What part/peripheral do you regret buying the most?

[Gandek]

If none kudos to you. I personally have experimented way too much with various peripherals I currently have 2 mice plugged in so yeah... For me it would have to be the Corsair K70 RGB Rapidfire its a nice keyboard and all but i really should have saved or spent that $140 I payed during summer of 2017 elsewhere. I bought my cousin a $45 Mechnaical keyboard (EagleTec KG010) and it made me really see i was overspending in that area. Nowadays you can even get a full size mechanical corsair keyboard for $69... (Corsair STRAFE)

[Oshino Shinobu]

I bought a Mad Catz M.M.O.7 once. God, that thing was awful and expensive. 

[SquintyG33Rs]

a gt 730 for like 80$ at bestbuy. when i swapped it after 2 weeks for a used 650 that was better

[Zodiark1593]

Easy. The cpu, not because I bought it two weeks before Skylake launched. Because the HT E3 Xeons were a thing I didn't know about until after I had bought the i5-4590. $50 more would have effectively bought me i7 performance. Kind of stings tbh.

[ATFink]

Although it wasn't terrible, I owned a Corsair 400d (I think that was its name... don't remember) case which I thought ran too hot when I had an R9 Fury GPU. The case was probably fine and I was probably more concerned than I should have been, but it was too large and unwieldy so it always stood out (negatively) in a room.

 

Fortunately I have proper airflow in my NZXT S340, so heat isn't an issue (sometimes I take off the front grill if I know I'll use it extensively for an extended period of time). It also looks decent and not so much out of place in my room.

[themctipers]

g910 keyboard

 

 

romer g is fucking awful.

[Drak3]

Razer Ouroboros and BlackWidow Chroma. Shittiest mice and keyboards out there.

[Zodiark1593]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

g910 keyboard

 

 

romer g is fucking awful.

On the other hand, I'm enjoying the G710+ I bought at Wal Mart for $40, and have been laughing to the bank ever since.

[themctipers]

Just now, Zodiark1593 said:

On the other hand, I'm enjoying the G710+ I bought at Wal Mart for $40, and have been laughing to the bank ever since.

i regret not buying the $100 CAD K95 R G B 

or was it K90 .. 

 

hmm..

[DrAwesome821]

Hmm, if anything it'd probably be just owning 2 super low budget laptops (a 2009 Acer Aspire One netbook and a 2014 HP 15") before upgrading to a used desktop a year ago. Believe me, my HP laptop with its AMD E1-2100 (1ghz Dual core APU) with a Radeon HD8210 iGPU wasn't even within spitting distance of my current system (Phenom X4 @ 3.6ghz and a 780ti). The APU system couldn't even playback DVDs for comparison, while my desktop rips and tears through some more modern titles like Paladins, Warframe, and Payday 2.

 

The netbook surprisingly holds up more as I still regularly use it for a portable emulation device, although because of Windows 7 I'm limited to this ultra janky "Joystick compatible" usb gamepad because Xbox controllers aren't supported.

[Syntaxvgm]

The G710+. 

I own a fuck ton of mech keyboards including cheapo ones, and this one's my least favorite...it's just...mush. 

[Zodiark1593]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

i regret not buying the $100 CAD K95 R G B 

or was it K90 .. 

 

hmm..

I should probably replace my potato Thermaltake 430 watt power supply at some point too, but my PC probably comsumes maybe some 200 watts under load, so I've never really bothered.

[themctipers]

Just now, Zodiark1593 said:

I should probably replace my potato Thermaltake 430 watt power supply at some point too, but my PC probably comsumes maybe some 200 watts under load, so I've never really bothered.

i don't regret paying $25 for my evga 600b

 

it hasn't caught on fire for 2 years, yet.

[Zodiark1593]

Just now, themctipers said:

i don't regret paying $25 for my evga 600b

 

it hasn't caught on fire for 2 years, yet.

After rebate, mine wound up being $15. No magic smoke either, though I will probably swap it out when I add in some additional storage.

[themctipers]

Just now, Zodiark1593 said:

After rebate, mine wound up being $15. No magic smoke either, though I will probably swap it out when I add in some additional storage.

swapping it out with a seasonic, i suspect it to be the cause of all of my system instabilities. 

[ARikozuM]

Corsair K70; CUE software is sh#t and locks up every time a new program is opened. 

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Corsair K70; CUE software is sh#t and locks up every time a new program is opened. 

Maybe git gud.

 

 

Or download an older/newer version of CUE.

[Zodiark1593]

13 minutes ago, themctipers said:

swapping it out with a seasonic, i suspect it to be the cause of all of my system instabilities. 

I haven't had any sort of stability issue, even under load, though the 960 doesn't draw all that much power.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

I haven't had any sort of stability issue, even under load, though the 960 doesn't draw all that much power.

i had overclocked ram/cpu/gpu/multiple 7200 rpm hdds/ssds running off of it

 

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Maybe git gud.

 

 

Or download an older/newer version of CUE.

I had to use a version that was a year old at the time. It sucked. 

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

I had to use a version that was a year old at the time. It sucked. 

Using the current version, both my K70 Lux and 95 Plat are rock solid.

[mrchow19910319]

ok this might stir some shit up but.... ryzen 3 1200....

sure when you pair it with a high speed overclocked ram it is "fine" but just think about this:

 

intel high performane CPU + any ram at any speed. one stick is enough

amd low end CPU + expensive ram. 2 of them

 

which one makes more sense? 

 

you always regret getting the lower end parts... you always do.

 

also a razer deathadder.  

 

Dell P2416D. 1440p display, sure. but the viewing angel and everything feels like meh. compares to my old S2340L.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Razer Blackwidow. Looks cool but its just trash. Thankfully the resale value is high so you can just sell them on. Razer green switches are just awful. 

My Logitech G710+ is just golden before I had to sell it, was surprised had to buy second hand as well because they don't seem to stock them anymore. 

[1234vietnam]

h170 motherboard. 12 year old me was an idiot, z170 was only $20 more.

[Shreyas1]

Amazon basics wired keyboard

 

never will I go back to membrane