What was the worst PC component/accessory that you regret buying?

[Lakshya Siddhi]

Comment down below??

[Meowster]

5 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

Comment down below??

A cheap $14 "750W" PSU. I didn't know at the time that those cheap PSUs aren't regulated and fried my motherboard. It happened in 2014

[Lakshya Siddhi]

3 minutes ago, Meowster said:

A cheap $14 "750W" PSU. I didn't know at the time that those cheap PSUs aren't regulated and fried my motherboard. It happened in 2014

Did it harm any of your components???

[NineEyeRon]

G13

 

I used it out of necessity for 3 years, it did the job but I wish I didn’t have to buy it. I didn’t hate it but didn’t love it either. I didn’t game often enough at the time to get used to it, going back to a keyboard felt natural. If I had used it every other day I would have been fine but I didn’t.

 

It always felt just a little bit off...

[Meowster]

5 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

Did it harm any of your components???

Yes, my motherboard and a GTX 970. I didn't know they could do so much damage. Now I pretty much avoid anything that isnt 80 plus

[Radium_Angel]

USB wifi devices.

They all suck.

[Lakshya Siddhi]

16 minutes ago, NineEyeRon said:

G13

 

I used it out of necessity for 3 years, it did the job but I wish I didn’t have to buy it. I didn’t hate it but didn’t love it either. I didn’t game often enough at the time to get used to it, going back to a keyboard felt natural. If I had used it every other day I would have been fine but I didn’t.

 

It always felt just a little bit off...

Interesting, I thought they more convenient to use...... 

[Lakshya Siddhi]

16 minutes ago, Meowster said:

Yes, my motherboard and a GTX 970. I didn't know they could do so much damage. Now I pretty much avoid anything that isnt 80 plus

Sorry for your loss buddy...  lessons learnt the hard do way get imprinted forever....

[Lakshya Siddhi]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

USB wifi devices.

They all suck.

I agree 100% , the speeds on them are terrible compared to Pcie adapters, or even better, use ethernet, loseless internet.......

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

I agree 100% , the speeds on them are terrible compared to Pcie adapters, or even better, use ethernet, loseless internet.......

I would find they overheat fairly quickly, and then shut down, requiring them to be pulled out of the USB port, cooled off, and try again.

Wash.

Rinse.

Repeat.

 

[Kanna]

This RGB fan I have in my PC, the site didn't mention it didn't come with a fan controller and that it would be extra now that I have the fan controller the fan seems to not do anything and I have RGB off lol

[Lakshya Siddhi]

2 minutes ago, Kanna said:

This RGB fan I have in my PC, the site didn't mention it didn't come with a fan controller and that it would be extra now that I have the fan controller the fan seems to not do anything and I have RGB off lol

Some product pages don't give clear information at all

[NineEyeRon]

26 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

Interesting, I thought they more convenient to use...... 

It depends on the person, some yes, some no. I was a no.

[LTT_fanboy]

it was a fake 3090 ti lololol it was like 200 dollars and listed as a 3090 it was a 1050 ti T^T i got big scammed

[Tristerin]

Regret?  All of my PC components that I dont actually need.  I have more PC's, and components than people available to man them.  

 

BUT - that regret only sets in after I have done everything I wanted to with my shiny new toy, because Im like....now what to do? lol

 

And since I dont sell hardware...I then regret buying something I dont "NEED".  

 

BUT, it always provides me with a good time, so the regret is only realized after boredom sinks in

[Tristerin]

35 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I would find they overheat fairly quickly, and then shut down, requiring them to be pulled out of the USB port, cooled off, and try again.

Wash.

Rinse.

Repeat.

 

Ebay from China I bought 10 USB 2.0 wifi adapters (just needed them in case I was working on something that didnt have cable available to reach, etc) - now granted I knew they were bottom barrel, but muh gods.  They are only JUST useful enough (and not worth the cost to look at returning) to have in the tool box in case I need an extra USB wifi stick in a pinch.  I paid like $2 each or less lol.  The disconnects are terrible at best.

[WhitetailAni]

Believe it or not, I've bought maybe 6 tech things, and they all worked fine.

But the worst thing I've ever had to use were external SD card readers.

I have one. It's a little white-and-pink cube. I stole it from Target when I was 5 (found it on the floor, put it in my pocket to put back, forgot about).

And it SUCKS.

It only sometimes works, and when it does, there's a specific sequence you have to use with it.

1. Insert the Mini-USB cable into the adapter

2. Insert the SD card into the slot

3. Connect the other end of the Mini-USB to USB cable into a USB port that must NOT be USB 3.0

4. Remove the SD card and Mini-USB cable from the adapter

5. Insert the SD card

6. Insert the Mini-USB cable

 

And then it works.

 

Thankfully I don't need it anymore.

[Husky]

My Corsair H110i GTX. Nothing's really wrong with it, but it was just so... underwhelming? It's loud because the fans have to ramp up a lot because it struggles to keep my 6700K cool under load.

[jtmoseley]

1 hour ago, LTT_fanboy said:

it was a fake 3090 ti lololol it was like 200 dollars and listed as a 3090 it was a 1050 ti T^T i got big scammed

lol a 1050ti is worth like 200 on ebay rn

[OCNewbee]

fan hub for $30. Did not offer individualized fan control. Corsair commander pro changed my life.

[SorryBella]

RX 460 4GB. Literally never reach enough fps to use that whole 4GB in any settings beyond medium

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The FPS, they just overtake me in the grass like a GP2. GP2 GPU, GP2. AHHHHH!

 

[Tan3l6]

300W Codegen PSU 

Did ded. Though it was socket A system 15+ years ago and an ancient version of the PSU.

[FmPhenom]

Samsung g7

 

Curved VA

 

Refresh rate was nice but overall image quality and color was ugly. 

 

It looked good until I sat it next to my OG LG 34" ultrawide 3440x1440 IPS panel. Sure its only 60hz compared to the 240 on the G7. I don't notice a difference at all.

 

Took it back to microcenter.

[LTT_fanboy]

45 minutes ago, jtmoseley said:

lol a 1050ti is worth like 200 on ebay rn

the gpu was listed as a 3090 ti and when i got it , it was a 1050 ti i got teh scammed T^T

[aisle9]

Some "high-end" Antec PSU I bought in 2015. Right after I started building PCs again by putting a gaming unit together for myself. I should have known $47 for 750W was a dumpster fire waiting to happen, even if the PSU did have a blue illuminated ring inside of it that looked cool, but I forgot the rule of PSUs: higher wattage + lower price = boom.

 

There was no boom, but after a couple of weeks, there was a rapid power-cycling when I tried to turn the PC on, and when I was able to get the PC up and running again, one of the PCIe slots was f**ked, any attempt to change the fan curve in Windows froze the system, any attempt to turn on wifi froze the system, and BIOS would instantly freeze if I went into it. I exchanged that unit for a different Antec, then bought the Corsair RM650i I use today.

 

And that other Antec unit? I plugged it into the HP Elite HPe-170f that I was passing on to my then-wife so I could upgrade the GPU and RAM for her. That, for the record, was the best PC I have ever owned. I say "was" because the new Antec unit did the exact same thing, the motherboard was never stable again, and I ended up pulling the CPU, CPU cooler, hard drive and a piece of the case bezel off as mementos of the best PC I'd ever owned, then unceremoniously disposed of the rest of it.

 

I have never bought an Antec product again, and I never will, because that company is a piece of