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My Moto 360.. damn thing died 2 weeks after I bought it, and Motorolla support is useless.

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Crappy PC: i5 4690K, Z97I-Plus, 16GB DDR3 1600MHZ, WD Black 1TB, Hyper 212X, Gigabyte R9 270, Fractal Design Integra M, Red Bitfenix Prodigy

Peripherals: Headphones- HyperX Cloud II Keyboard-Vengeance K70 Cherry Red Mouse-Thermaltake Black Element Monitor-Asus VE248 Laptop: Yoga 2 Pro : i5, 8GB RAM 256GB SSD 

 

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my ocz psu with a broken fan controller (stuck on full) and my h55 (loud pump).

both make my computer much louder than I was planning :(

G3258 @ 4.5 | 8GB Team Vulcan RAM | 128GB Kingston V300 SSD (I didn't know what I was doing when I bought it) | MSI H81I Motherboard | Corsair H55 with Noctua NF-P12 | EVGA SSC GTX 960 4GB | OCZ 550W Fully Modular PSU with Noctua NF-A14 | Cooler Master Elite 130 (Soon to be something cool)

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For me, it's my gen 1 MS Surface RT. 1366 x 768 resolution, Tegra 3, very poor speakers, non functional SD card reader (works like 20% of the time) kick stand screw fell out and now it just dangles there. Somehow this thing manages to be sluggish with a super low res display, even when there aren't any apps open. The 32GB of storage is really only about 16GB after Windows RT is installed. I think I paid around $400 for it and I can say that I really feel like I haven't gotten my moneys worth. Don't get me started on Windows RT app selection...

I didn't do it.

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my internet :'(

satellite internet from Excede / Wild Blue   i pay $60 a month for a 12Mb/s (i can download from steam at 20Mb/s) with a 10GB limit for the month with free Midnight to 5AM (which is when i download from steam and watch youtube)

 

it is the best in my area as Charter (a cable tv/ISP w/ speeds of 30-300Mb/s) and ATT (with 6Mb/s DSL) ARE LESS THAN A MILE FROM MY HOUSE.  (also ATT has "plans" of expanding DSL but haven't done so in the years that i have asked). 

CPU: AMD FX8350 CPU Cooler Zalman CNPS 12x Motherboard Asus M5A99FX Pro R2 GPU RX480 4GB) Memory 16GB DDR1333 SSD: PNY Prevail 120G + Corsair Force LE 120G (Steam) Bulk storage Stable Bit Drive Pool with 5x 2TB 2x 3TB PSU Corsair 600w Case Rosewill Throne

 

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My laptop, I was having some frame drops on GTA 3 yesterday with it.

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My Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo, it takes 2 minute to open google chrome on it!!! Should be getting a Galaxy S5 at some point so that other piece of shit can go in the trash.

Don't get an S5 *facepalm*

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My razer orochi mouse... bought it for the bluetooth but ended up not using it for the bluetooth... From my experience, there's a lot of lag when you try to game with it on the bluetooth for some odd reason, so you have to plug it in.

"Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?"

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huawei acend phones i have owned 5 diffrent of them they all where fine in the frist month, then it became SHAIT

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An old DELL4:3 VGA monitor as a 2nd screen...
Also, might just be my now retired ASTRO A50s.

Everyone have a cool signature. I don't, so I thought I would write something.

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Probably my secondary monitor. I have an IPS panel next to a TN panel and it looks horrible in comparison :(

Also my motherboard only has 1 PWM fan header besides the CPU header :'(

The main rig A8-5600K | 12GB RAM | AsRock FM2A88XM Extreme 4+ | HD 7950 with custom cooler | 2x 120GB Crucial M4's in RAID 0 | more storage | Corsair CX600M | Fractal Design Define R4| QPAD MK-85 | Logitech G502 | 2.1 speakers | 2x 1080p monitors (1x IPS and 1x TN :'( )

The Laptop Asus X550LB i5-4200u | GT-740m | 256GB Crucial MX 100 | the crustiest 1366x768 panel ever :'(

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my GTX 780 GHz Edition is a big disappointment :(

5.1GHz 4770k

My Specs

Intel i7-4770K @ 4.7GHz | Corsair H105 w/ SP120 | Asus Gene VI | 32GB Corsair Vengeance LP | 2x GTX 780Ti| Corsair 750D | OCZ Agility 3 | Samsung 840/850 | Sandisk SSD | 3TB WD RED | Seagate Barracuda 2TB | Corsair RM850 | ASUS PB278Q | SyncMaster 2370HD | SyncMaster P2450
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My GTX 780 i thought spending $800 on a gpu would mean it was going to smash everything and even linus said it was a beast card but imo its really not and so not worth $800! Second would be my avermedia live gamer portable buggy software had to send my first one back confusing and hard to record gamechat and just isnt worth it when there are other options like elgato which just simply work and much easier to use.

