Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[_wky]

upgraded from a 670 to a 780

What's wrong with the 780 compared to a 670? Or is it the fact you didn't go for a 900 series card?

[RJSX1]

That "mistake" is fairly easy to correct.

If i could find a guide yeah lol.

[Diederik_Gr]

Got an H80i and gave my tower cooler to a friend, pump was loud, so i bought a new tower cooler.

[harrynowl]

I got a H80i and sold it very quickly. Noisy underperforming pile of poo.

[asim1999]

I bought a 50$ Phanteks Cpu cooler.  It works alright but I should went with liquid cooling because I want to overclock and it's a little bit loud.

Then get a Noctua or Dark Rock

[asim1999]

Went to go install the Corsair H100i All in One cooler and I was new to removing heatsinks. I ended up tearing out my AMD 6350 and ripping out about 10 pins because I pulled the stock cooler off too hard. Kinda sucked but now I'm running an 8350!

 

Good thing it wasnt the motherboard pins (like Intel)

[McMurderMonkey]

Tried to defrag my SSD.

 

the shame

[Duskie]

I use a small amount soap, a towel and some water to clean thermal paste from my CPU's because I always forget the alcohol.

 

But hey, it works!

 

Don't kill me.

[Arct1c0n]

Maybe my CPU choice honestly.

 

I could have gotten a 4670k for almost the same price but i saw that plenty of games were beginning to recommend 8 cores so I panicked last minute.

 

Lol, what farking games are recommending 8 cores?

[Arct1c0n]

I use a small amount soap, a towel and some water to clean thermal paste from my CPU's because I always forget the alcohol.

 

But hey, it works!

 

Don't kill me.

 

No, but you might kill your CPU and Flutter Shy will be upset with you

[Arct1c0n]

Good thing it wasnt the motherboard pins (like Intel)

 

I ripped out my socket A Athlon CPU's back in the day because the thermal paste would dry like glue and yank the CPU right out of the stockets, even with lever down, it scared the shit outa me.

 

 

 

[wtgigerich]

I bought a Macbook Pro. Now it is just a glorified tablet stand.

[lostRoadrunner]

I once bought an alienware power supply np-1000 which was too big for my case an had to cut the bottom of my case out.

talk about low budget lol

[Totallycasual]

My biggest mistake was purchasing a i74770k+780 in preparation for the first planned release of GTAV for PC, had i known Rockstar was going to fuck around so much i would have saved the $2300 AUD i spent on my build back then and picked up a i74790k+980 today for the same price

 

Don't get me wrong its still a great PC and i got a little use out of it but not a whole lot, i have a decent enough laptop that i would have held off on the desktop until now had i known about the never ending delays.  

[xeromynd]

-> First building my computer 

-> Everything plugged in for the first time

-> Had one fan plugged into the deceptive 3-pin VRM Test header. Computer wouldn't boot.

-> It stayed like that for three days before I rebuilt the entire thing.

 

 

also: wasn't thinking and recommended a 4670k to a friend. he bought it. 

the 4690k is newer and cheaper   

 

oops.

[Baciere]

Attempting to Theme windows 7 beyond the basic stuff.
My machine BSOD'd so frequently due to the dodgy shenanigans required to change out the custom interface... Not happy with me there. (VistaGlazz anybody?) 
(Yay Gnome and again being lazy and using a friend to do all the artwork for the assets and stealing his setup because it's effectively yours in a different colour. )

S'pose the other big mistake I have ever done to my machine would be let it render out a 40 billion particle scene in 3DS max for a week... for a 30 minute test... Next time, I'll drop those extra two 0s. 

 

[Baciere]

I ripped out my socket A Athlon CPU's back in the day because the thermal paste would dry like glue and yank the CPU right out of the stockets, even with lever down, it scared the shit outa me.

 

 

 

I've done that 4 times on AMD chips. Arctic silver was the paste on the last time, but it was stock on the first three.

Don't get me wrong, I loves myself my AMD, but it still scares me half to death.

[tomison25]

Lol, what farking games are recommending 8 cores?

 

Watch Dogs. AC: Unity. Advanced warfare. From what I can remember from the top of my head.

 

Quick google search----( The Witcher 3, GTA V, Far Cry 4)

[Arct1c0n]

Watch Dogs. AC: Unity. Advanced warfare. From what I can remember from the top of my head.

Quick google search----( The Witcher 3, GTA V, Far Cry 4)

Of course they recommend 8 core AMD cpus, which still don't perform as well as intels 4 cores

[jonnyyyl]

bought more mechanical keyboards than I actually need....

[MblaZe7run]

When I upgraded my GPU, I went from a 560Ti to a 650Ti BOOST SC expecting a massive performance boost. Nope. I knew next to nothing about video cards at the time, and really wish I would have done research. I probably would have had a 580 right now had I crunched my numbers and done my homework.

[MblaZe7run]

bought more mechanical keyboards than I actually need....

 

Don't you usually only need one per computer? The math really isn't that hard...

[tmlhalo]

Fx 8150.

[PaulKolby]

I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.

So did the card still work or naw?

[Ja Krispie]

Maybe my CPU choice honestly.

 

I could have gotten a 4670k for almost the same price but i saw that plenty of games were beginning to recommend 8 cores so I panicked last minute.

I did the same thing when the specs were released for BF4. I was out of the game so I wasn't sure who was better at the time, so I looked for 6 core CPU's and bought the FX6350 for the price thinking it'd be better than a 4 core intel. Boy was I wrong....