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What is the most underwhelming/unimpressive piece of tech you own?

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I have a 1280x1024 monitor as my second display. Not that I really have the room for another widescreen monitor anyway.

I was stuck with a 1024*768 monitor by my 1360*768 monitor for while. The jump to 2 widescreens is great.

 

My WD Live HD

I should have bought a Roku

 

This thing randomly drops connection, wired or wireless. Not connection to storage, complete internet connection, making it basically a USB to HDMI port for my TV. Static IP's and firmware upgrades/downgrades don't fix it.

 

Thing is shit useless, nobody buy one.

I got sick of it and will probably jerryrig an XBMC PC out of some old legacy parts and a P4 chip.

I love my Roku, so worth the $70 I spent on it.

 

If anything, my cooler. It makes a whistling sound from the air flowing through it and doesn't cool the best ever.

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The non tech-savvy person would still find my auxiliary 1600 x 1050 monitor impressive and "large" sitting next to my 24 inch monitor. 

 

I guess my mouse pad if you're the average person or my second monitor if you know enough about tech to realize that it's a shitty ass monitor.

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Are you sure it was legit? I'm sure the people who tear apart computers and phones would have better quality assurance...

At the time I was almost certain that it was.

 

Sold by iFixit.com and fulfilled by Amazon.. even eligible for Prime.

 

But the moment I got it I knew something wasn't right though.. The sticker on the front was in a different place than on the Amazon pics, there was straight up no sticker on the back with a description of the bits, I broke a philips bit first time I used it, and the little torque thing didn't have a hole to go into (the screwdriver extension doubled as a thing that helped you take out tight screws.. you stuck it into a hole and it would give you more leverage.. didnt have the hole). 

 

So yeah, probably wasn't legit.. but I don't know why it wasnt.. 

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i dont even have a gpu in my 100O dollur rig

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Definitely my 7870, I was very sad to sell it last week as it was my first GPU. Then card was awesome at 1080p and for the last year ive been using it at 1440p and it handled it so well. The only game it ever kind of let me down on was Titanfall. That card got me through about 5000 hours of Arma 2, Arma 3 and DayZ. It overclocked like a beast, ran cool and looked damn sexy

 

Edit: definitely misread the title as I only read it in the URL. Thought it was underwhelming tech that impressed you.

 

 

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I was gonna say my 1050p monitor, but then I remembered that I have three of them.

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A 2007 dell workstation with a gt 630 attached to it becuase i am broke.

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My piece of shit 1680x1050 LED syncmaster

 

my prehistoric Antec p182 case. jk, i love this case

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Well i cant choose I have a Fujitsu laptop from 1997, Gateway laptop from 1999 , a desktop from 1993 with 400mb hdd , 3.5 and 5.5 floppy disk no startup button.Unfortunatelly neither the HDD works or the GPU and i cant fix it. I also have my tower that is from 1998 fujitsu siemens myrica along with my psu (which the company is unkown and puts cement in their psu) Hantol 800w  80 bronze +  and i think that is about it . If you want pics i can upload some pics if you want .

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Some shitty smart watch I got called the "U Watch". I'd be surprised if the res on this is any higher than 120x120. The touch screen is APPALLING. The viewing angles are unusable for anything unless you are looking perfectly straight and it has horrible glare. I don't even keep it connected to my phone as it makes a noise /or vibrates every 5 minutes letting me know that it's connected and this can't be disabled. The OS is also horribly clunky.

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Our router, which isn't really mine, but it sucks. It can not go 2 hours without a 5 minute break, I'm always that guy that loses connection when I'm playing with friends.

 

Second is my Logitech G930, bought it refurbished, and I'm glad i didn't pay the full price for it. Stereo is just broken, and surround doesn't sound very impressive now that i tried a pair of DT990's. The mic is really good however, i still use it for Skype calls.

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Definitely my 7870, I was very sad to sell it last week as it was my first GPU. Then card was awesome at 1080p and for the last year ive been using it at 1440p and it handled it so well. The only game it ever kind of let me down on was Titanfall. That card got me through about 5000 hours of Arma 2, Arma 3 and DayZ. It overclocked like a beast, ran cool and looked damn sexy

Edit: definitely misread the title as I only read it in the URL. Thought it was underwhelming tech that impressed you.

My 7850 is unimpressive. Can't even play bf4 high, sometimes not even medium

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I've a PlayStation Vita.

All the crappy wapanese games that are available only cater to the wapanese.

There's basically no games for it that I like.

But since my brother got a PS4 it's usefulness goes up due to remote play.

Might do a guide.

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My Sony Xperia T,; slow, no updates, rubbish skin, poor build quality, bad viewing angles - I could go on, and on.

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$1 mousepad and this 920p monitor thing

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First-gen Asus transformer tablet (TF101) a few years back. Was kinda cool at first but after a short while I realized the hardware was a little weak and the Android OS wasn't very practical for what I needed it to do. Ended up selling it and buying an Acer C710 Chromebook, which ended up being FAR more useful (running Linux on it :D ).

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My Nvidia GT 520.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Sound proofing foam - didn't make the PC more silent, the fans ramped up because of the extra heat and now it's just as noisy but harder to acess components.

Sound card - cost £30, the first arrived broken, the replacement added background noise to my headphones, had driver problems in games, eventually I sorted all of that out but it's not really an upgrade, it just makes things a tad louder.

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My motherboard with it's brown PCB

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My router/modem from AT&T (another reason to hate them). It's wireless g, and it's one of those routers provided by the ISP. If one person is watching youtube the wifi is completely unusable for everyone else. Also, AT&T doesn't let you use third party routers/modems. Once I move out I'm boycotting AT&T. They are super horrible.

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Kindle Fire tablet, not used it in over a year, App store is too small, Amazon skin nowhere near as good as stock android.

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Playstation Vita..Bought on release. 

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If I'm honest, the Shure SE215s weren't what I was expecting them to be :S The ear loops can be annoying, and sometimes even hurt my ears :/ They sound great though :)

 

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong though :/

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