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64GB of RAM on consumer CPU instead of 128GB on server CPU.

Why would you ever need that much RAM?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9DNjLk I like the night theme, it complements my dark basement. If you are reading this then you must also be a fan of the night theme.

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Buying a chromebook rather than a similarly priced but much more capable windows laptop. WHAT WAS I THINKING.

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Future Upgrades: h100i cooler, corsair sp120 fans, 1080p monitor, AMD->Intel CPU Switch

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I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.

 

I actually did the exact same thing on my first computer build 10 years ago and somehow the only thing damaged was the cable, the sound card and floppy drive are in working condition to this day.

 

As for other stupid things... I remember forgetting to plug in the pump on my custom water cooled build after changing a couple of things, it caused the CPU block to leak which killed on of the two 8800GT's in the system.

Also in that same build I decided not to bother with a reservoir and just fill it from the radiator... This turned out to be a nightmare to get the air out of the loop and was a valuable lesson for me (and I bought one the next time when I decided to upgrade the system).

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Keeping a glass of cola on top of my computer. You can figure out rest... 

"You can´t spell SLAUGHTER without LAUGHTER!^^"

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I got a new one. Forgetting a banana at the bottom of one of one of my laptop bags and putting my laptop in there. A week and 400 fruit flies later here I am. The smell was so strong I had to use baking powder ... now I get to open up my laptop and clean dead fruit flies and rotten banana mush out of the air vents... fun.

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Buying a $1000 Macbook Air lol. Never planned on gaming back then, but now I regret not using that cash to buy a nice gaming PC! Such a shame...

My Baby Girl ❤️ ~ CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X | Mobo: ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX | RAM: 2 x 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz | GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC | Case: Fractal Design Core 3500 | HDD: Seagate 1TB | SSD: Adata SP900 512GB | PSU: EVGA 650G 80+ Gold Full Modular | OS: Windows 10

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Putting in ram the wrong way..not too sure what i did but i messed up the motherboard badly, and it wasn't mine...

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Made a ghetto fan speed reducer when I was younger. However I switched around the wrong cables around. Which ended up burning half the rubber insulation off the cables on my noname PSU. Not sure, but that might have been the reason why I bought my first proper PSU, the Corsair HX620. Which is still running in my sisters PC today. :)

 

2006, jesus. That PSU is turning 10 next year. Seasonic build quality I guess.

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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2006, jesus. That PSU is turning 10 next year. Corsair build quality I guess.

*Seasonic build quality. They make the PSU, Corsair puts its sticker on it.

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My first PC build was a mess. 1st mistake was buying a Micro ATX AM3+ mobo, a piece of shit. 2nd was buying a Bitfenix Prodigy M, which has little room for the GPU. This led me to getting a 750 Ti.

 

Yea, I spent more on the case than the GPU, not very smart.

 

I solved this a year later by selling most of it, and starting fro scratch besides the HDD, SSD, and CPU. That is my system now (specs in sig)

 

 

 

I still have the case and don't know what to do with it. It is missing a few wires but otherwise in fine condition. I feel guilty and wasteful about throwing away, but at the same time I might be setting someone up for the same disaster I went through. Or the missing wires screws over the possible newbie buying it on craigslist.

 

Any suggestions on what to do with it?

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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*Seasonic build quality. They make the PSU, Corsair puts its sticker on it.

 

Fixed.

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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buying a gtx 970 strix

My Build: 4690k @ 4.7 GHz, ASUS Strix 970 @ 1316 MHz, H105, Corsair Vengeance Pro @ 1600 MHz, H440, RM750

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Why's that?

asus strix is so trash, terrible everything. crashes way too much even with a super low oc. I greatly regret not getting a gigabyte g1 instead of strix simply for the color scheme.

My Build: 4690k @ 4.7 GHz, ASUS Strix 970 @ 1316 MHz, H105, Corsair Vengeance Pro @ 1600 MHz, H440, RM750

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asus strix is so trash, terrible everything. crashes way too much even with a super low oc. I greatly regret not getting a gigabyte g1 instead of strix simply for the color scheme.

Why didn't you RMA? You probably got a defective card.

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Lets just start a useless thread about failures.

 

 

 Apple newton PDA

 

Cisco wifi camera (discontinued before release)

 

sony betamax

 

 

 

.........

Elemental 

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Intel i5 6500 @3.8ghz - 8GB HyperX - 600w Apex PSU - GTX 1060 G1 GIGABYTE 6GB - s340 Black - 240gb Toshiba Q300 - Cooler master TX3i - MSI z170-A PRO.

Old Build (sold for 290€)

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Intel i3 540 @ 3.9ghz (On stock cooler, Hits 80c max) - 8gb ram - 500w power supply - P7H55-M LE  120gb SSD - Talius Drakko case

Project Frug 50$ Water loop

 

Laptops

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13" Macbook Air - Alienware m14x r2 -  2009 15" Macbook Pro (I was give all of these and would never buy them myself)

 

 

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I remember there being a thread about this already...

 

--edit--

Slightly different, but still pretty damn similar.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/90207-whats-your-personal-techhardware-fails/

Specs: CPU - Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz | GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Motherboard - ASUS Strix Z370-G WIFI AC | RAM - XPG Gammix DDR4-3000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) | Main Drive - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 | Other Drives - 7TB/3 Drives | CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i Pro | Case - Fractal Design Define C Mini TG | Power Supply - EVGA G3 850W

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VirtualBoy

HD DVD

I'm a fucking AMD kawaii weeaboo desu I have seen the light

i5 6600k | EVGA 980 FTW | Z170A PC Mate | 1TB WD Blue | 240GB SSD Plus | NZXT S340 | EVGA 600b  | Dedotated 8GB

 

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*cough, AMD, cough*

Sorry but i had to after hearing how 390 and 390x are going to be rebrands and not new chips....

Connection: 200mbps / 12mbps 5Ghz wifi

My baby: CPU - i7-4790, MB - Z97-A, RAM - Corsair Veng. LP 16gb, GPU - MSI GTX 1060, PSU - CXM 600, Storage - Evo 840 120gb, MX100 256gb, WD Blue 1TB, Cooler - Hyper Evo 212, Case - Corsair Carbide 200R, Monitor - Benq  XL2430T 144Hz, Mouse - FinalMouse, Keyboard -K70 RGB, OS - Win 10, Audio - DT990 Pro, Phone - iPhone SE

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*cough, AMD, cough*

Sorry but i had to after hearing how 390 and 390x are going to be rebrands and not new chips....

May the fanboys have mercy on your soul, prepare for the onslaught

 

 

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apple 12" macbook and apple watch

Nah one USB port is all you need

(Not really xD)

 

 

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May the fanboys have mercy on your soul, prepare for the onslaught

If i was AMD fanboy i would be super pissed for getting HD 7970 overclocked for 3rd time....

Connection: 200mbps / 12mbps 5Ghz wifi

My baby: CPU - i7-4790, MB - Z97-A, RAM - Corsair Veng. LP 16gb, GPU - MSI GTX 1060, PSU - CXM 600, Storage - Evo 840 120gb, MX100 256gb, WD Blue 1TB, Cooler - Hyper Evo 212, Case - Corsair Carbide 200R, Monitor - Benq  XL2430T 144Hz, Mouse - FinalMouse, Keyboard -K70 RGB, OS - Win 10, Audio - DT990 Pro, Phone - iPhone SE

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If i was AMD fanboy i would be super pissed for getting HD 7970 overclocked for 3rd time....

Yeah I hate the rebranding as well, I was just joking

 

 

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