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On an old build with a crap PSU I somehow managed to get the 4 Pin Motherboard connector switched with the 20+4 part from the main connector.

 

I heard pops and sparks

 

everything died but the CPU

Desktop: Uhh....

My Console: PlayStation 4      My Phone: ~~Nexus 6~~ RIP. Now a Moto G     

My Tablet: iPad Air 2     My Laptop: Lenovo Y50 4K (i7-4710HQ/12GB Ram/860M)

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Being impatient and stupid and bought a 780 a week before 900 series announced.

Buying a Cooler Master Wave case, what a horrendous POS.

Buying first wave of Corsairs new 660t graphite cases. Quality control was horrid all over, replacement case wasn't any better. Plastic and flimsy as hell. Corsair cases are over marketed crap

Buying an MSI board, never again.

Putting my data storage drive right on a table and not antistatic bag and loosing years worth pictures that I didn't back up either after the dribe refused to boot.

Dusting my components with Swifter dust pads for years....

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I was building pc's with my friends all at the same time one weekend and by the time we were finishing up we were all pretty tired and i had just finished a hearty round of "lets plug in one thing at a time and see what works" 
so as i went to plug in the last cable i forgot to turn off the computer as i had done a million times and it sparked at me and turned off. 
I just about pooped myself until i turned it on and it was ok.
It should have been a dead board but i got lucky.

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I bought a macbook pro 2004.... in 2010.

In 2004, that would've been a PowerBook.

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I bought only 1TB of HDD to start off with. I'm editing, and producing short films. I already have 2TBs though! Which are now 90% full and I've only had this computer for a month and a half. Also  I bought a Corsair 750D, and only have an AiO Liquid cooling.

 

Some people think that's a mistake, but I love this thing, I also plan to get like 5 more HDDs, put them in RAID, then 2 SSDs and put those in RAID, then get a PCIe SSD for my boot drive. Eventually.... It's on my wishlist

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I did buy some crummy (Apevia I think) PSU to run an old GTX 650 I had cause I needed the connector for it. Quickly bought a corsair PSU after I learned of the mistake I made.

 

I also bought AMD for my first gaming rig *Which served it's purpose well while I was on a budget*

Main Rig CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x GPU: Asus TUF Gaming RX5700XT MB: ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200 CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Master Liquid LC240E SSD: Crucial 250gb M.2 + Crucial 500gb SSD HDD: PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower Gran RGB 850W 80+ Gold Case: Corsair Carbide 275R KB: Glorious GMMK 85% MOUSE: Razer Naga Trinity HEADSET: Go XLR with Shure SM7B mic and beyerdynamic DT 990

 

unRAID Plex Server CPU: Intel i7 6700 GPU: Nvidia Quadro P2000 MB: Asus B150M-C RAM: Crucial Ballistix 32gb DDR4 3000MT/s CPU Cooler: Stock Intel SSD: Western Digital 500GB Red HDD: 4TB Seagate Baracude 3x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf PSU: EVGA BT 80+ Bronze 450W Case: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO KB: Cheap Logitech KB + Mouse combo

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I pulled the power during a bios update... So thankful that I had a removable bios on my motherboard!

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I built an amd athlon II x2 in 2011 with a cheap 7770. To replace my athlon 64 3300+, I was dissatisfied with the performance and upgraded to a phenom II x4  975 and a nearly at launch 7980 and again phenom had bad microstutter so dissatisfied with performance again upgraded the next year to an ivybridge 3770k which I am very happy with. Moral of the story I wasted some of my  money choosing low end components that could not keep up with the tech i wanted to use.   

Super OP AF Killer Retro Emulation PC 360 No Scope 420 Blaze It (Sorry I Couldn't Help It) Seriously Though This PC Is Overkill And Before You Ask It Does Play Crysis 1024x768 60 FPS

Intel Core Duo 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz // ASUS P5N-D // Zalman CNPS9500A Air Cooler // 4GB G.Skill @ 400MHz 5 5 5 31 23 // 2 Way SLI GeForce 9800 GTX+ // 32" SONY WEGA CRT TV 480i // Corsair TX750 // Seagate 3TB // Win XP 32Bit // Sony DVD RW // ANTEC Full Tower // Steel Series H Wireless // Logitech K520 Wireless Keyboard // Logitech M510 Wireless Mouse // Logitech G27 Racing Wheel // Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS // HORI Fight Stick Mini // 8Bitdo NES30 Pro / FC30 Pro / SNES30 / SFC30 Bluetooth Controllers

Future Upgrades The New 8Bitdo Wireless SNES Controller With Analog Sticks / 8Bitdo Bluetooth Arcade Fight Stick / Proper HD I Know This Machine Does Not Support 3 TB / Icy Dock 5.25 4 Bay HD Hot Swap Bay For More Seamless Multi Booting Want To Run At Least Win 95, Win XP, Win 7 

i7 3770k @ 4.5Ghz // ASUS Maximus V Formula // CM Hyper 212 EVO // 16GB G.Skill Sniper @ 2133MHz 9 11 10 28 // Crossfire Sapphire 7970 // 42" 4K 60Hz FreeSync WasabiMango IPS // Corsair AX860 // Samsung 1TB 840EVO // Seagate 3TB // Seagate Barracuda 160GB sata II // OCZ Vertex 3 90GB sata III // Win 10 64Bit // ASUS DVD RW // 2 Corsair AF 120 // 2 Corsair SP 120 // 2 xigmatek 120 // Corsair 760t white flavor // NZXT HUE+ RGB Controller // Sennheiser G4me Zero // Steel Series H // Corsair M95 // Corsair K95 // 3 Xbox 360 Controllers // Dolphin Bar // Wii U Mote // Leap Motion Plus // Logitech G27 Racing Wheel // Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS // HORI Fight Stick Mini // 8Bitdo NES30 Pro / FC30 Pro / SNES30 / SFC30 Bluetooth Controllers

Future Upgrades 1080Ti or Vega RX64 http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/16900-nothing-special/

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Last time i started a bad decision thread, it was well received.However, it suddenly disappeared from the my content section......oh well.....(it was about bad pc building decisions)

 

 

this time i am asking you what bad tech related, life related(if u wanna tell),gadget related decisions and gaming related decisions did you take?

