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Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

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Haha I suppose I do deserve it :P

Sir, you do  :P

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Tea and computers don't mix. :angry:

Computers & Tea? