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Top Gear America is shit.

Sadly, I agree. Clarkson is the life of Top Gear. Top Gear isn't Top Gear without Clarkson.

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Buying a AMD FX series chip over the intel i7 4770k. AMD is way to hot and is just overall not a good buy.

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Sadly, I agree. Clarkson is the life of Top Gear. Top Gear isn't Top Gear without Clarkson.

But Hamster and Captain Slow are great as well, they make the show. I'll be sad when they retire, that have plenty of money so they don't need to go on with the show much longer. I'm gong to Top Gear Live this year though!
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I don't know what I do wrong but usually I mess up HDD's big time when reinstalling windows. Like kill the drive mess up. I've done it a few times to drives that were working perfectly for a long time.

 

Also when I was a kid I decided to clean the dust out of my PC. Took everything apart but forgot the motherboard standoffs. Fair to say I almost had a foul smell when I switched on the PSU after reassembly...

BANG the PSU shorted out and the entire computer fried. Back in the days of Athlon x64 800MHz hahaha I was only like 12

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Once I brought a computer in the house when it was really cold out, and I turned it on without letting it warm up at all. In less than 5 minutes it was dead...

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Once I brought a computer in the house when it was really cold out, and I turned it on without letting it warm up at all. In less than 5 minutes it was dead...

 

I've always been taught to let it get to room temperature first :P

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I've always been taught to let it get to room temperature first :P

I learned my lesson, needless to say. :(

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When i was  upgrading my pc for the first time, i had bought a h100i (dont judge really can't be bovered with a custom loop) i forgot to connect the "pump" to the fan header literally took me a day 1 call to amazon customer service to check if my board had rma'd finally found out that the header wasn't plugged in damn man the header wasnt the pumo in

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Another one of my worst computer mistakes was first attempting to fiddle with a cpu when I had no first hand knowledge. Blew up two PCs :/

Can be found on my profiIe

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My pc was set on fire, I don't know how but it still worked

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Over the weekend while I was participating in a group discussion over skype for a university project, I knocked over a glass of bourbon onto my FiiO E17 headphone amp, and it started spazzing out. 
It's battery completely depleted, I put it in the boiler room, and then the next day it's seemingly fine.

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Yesterday I was helping a person to fix his computer by doing a fresh reinstall of W7 on there pc and notebook.

ugh...I broke the notebook powering on button. end of story to that thing. 

While the workstation was not organised at all, meanning every file, docuement, picture was scattered of his pc.

Even all his e-mail contacts were saved in Concepts WTF....   :huh:

I then said I'm done, just done working with people there stoneage knowledge.

 

so, worst computing mistake ever?

Helping people with stoneage knowledge on your free time.

Never freaking again. <_<

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buying a laptop with vista on it. Also not grounding my self and shocking and killing my MOBO.

“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”

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buying a mobo for sli and didnt have sli on it :(

 

 

This is one happened to my friend the other day and he put thermal paste on a capacitor and shorted out his mobo.. still dont know if MSI will warranty it

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Personally,(fine you can hate me for this), but upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista. Personally, to my taste, Vista looked better and performed better than 7.

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Learned that drinking and building computers don't mix a while back, shoved a sempron onto a AM2 mobo and bent half the pins...  <_< 

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putting a GTX 770 and a 600 W PSU into an old Compaq computer with a core 2 duo and noname motherboard. It booted, then went *poof* and both the 770 and the motherboard where dead.

      

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Personally,(fine you can hate me for this), but upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista. Personally, to my taste, Vista looked better and performed better than 7.

what kind of black magic is this?! :o  did microsoft send you a specially patched copy of vista? I had several PCs and notebooks with Vista around the house at the time, they where all taking turns freezing and crashing 24/7.

      

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what kind of black magic is this?! :o  did microsoft send you a specially patched copy of vista? I had several PCs and notebooks with Vista around the house at the time, they where all taking turns freezing and crashing 24/7.

I installed them CORRECTLY. FYI, I had 3 systems running Vista since its release in '07. Still works great without a single crash since.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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I installed them CORRECTLY. FYI, I had 3 systems running Vista since its release in '07. Still works great without a single crash since.

Well then hats off to you, sir  :D I still wouldn't consider it one of the "good" windows releases, but if you got it working, that's great.

      

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Well then hats off to you, sir  :D I still wouldn't consider it one of the "good" windows releases, but if you got it working, that's great.

Yeah, I mean, I don't srsly get why so many people hate Vista. It was a great little OS, until 7 took over and mashed it into bits. The day Vista was overtaken by 7 was the day I felt like extirpating myself.

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