Indus Monk = Indian+ Buddhist

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Buying CoD: Ghosts

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

mini_cardboard: a 4% keyboard build log and how keyboards work: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1328547-mini_cardboard-a-4-keyboard-build-log-and-how-keyboards-work/

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got a i5-2500k isntead of a i7-2600k regret it now......... also bought a bunch of cheap psu's damaged my gtx 660 ...

dem feels friend

Indus Monk = Indian+ Buddhist

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Buying Tomb Raider with my pc specs after I already played the "demo" version of it. xD

I need better gpu+psu ;-;

 

Edit: got the "demo", liked it, ran badly on low (22-28fps), bought it on steam a few months later, played it again.. same results. Don't know what I was expecting but was a good deal ^_^

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 2xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400); Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Mionix Naos 7000 w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 16GB RAM.

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upgraded from 3770k to 4770k

 

ever got a k variant since ive never overclocked lol

 

upgraded from a 670 to a 780

 

bought a hx 650wv2

 

bought a h80

 

bought a monitor without knowing about them (have a tn, i was young :()

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Bought a second monitor that wasn't the same as my first one, god it looks weird having two 21.5'' monitors that have different bezel sizes. The colors are different too which can get annoying.

My Main PC:

CPU: i5 3570k CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T4 Motherboard: Asus p8z77-v pro  RAM: Crucial Balistic 2x4gb  GPU: Two PNY GTX 680's in SLI Case: Some rando Antec one  PSU: Thermaltake 1000w  Display: HP Elite Display 321i 23''  Storage: Samsung 840 Evo 128gb, Seagate Barracuda 1tb

 

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Cheaped out on the pump when putting together my loop. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Fried a 770 by putting it in a prebuilt with a crappy "500W" PSU

Delidded an Athlon II

Tried to swap compression fitting without draining loop

      

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I bought a 50$ Phanteks Cpu cooler.  It works alright but I should went with liquid cooling because I want to overclock and it's a little bit loud.

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Ram: Team Zeus Blue 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive, Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply Display(s): Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor Cooling: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BK 68.5 CFM CPU Cooler Keyboard:Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX BrownMouse: Razer Deathadder Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) PC Part Picker URL: http://pcpartpicker....aze101xx/saved/

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Finally decided to like blue switches the most, searched for a RGB Keyboard ^^

CPU: Xeon 1230v3 - GPU: GTX 770  - SSD: 120GB 840 Evo - HDD: WD Blue 1TB - RAM: Ballistix 8GB - Case: CM N400 - PSU: CX 600M - Cooling: Cooler Master 212 Evo

Update Plans: Mini ITX this bitch

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Finally decided to like blue switches the most, searched for a RGB Keyboard ^^

 

Do you have the Corsair Rgb keyboard with blue switches?  I know they made a few.

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Ram: Team Zeus Blue 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive, Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply Display(s): Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor Cooling: Phanteks PH-TC12DX_BK 68.5 CFM CPU Cooler Keyboard:Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX BrownMouse: Razer Deathadder Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) PC Part Picker URL: http://pcpartpicker....aze101xx/saved/

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My NOT-K processor.

At the time of purchase.......lacking funds.

Maximums - Asus Z97-K /w i5 4690 Bclk @106.9Mhz * x39 = 4.17Ghz, 8GB of 2600Mhz DDR3,.. Gigabyte GTX970 G1-Gaming @ 1550Mhz

 

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Do you have the Corsair Rgb keyboard with blue switches?  I know they made a few.

No, unfortunatly not, I thought they beeing sold like any normal keys, din't realise what drama was behind all that. Seems like I am buying a normal K95 with Blues

CPU: Xeon 1230v3 - GPU: GTX 770  - SSD: 120GB 840 Evo - HDD: WD Blue 1TB - RAM: Ballistix 8GB - Case: CM N400 - PSU: CX 600M - Cooling: Cooler Master 212 Evo

Update Plans: Mini ITX this bitch

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Maybe my CPU choice honestly.

 

I could have gotten a 4670k for almost the same price but i saw that plenty of games were beginning to recommend 8 cores so I panicked last minute.

Spoiler

CPU:FX 8350 4.4 ghz (Upgrading to a 6700k!).Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R 2.0 (Upgrading to a Z170 Pro4!).GPU: Sapphire R9 290 (Arctic Cooler).RAM: 8GB Corsair XMS3 (Upgrading to 16gb ddr4 2400mhz!) PSU: Cooler Master B700. HDD: 120gb Hyper X Fury SSD, 500gb 5400rpm Caviar Blue Cooling: Hyper 212 (Switiching out with a Be Quiet! Pure Rock Slim for new build) 2x stock case fans.
Future Upgrades: h100i cooler, corsair sp120 fans, 1080p monitor, AMD->Intel CPU Switch

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upgraded from a 670 to a 780

What's wrong with the 780 compared to a 670? Or is it the fact you didn't go for a 900 series card?

"Everybody wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn’t always roll that way." - TS

 

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