Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Novistion]

I went (and still use) AMD for my first build. *Cries in corner*

It's okay, you'll get Intel someday

[daniellearmouth]

I went (and still use) AMD for my first build. *Cries in corner*

 

I jumped ship.

 

#worthit

[z123killer]

Old desktop crashed, I was 7 years old so I unplugged the power cord, screen made a spark and stopped working.

[IsaacDaGrazin]

Deleted Windows and destroyed my Ubuntu installer so I'm just left with a black void yay...

[PlayStation 2]

I went (and still use) AMD for my first build. *Cries in corner*

hey fam it's not that bad

 

For me, probably getting this laptop. Two years later, 800+ hours of Team Fortress 2 later, and torture under games like GTA 5 and Grid 2 later, it's still alive. Still regret it.

[linuxfan66]

I went (and still use) AMD for my first build. *Cries in corner*

When was that?

[deWaardt]

I went (and still use) AMD for my first build. *Cries in corner*

hey it's not that bad , I picked an Athlon ii x4 860k, it's peforming surprisingly well for it's low price tag.

But I feel you, the per core performance of these things is pretty bad.

My next build will get an Intel again.

But... See it like this:

Now you have experience on both ships and you can speak "out of experience"

[DebatED Nothing]

Hopefully the keyboard/mouse will start working again.  They are unplugged and drying out.

I spilled a pint of milk on my mouse and after taking it apart, cleaning it thoroughly (soaking all plastic parts to get rid of milk and cleaning the PCBs with alcohol) it worked fine again.

 

This happened tonight... I found out that my CPU overheating issue was because I didn't remove the warning label on my water cooler. Was stressed out for months wondering why It kept overheating. Only till tonight did I try to re-seat it anndddddd voila...

Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. Fucking brilliant

 

My biggest mistake would have to be accidentally tearing my AMD 8350 off the motherboard with the heatsink due to not twisting it off, long story short I now own a Skylake 6600K.

I did that once. It was fine, just had to heat up the heatsink a bit with a hairdryer to soften up the TP. I've got pics of it, still using the same processor.

[Coaxialgamer]

getting a moto g instead of the slightly more expensive zenfone 2...

[Gazereths]

Spilled a full glass of red wine into my dads hard drive once, that went down well. Luckily I was able to get most of the data off it before the clicking noise of doom kicked in. Actually RMA'd it to Dell (shhhhhh....I never told them about the red wine )

[MDPS]

When was that?

Still same build I use today lol. I had no experience whatsoever about building my own computer, so went with an FX-8350 and motherboard with the most annoying BIOS and PCI lane layout.

[BOT Edward]

Removed a machine off the domain, realized for security reasons I disable local admin...

I was only trying to move it to the new domain but completely spaced out (was hungover and just wasnt thinking).
 

Managed to rescue all the data and pop it on the new domain but far out it was a PITA

[deWaardt]

Still same build I use today lol. I had no experience whatsoever about building my own computer, so went with an FX-8350 and motherboard with the most annoying BIOS and PCI lane layout.

I'm running an Athlon II x4 860k on an Asrock FM2A88M-hd+ in my budget build, and I was actually pleasantly surprised by it's performance, and I really like the motherboard.

After all, going with one of those newer pentium chips (those are the right one, right?) might have been a better idea, the AMD didn't disappoint me.

[derpyapple]

Getting an pre-built instead of building

[GeekJump]

I remember an actual, potentially life threatening, mistake I made!

 

When I was building my first PC I was worried about static discharge so I bought an anti-static mat with straps. Proper safety procedure right??? WELL...

 

When I was looking for something to clip to ground it, I attached one end to a live male-to-male extension cable. When I clipped the strap to the cable (the actual metal prongs), all was fine. But when I tried to clip the other end to my PC the moment it touched the metal case I could feel, hear, and see electricity . I immediately yanked the cable out the outlet lmao. thankfully I hadn't put any components in the case yet

 

it wasn't the first time that extension cord almost killed me....>_>

[flakypa]

Bending the GPU faceplate. Can't even close my computer anymore.

[hiddensniper861]

well buying a h50 for starters with a amd system then losing the brackets  installing a mobo without standoffs on my first build i didint notice till like months later and i was too lazy to fix it. eating greasy fries with my new black keyboard and mouse and getting my school iPad and calculator stolen by leaving my backpack in the bed of my dads truck then going to walmart lol 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Reading one of the first posts in this thread reminded me ... Quite a few years ago, like early 2000s or so, I fried a $200 ATI All-In-Wonder graphics card when hooking up a VCR to the inputs wrong somehow.

[Guest]

My worst mistake was going with FM2+ and A6-7400k instead of a Pentinum

[epicduck535]

kicked my new case about 4 times already this year scratched the pannel

[Gregrs]

Unplugged my wireless network adapter from my motherboard while the computer was running.

LOL

[Jaad]

after cleaning up the cables for the dozenth time in my mobo and and repositioning the fan plugs and whatnot i powered up my pc and hit the OC button on my mobo to test it out, started running some tests on it and i noticed the temps were abnormally hot, especially at being just 4.4 ghz. the idle temps were in the low to mid 40s and the stressing was hitting 100c almost instantly, after looking over and over on the mobo and trying to figure out what was wrong I finally realized that I had forgot to plug in the pump lol  temps came back down to normal

 

i7-6700k / Gigabyte Gaming 7 / h60

[Dapolish]

I bought a PC from cyberpower.

PC starts immediately shutting off.

 

I think its the PSU

 

Cyberpower says its the RAM

 

Mkay, i send it to them for 50 bucks.

 

Get it back.

 

Still broken

 

Tell them its PSU

 

No they say, it's gotta be the GRAPHICS CARD...

 

Fck Cyberpower

 

Buys own PSU

 

Still doesn't work.

 

Buys replacement for my brand new CPU cooler.

 

Continues to not work

 

Unplugs LED lights in pc

 

Works

 

Lay on the bed crying with my wallet for the next week

[sportydodo]

Watercooling an itx case with normal thickness fans..... I think I almost broke my mb with a screw trying to jam it in.

[Lotus]

I upgraded from a 3.9 GHz i7-920 paired with an R9 270 to an i7-4770k and an R9 290.

 

Worst decision ever. I didn't need to upgrade and the new system was a complete waste. The old system can still play AAA titles. I just re-assembled it with a few spare parts and gave it to my roommate and he's playing Fallout 4 at 60 fps on near-max settings with only a few tweaks (tesselation set at 4x, etc). I'm such a dumbass. That 8 year old CPU still has ample life left in it and is not a bottleneck, and I don't do enough to warrant the R9 290.