Anyone else make regrettable decisions?

[diegoaccord]

Can't believe I did this a year ago. UGH.

 

[thrasher_565]

ya sold a voodoo 5500 agp with water blocks and mb with wb for $100...

mb was new old stock think socket 434 or w/e its called, gpu looked new the seller dint have a way to test it so i got it for $60

Edited January 8 by thrasher_565

[jaslion]

Always. But well you CANNOT know this happens so instead of dwelling on it its just a case of oh well shit happens better luck next time.

 

I sold 1tb of ddr4 in october. Luckalt still have 700 or so at home but like its 5x now going for

[XWAUForceflow]

A few years back I wanted to upgrade my NAS with 8TB SSDs. At that time the price was 300€ per SSD and I was really close to buying, but didn't want to shell out the 1,200 for the four of them. Shortly after prices increased a bit (350 - 400) now they are at 900 per SSD  (If you can even get them at all)

[porina]

Before the release of Nvidia 30 series, I sold off my old GPUs thinking they'll become worthless. Practically gave away a bunch of RX 580s. Then the shortages hit. And mining. DOH!

[SimplyGone]

"Life is an endless stream of bad decisions. People are trying to get away from them at the end of a bottle.  

[cmndr]

I wanted to buy another 8TB sn850x but was waiting for the price to go down... 

 

upside - I have TWO 8TB Samsung QVO SATA drives that I got for $300 each. Any takers? I'll sell at market rate of like 600 or 700. 

[ewitte]

5 hours ago, jaslion said:

Always. But well you CANNOT know this happens so instead of dwelling on it its just a case of oh well shit happens better luck next time.

Yep never know what will happen.  I mean I've spent/sold like 2 BTC back in like 2013-2014 ish.  At its peak that would have been $250k.  I've been back in since about 2017 and while I'm not that well off it's been going up pretty good.

[lboolaka_33]

I mean evidently you didn't need it... so I wouldn't get too hung up. Someday it'll all get cheap again. 

[Uttamattamakin]

Mainly regards not keeping computers I had decades ago and in good condition. The first computer that was really mine all I have left is the motherboard. 

More recently .. I wish I had obtained one of those setups for having a "dual system".  You know like an ATX main system and Min ITX system in one box.  I though virtualization would be enough.  But now we have anti-cheat runing that for gaming. 

[nether1234]

No. But this does remind me I have a spare DDR4 set that is currently not being used...

[diegoaccord]

8 hours ago, porina said:

Before the release of Nvidia 30 series, I sold off my old GPUs thinking they'll become worthless. Practically gave away a bunch of RX 580s. Then the shortages hit. And mining. DOH!

I sold my 2070 Super a week before the 3080 came out. Luckily I sold it for MSRP. But it took a month to get one, and in the meanitime after I didn't get one day one, I bought a RX 580 (brand new from Microcenter) that artifacted, then I got a 5700 XT, also brand new, and literally the last day of the return policy, I returned it, then came back to Microcenter at like 4AM to get in line for a POSSIBLE 30 series drop.  Got 1 of only 2 3080's, a +$50 MSRP card. 

After that, I learned to keep my GPU until I have the next series. LOL.

Now. I'll do that with everything. Just in case. 

[porina]

Just now, diegoaccord said:

After that, I learned to keep my GPU until I have the next series. LOL.

Whenever I change main systems, I always keep the old one too so there's always a backup in case anything goes wrong. By the time I think about getting rid of stuff it has usually gotten so old to not be worth the effort.

[TudorFinalBosz]

All the tech I bought was well-researched and reasoned, so I can't think of a single buy that was bad.

My only regret is that last summer I was eyeing doubling my RAM, it was 60 bucks and I was still thinking "I could wait a bit more" for it to drop in price. 

Now it's triple.

[ewitte]

22 hours ago, porina said:

Whenever I change main systems, I always keep the old one too so there's always a backup in case anything goes wrong. By the time I think about getting rid of stuff it has usually gotten so old to not be worth the effort.

First thing I do is sell to justify the cost.  Going from a 3080 10GB to 4090GB was a net cost of right around $1000.  Plus, I mined like $2k on the 3080 (figured if it ever became profitable again the 4090 would do even better).  Today this feels like an amazing deal as I'll be stuck on this card for likely 3 (or more) generations.

[ewitte]

22 hours ago, TudorFinalBosz said:

All the tech I bought was well-researched and reasoned, so I can't think of a single buy that was bad.

My only regret is that last summer I was eyeing doubling my RAM, it was 60 bucks and I was still thinking "I could wait a bit more" for it to drop in price. 

Now it's triple.

I was just starting to think about going to either 96GB or 128GB.  Not with these prices!

[thrasher_565]

On 1/8/2026 at 9:59 AM, Uttamattamakin said:

Mainly regards not keeping computers I had decades ago and in good condition. The first computer that was really mine all I have left is the motherboard. 

More recently .. I wish I had obtained one of those setups for having a "dual system".  You know like an ATX main system and Min ITX system in one box.  I though virtualization would be enough.  But now we have anti-cheat runing that for gaming. 

thermaltake is making a duel pc case seen it at ces. how much it cost dont no. probably $300ish

https://overclock3d.net/news/cases_cooling/thermaltake-launches-the-ultimate-his-her-dual-pc-case-at-ces-2026/

Edited January 10 by thrasher_565

[Zodiark1593]

You mean all that homework from years past that I didn't do?

[emothxughts]

2 decisions that I regret, that led to me creating this account:

1. Bought a used RX 580 4GB for a whopping MYR 1300 (about $300) during the 2021 GPUcalypse. It kept blackscreening and in the end I sold it for parts for a mere MYR 50 (about $12).
2. Then I bought a used RX 5600 XT for MYR 700. That too blackscreened a lot (but in a different way than the RX 580). Also sold it off for parts, this time for MYR 100, so a bit less of a loss.

Afterwards, I bought a used GTX 1070, used RTX 2060 and then a brand new at the time RTX 4060Ti. None of them crashed, just wanted to buy new for GPU compute.

[dogwitch]

i sold 4 580s years ago for 140 less  then other gpu lot prices.

but i sold it in 5 mins thru online.

[foxbill86]

Not switching to AM5

[OhYou_]

i built a pc last summer and got a free set of 16gb ddr5 from a newegg bundle i built it with. I put off buying 32gb and now i am stuck on 16gb for a while.
if it comes to it, i might try buying bare boards and ram chips and soldering them down at work. I've done similar work so it shouldnt be too hard

[Ha-Satan]

I had 2 additional 2x8 DDR4 RAM kits but I sold them with my spare motherboard at a garage sale for like $10 total back in October of 2024 lol

[TetraSky]

4 hours ago, foxbill86 said:

Not switching to AM5

Starting to regret it as well.

I was thinking about waiting for AM6... But considering how things are going and OpenAII buying up everything until 2029 with imaginary money for imaginary datacenters, I might just be fcked even if I wait until AM6.

[SimplyGone]

Switching to AM5 at the time I did for the money I did isn't something I regret