Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[StingBull]

Bought a powered USB hub, never even used once.

[FranBunnyFFXII]

the IPS monitor that I got.

I was disappointed that it wouldnt work with my OGSSAA mod.

However they are great for my eyefinity set up so ill be buying 2 more, but when I got it, I was seriously disappointed.

[Sheldon_King]

Not high-end, but I feel like I may regret my purchase I'm making today- a Moto G.

You probably will not regret that purchase, at least I have not so far. I bought the Moto G yesterday at Kmart (verizon prepaid plan), and it is a decent little phone. The only thing I do not like about it is the OS (Andriod). Seems everything is a 5 or so step process to accomplish, but that is Andriod. I will give you this though, it gets a far better signal than my Galaxy S2 ever did in this area on the same provider.

 

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

I regret the exact opposite. I hate my 2600k with a Firey passion, specifically because I need VT-d, which the K series does not, and because I was told that overclocking was a good way to boost performance (the 2-3% difference was not woth the $$ it cost for teh CPU or for the cooler *started with a Hyper 212 Evo (piece of junk that was)*).

 

I also regret buying a SSD. World changing difference my arse. The $100 it cost made the difference between 16 and 32GB of RAM, and I needed the 32GB. Still do, but the proce has gone up so much that I can make do with a single VM at a time for now.

[Guest]

You probably will not regret that purchase, at least I have not so far. I bought the Moto G yesterday at Kmart (verizon prepaid plan), and it is a decent little phone. The only thing I do not like about it is the OS (Andriod). Seems everything is a 5 or so step process to accomplish, but that is Andriod. I will give you this though, it gets a far better signal than my Galaxy S2 ever did in this area on the same provider.

Good! Also, ew, Kmart. Also, I'll probably get Boost Mobile, as their prepaid cards start a little cheaper- I'll mainly use it on WiFi. I had to give my 4S to my brother, which was still a great phone. Hopefully this turns out well!

[felixthemaster1]

The only purchase I ever regretted was that of my Razer BlackWidow Torunament, for it was a low quality product and Razer didn't do much to help me about it.

I regret buying my razer mouse too. I have never felt such a shitty quality peripheral IMHO. But I needed a new mouse and the 502 wasnt out yet so i didnt have a choice,

[Guest]

-NZXT Phantom, way too big and heavy for my needs.

 

-Samsung F2380 monitor. I wanted nice colors, assumed that the slow refresh rate wouldn't be so bad but it's a horrible monitor with insane ghosting.

 

-Back in the day, a Radeon 9600 SE... SE stood for shit edition (for all intents and purposes) but it was still expensive. It was essentially a sidegrade to my FX 5200 and it cost like $200-250.  At the time, it was my mother who had bought it for my birthday and I never told her it was a sidegrade. She'd ask me if it made a big difference and I was like yeah it's awesome! I never told her and I still feel a little bit bad about it.

[Sheldon_King]

Good! Also, ew, Kmart. Also, I'll probably get Boost Mobile, as their prepaid cards start a little cheaper- I'll mainly use it on WiFi. I had to give my 4S to my brother, which was still a great phone. Hopefully this turns out well!

I only shop there because they are litterally 2 blocks from the house. Walmart is 5 miles away. The only other close buy stores are Family Dollar and Dollar General, and they are not worth the hassle imo.   (note, I can't drive, so the closer the better).

 

Boost is probably a good choice. The services we have to are Verizon, Virgin, Tracphone, and Tmobile.  Verizon has teh best coverage in our area. I really wanted Virgin, but Neither Kmart or Walmart here carry their phones, just the cards . Tracphones plans are okay for talk and text, but their data is outrageous (it woas going to be $50 for data, text and talk, while Verizon and Virgin was $35). Tmobile is okay, it is what we had before verizon, but their coverage of our area is horrible (literally 1 bar maximum of reception).

[Mantittys]

my blackwidow ultimate battlefield 4 edition. I found out that I can get a corsair k70 for 20 dollars more. i got my blackwidow onsale for 100 bucks

[TinoXtreme]

Guess you guys have some purchase regrets

Keep it coming

[Briggsy]

120v cpu cooler

[ObeseWalrus]

I reget buying wheelman and TDU2 on steam. Wheelman is shit and I can't play TDU.

