Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Lewiscpullan]

Mine would have to be my current case. I bought an Antec dark fleet DF-85 case with the special over sized cp-1000W PSU and two years later i regret it all. I looked around a bit but didn't do much research before i bought it. I am currently now looking at finally upgrading to a nice Corsair case and PSU. So what do you guys regret doing or buying?

I regret the case too I bought a corsair 100r without much research as it was brand new and the pictures looked like it had a window but it didn't I wish I got a nzxt s340! Also I don't know whether I should have got a fx 6300 and gtx 970 instead of my i5 4590 and gtx 960

[cooky560]

First ever build I forgot completely about the spacers for connecting the motherboard to the backplate of the case, that was painful

[HexNether]

I regret everything:

£500 for:

CPU: AMD A4-4300M

Case: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook

RAM: 6GB

HDD: 1TB

GPU: NONE

[SteveGrabowski0]

Not spending the extra $25 on a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 instead of getting the EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX card.

[Tedster]

Stayed with the stock cooler.

Accidentally scratched my Define R4

[Legion]

Buying a dell laptop.

[ConnorDahne]

Reading the modding, and build section convinced me I'd be able ro paint my case and make it look as good as snef/maki role's stuff.
I'll post a picture when I get home lol

[AlTech]

Did you guys ever mess up when you were building your first PC or any PC if you've built one recently?

 

 

I screwed up and killed my MOBO by either me or one of my two friends accidentally stepped on the Mobo

 

 

Let me know in the comments how badly you guys messed up if at all? 

 

EDIT: That was around 1 and a half years ago though

 

EDIT2: I'm an idiot It was actually the Mobo (how someone could accidentally step on a mobo is beyond me).

 

I had a Z87 board but then I got a Z97 board to replace it

[Colt_0pz]

damn, that's a sad story. i screwed up with my cpu overclock as it caused me crashes. now have a stable overclock so im fine

[Fictionvl]

Yes, I've bent some of my power pins on the motherboard, it was a pain, but I got it to work after all

[Zackfoo]

my fx6300 accidentally have thermal paste on it because my hands has them and i touched the pins. Brushed it off with toothbrush and it still works and sold it off to a friend and he is still using it until so i kinda fucked up but not that hard i guess.

[Lolucoca]

Sure I killed my E6300 trying to delid it ^^ The DIE was soldered to the IHS

[Zackfoo]

damn, that's a sad story. i screwed up with my cpu overclock as it caused me crashes. now have a stable overclock so im fine

i screwed up my overclock 2 days ago and it somehow crashed my ssd and everything loads 100x times slower. reinstall windows yesterday finally fix the problem. installed drivers is a pain in the ass and those common apps. Now only i back up all those installer and drivers in my pendrive. god damn it.

[SPG]

wasnt my first build but I screwed up my first upgrade
I bent the pins on my cpu...thankfully I fixed it with a credit card and a steak knife...but still freaked me out.

As for my first build from scratch, the only thing I "screwed up" was buy a questionable combination of parts, could ahve gotten a lot more out of my money if I knew more.

[ThinkWithPortals]

I've never broken anything, ever.

[CydiaDash]

Nope, everything worked perfectly lol

[AlTech]

damn, that's a sad story. i screwed up with my cpu overclock as it caused me crashes. now have a stable overclock so im fine

I meant Mobo sorry.

 

Here's the  new one

[AlTech]

I've never broken anything, ever.

I wish i was like you. 

[EIijah]

Nope, everything went 100% smooth, Only thing I've ever done was not put a stick of ram all the way in when I upgraded from 8-16Gig.

 

Although there's the constant plugging HDMI into the MoBo and freaking out when nothing shows up until I remember it's gotta go in the gpu

[Atmos]

I messed up once, used the stock thermal compound on an AMD phenom. Crappy ceramic thermal compound that after a few months turned into cement. When I went to change motherboards the cpu was stuck to the cooler, I had to soak the cpu in isopropyl alcohol and used a piano wire to slice the cooler off from the heatspreader of the cpu.

 

Not a clean or pretty sight. Surprised that the cpu didn't die at any point of the process.

[DannyRyu]

same everything worked perfectly. except I helped my Friend build a PC and 1 of the USB 3.0 header pins were bent and I said he should probably RMA it but he grabbed a pack of tweezers and fixed it lawl it worked

[AlTech]

I messed up once, used the stock thermal compound on an AMD phenom. Crappy ceramic thermal compound that after a few months turned into cement. When I went to change motherboards the cpu was stuck to the cooler, I had to soak the cpu in isopropyl alcohol and used a piano wire to slice the cooler off from the heatspreader of the cpu.

 

Not a clean or pretty sight. Surprised that the cpu didn't die at any point of the process.

Oh dear god no 

[ThinkWithPortals]

I wish i was like you. 

I'm just really careful, it's why I am a really slow builder, I check and double check everything.The build in my sig took six hours.

 

Mind you, stupid stuff has happened. Like when I noticed that the H100i pump was DOA and wasn't pumping fluid around the loop, meaning that my CPU was idling at 80-90 degrees for about two minutes before I noticed and shut it off. The chip still works though, but I RMA'd the H100i.

[Guest]

Yeah.

 

It was using Antec PSUs and ASRock MoBos

[corbetto]

I forgot to put in my CPU power 2 years ago. Had me going around in circles for hours... derp