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My clickity clackity keyboard, every DS charger I ever had, my old laptop, the school laptop im using and my potato router. there are more give me a minute to think of some

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What GTX 770 is it?

It was the Windforce variant, of which I have replaced with a GTX 970 Strix. There's a tiny bit of coil whine, but otherwise nothing.

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It was the Windforce variant, of which I have replaced with a GTX 970 Strix. There's a tiny bit of coil whine, but otherwise nothing.

 

I have two MSI GTX 660 Gaming cards and when the fan speed is above 80% they make a horrible rattling noise so I've had to limit it to 75%

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Sure, my point was that it's better value than the mac mini for 400$ :)

I know :D

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Assassin's Creed III hardcopy for PS3. Was soooo exited about it. But then it turned out to be worth less than the plastic it was made of. What was I thinking?...

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Probably my GTX 650ti. REALLY starting to show weakness in ultra 1080p gaming.

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I'd have to say my Define R5, and I'm not too impressed with the noise from my Windforce 760 on the stock fan profile, far too aggressive curve by default but it does a stellar job of cooling.

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€2 lenco earbuds, they were worth the money i paid for it (AKA not much) sound was shit, cables died in a few weeks...

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My generic PS/2 12 yo keyboard, which I use after my shiny new one broke. Too lazy to replace it

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I have a box in my room full of old tech stuff me and my family dont use anymore.

 

And in there is an i-pen! lol. I never used it its not even unboxed but guess what, you can write handwritten email with it!  And make ultra accurate hand drawings in Paint! Dayum!

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I don't know if I really have one, not to sound posh or anything.   I could say my cooler because I really like it, but it's so massive and covers up half my motherboard.  I've been thinking about picking up an h220 to replace it so that I can actually see my build lol.

I would be careful because you need to make sure the H220 is compatible with your case.

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I would be careful because you need to make sure the H220 is compatible with your case.

 

 

It's already in the system, and I have an Air 540, it's compatible with anything basically.

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It's already in the system, and I have an Air 540, it's compatible with anything basically.

Ahh okay, then you're basically good

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my monitors are 16:10 tn 24" monitors there ok, but the colours are off when you move your head at all

Its all about those volumetric clouds

 

 

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tied here. kindle fire and Motorola maxx HD. the kindle is a GREAT tablet. i LOVE it, its the amazon android thing that is killing me.. no real youtube app? :/ come on.. as far as the maxx hd its SO SLOW. my droid 2 is as fast. 

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Definitely the GTX 970 now. As well as the GTX 960.

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My 3 monitors, should have gone with 2 better ones. It costed me a thousand dollars and they are TN panels leaking backlight.

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has to be Asus TF201 tablet, £479 i paid for it.  its now only useful as a paperweight, so unbearably slow, back camera doesn't work SD card slot broke  

had the camera replaced under warranty and 3 months later(now out of warranty)  same thing happened again. 

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I listen to music for hours on end with $30 headphones.

 

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Definitely the GTX 970 now. As well as the GTX 960.

 

You own both a 970 and a 960? Your profile says you don't even have a desktop. And if you did, why would you have both GPUs? Learning comprehension, take heed to what the title of this thread is instead of blatantly shitposting.

On topic, the most useless piece of tech that I actually OWN...

Would have to be my 2.5GHz Intel Pentium E5200. Largely because it doesn't reside in any system anymore and mainly because its physically broken with two pieces of plastic/metal/whatever missing from the back. 

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So, looking to stir up some conversation, what is the most underwhelming or unimpressive piece of tech that you own? Not the worst, not the shittiest. I'm not looking for something that should not have left the factory floor (ie: low quality PSU, etc.), but I am looking for stuff that maybe wasn't worth the amount of money spent on it.

 

For me, it would have to be my dad's MacBook Air. It's the current-gen 11" model. Why do I look at it as unimpressive? Because for nearly $1000, it has a poor TN panel, 1440x900 resolution, lifeless speakers, underwhelming hardware specifications, a focus on the design rather than the feature set (no HDMI and crap speakers) and non-upgradeable or proprietary hardware (soldered down CPU, soldered down RAM, proprietary Apple SSD). I could also make a case for the GTX 770 (especially my own). It has prominent fan rattle and noise at full load, the card coil whines like a pig, it cost me $400 USD at the time, it is starting to show it's weakness in 1080p Ultra gaming and I can't stand the fact that my card is such a poor overclocker.

 

How about you guys and gals?

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Definitely the GTX 970 now. As well as the GTX 960.

How the holy fuck is a 970 underwhelming? If your response isn't "I play games with 3 4K monitors" or something close to that, I will slap you.

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One day I will have my GTX 970. One day. PC specs are at my profile.

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