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Mitch
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I regret buying the Aerocool PGS V3.... I should've gone with an Ostrog and a DeepCool Assassin, but I was short on funds...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Razer Lachesis - Looked nice but for what it cost the coating didn't wear well, the sensor was glitchy, the buttons would get stuck (not physically but electrically), the pulsing light had very obvious level steps and the Razer drivers amplified all the problems so I ended up sticking with the generic Windows mouse drivers.

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Razer Deathstalker. That thing was mushy as fuck and doing anything on it was horrible. Now I have a Logitech G710+ and it's way better!

Life.exe is missing

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Hardware wise:

 

Corsair Force GT - Horrible SSD for the price, could have gotten a Samsung 830 (back then)

 

i3 2120 for my Linux box, could have gone with AMD. So much better with Linux.

 

Razer Onza Xbox Controller for my PC [was the only one they had without ordering another one [wanted wired]] Those buttons are nothing but poo poo. [All ova]

 

Roccat 5.1 Headset. Came broken out of the box, RMA took 4months, to give me back my money.

 

Netbook, obvious reasons.

 

Steelseries Sensei MLG -> 8months after purchase the R-Click was broken.

 

 

 

Games:

 

Watch Dogs - What a shitty piece of shit.

Frost upon these cigarettes.... lipstick on the window pane...

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My GTX 760, got Daylight for free, if i would have waited like 3 days i would have Watch Dogs right now

Case: Corsair Carbdie 330R Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Asus Z97-A CPU: AMD FX-6300 i5 4690K 3.5 GHZ + 212 EVO GPU: ASUS GTX 760 DirectCUII Ram: Corsair Vengeance LP 8gb (2x4gb) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB PSU: Corsair CX500M
Monitor: AOC Q2963pm 29'' 21:9 IPS Mouse: Mionix Naos 8200 Mousepad: Mionix Sargas 320 Headset: HyperX Cloud Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 RGBIKEA Headset/Headphone Holder
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GT610.

"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/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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My case, should have got an n400 or n600

Intel 3570k 3,4@4,5 1,12v Scythe Mugen 3 gigabyte 770     MSi z77a GD55    corsair vengeance 8 gb  corsair CX600M Bitfenix Outlaw 4 casefans

 

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got myself a Surface "Pro" 2.. thought it could be useful, turns out it´s f´n s**t without mouse/keyboard

well then I could just use my Macbook instead (Win 8.1 in VM if there is something I cant do in OSX)

this and my temper = gS8HT64.jpg?1

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Razer Blackwidow, it's a fine keyboard, but there are definitely better options for the same price out there. Course I didn't know much about mechanical keyboards at the time, live and learn.

 

Not strictly computer-part, but I bought a 3DS XL in Feb, used it for about 2 hours. Just can not get into mobile gaming at all.

 

Dude we regret exactly the same things.

I regret buying the blackwidow 2013, I should've gotten the Corsair K70.

 

My friend told me to get the 3DS XL in FEBURARY, and I just ditched it after a day.

 

 

 

are you my secret bro

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got myself a Surface "Pro" 2.. thought it could be useful, turns out it´s f´n s**t without mouse/keyboard

well then I could just use my Macbook instead (Win 8.1 in VM if there is something I cant do in OSX)

this and my temper = gS8HT64.jpg?1

Ummm, a bit ragequit much?

"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/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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My non K i7. It was on sale thom still i couldn't wait for Devils Canyon, but i didn't want the 4770k either.

CPU: I7 4790 @ 4GHz /w Cooler Master Hyper 412S | MOBO: ASUS Z97 PRO | GPU: Gigabyte gtx 780 OC | RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB @ 1866MHz | PSU: Corsair RM850 | SSD Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB | HDD: WD Blue 1TB 7000rpm | CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Pro | MONITOR: Samsung S24D300 | KEYBOARD: CMStorm Devastator | MOUSE: Logitech G500s | MOUSE#2: Logitech M500| HEADSET: Logitech G230 | SPEAKERS: Logitech Z313 2.1  | Phone: Galaxy Note II

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I regretted my NZXT source 530 and sometimes regret getting a 4790 instead of a 4790K. I didn't want to continue waiting so I just ordered it.

                                                                                                                                                      

CPU: Intel I7-4790k | MOBO: Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 | Ram: Corsair Vengance 32GB 1600hz | GPU: EVGA GTX980 Reference

PSU: Corsair EVGA G2 850W  | SSD: Intel 730 Series 480GB, Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB | HDD: WD Black 1TB

 CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 | Case: Corsair 760T (White) | Peripherals: (2)Asus VS247H-P, Corsair M65, Corsair K70 RGB w/ Brown Switches

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my case i could have gotten something better but cheaped out it's fine but could add fans but i'm too broke

My build: Cpu: (AMD Ryzen 7 1700) Heatsink: (Deepcool Captain 240 rgb) GPU: (Zotac AMP! GTX 1060 6gb) Ram: (Corsair LPX 8Gb DDR4 2400) Mobo: ( Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K&) Case: (NZXT Phantom 410 Gunmetal) PSU: (Lepa B550 550w) OS:  (Windows 10) 

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I regret buying a Geforce FX 5200, I wanted it to play Doom 3, in reality it wasn't much better than integrated graphics.

Mystery is the source of all true science.

 

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My shitty TN 60Hz screen, Asking for a Roccat kone XTD for christmas (DOA, my mom bought it on amazon like november 15th, so past warranty, tried contacting Roccat, no luck)

MSI Z87-GD65 - GTX 760 DirectCU II - i5 4670k @4.0GHz - 16GB Corsair Vengeance @1866 MHz

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buying my prebuilt desktop with a gt610. (not expensive but still something i regret..............

4690K // 212 EVO // Z97-PRO // Vengeance 16GB // GTX 770 GTX 970 // MX100 128GB // Toshiba 1TB // Air 540 // HX650

Logitech G502 RGB // Corsair K65 RGB (MX Red)

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My Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013.

And my GTX 760, should have just waited till I could get a 770.

 

And my surface, because it's terrible (In some cases) and I could have got a Sony product.

5800X3D - RTX 4070 - 2K @ 165Hz

 

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I regret buying an i7 2600 rather than the i7 2600k. Oh so young and foolish I was.

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Corsair CX750M power supply because a few days later, a Evga G2 750w psu was around the same price.

Skyrim because i found out it was 7 dollars on steam and I bought it for 30.

EDIT: and my Raidmax case, couldn't do cable management, mod my case to fit my gpu, only holded 3 fans

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Razer Deathadder. It just fell apart and felt like it was made for a price tag of £20, not £50. Will never touch Razer again.

What do they know of England, who only England know?

"Well that's what I always said I wanted to be remembered for, for being honest. Nothing else is worth a damn"
 

 

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I got a this card http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=567&pid=203&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

 

 

And now I will always buy Nvidia!

My Rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/y7vfHh

 

My Wife's Rig: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vLNT99

 

 

My Kid's Rig: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Kz4mHx

 

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My Alienware M14x R2 2012, at the time I didn't know much about graphic cards and didn't think they would affect my pc performance (Yeah, I was dumb), so I didn't bother changing my GT 650m, which is absolute crap.

PC specs: Sager NP8268, GTX880m w/ 8 GB DDR5 VM, i7-4810MQ 2.8/3.8 GHz, IC Diamond Thermal Compound, 16GB RAM at 1600 MHz 2x8, 256 GB Crucial M550 series mSATA3 SSD, 1TB 7200rpm HD, Killer Wireless, Bluetooth 4.0. Window 8.1 (Because W7 was more expensive)

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