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Your Top 5 Worst purchases (Tech Realated and Non tech)

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  1. A Trancend IDE SSD.back in 2004. That thing carzy expensive, and it just didn't work
  2. The Fifty Shades of Grey book. Bought them for a laughe. They weren't funny
  3. A Razer Blackwidow Stealth. That thing broke after 6 months
  4. Bad Rats. Extremely bad game, but shit it was only 50¢
  5. Super Meat Boy. The frustration.

 

how does a mechanical keyboard break in 6 months unless u spill a drink on it?

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how does a mechanical keyboard break in 6 months unless u spill a drink on it?

I don't know. One day the ´e´ and ´o´ key just began double pressing for no reason. So when I wanted to write ´e´ it would write ´ee´ insted. 

I still have it around as a spare, but I hope the keyboard I have now last a bit longer

 

Razer. They always find a way.

I don't blame Razer for it. Sometimes things just break, and it's my own fault for not opening a warranty case with them.

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Razer. They always find a way.

you mean like my razer mouse that the scroll wheel acts up after 4-5 months of ownership?

 

HD 6670 for 90$. the ddr3 model. saw it had 2 gigs of ram and was sold. a month later i got a hd 7770 for 130. 40$ more, almost exact double of performance. 

 

best purchase was hd 7950, got it for 140, i sold my hd 7770 for 145 :D

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Leap Motion

Energiser rechargeable batteries (Stopped holding charge after 2 months)

PS3 (eneded up living from my bro's)

antec 850w quattro PSU (very very louds fans, only kept it for 1 months then sold it)

Windows Vista....... (maybe this should be at the top off my list).

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Razer Electra (Was my last headset, it didn't last a year till wiring went to crap)
iPhone 4 (Needed something better than the phone I had. Plus $0.09 USD to start on a contract. Also it was WAY outdated at the time)
PS Vita (Thinking about selling this one.)
Cheap Onn Keyboard (Worked for three years, got keyboard in my sig to replace it.)

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Corsair H60 (rather use a air cooler now...)

Xbox 360

Microlab SOLO7C (nothign wrong with them, good speakers but i don't use them.

Wii (whay....)

My motherboard (not bad, but could gotten way better)

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1. Xbox 360

2.Iphone(Horrible experience)

3.99p laptop cooling fan tray(Didnt help whatsoever)

4.Xbox LIve for all of those years

5. A terrible Mic

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1. PS3

2. HP 2000-2B19WM

3. Call of Duty: Black Ops II

4. Gran Turismo 6

5. Logitech Driving Force GT (I like it, but I could have paid $30-40 more for a G27 at the time.)

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:huh: Cake only expires when there is mold on it.  :P

Either way I thought it was expired, it tasted disgusting.  It had a date label on it which was 3 days past. 

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Thermaltake Commander MS III - pretty much no cable management, not the best looks (ironically, I picked it up because of it not looking like a gaming PC Case), rather loud.

i5 3470 - locked, and didn't make much sense for my budget ( I should have picked up an AMD chip and a better GPU). That said, I don't hate the card

Nokia Lumia 610 - So far, the faux silver band has chipped from falling a few centermeters, the screen had gold marks under the digitiser, headphone jack completely died on me, headphone jack again is being flaky and the sim card slot has all but failed

Everything I've ever gotten from the Mac App store ever - I use windows...

Dynamic mic - I didn't realise that the amps on my PC weren't going to be powerful enough to drive it.

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Garrus - HP Stream 11

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Either way I thought it was expired, it tasted disgusting.  It had a date label on it which was 3 days past. 

That is still good!...probably the cake was just bad.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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1988 volvo 740GL (Not even a turbo...) 400bucks

Bridgestone blizzak winter tires for my permanent 4wd toyota hi-ace van... Immediately turned it into "The drift van"... Winter tires are not supposed to do that.

Low energy light bulbs... The warmup before they reach their full brightness is so long THAT THE SUN CAN RISE BEFORE THEY'RE DONE!
Bic single blade razors. The worst razors i've ever used for shaving.

Some Packard Bell easynote argo c or whatever 1.6ghz laptop. 

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That is still good!...probably the cake was just bad.

Ever since then I've never eaten chocolate cake.  It ruined my whole life.  

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Bass

PC (all parts)

Amp

Headphones

Earplugs

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As I get older I get angrier more cynical, meaner. I feel some warning posts coming. I feel a ban coming. I was warned.

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Pre-built PC

Iphone

Razer Tiamat (It broke so fast)

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1: some cheap ass 15 dollar led "gaming mouse" that would randomly stop working requiring me to unplug it and plug it back in

2: Turtle beach z11's.  The chord actually broke today though have sounded like shit and made a weird noise when I moved my head since I got them (also whats the point of padding if it's rock hard?).

my lenovo p500 laptop.  I will never let my parents buy me any tech every again every :P coulda spent a bit more and gotten a much better machine.

3: A belt sander I bought for my knife making hobby.  It stopped working the first week before i finished the knife i was working on.  though It was my fault it is still a waste of money so i'll put it here anyways.  It actually worked quite well before i broke it.

4: I don't even want to talk about my little yoyo phase...

5: I also don't want to talk about the time I just had to have the wooden monkey at world market...

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ASRock N68C-GS FX motherboard and HIS IceQ Radeon HD 6570.

Main rig on profile

VAULT - File Server

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Turtle Beach XP400s (the reason I don't let friends give me advice on audio anymore)

Games for the wii when I had a 360

A non mechanical keyboard

MW3 and BO2 special additions

Cheap USB drives, they always fail after a few uses.

I also came close to buying beats solos but my uncle showed me his sennheisers which put a stop to that

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1) Bad Rats. Should be illegal to buy. More dangerous than meth.

 

2) I bought all of the WoW games up until Wrath of the Lich, but I never actually got to play it since my mother banned me from it. I also bought a ton of guides. Althoughet several 100s of USD on something I never got to use. FML.

 

3) My wii. Found out that I hate sports. Enough said.

 

4) Dishonored. It sucked.

 

5) 96 cans of Pepsi bought at Tax Free between Germany and Denmark. I found out that I don't like Pepsi.

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- Steelseries 6gv2

- Kerbal Space Program (sorta, its just not my thing)

- Anti Static wrist strap haha

- Non Modular psu

- Gmod (I like it i just never play it, maybe one day)

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I accidentically purchased the wrong MSI board and Amazon wouldn't return it. Now it sits in a box, competely unused, crying because I don't use it. :unsure:

 

Also, 499$ on a Halo Xbox. I could have saved that money and have a PS4 by now or maybe even a GPU. :(

 

Also bought PSP parts from Ebay/Local stores. They didn't work and took a fortune out of my pockets. I ended up purchasing my parts from Dealextreme and haven't had a single problem yet.

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1. mw3

2. black ops 2

3. ghosts

4. wii

5. vita

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Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow 2013 Ultimate --- Mouse: Logitech G602 --- Mousepad: Corsair Vengeance MM600 --- Monitor: LG 29UM65

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bf4 and bf4 premium

the avatar game

slow USB sticks (bug me all day)

sony PSP (2010)

pre-built PC with only one exhaust fan

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2x gtx titans

Ps4/ps vita/original psp/Xbox one (no games at all for either system)

Nyko wii u controllers

Matrix online

Viewsonic 19" crt computer monitor

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