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

[aisle9]

4 minutes ago, LTT_fanboy said:

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

Are you sure it's even really a 1050 Ti? It's probably a GTS 450. No way scammers send you something as valuable as a 1050 Ti.

[LTT_fanboy]

Just now, aisle9 said:

Are you sure it's even really a 1050 Ti? It's probably a GTS 450. No way scammers send you something as valuable as a 1050 Ti.

they said it was a 3090 and i paid 300-400 usd i dont remember what teh price was but they listed it as a 3090 lololol

[flibberdipper]

Kind of a 3-way tie for me between an ASRock N68C-GS FX, HIS IceQ 6570, and Corsair H115i, but I think overall the H115i takes the crown.

 

Both the motherboard and graphics card shit the bed, with the 6570 just conking out randomly and afterwards the mobo would just get more and more unstable, with the northbridge getting so hot it started to melt the fucking lettering off.

 

But the H115i was just such a letdown in all regards. Didn't really cool my G3258 much better than the 212 EVO I had previously (even when I set it to intake so it wasn't exhausting the heat from my 7950 too), and because Corsair in their infinite fucking wisdom decided to use airflow fans on a radiator, said fans hauled ASS trying to keep my coolant temp below 35C. Kinda wish I would have just nutted up to getting a Dark Rock Pro 4, but the idea of such a chonkin beast hanging off the board made me pussy out of it. And the cherry on top: I had two of them. The first one I RMA'd because it had a very slow leak around the barbs of the radiator after a few months. Nothing serious, literally just enough to keep the tops of the fittings wet. The second one had an trash pump from the day I got it and I just couldn't be arsed to try again.

 

But hey, at least now I have a beat-to-sin non-functioning AIO in the box that I still haven't been able to get rid of, and some bitchin airflow fans.

[freeagent]

That award would go to the EVGA 680i SLi that cost me 300 and couldn't run a Q6600 @ stock.

 

I'm sure there are others but right now that's the one.

 

I think a bios update later fixed it, but fuck that board I sold it after 2-4 weeks of frustration.

[Tonyx]

AsRock Z97 Pro 4, died (burned circuit) after 24 months so right out of warranty.

Then i replaced with a cheap ass msi h97 but i regred because i cant squeeze some extra juice out of my i5 4670k.

Another lemon was my netbook, Acer Aspire One 751h, it looked way nicer, with better design, battery life and bigger and HD screen compared to others netbook back in 2010, too bad has the weaker atom cpu ever and GPU acceleration compatibility was a nightmare due to powervx instead of intel designed integratore GPU

[Murasaki]

The first PSU I had in my old build before my current. It was a FSP Aurum S. I absolutely had no knowledge about PSUs so a friend recommended it to me and I went for it.

Unit works fine and all but I payed around the same amount as I did for my EVGA G3 but its non modular - terrible thick braided cables and considering the amount it had I basically nicknamed it "the squid". Also apparently its rating is a D on the PSU tier list. When I built my next setup one of my goals was to go modular and never look back.

[Tamesh16]

I got a usb hub as a gift, but it was usb type 3 and required a separate power adapter, My old pc only had one usb port, but I upgraded soon after to my current laptop with two usb a and 2 type c, so I just ended up never using it

[aisle9]

12 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Kind of a 3-way tie for me between an ASRock N68C-GS FX, HIS IceQ 6570, and Corsair H115i, but I think overall the H115i takes the crown.

Thanks for reminding me about the Enermax Liqmax 240S II that murdered my old i7-4790K lol. Once again, a lesson that a $45 AIO is probably a dangerous AIO.

[Beerzerker]

3 hours ago, Tristerin said:

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

You haven't seen what I've got laying around here - And I just bought something else last night:
And I've got multiples of at least some of them.

https://hwbot.org/user/bones/#Hardware_Library

As for regrets, well.... I guess that would be the Crossblade Ranger board, never ran well and I personally never used it for anything.
It's still around but now my dad is using it so, not a complete waste here.
 

[flibberdipper]

21 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Thanks for reminding me about the Enermax Liqmax 240S II that murdered my old i7-4790K lol. Once again, a lesson that a $45 AIO is probably a dangerous AIO.

