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You shouldn't regret it as it wasn't a huge expense, would have been a decent learning experience too.

when you're low on cash and cant get a job, it felt like one hell of an expense lol

but yes, it was a good learning experience and its what got me more towards building computers and what not. So the good out weighs the "bad"

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when you're low on cash and cant get a job, it felt like one hell of an expense lol

but yes, it was a good learning experience and its what got me more towards building computers and what not. So the good out weighs the "bad"

Yeah I know, I was there a couple years ago.

 

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Something recent. Let's see. Replaced the dc jack on a laptop, put everything together again. Laptops doesn't want to boot. Gets power, and screen backlight comes on, but no post. Thinking I screwed up royally since I had to solder the dc jack in, I disassemble the whole thing to inspect the parts around the dc jack to see if anything is visibly damaged. Turn the mobo around to check the other side, glanced over the mb. It was at that point that I realised I forgot to put the RAM back when I assembled the laptop the first time

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Something recent. Let's see. Replaced the dc jack on a laptop, put everything together again. Laptops doesn't want to boot. Gets power, and screen backlight comes on, but no post. Thinking I screwed up royally since I had to solder the dc jack in, I disassemble the whole thing to inspect the parts around the dc jack to see if anything is visibly damaged. Turn the mobo around to check the other side, glanced over the mb. It was at that point that I realised I forgot to put the RAM back when I assembled the laptop the first time

I did that to my iPod when I replaced the screen. Forgot to reinstall the battery! Had to buy a new screen...I broke it trying to get it apart again.

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Didn't upgrade on-line and got a POS M4 Aqua for £27 a month

Thankfully mum is giving me a second chance as she likes my phone and can get her upgrade for £27 a month 

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Bringing back my pc to the local computer store, and not telling them i wanted the same motherboard (audio was dead of it).

Result, i got it back quickly, but with an UGLY motherboard! A golden shower asus one >_> HATE IT.

I had such a nice black/blue MSI board that fitted perfectly... 

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Mine would be accidently wiping my original xp installation on my first laptop with suse linux 8 i think it was. Thats what happens when you don't pay attention. That laptop did me well until 2 years ago when it finally kicked the bucket. It had 4 OS's on it in its lifetime. Xp, Suse, Joli, Ubuntu and then back to xp.

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I massively overclocked my R9 270 causing it to black screen and restart my pc every 5 mins, the very same month I had built it. I had bought the GPU 6 months before but good thing I had an insurance plan with it. I was able to exchange the psu too because I had bought it the day I built my beautiful machine

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Pretty minor. Reversed my rear fan in the hope of positive pressure relaxing my need to dust my case. That it did, but my temperatures got so bad my GPUs would throttle. Final straw was in Shadow of Mordor. Not a CPU intensive game at all but my CPU was reaching 90 Celsius just from all of the heat from the GPUs being exhausted through the radiator. Changing the rear fan back to exhaust made my CPU 20 degrees cooler in SoM xD

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Buying a 430w PSU. then later finding out how much that limits potential GPU upgrades.

Dumb move there, but i'm only running a 750 ti. so, no big deal. 

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Expecting a half-decent reply of ashit support. 

 

/cheaping out on my case and then shortly afterwards buying a nice new one and wasted about $40. Oh well. 

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I bought a wacom tablet and was very excited about using it. Brought it home (and like the knife person I am) pulled out a benchmade 67 (tanto balisong) to opent it... I ended up stabbing a hole through my monitor. (It was a cheap HP and still works today, although I don't use it.) I also ended up returning the Wacom tablet because it wasn't what I wanted it to be.

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Forgetting to order the cpu cooler... It's been a few years and still on stock cooler :/

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several arizona teas has been dropped in my mb pro 2012 altho it still works perfectly fine

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biggest mistake buying from admi limited, bought an x1 predator as I thought it would fit with my 62mm high cpu cooler but it was 58mm because I mixed up x1 and x3 and had to deal with annoying service ergh lesson learned do alot of research before

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My friend wanted me to build an ultra gaming PC. I had an i7 4790k and stuff, everything was pimped like 80+ gold PSU with like 750 watts.h100 cooler etc. And then a evga 960 as a GPU ;(

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My friend wanted me to build an ultra gaming PC. I had an i7 4790k and stuff, everything was pimped like 80+ gold PSU with like 750 watts.h100 cooler etc. And then a evga 960 as a GPU ;(

It could have a 750ti...

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oh here's a good one , having a raid array with the built in chip-set ... then resetting your bios and ruining your array 

 

done it so many times now 

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Bought a Razer Arctosa a few years back... god rid of it very fast

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Buying the Raidmax Super Aeolus... and changing all fans to LED fans... That case... I swear...

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Not sure if I've told this story already, but I'll tell it anyways.

 

It was when I was first building my computer. All of the motherboard standoffs were built in, so I just assumed that they were all the same height. I found out the hard way that they were not. When I was placing the motherboard in the case, I had to jam it in there kind of. Then I heard some kind of crack and was like "Meh, whatever." Computer didn't post. Turns out one of the motherboard standoffs was taller. 

 

I broke the motherboard.

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Getting an FX chip. Because Ausin Evans and Teksydicate said so.......

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Getting an FX chip. Because Ausin Evans and Teksydicate said so.......

I did the same thing and now I'm regretting not getting a i3
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Accidently deleting lib32.

 

oops.

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