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plugging in a sata power connector on the power supply but plugged it in to a PCI/ CPU slot instead of a IDE/SATA slot. I fried 3 1tb drives..

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cheaping out on powersupply, that poor 9600 gt, saddest thing was that the gpu and psu only had 1 year warranty and it fried at the 13th month

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Buying this computer without a video card, and not having to be able to upgrade. 

i only was planning to play Minecraft, OK!

But im getting a new one soon ($2500 ish) :3

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Probably either updating to Windows 10 or updating my BIOS...

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Funny how on this forum it's a bad thing to be an AMD fanboy but being a Nvidia fanboy is fine. Double standards much?

That's because they became the 'budget solution'. They're pulling themselves back though just give them some time and i think we'll all like them better :P

(Specifically cpu's. Gpu's are pretty good atm, i think it's just ignorance assuming they're bad)

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Funny how on this forum it's a bad thing to be an AMD fanboy but being a Nvidia fanboy is fine. Double standards much?

 

That's because they're obviously inferior! Why would you become a fan of something that is just not good?  :ph34r:

 

(Sorry, I couldn't resist^^)

 

What's up with your NVidia card that you regret buying it? My PC saw a 7600GT, followed by 5770, 6870 and currently a GTX 970 and they all did live up to their purpose IMHO.

 

On topic: Getting an Zenbook for University without a dedicated GPU - cheaped out on an additional 100 / 200 bucks. Now I'm stuck with the iGPU while I am at my parents... :-/

  (Though, since I just RMA'd it for the second time, using the exact same box they sent it back from the first RMA I kind of regret buying Asus in the first place...  :unsure: And I usually really like their products.)

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Buying this computer without a video card, and not having to be able to upgrade. 

i only was planning to play Minecraft, OK!

But im getting a new one soon ($2500 ish) :3

 

Why spending so much?

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I was unplugging a molex power connector from my fan controller, and it was extremely tight. Took a lot of force to get it out, and once I did, my hand smacked my CPU cooler(with a lot of force) and probably damaged something.

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paid £300 for a Xbox one "I still cry at night about this mistake"

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Installed new mobo, CPU, AIO watercooler for that, GPU and RAM yesterday. Today I wondered why the front panel USB wasn't working. I had it plugged in to the mobo upside down :|

 

Easy mistake to make since my previous mobo had it facing the other way, so the cable was so bent in one direction I just plugged it in without really thinking about it. As it's for USB you'd expect it to only plug in one god damn way anyway ...

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Installed new mobo, CPU, AIO watercooler for that, GPU and RAM yesterday. Today I wondered why the front panel USB wasn't working. I had it plugged in to the mobo upside down :|

 

Easy mistake to make since my previous mobo had it facing the other way, so the cable was so bent in one direction I just plugged it in without really thinking about it. As it's for USB you'd expect it to only plug in one god damn way anyway ...

 

Isn't there a notch to make sure you don't install it wrong?

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Isn't there a notch to make sure you don't install it wrong?

 

There is a notch, but it's not enough to stop that from happening :/

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So do tell, what's the most idiotic, stupid or silly thing you've done whilst building a computer or just with a computer in general!

I'm thankful I had my dad to show me how to do my first few builds but the stupidest thing I've done has to be deciding I no longer wanted my Ubuntu dual boot and just formatting the partitions related to Ubuntu. Little did I know that when you install Ubuntu alongside windows it takes over the boot manager and as a result I removed the boot manager.

 

Few hours later and a lot of fiddling around in the command prompt through a recovery disk I managed to get it to boot into windows again haha. All the fixes I found were for windows 8.1/7 and I was on windows 10. Yeah... never again.

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Forget to plug in my pump.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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A friend once plugged the molex cables into the PCI express cables, still wondering how that didn't kill his PSU

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Forget to plug in my pump.

My pump is connected to a separate psu, once i forgot to turn that on for about an hour.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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I'm hoping to avoid having to post here, ever...

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forgot the standoffs... and burned a motherboard... which managed to remain functional for more than a year after being burned...

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forgot the standoffs... and burned a motherboard... which managed to remain functional for more than a year after being burned...

"What's that smell?" "Oh just burning my motherboard. Don't mind me."

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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