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Mitch
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Buying two 7970's, by far the worst technology choice I have ever made. Months of crashing drivers, no crossfire scaling and when they did release crossfire there was enormous amounts of microstutter that while the frame rate listed looked good the performance was atrocious. It nearly drove me from playing games altogether until finally 6 months later I gave up raising bugs with AMD on all the different issues (I got to 27 different ones) and just bought a pair of 680s and it was night and day better.

 

That bad choice cost me a small fortune especially including all the waterblocks for the cards.

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An asus memo pad 8 (last gen) It is ok but it is just soooooo slow because of its rockchip. But the new ones and other models have intel atoms which, from my experience with the dell venue 7 3730 just smoke android

still have mine, had to send it back twice within the first 8 months of buying it. Both RMA were done without any problems but still! I don't think it's normal to have to replace a motherboard twice on the same device!

Oh and yeah it's slow! Worst purchase EVAR!

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Steam hands down steam is the worst, I try to play CS:GO offline it says trying to connect to server and stays like that for at least 30 seconds, trying to play offline some guys wont, trying to family share with my brother he cant play with me ????? I just love GOG.com GOG.com is love GOG.com is life.

You know steam sharing doesn't allow two people to play the same copy right? That being said for csgo if you share it the person you share it to can't play online I even if you aren't online which makes sharing csgo basically useless

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Doing a 'partioning / format' of my Seagate 630MB for my first Linux installation (Slackware) without taking the meaning of said words seriously.

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You know steam sharing doesn't allow two people to play the same copy right? That being said for csgo if you share it the person you share it to can't play online I even if you aren't online which makes sharing csgo basically useless

Yeah, I figured that out and just made a new account and bought CSGO #worthit.

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switching the power plug at the wall off and on after getting a BSOD, resulting in monitor blowing up.

 

How does this even happen.

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overheated my laptop so much it was damaged by leaving it on a wicker desk LOL. It had now overheated so repeatedly I had to permanently remove the cover on the RAM sticks. I gave it to my ex wife when hers died and I moved out. found out it had completely croaked 3 weeks after I left :P

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Buying a first gen iPad Mini when iOS 8 was rolled out. 

 

Thinking a little Cooler Master Spot Cool fan could replace a southbridge heatsink that popped out on a Pentium 4 HT board. 

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Buying my Razer Blade. I luv it but not for the right reasons.

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Shorting my usb port and breaking the battery by doing so

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Porn when I was 16. After a year I had to operate my computer solely with the task manager because of all the viruses I got. No desktop explorer, no start bar, no right clicking. I just used the Run feature for accessing programs, and files till I buried that computer in the back yard. 

 

I convinced my grandma to get me a mac book a while ago too, if that counts. 

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I painted the inside of my case white to make it look cleaner.

It looked good, so I painted my motherboard.

 

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Managed to completely annihilate the fan connector on top of the H80i the other day, still not sure how the hell I managed it 

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Buying an fx-8350....

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Hmmm i once placed a jumper wrong and the PC didnt start after that. But any realy big mistakes, like OMG!! ...nope. Not yet.

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Something like this  :lol:

 

cpu_stuck_on_heatsink_by_photopala-d4mjv

 

6-7 pins were bent too but it was fine after I fixed them. :D

From salty to bath salty in 2.9 seconds

 

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Putting in a after market PSU connector in that no joke made my PC catch fire! That killed my 

I5 2500K

MOBO

2X SSD

THE PSU

My 7970.

 

I was very sad but at least my hdd and ram survived. The fire was not what did the damage the power supply voltage killed most of the stuff.  

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I moved to Austria last week and didn't pack my hardware properly.

 

One of my two R9 290s got killed during transport. I'm so sad...

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I tried adding two 2 GB ram sticks to my pc despite them not being the same size or speed as my current ones which caused me to get a bunch of BIOS errors.

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Upgraded to a core 2 duo on my old p45 board with custom WC, only to have it leak a month later killing the entire PC.

 

Sparks flew when it hit the PSU lol.

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