Also a lesson that a, like, $100 AIO is probably a bad investment too.

[Moonzy]

recently? gigabyte 3090

 

it's god awful, i can't even describe how much i hate it

 

but not enough to return it, still lol

i never returned an item before -thonk-

[aisle9]

34 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

recently? gigabyte 3090

 

it's god awful, i can't even describe how much i hate it

 

but not enough to return it, still lol

i never returned an item before -thonk-

Sell it for a year of college tuition.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Sell it for a year of college tuition.

i have few options

1) sell it as you've said

2) send it in for RMA, complaining about the 110c VRAM temps and they'll probably offer a refund (but they might just send a card after seeing how much i paid lol)

3) deal with it (which im currently doing so, and hating it)

[steelo]

Can't really think of a bad component, but back circa 2005 I purchased a Dell desktop with a Pentium D CPU. All I can say is, this thing was a POS. It included a halfway decent GPU at the time (6800gt) but the CPU literally would bottleneck every game.

 

To make matters worse, I turned it on one day and heard a 'crack' and it never worked again.

[aisle9]

1 hour ago, steelo said:

Can't really think of a bad component, but back circa 2005 I purchased a Dell desktop with a Pentium D CPU. All I can say is, this thing was a POS. It included a halfway decent GPU at the time (6800gt) but the CPU literally would bottleneck every game.

 

To make matters worse, I turned it on one day and heard a 'crack' and it never worked again.

 

Pentium D + shitty mid-200's Dell engineering + the Great Capacitor Plague = 

[Heliian]

8 hours 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, you actually got a deal on a 1050ti.

[Leade]

Sapphire HD 7770, which I bought for $ 45 from an internet cafe 3 months ago. Decoded deconstructed 2 at the time, but one broke down 1 month ago, and the other cuts the image from time to time.

[Chrismike]

13 hours 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

Be careful. Those things could actually fry a pc.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

50 minutes ago, Chrismike said:

Be careful. Those things could actually fry a pc.

I've never heard of one doing that.

Just ones that have their names changed in gpuz.

 

Though it sounds like this is a 1050ti that someone called a 3090 on the listing, nothing modded.

[DSD27]

MSI GTX 770 Gaming and MSI Force G20 controller.

[TetraSky]

AMD Phenom II 965 CPU and whatever motherboard I needed for it.
Piece of sh*t never worked properly.

Always got an HyperTransport Sync Floor Error out of it.

Replaced it after a few months of pulling my hairs and trying to fix it through BIOS, software and even hardware replacements, with an Intel i7 875. Which worked flawlessly from day one for 9 years.

[thrasher_565]

2x sets of 3 Cooler Master MasterFan Pro 140 (2 broken fans bad barrings poor quality fans)

Cooler Master ML120R (doa rgb/argb controller)

 

 

[rice guru]

fallin into the initial ryzen hype and getting a b450 mobo and a 1300x instead of going with a i3 at the time when 1st gen ryzen was new. hard core stutters  with my 1060 at the time. but the b450 board held me down for a few years before I gave the system away when I made more money and upgraded. 

[TempestCatto]

Cooler Master hyper212. That thing is pretty good at cooling, but wins the Nobel prize for worst mounting design. I'd honestly rather cool a CPU with a cheap Chinese cooler off of Amazon whilst tightly grasping the testicles of a hungry pissed off mountain lion, than a hyper212. I hope they discontinue those dreadful abominations.

[Chrismike]

3 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I've never heard of one doing that.

Just ones that have their names changed in gpuz.

 

Though it sounds like this is a 1050ti that someone called a 3090 on the listing, nothing modded.

Oh hope it’s an honest mistake in listing. I’m actually referring to counterfeit/fake/imitation cards. Like those listed as 3090 at incredulously low prices. If you’re lucky it will just not be recognized as the specific model, but as just a plug n play display driver. Other cases, it fries up the board.

 

was actually considering of buying a 3080 just for the heck of it. Worse thing that could happen is, I’d get a brick card. Or so i thought. Try YouTubing fake gpu off of ebays. I’m from the Philippines. The amazon we have here is called Lazada. Another is aliexpress. Try to search for them. Pretty entertaining.

 

here’s one: