Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[aidenrelkoff]

How old is your mobo?

i bought it like 6 months ago, but its like a 1.3 year old model 

[Dredgy]

The sheer number of Doritos in it

[UnAdmin]

My mobo and my overclock voltage. My mobo is a lower end Z87-G41 and my Intel Core i7-4770k is overclocked to 4.5 or 4.4 GHz @ 1.33v.

[AlwaysFSX]

My fans are absolutely disgusting

[CtW]

I may have broken the lock that holds the bay door of the front panel of my NZXT Phantom 410

[Lord Gaben]

i bought it like 6 months ago, but its like a 1.3 year old model 

Well that odd that it still has a IDE

[SilverTools261]

Close you case when you end to work on. Cats are curious  :angry: . Mine, push my water on the MB. well, in the end, 3 min in the oven at 80°c and it's ok  <_<. 

[crooked windows]

Hitting my keyboard and finding out the hard way where the HDD was located (directly underneith)

[terrytek]

Hitting my keyboard and finding out the hard way where the HDD was located (directly underneith)

Why would you put your hard drive underneath?

[dawidziaja]

I don't know why but I was for some reason taking a sticker off a RAM stick. IT CAME OFF TOGETHER WITH A CHIP :mellow:   

[Sonefiler]

My family had an iMac, and being 8, I didn't have my own computer. I accidentally copied all the applications to the documents, then all the documents back in the applications, so in my Applications I had two of each app and all the documents, and in the Documents I had the Documents and the Applications. It's still fucked up like that to this day.

[Darkman]

My family had an iMac, and being 8, I didn't have my own computer. I accidentally copied all the applications to the documents, then all the documents back in the applications, so in my Applications I had two of each app and all the documents, and in the Documents I had the Documents and the Applications. It's still fucked up like that to this day.

You could say you backed it up..

[phillrulz]

It would easily be deciding that immersing my entire computer in cooking oil was a good idea.

Thats why you do what i did and actually pay some money i used liquid paraffin cost me about £100 for it been running about a year with mobo powered. INB4 paraffin would burn.. its very hard to burn and in my experience self extinguishes

[Terosterone]

Losing files because of a lack of back ups - definitely this.

[phillrulz]

The other day when installing my new 3570k i forgot to plug the h100i sata power connector back in, was gaming then suddenly thermal throttle down to 1.6ghz then realized h100i pump wasnt running... whoops could have got messy

[terrytek]

I let my cat sleep in my PC.

[Darkman]

I let my cat sleep in my PC.

I'm sure your computer just purrs. Or your cat just enjoys sleeping in small warm places. I as well have cats too, had four now with three. (They're indoor and one broke through our window screen and hasn't been found in a month. Everyone in this neighborhood tends to shoot cats and dogs with paintball guns, pellet rifles, and/or poisons them. )

[terrytek]

I'm sure your computer just purrs. Or your cat just enjoys sleeping in small warm places. I as well have cats too, had four now with three. (They're indoor and one broke through our window screen and hasn't been found in a month. Everyone in this neighborhood tends to shoot cats and dogs with paintball guns, pellet rifles, and/or poisons them. )

You don't know how much static a cat produces. It was pretty dangerous levels.

[Darkman]

You don't know how much static a cat produces. It was pretty dangerous levels.

I know, some people I know actually clean a computer with a vacuum. (Don't ask me how those computers are still running fine today)

[terrytek]

I know, some people I know actually clean a computer with a vacuum. (Don't ask me how those computers are still running fine today)

Umm, me.

[Darkman]

Umm, me.

Oh, I prefer canned air or a air compressor.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I tried overclocking to 1200MHz with a 290X stock cooler. I almost fried it. Almost.

[terrytek]

I tried overclocking to 1200MHz with a 290X stock cooler. I almost fried it. Almost.

You seriously just almost fried your 290X that you just got last week or so ?????? For that, I plan to shun you for a week. In fact, the entire community should.

[flibberdipper]

I let my cat sleep in my PC.

I let my stepdad's cat do that with my old Pentium II PC. He would turn it on when I started to get up (the cat, not my stepdad).

[flibberdipper]

I know, some people I know actually clean a computer with a vacuum. (Don't ask me how those computers are still running fine today)

I clean mine with a vacuum. Carefully, and I try to keep the suction lower.