Tech Confession Time!

[Goldilock]

Have you suffered a recent blow to the head?

 

no, it was because game dev always make the same god damn thing over and over again, more alliens, more medieval, more 4 elemental magic.

 

but that was history , now I am full PC gamer mainly MMORPG where soloing and competing with cash players are even more fun in F2P than games I used to know. ANd I also enjoy racing. right now I am saving to get K90 RGB 

[ThyFeared]

My terrible 1st build...

[Majinferno]

I didn't stop my mom from unplugging the desktop during the partition process. The whole OS was done for.

[Guest]

I use the cooler that came with the cpu. Its really not that bad once you undervolt your cpu

[Guest]

I started with a plan to buy my rig piece by piece over a few months. After the case and mobo I realized the risk of doa was not smart. Thankfully my mobo has a hefty warranty.

I dumped ~$500 into my Probook 4530s for 1080p and SSD upgrade along with fixing broken hinges (twice!).

I bought a first generation product from Asus, the T100,it is being RMAed as I TYPE.

I bought a PS4 and Vita.

i have a 4530s too! Too bad its half broken

[geforceftw]

When i got my first pc, It with a gateway something or other with a 3.0ghz p4 (socket 775) and a couple gigs of  DDR2 ( still have the p4 and still works.) I got curious one day and took the CPU cooler off and took out the cpu and i wondered what the gunk was and wiped a bunch of it off, thats not the worst part.. I messed up a bunch of the pins on the motherboard with my finger. I was around 10 or 11 and when it didn't post i knew it was done. Funny thing is i had my older brother look at it later and took the CPU and said it was due to the pins being bent. I didn't tell him i was inside the case tinkering around but i think he knew. Shorty after i got a new ECS mobo and some ram and i rebuilt it WITH thermal paste and it posted first time IIRC. I will never do that again. (knocks on wood) 

I replaced the mobo with this or something very similar http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135232

 

Another time was a few years ago (15/16) when i was fixing my rrod xbox 360 with the oven trick. It worked for a few months and i eventually wanted to clean it all and replace the thermal paste.. When i was taking the heatsink off the CPU the tool i was using slipped and jabbed the board and messed up some traces from the CPU or GPU...  I knew it was broke and i got it put back together and it didn't work anymore. The xbox 360 uses x clamps on the heat sink for the gpu and cpu, Heres a pic of the back of the 360 motherboard. http://bit.ly/1uC8Iq2

[LapX]

I used to recommend asus, never ever will i do that again

Why ? I've never had a bad experience with an Asus product.

[LapX]

I got an extreme edition that isn't overclocked and it's cooled by an H100i...

 

Also I'd like to watercool my entire system but only because it looks nice because I never plan to overclock since it takes too much time...

[rodion.zissou]

i have a 4530s too! Too bad its half broken

Ya I've repaired mine a few times. The best thing I bought for it was a non working one from eBay as a parts source. Much cheaper than buying replacement hinges from manufacturer for example.

[CzarFrog]

I am saving off buying a GPU until school is over/I have money, so in the mean time I am using a 630 that was in my old small form factor PC.

To add to that, I couldn't find my full height bracket for the card so I just bent the old one to make it fit.

[gasho]

I participated in a contest to win a Xbox 360.

 

Sorry

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

whenever I recover data on a person's computer when the computer is dead(motherboard, CPU, etc) and not worth fixing, I "forget" to reinstall their HDD if they ask for the computer back. then I perform a DOD secure erase(10x full overwrite) and set it on the shelf. their data is safe and a good HDD is not wasted.

I guess the redeeming bit is that I don't charge for the hard drive if I install it in another person's machine when their drive dies.

[Metrize]

I'm using an intel core 2 duo 1.86ghz with 2gb ddr2. yeah, come at me

[Lutkeveld]

When wiring a charger I looked up which was the + and which was the - on an AC signal because it wasn't on the PCB 

[reedce1]

I wiped my old HDD by accident when I installed my SSD.

My cable management looks like the devil's anus.

[DroPouT1999]

I dropped my PC off my desk while it was on...

[GymothyCharles]

I call nvidia nuhvidia

I bought an i5 4430 for gaming

Up until two months ago I thought the only plus side of a ssd was no moving parts

Up until 3 years ago I thought apple was superior to all... please dont smite me... but now I dont own a single apple product except for a 4th gen ipod touch that I havent touched for 6 months.

I use adblock

I pirated stardock fences, all my music, most of the movies I have watched, and a few games.

I will post more after I have thought of more sins

[Real_PhillBert]

I have no idea how to embed video's into a post here...

[Darkman]

I have no idea how to embed video's into a post here...

I believe it's the same as posting a link, they're supposed to embed themselves.

[RickLovesBacon]

I almost bought a Xbox one.

[Lil Chillbil]

You gotta shoot RAW. Who are you, Ken Rockwell?

 

 

whoopdy doo... I shoot raw now

 

 

 

[OfficialJsP]

I will start first. I had a 1200 budget for my PC and................. I DID NOT BUY AN SSD...    Im such a disgrace.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry. Tech People.

 

i done the exact same thing 

[Mooshi]

I filled an RMA request with Mushkin thinking my ram kit was being dumb since one stick was causing error 55. I've fixed the issue by clearing cmos and starting from scratch, should have done this first. :l

[silencerbob]

I needed HDD space so I deleted c:/windows ... *cringe*

[connorpiper]

I did not have a SSD until I ripped the one out of my laptop 2 weeks ago.