Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Common_Courtesy]

It wasn't really my first build, but when I moved my system over to a Bitfenix Prodigy I installed my PSU the wrong way up so the fan was pressed right against the bottom of the motherboard tray instead of towards the vent... I didn't notice for a good 30mins after I booted. Bloody lucky nothing was damaged.  

[GoldSrc]

Back in the days, you had to use some ancient artifacts called "jumpers",

if you didn't place them correctly you couldn't use your CD-ROM or your hard drive if you had them in your only IDE cable.

Good times.

[ace101.]

Bought a V1200 because i thought that my R9 290 will consume 600W and I'm planning to go crossfire and thought it will be times 2. Yeah! Beginner's ignorance.

[Wooth]

I formatted the wrong drive once. I knew the second I did it and wanted to cry. I give all my drives unique names now
Have also dropped a hard drive that I hadn't yet retrieved all the data from yet. I had copied the images off it so that wasn't so bad

[ttam]

I once bought an AMD product

[Octavialicious]

Getting an FX-8350 instead of an i5-3570K

 

If I got the latter I wouldn't have needed to upgrade to my current cpu ;-;

[-BirdiE-]

Bought a Saitek x52 Pro thinking I'd use it for flight sims.... used it about 3 times, and then never touched it again for a year before I sold it...

[Camul]

Hmmm.

• I bought the HAF X instead of the Shinobi. (which I sold my Xbox so I could afford ;_
• I bought the Bitfenix Shadow instead of the Shinobi.
• I bought a RAT 7. Was fucked right out of the box.
• I bought the Steelseries Sensei instead of the Raw.

[JSind11]

Upgrading to a GTX680 and thinking my crappy unbranded 400w PSU would be fine.

It wasn't....

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

(if i didnt post in this topic)

 

Seriously predict my response..

 

Buying a CX750, it blowing up and buying a CX750M as a replacement....which then died and nearly took a lot of my components with it too, now i forever cringe when i see a CX PSU in anyones build. im the resident CX hater now .

 

But apart from a predictable response i can mention.

 

1 Buying a Celeron Single core 3.06ghz PC With a 80GB HDD and 1GB RAM and a low brand PSU and thinking it'll be my "recording and editing workstation, while playing games" (i was younger back then lol)

 

2 Trying to install a graphics card with the Computer turned on, got a big bolt of electricity fly at me from the PSU or the graphics card (it was a HD 3450 i think)

 

3 I ran my old 3770K and GTX 550Ti on a 750W Alpine PSU (20 Pound PSU with only one 6 Pin connector for a graphics card)

 

I could add more if i remember any othersz.

[Fhyrion]

I managed to take apart my first laptop without remembering to ground myself. Most of the components made it, but the hard drive was dead after that. 

[Redsun20]

Bought a M-atx motherboard and put it in an ATX case with a side pane window (Corsair Spec-01{it's awesome}). Well, at least I have pleant of room for upgrades (not. I have only 1 PCI-E 1x Slot) LOL.

[Inb4uall]

My motherboard doesn't support over clocking.

[Brawhammer]

Putting a  h100i in a Fractal design r4

 

My poor CPU Cable..  

[c3p0_]

Forgot to remove the protective plastic under the cooler. Smelled funny right after. *facepalm*

 

Flashing uefi during thunder. Electric blackout then killed the bios. Had to buy a replacementchip from ebay. *facepalm*

 

My tumbledryer has eaten several usb sticks  <_<

[Giganizer300PRO]

I drunk milk while gaming. The glass was full about 2-3 dcl and it was standing between my mouse and the keyboard. When I wanted to say something in the chat, I reached with my hand from the mouse to the enter and knocked the glass spilling all of its content all over my Razer DeathStalker. After that I didn't really know what to do, so If I would have washed the keyboard immediately I might, just might be able to save it (but probably not) so then, of course the membrane died and about 10 keys didn't work. So now it's sitting in its box and I have to get it apart and sell it for parts on Ebay one of these days. Then again, this was a great "excuse" to upgrade to a BlackWidow Ultimate 2014, which is what I am running now.

 

Also one more:

I burned an ISO to a USB, only realizing after, that the driver is no longer useful. It was a shitty 4gb drive, so not really that big of a deal, but I only have a few and none are really good. But I'm getting a Corsair Slider USB 3.0 64gb soon, so... not really that sad.

I mean, after all, sacrifices must be made.

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

Say "ill just get this part for now, and upgrade next month". You never upgrade next month.

[TheEpicDuck]

I bought a GTX 295. man i regret that.

[Slash003]

Disconnected my sata cord by accident while rerouting cords and thought the harddrive was broken. And getting a gpu with no power connection. And hitting my case a couple of times

[Brody.schaffer95]

Went to go install the Corsair H100i All in One cooler and I was new to removing heatsinks. I ended up tearing out my AMD 6350 and ripping out about 10 pins because I pulled the stock cooler off too hard. Kinda sucked but now I'm running an 8350!
 

[aSillyDuck]

I gave up the desktop a number of years back and spent all my money on the best Laptop I could afford at the time (an Acer Aspire series)... After using a Desktop again, and going back to the desktop experience I realized what a mistake I had made to give it up for only a laptop.

[hak4fun]

Hmm... biggest mistake. When I first got into repairing PCs, the fan in my laptop died. So I bought a new one, put it in. But I forgot to get some new thermalpaste. So I thought Oh the thermalpaste is pretty new, I will just smooth it abit and put it back together and it should be fine. Used it for a few months, seemed to run fine. But...... it wasn't. I continued to use it, it overheated a few times and finally it just shutdown and never turned back on. I took it apart, and there was like no thermalpaste on the actual die, the little plastic washers had melted and malformed. It was just bad....

[EthanTheFrogMan]

I got a lenovo U530 touch for $1000 to play Battlefield 4 with a 730m, I used a desktop fan (6inches diameter) to cool the damn thing, 6 months later the graphics card, CPU, and HDD all failed, lenovo gave me a full refund though  so its all good.

 

but I was an idiot for buying a "gaming pc" from Bestbuy

[Kanbari]

The best when i was like 14, my first pc, i saw it flying off the window of 2 store building just weeks after,, because of staying late at night, which was a condition not to do.

[SHAD0WxF1R3]

Got an fx-4300 when a 6300 was a few bucks more T^T