Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Aaanum1]

I once overloaded a power supply. I installed the GTX 560Ti I have now, then was stunned by the fra - BOOM. It scared me so much I tipped my chair and grabbed my keyboard on the way down and broke it. Suprisingly, the keyboard and the power supply are the only things that broke.

[GrayFoxbr]

Bought a lycosa a long time ago and it was just crazy. The media keys on the touch panel would go awry and pause/play skip songs and get stuck. Some times a few keys would stop working, random flickering on the back light...the list is long. But this was my experience with only one keyboard so i dont rage on Razer.Small sample size.

[EmoRarity]

Why was it a bad purchase? Mine seems fine.

I got it thinking that it would out put less heat then one of my 570's, it did not...I have since sent it back and am currently running the most beastly GT430 ever. 

[EmoRarity]

Hope it isn't as hot as AZ, gets around 110-120 around here in the summer, I think I would literally die without A/C.

Right next door to you in the greaser state. Just as "bad" here, though you get used to it. 

[Torey]

Right next door to you in the greaser state. Just as "bad" here, though you get used to it. 

 

I moved to AZ just under a year ago and still don't think I'm even slightly used to it. My house in Wisconsin was kept at 68 F, My house here in AZ is kept at 78 F and the electric bill in the summer is still 500+ Dollars -.-

[thewolf753]

probably trying to use a laptops dvd drive to install windows xp on an external usb HD and clicking on the wrong drive to format :3

[EmoRarity]

I moved to AZ just under a year ago and still don't think I'm even slightly used to it. My house in Wisconsin was kept at 68 F, My house here in AZ is kept at 78 F and the electric bill in the summer is still 500+ Dollars -.-

Have you cooked an egg on the sidewalk yet? You haven't truly lived in the Southwest till you have. 

[AceHunter]

Iphone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shatal]

Does Sim City count?

Don't think it's bad... That's when you can play.

 

EA.

[chris]

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1

yeah. I hit the wrong number as root and didn't notice until my documents drive was annihilated.

Despite this incident, I still love disk destroyer...

[orangecat]

To much conductive thermal paste... bad for CPUS when it drips under them.

[vanwazltoff]

My Zalman cooler, just because I couldn't mount the thing without breaking my board.

I hate Zalman cooler, it rattles without a piece of string tied to the frame somewhere, everyone has out of hyper 212s at the time though

[vanwazltoff]

bought a netbook, luckily was able to return it, what a slow piece of crap. cooler master haf 912, ran out of money on my first brand new build and i bought a cheap case, everything about it felt cheap, I threw in a few small items and some fans and I was able to get the same price I payed for it back. buying 6 cooler master sickle flow fans without a fan controller, i honestly dont use any of them anymore and when i did they were ungodly loud, with 6 you could hear it all the way down the hallway! gave away 4 and i have 2 sitting in my reject parts box with stock case fans and optical drives. bought original Asus transformer, they was almost no tablet app support back then everything was an upscaled phone app, took that back too

[TechTheWorld]

That MCDonalds "Fish" "Sandwich".

[Stigfest]

Mine would be not plugging in the exhaust fan in one of my old PCs. The problem was, it was the only fan in the system besides the heatsink fan, which meant the system was being passively cooled... Nothing was damaged, just shut down on me a couple times before I realized what was wrong.

[vanwazltoff]

HP Pavilion dv6000.... $1000usd laptop... Battery died after 15days (one day more than the warranty, so I got screwed ) Integrated webcam and dvd drive wouldn't work properly as in they weren't recognized most of the time... and 6months later the whole thing just died... CPU/MOBO heat related issues and HP warranty didn't do crap for me...

I ended up selling it for a few pennies

I have to repair more HP and Toshiba laptops more than everything, Dell is after that. I pretty much exclusively buy from Asus and I honestly have not turned back since

[Sharkyx1]

[vanwazltoff]

surprisingly my macbook wasnt a bad purchase, hell it made me who i am today: a computer gamer and influenced my career and interest in computers

[Godlygamer23]

I own two of those right now. Mine are 100% fine, except for the fan, which isn't very quiet above 40%

[kirashi]

I have a networking/router fettish. Currently I have many that were bought because of DD-WRT, only to find out there were some issues with certain chipsets. Others are technically paperweights as only the BOLD routers/switches are currently in use. The reason I consider them bad purchases is because of performance, but that was mostly my fault. (I used to always buy the cheapest or deal-based networking equipment before YouTube and other media grew up. Now I realize cheap networking is never an option when building a solid network.) Probably going to upgrade to either ASUS RT-N66U or an AC router when AC matures.

Linksys

• WRT400N Dual-Band 802.11b/g/n (Atheros based SoC; runs DD-WRT, many glitches with Linux-based systems in authentication process)
• WRT160Nv3 RangePlus 802.11b/g/n (My current DD-WRT K26 based hub running our home network; paired with SD2008t 8-Port Gigabit Switch)
• WRT120N 802.11b/g/n(draft) (Spaceship design and poor performance allow it to be more useful as a flying saucer/Frisbee)
• WRT54Gv2 802.11b/g (Lying dormant as an emergency backup; adapter overheats)
• SD2008t 8-Port Gigabit Switch (It's a switch; no modifications necessary)

D-Link

• DI-524revC 802.11b/g (DI-624 Rangebooster Custom Firmware)
• DI-524revA 802.11b/g (Stock)

On another note, these routers do make great paperweights or framable artwork, if thy have wall mount holes.

[Sharkyx1]

I own two of those right now. Mine are 100% fine, except for the fan, which isn't very quiet above 40%

This is one of my biggest issues

and then

1GB Vram is maxed out in most of my games at 1680x1050

ocing turns the fan into a turbine

probably should have just spent more money on a card

it was the first purchase on my build and i later recommended a 7950 to a friend and he makes fun of me for having a weak and noisy card, i was thinking about getting a second one but prices have actually gone up since i bought mine in february

[albinosquid]

Turtle Beach Z6 7.1 Headset sounded like crap and felt like a McDonalds toy, then one of the 8 speakers died so they just collect dust now.

[Snickerzz]

COD and saints row 3

[Nick]

8800 GTS 320MB when I could have got a 8800GT 512MB for cheaper. That was the day I stopped listing to the people at the retailers and did my own research.

[Slinkey]

Probably my 'gaming' headphones "Steel Series 7H Fnatic Edition"