ata66 controller with the resister and the biosflash to make it a Raid controller, and running all my data on a Raid 0 configuration, for SPEEEEEEED..

 

i don´t really know how it happened, but got mad at a lan party, since my system was running really funky, and just reinstalled the whole shit, got all my games installed.

 

the day after i noticed, i had deleted my raid partition with all my pictures, documents on it, and used it as i game drive...

 

i could not retrieve much from these disks, is was the death of Raid for me.. fun though running raid, when numbers in synthetic benchmarks, were more important for me that actually using my pc.

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I was cleaning out my old optiplex 755 and I dumped rubbing alcohol on the motherboard. it doesn't turn on now

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