Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Guest trucker2]

*cough, AMD, cough*

Sorry but i had to after hearing how 390 and 390x are going to be rebrands and not new chips....

I will use AMD chips till either I die or they die...... But that was a good one:)

[Guest trucker2]

IBM's PS/2 line of computers to take back the PC archetecture, Radio Shack treating the computer fad like the cb radio fad. Anouncing the Osborne 2 when warehouses were full of osborne 1's

[Mew]

Google Nexus 6- costs more than any new phone that outperforms and outspecs it.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810-hot, slow

nVidia Tegra K1-basically showed up in no devices. (sure Nexus 9, shield stuff but it thermal throttles and can only peak to A8x performance)

nVidia Tegra X1 (so far)-in basically no devices as well besides the newly announced stuff that will probably not sell at all

nVidia Tegra 3-pushed quad cores when the tech wasn't ready and performance simiply was vastly outclassed by A5

Google Plus-Why does this still exist?

Apple Ping?- Thank god this doesn't exist.

Windows 7- Windows 8 and 8.1 showed how flawed and awful this os is.

Windows 10- Why even bother when 8.1 is better, more beautiful, and actually works the way that I want it to, not how the plebs want it to.

[Clyne]

Yeah I hate the rebranding as well, I was just joking

Does AMD have the money like Nvidia for R&D? No........so ofc there's gonna be some rebrands for some gens.

[Clyne]

Philips CD-I..........failed console, and later the Playstation saw the rise of disk based gaming.

[SauronsV]

I am just curious to see what parts have not worked well for many people.

 

For me I made the mistake of buying a corsair cx750m 80plus bronze PSU. It is so loud, at first I thought it was my stock fans but nope it was the PSU. It is very irritating D:. What about you guys?

[pjm0925]

Sieki 4K tv to use as a monitor.

[CurlyCucumber]

I will never buy any Thermaltake PSUs ever again. Their SMART 600W isn't very smart.. as in it makes weird buzzing noises and has awful whine.

 

Glad I switched to EVGA.

[WereCat]

My Canon printer.

It was only 5€ so whatever... but it takes about 5 minutes for it to start up and it makes such noise that if I needed something to print at night I would get all neigbours knocking at my door. And when it starts printing it sounds like old needle printer even though it is ink printer.

[theninja35]

Well my EVGA 550ti died within like a year.

[Uwillparish]

didnt we already have this thread?

 

EDIT: this thread is basically the same as yours

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1986-what-is-the-biggest-mistake-you-have-ever-bought-or-done-to-your-computer/

[Elektroschocker]

Roccat Valo Keyboard http://www.amazon.com/Roccat-Valo-Customisation-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B002NLO7R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435249494&sr=8-1&keywords=Roccat+valo&pebp=1435249460710&perid=03AXEEMP2SN8HA0AY9M8

Extreme Coil Whine, Laggy Display and bad software. And the paint of the Keycaps was worne of after 6 months.

[blueballs]

gtx 770 2gb 1 or 2 week before they released the 4gb version

[Jamdude]

A second 7870, I saw next to no improvement in games, waste of money at the time.

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

My PSU, it is pretty loud and has pretty bad quality. I am still keeping it because I don't have enough money to just buy a new one, but I will definitely be replacing it before warranty runs out, which is in a little bit less than two years. I really wish that I would have known how important a good PSU is when I built my pc.

[CalumGiff]

Broke a 2gb ddr2 ram dimm because i put it in the wrong way round, oopsies @{

[Fatelinha]

Spilled paint thinner over the mobo... worked fine tho

[CurlyCucumber]

My PSU, it is pretty loud and has pretty bad quality. I am still keeping it because I don't have enough money to just buy a new one, but I will definitely be replacing it before warranty runs out, which is in a little bit less than two years. I really wish that I would have known how important a good PSU is when I built my pc.

Good ol' Thermaltake PSUs! I know your pain, friend.

[Thorium19]

I can't say anything so far, but the only bad thing may eventually be the CPU cooler, if I want to get some solid overclocks out of my 4790k. I'd like to pick up an NH-D14 second hand in the near future and go passive on the CPU, but I need to find one cheap.

[Arct1c0n]

CoolerMaster WaveMaster case. My god, it was utterly terrible. 

 

 

 

[firest0rm]

I am just curious to see what parts have not worked well for many people.

 

For me I made the mistake of buying a corsair cx750m 80plus bronze PSU. It is so loud, at first I thought it was my stock fans but nope it was the PSU. It is very irritating D:. What about you guys?

how is that a mistake?

that PSU is a grade A unit just get your warranty for it its not supposed to make any sound in the first place...

 

you do know things can get delivered broken they call them DOA's (dead on arrival)

 

 

I will never buy any Thermaltake PSUs ever again. Their SMART 600W isn't very smart.. as in it makes weird buzzing noises and has awful whine.

 

Glad I switched to EVGA.

 

the same applies for you just because 1 unit broke doesn't mean the brand or product sucks

[SirSquid]

Buying an HP stream 13, the thing can barely hand YouTube.

[asim1999]

CoolerMaster WaveMaster case. My god, it was utterly terrible. 

 

 

 

Bleugh. That is an ugly case. Reminds me of cheap desktops from the mid 2000s

[Exploded117]

Trying to overclock my GT610......

[Exploded117]

My PC......