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Mitch
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-Not putting in Motherboard standoffs, basically shorting the motherboard against the case.

I have done that before, forced the gpu in before realizing something was wrong. Luckily nothing broke and everything was fine :)

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That's some nextlevel stuff right there ;-)

When I tried to overclocked for the first time, I atlet looked up som tutorials. Which ended up meaning nothing, because I can't seem to overclocked it anyway!

 

I know, I should have as well.

Another thing I was trying to remember was that I only had 3gb of ram for my 64 bit windows 7.

Man, I was so oblivious back then

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I lost a screw from the side panel. I still haven't found it.

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Bought a Sharkoon Drakonia (this thing is a piece of shit, my goddamn scroll wheel click broke just a year after I got it). Bought a membrane keyboard. Please forgive me.

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I would love to have read that product review.

I realized my mistake when I was still tighten the screws :P

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The cable management.

PSU is non-modular.

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Ha, if it was just a "thing"....

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My monitor. TN panel with only d-sub connectivity.

Heat-spreaderless CL11 ram.

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I have a non k model i7 2600, stock fan, motherboard with a green pcb no usb 3 and only 2 sata 2 ports and i managed to get a bit of red spray paint on my ssd somehow

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I have a lot of upgrade plans, and no money  :)
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nothing besides maybe the ridiculous amount of money i spend on it.

 

and if i HAVE to be embarrassed about something, then its my MSI 7970lightning that gives a gray (yes grey) screen whenever i see a youtube video... only way to solve it is to also connect a DVI cable... then it will flicker a few times when seeing youtube.. but keeps working.

weird... which makes it kinda unique.. and therefor awesome :D

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The most embarrassing, it's a pre built with custom parts that I added to it over the years. It's pretty damn good, but I wish I knew things that I do now so I could buy the parts. But come DDR4 I'm swapping any working parts and building my own.

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I'm not sure if I'm embarrassed by or proud of my ghetto ssd mount. It's just resting on my optical drive at the moment.

My Battlestation.

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Cable management, I had to push really hard on the side panel to make it. 

I'll fix it.... eventually...

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I don't have an ssd.....yeah and!

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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My $300 or so computer is hooked up to at least that in sound equipment. Probably a decent amount more, since I'm basing this off of the modern day counterparts for what I have.

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I don't have an ssd.....yeah and!

 

Same here mate, I was going to get one then I saw a nice shiny GeForce GTX 660 and thought screw it :)

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VGA, 10 year old monitor, tiny wirless dynex laptop mouse, No working USB flash drives over 1 GB. Oh yeah, and cable management, considering I bought a semi-modular. 

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I use a 1366 by 768 monitor, and my desktop is an Hewlett-Packard pre-built from 2009.

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I had a 15€PSU for my xeon and a hd 6670, now i have a 50€PSU for a Xeon and a 760 lol.

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Color scheme. 

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Using an Apple mouse and Keyboard for gaming :(

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AMD Phenom 9650 CPU on MB with nvidia chipset.

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i have my ssd loose in my system, not even attaced with electrical tape

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My SSD is just balanced on top of my PSU cables (Its mounted vertically), before that, it was secured to my CPU backplate using masking tape  :unsure:

Also I have a super ghetto LED strip taped to the back my monitors; which is powered by jamming the cables into a molex connector, and passing them through a fan vent. Looks great though! 

My keyboard is pretty embarrassing too:

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Also I'm using VGA...

(In my defense, it is used to connect a TV which refuses to work over HDMI)

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