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Probably one of the most underwhelming pieces of technology I own is a Dell 768p 4:3 monitor. Yeah, you know the one I mean, and if you don't... well, where the hell have you been for the last decade and a half?

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My Razer Kraken Pro headset. It's not strictly bad, but you can get a headset with the same sound quality for half the the price.

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming CPU: i5-4570 RAM: 2x4gb Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600Mhz Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3 PSU: EVGA GS 650 CPU cooler: Be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 Case: Define R5 Storage: Crucial MX100 512GB
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All of my fucking WD drives, internal, or external. HAd like 8 of them, none of them lived past 2 months. 3 of them started smoking before they died.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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secondary 1280X1024 monitor and I used to have a gt 430.

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Nothing. I read up on stuff before I spend my money. Never really bought anything I wasn't happy with.

 

I don't really play many games for gameplay anymore honestly. I play most games just for the graphics.

 

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My GTX 780 i thought spending $800 on a gpu would mean it was going to smash everything and even linus said it was a beast card but imo its really not and so not worth $800! Second would be my avermedia live gamer portable buggy software had to send my first one back confusing and hard to record gamechat and just isnt worth it when there are other options like elgato which just simply work and much easier to use.

I feel ur pain. now u can get better performance for less than half the price (970 and 290X) 

Current Rig:   CPU: AMD 1950X @4Ghz. Cooler: Enermax Liqtech TR4 360. Motherboard:Asus Zenith Extreme. RAM: 8GB Crucial DDR4 3666. GPU: Reference GTX 970  SSD: 250GB Samsung 970 EVO.  HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB. Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro. PSU: Corsair RM1000X. OS: Windows 10 Pro UEFI mode  (installed on SSD)

Peripherals:  Display: Acer XB272 1080p 240Hz G Sync Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB Brown Mouse: Logitech G502 RGB Headhet: Roccat XTD 5.1 analogue

Daily Devices:Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact and 128GB iPad Pro

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Probably my laptop (my primary PC 5 days a week). With an i5 2410m and Nvidia GT540m it was okay at first, but due to the degradation present on Sandy Bridge CPUs, it now runs internally at ~100C while idling, and thermally throttles itself below 800MHz. I wish I could afford to replace it xD.

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Acer Aspire 5750G - i5-2410m | 8GB 1333Mhz RAM | 500GB 5400RPM HDD | Nvidia GT540m


2xBenQ EW2440L | Sennheiser HD600 | Corsair Vengeance K65 | Corsair Vengeance M65 | Panasonic Lumix G7 | Panasonic 20mm F1.7

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My AMD FX-6300. What a piece of shit.

Case:Define R4 | MOBO:ASRock z75 Pro 3 | CPU:i7-3770k 4.0GHz | CPU Cooler:H100i | GPU:970 Strix | RAM:Hyper X 16GB | 


Peripherals:ATH-M50x Limited Blue Edition | K95 RGB | M65 RGB | Blue Yeti MIC | (3x)1920x2080 Acer Monitors


 

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Don't get an S5 *facepalm*

why, I won't be using touchwiz or anything, i'm gonna but CyanogenMod on it

Main PC: CPU: i7-4770k RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Blu SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB HDD: 1TB WD Blue GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 770 2GB PSU: Corsair CX600M Case: Bitfenix Shinobi OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Laptop: ASUS N56VJ

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$1 mousepad and this 920p monitor thing

could I have a link to your monitor please?

 

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i5 4670k, GTX 970, 12GB 1600, 120GB SSD, 240GB SDD, 1TB HDD, CM Storm Quickfire TK, G502, VG248QE, ATH M40x, Fractal R4

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i5 4278U, Intel Iris Graphics, 8GB 1600, 128GB SSD, 2560x1600 IPS display, Mid-2014 Model

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All the parts are here, just need to get customized cords to connect the motherboard to the front panel.

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woah that's a wierd one

 

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i5 4670k, GTX 970, 12GB 1600, 120GB SSD, 240GB SDD, 1TB HDD, CM Storm Quickfire TK, G502, VG248QE, ATH M40x, Fractal R4

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i5 4278U, Intel Iris Graphics, 8GB 1600, 128GB SSD, 2560x1600 IPS display, Mid-2014 Model

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All the parts are here, just need to get customized cords to connect the motherboard to the front panel.

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woah that's a wierd one

Dont even ask why i still have it...

Guess I was desprete for a 3rd display can't afford a 3rd 4K display right about now :/

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