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My PC......

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

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Buying 1333 mhz instead of 1600 mhz ram when building my first pc, or probably buying the ms-i commander snow edition (Thermaltake) case just becuase it looked cool... (I was 10 at the time :) ) 

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an A4Tech Webcam... cable too short to be useful...

 

a non-genuine Memory Stick Pro (these things are everywhere... and are packaged to look like the real deal...)... PSP won't read it...

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how is that a mistake?

that PSU is a grade A unit just get your warranty for it its not supposed to make any sound in the first place...

 

you do know things can get delivered broken they call them DOA's (dead on arrival)

 

 

 

the same applies for you just because 1 unit broke doesn't mean the brand or product sucks

OP asked for the worst PC part you've ever bought. I answered. I don't know what you're getting at.

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pinyeng front audio jack panel for a case i modded. (cost me 100 nok and it broke when i opened the bubble wrap it came in)

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gtx 960 and a cs450m for an i7 4790k based system.  not sure what I was thinking... it was February.. the cold was getting to me.. and I had not discovered these forums yet.  New gpu and psu are on their way finally! Though the 960 really has been awesome and I can't believe everyone hates on them, I can't wait to see what a 980 can do.  I got the 980 for $360 from evga bstock, otherwise I would not have bought a 980

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Either the EVGA GTX660 I bought, or the EVGA 500w PSU I bought (because it wasn't modular)

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Does my Dell Inspiron 15 N5040 count?

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an A4Tech Webcam... cable too short to be useful...

 

a non-genuine Memory Stick Pro (these things are everywhere... and are packaged to look like the real deal...)... PSP won't read it...

Ah... Memory Stick Pro cards... Curse you, proprietary schite!

 

Do they even have any advantages over SD cards, other than getting more money to flow for Sony, that is?

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Got into the Apple hype and bought a 3GS back in the day. #neveragain

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I lost my favorite SC2 shirt because of a drunken bet

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Getting a titan x just before the 980Ti came out

"Just go Android (Glorious Android Masterrace)"


Phone: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 64GB


PC "SkyT": Radeon 390, i5 6600K, NZXT H440 Razer 

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+ I joined the apple hype and bought a €2175 macbook pro retina

"Just go Android (Glorious Android Masterrace)"


Phone: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 64GB


PC "SkyT": Radeon 390, i5 6600K, NZXT H440 Razer 

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I dropped a screw driver on a motherboard once, it broke a component and bricked the board. I guess owning a MSI board in 2010-11 was also a mistake, since I used it lightly until it was out of warranty, but as soon as I pushed it hard it literally caught on fire. My next project might make the list, basically all I'll spoil now is that I'm going to be watercooling in a $20 case(not used, MSRP), and I don't have a radiator, soo yeah.

*Risky click of the day*

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Try to overclock my g3258 to 5.5 ghz at 1.4 volts. Note that I have a different processor now.

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Two days ago, I was trying to finish up something before I went to bed around 1am and I was tired and the room was dim and I tried to force the SATA power cable back on my hard drive in the case without paying attention.

It was upside down so the plastic cracked and the pins bent :-(

Luckily it wasn't an ssd and just a 1tb £40 HDD. And the files were backed up to an external.

Phew!

Btw there's no way to fix a broken SATA power port is there?

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I was going to clone an HDD to an SSD. I'm a huge fan of hot-plug SATA, so I popped open my case, plugged them in, and connected power to them.

 

They died.

Turns out some modular power supply cables for another modular power supply got mixed up with my modular PSU's cables. The cables had the same physical connection, but a different internal pin-out. Ugh.

 

That's a mistake I won't ever be making again.

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When i was helping my friend build his PC over the phone, I forgot to tell him to check whether his case (NZXT H440) had mobo standoffs installed - cause the manual said it did. Anyway, it didn't due to an error on NZXT's behalf. So he fitted his mobo straight to the tray and ended up killing his Gigabyte Z97 and 4790k. Luckily the local store were happy to replace it, saving him over $600  :lol:. 

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Ah... Memory Stick Pro cards... Curse you, proprietary schite!

 

Do they even have any advantages over SD cards, other than getting more money to flow for Sony, that is?

 

They're faster than SD... other than that, no other advantages...

 

I actually liked MSPro...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Bought cooler master CM Force 500  :unsure:

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OP asked for the worst PC part you've ever bought. I answered. I don't know what you're getting at.

Yes and you say it was a mistake to buy that product?

i am telling you thats not a mistake even good brands can deliver products broken

 

getting at the fact that your blaming the product instead of the occurrence that product was not a mistake to buy

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Just spilled a glass of milk on my keyboard. Randomly typing .'s now. 

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Buying an SSD I would have to say... Came up in conversation and never really thought about it but I find it more of a pain to compress files and manage multiple drives than just having a fast hard drive with 5 seconds added to the boot time.

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Buying an SSD I would have to say... Came up in conversation and never really thought about it but I find it more of a pain to compress files and manage multiple drives than just having a fast hard drive with 5 seconds added to the boot time.

I don't understand what is so  great about SSDs, I don't have one and my boot time is always under 10 seconds and my harddrive is fast enough. Maybe I wont understand until I get one.

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Buying 1333 mhz instead of 1600 mhz ram when building my first pc, or probably buying the ms-i commander snow edition (Thermaltake) case just becuase it looked cool... (I was 10 at the time :) ) 

Lucky for you it makes no difference in 99.999% of cases. 

 

an A4Tech Webcam... cable too short to be useful...

 

a non-genuine Memory Stick Pro (these things are everywhere... and are packaged to look like the real deal...)... PSP won't read it...

Ah... Memory Stick Pro cards... Curse you, proprietary schite!

 

Do they even have any advantages over SD cards, other than getting more money to flow for Sony, that is?

Memory Stick Pros.....I remember getting a 1gb one when I got the PSP the day it launched....it was a thursday....and a 1gb memory stick cost $100.

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Bought a Mac mini before I knew anything about computers, and I thought it was going to run Garry's mod, and CSGO without blowing up. I couldn't have been more wrong :/

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