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I used to really want a Zalman CNPS9700. Decided not to buy one when I actually built my rig.

I cannot be held responsible for any bad advice given.

I've no idea why the world is afraid of 3D-printed guns when clearly 3D-printed crossbows would be more practical for now.

My rig: The StealthRay. Plans for a newer, better version of its mufflers are already being made.

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The Pager u__________________u.. and olso back in the day you had to pay for HBO in orther to watch it on your tv, so there was a tool a decoder, that it cost like $100 back then, was quite expenvie, and you could watch HBO forever, but my dad did that decoder from a tomatoes can. lol

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I wanted the xperia play so bad. Turns out, nah. Touch screen is better than carrying around a clunky ugly niche gaming pad.

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I bought a delta fan because I wanted great cooling. Didn't know how loud 70dB was when I got the fan. Had to buy a voltage regulator the next day to fix my mistake.

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Gateway still exists, they dropped the gaming laptops and desktops a long time ago though. My dad has an old Gateway FX laptop that is quite old. Thing is they fell apart after Acer (yes Acer) bought them. If you search for their website you'll find them. Ashame a low end company bought them.

 

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A ps3.

Buying a ps3 and then realizing I could of built a really kickass gaming pc

 

Why? I still want a PS3 for the Gundam games and a few other games...

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I always thought a supercomputer was a slightly more expensive version of a regular computer. I know now that I can say with almost 100% certainty that I will never own one.

Something, something, something, famous quote, computer specs, and stuff...

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Wanting Beats Solo's...

 

Also originally wanting to buy a "gaming" desktop from BestBuy before I built my current rig.

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back then... Alienware is my dream pc... but I'm glad I opened my eyes.

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Android girlfriend. (with complete A.I.)

 

 

Not really a bad idea in my mind, just not possible, and won't be cheap.

 

Not to mention the obvious moral implications of "if she's programmed to only love me, what happens to her when I die?"

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Don't feed it after midnight

And whatever you do dont make it angry

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Wanted more huge CRT screens. Then LCD monitors became cheaper....

 

Also wanted a pager. But got a touchscreen cellphone when i was old enough. Funny thing is, now I have a pager too.....

 

Edit: This makes me feel really old.....

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i used to want a ps2 laptop. That was kind of stupid.

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Oh gosh, I remember I bought a delta fan too ... My ears :(

Also there was a time when I wanted Alienware.

Linus is my fetish.

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I used to like laptops, Macs, iPhones, consoles and Alienwares.

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NZXT h-440 Love it soooo much, but such a pain for lan parties ( I do em about every 2 weeks) Way too heavy bulky and big. My childhood choice however: DS lite. Why did I want one?!

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Corsair C70 case, AsRock Z77 Extreme4.

 

Stupid and stupider. For the same price of the mobo I could have gotten an equally good Z77 board from like ASUS, Gigabyte, or some other brand. 

 

C70 is just ugly after a while. I actually bought it after seeing Linus' videos but meh it was cool when I was 16.

 

Xbox 360 + all the games and controllers I bought for it. Huge waste of time/money. The only game worth playing was Cod Black Ops 1 because damn my friends and I all played the hell out of that game and enjoyed every minute of it.

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my old ASUS laptop, though it wasn't bad, and my mother kinda forced me to spend my money on that instead of letting build a tower like I wanted.

MoBo: 970A-D3P CPU: FX-8350 GPU: HD 7950 PSU: 1000watt RAM:8Gb of G,skill 1600

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Another one I remember. Picking the parts for my first gaming PC when I was really young:

16 Mb Voodoo 3 3000

32 Mb Rage Fury Pro

ATi better because twice as much ram!

That's the only time I made that error.

Linus is my fetish.

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a nintendo DS, an ipod touch, a Mac pro. (all of which i never got)

Recovering Apple addict

 

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A mac pro... I wanted it and almost bought it^^

Though that may not even be that bad.

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I don't really have anything from when I was a child because most of the tech things that I wanted turned out being awesome. N64, Gameboy Colour, PS2 etc. But I did buy an extremely early version of a convertible laptop with pen input back when I was in high school. It was an Averatec C3500. The thing was dog slow and had horrible build quality. I replaced it with an awesome HP zd7000, which then had defective ram so I returned it and I built a gaming rig instead.

 

 

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