[MR TECH]

corsair vengeance 2000 They fell apart With in a month Switched to Razer Blackshark's and cant be happier  

 

 

Edit: And a Pice of Shat HP laptop

[FireFox]

The regret if any is when I bought my GTX 650 Ti to replace the GT 630, as good as the 650 Ti is I should have gone straight to the GTX 660

[BiG StroOnZ]

Turtle Beach Earforce headphones. Costed around $120 on Amazon.com, Broke in about 6 months, terrible sound quality all around. Very uncomfortable to wear on top of all of that.  

[Guest]

I only shop there because they are litterally 2 blocks from the house. Walmart is 5 miles away. The only other close buy stores are Family Dollar and Dollar General, and they are not worth the hassle imo.   (note, I can't drive, so the closer the better).

 

Boost is probably a good choice. The services we have to are Verizon, Virgin, Tracphone, and Tmobile.  Verizon has teh best coverage in our area. I really wanted Virgin, but Neither Kmart or Walmart here carry their phones, just the cards . Tracphones plans are okay for talk and text, but their data is outrageous (it woas going to be $50 for data, text and talk, while Verizon and Virgin was $35). Tmobile is okay, it is what we had before verizon, but their coverage of our area is horrible (literally 1 bar maximum of reception).

Walmart, ew.

 

Boot uses Sprint, which is probably worse than both Verzon and AT&T in our area, but they just added their LTE here, which also translated to improved 3G coverage. T-Mobile would work great, but their coverage is non-existent here, except for some LTE downtown by the lake. I'm in Burlington, Vermont, which is our biggest city (still tiny compared to most others :lol: ), but it gets some good attention from carriers. My brother has AT&T, and gets LTE eveyrwhere, and Verizon was the same before he switched last month. I have a stupid Samsung Tracfone, the S390G. I've been using a few weeks since I gave my brother the 4S, and it's been miserable.  Finally time to switch!

[ZacDaMan72]

Getting a Blu-Ray reader. I could've gotten a 280X instead of a 270X.

[AlwaysFSX]

GT 520

 

Radeon 7770

 

Prebuilt PC

 

6 pairs of PX21's (was under warranty, why not)

 

PX3

 

PS3

 

Two dozen games for the PS3

 

An extra controller for my PS3

 

Half the shit in my Steam library

 

Whatever the hell I ate last night dear god am I paying for that

[MattGameDev]

I regret buy an NZXT M59 mid-tower case when putting together my build. The parts themselves cost me $1300.. but i skimped out and bought a $59 case........

Worst. Air. Flow. Ever.

[flibberdipper]

My ASRock N68C-GS FX. Should have gone with the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 (something like that, can't remember off the top of my head) when it was only $10 more than the POS board I ended up getting anyway.

[Axel Sypkens Smit]

I pre-ordered the Sony Xperia Z a week before the htc one was announced. After laying my phone on a stone table the screen broke an the upper half of the touch screen doesn't respond anymore, most of the water/dust caps went of within 2 monts and the back comes off. That and the viewing angles on the original Xperia Z witch are pretty terrible make this my most regretted buy ever I think.

[DanTheMuffinMan]

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

 

Freaky, the K70 is what I wished I would've got too. Now I'm holding out for the RGB version.

 

*Internet-fist-bump*

[thekeemo]

the assassin g1 rev 2 but I regret my gtx650 more and cant afford a better one

[Thorium19]

Getting my laptop. I had ordered a samsung i5 laptop that was really good quality, but it was DoA. So instead my parents sent it back, we went to john lewis and picked up my toshitba C660D, which has a single core AMD V140 and considerably worse build quality and performance.

[AngusBastion]

I regret buying cheapest MSI (760GM-P23 (FX)) mobo for my boss. The shear amount of BS it gave was amazing and annoying. So I have assembled new computer with all new parts and it just did not start. i have checked all connections nothing. After that I have checked internet for problems and I could not find any information. All parts were compatable. I have checked MSI and AMD websites before buying, it had enough power (650 Watts, CM G650M) for CPU FX-8320, GPU Radeon HD6450. So I decided to unplug some parts and test again. Well it worked until I plugged video card. At first I thought that GPU is dead, but before writing it off I have decided to test on my personal rig and it worked perfectly. I have checked MSI GPU support for that mobo and it is supported without BIOS upgrade (magically GPU support PDF in MSI website is missing). So we sent that mobo back to the shop and received new one. Gues what same problem. We sent it back and asked for money. We bought same mobo from other shop and again same problem. I got pissed and just bought Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P and it worked just fine. And I did try to fiddle with BIOS but it did not help. I have also tried my GTX 760 and it also did not work.

[origx36]

yes. a sparkle gtx 570.

horrible cooler