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Idk if I still have the box. i ill have to check when I get home... (my dad used it to pack paper and wood for a furnace xD)

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My iPod. (Not actully an iPod, just a music player). Which was good for about 2 hours from purchase O.o

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Hmm... worst tech buy... :lol:

That has to be a tie up between Sony Vegas Pro and CorelDraw.

All those programs ever did was crash and fuck up my progress.

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a 1USD SATA data cable... broke in a cleaning session...

 

and my Canon Pixma P200...

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Earbuds that literally didn't work after opening them and using them, they costed like 4$ though.

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a cheap Samsung external optical drives apparently it only burns at x8 i misread the package.

 

runner up might be the h220x while its a fantastic AIO trying to expand on it with its fill port on the side its the biggest PITA to the point where i chucked it in the garbage once the little air bleed screw broke

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Probably my 3d vision 2 set and my ocz solid 3 64gb ssd.

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Lg viewty snap gm360. Worst.phone.ever.

Best but tho is my iPad mini 1 16 gig

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Why ????? why did you even ?????

 

Haha.. it was an online auction i thought they were legit. The ear pods are actually not terrible.

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Haha.. it was an online auction i thought they were legit. The ear pods are actually not terrible.

I know there not but only the originals.

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My worst buy would have to be my computer case, and I only say this because before I buy items I heavily research them so I don't buy bad items. Just my case is not user friendly and I have had to mod it make it fit my needs... Also no USB 3.0 so im stuck with a USB 3.0 PCI-e card...

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I bought a prebuild from Cyberpowerpc for around $1150 and the HDMI and DVI ports on the GTX 770 didn't respond to my monitor so I sent it back and they still didn't work when I got it back...I got my money refunded

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My Current Case

(200R)

What's wrong with the 200R? I have one and it's fine. Not flashy, doesn't stand out, and it has okay cable management.

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What's wrong with the 200R? I have one and it's fine. Not flashy, doesn't stand out, and it has okay cable management.

 

I can't put another GPU in because the PSU is to close to the mobo

Because he had a hard drive.

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I had a Nokia Ngage back in the day

 

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THAT THING?! The screen was taller than it was wide, looks like a taco, and didn't you have to take out the battery to swap games?

Razer products?

My keyboard and mouse are both made by Razer......

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Iphone

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GTX 970 (specifically, my G1 Gaming, I should have gone with EVGA or Zotac - pretty much the vendor with the best customer service).

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XFX Proseries 750W (I know its Sesonic)

 

What a worthless PSU:

 

First one blew up in 3 months, throwing sparks and a horrific smell. Luckily all of my components survived. FX 6300 and GTX 750 Ti at the time.

RMA'd, 4 months later I swapped PSU's from my brother while upgrading (he needed the extra wattage)

 

That PSU (second one) was working 100% when I pulled it out, we decided to test the mobo (with cpu, ram etc) on the box, worked.

Then installed it into his case with standoffs. With everything plugged in correctly, I turned it on, and a burning smell wafts through. It was dead.

This replacement after 4 months, smoked a $200 motherboard, and could of smoked the 780 ti and i5 4690K on the gigabyte board at the time for no reason, WTF XFX!

 

I swear XFX PSU's are ticking time bombs

Now ill be RMAing the 750W again, and then selling it brand new in the box and buying a proper PSU.

 

Also just to note my brothers old XFX 7970 was artifacting to hell and they refused to replace it. We did tests with my 750 ti and another card, no artifating.

 

Just stay away from XFX.

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Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming Case: NZXT H440 (Blue)

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 256GB +  2x 1TB WD Cavier Blue

PSU: Corsair 750G2 

CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220X

Keyboard: Model M + a lot of others 

Mouse: Logitech G502
 

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GTX 970 (specifically, my G1 Gaming, I should have gone with EVGA or Zotac - pretty much the vendor with the best customer service).

 

Why? I love my 970 G1

 

Excellent looks

Quiet and cool temps

ZERO coil whine

Boss overclocker; 1580Mhz stable

 

I have never had to deal with Gigabyte's customer service, what happened to you?

Project Cobalt: 

CPU: AMD FX 8370 Motherboard:

Asus M5A97 R2.0

RAM: G.Skill Ares 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133 GPU:

Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming Case: NZXT H440 (Blue)

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 256GB +  2x 1TB WD Cavier Blue

PSU: Corsair 750G2 

CPU Cooler: Swiftech H220X

Keyboard: Model M + a lot of others 

Mouse: Logitech G502
 

Vintage Gaming PC: AMD Athlon T-Bird 800Mhz, Gainward nVidia Ti200 128MB, 512MB Crucial RAM DDR, Compaq ASPEN 2 OEM Board, Soundblaster Live! 5.1, Windows 98SE

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An asus memo pad 8 (last gen) It is ok but it is just soooooo slow because of its rockchip. But the new ones and other models have intel atoms which, from my experience with the dell venue 7 3730 just smoke android

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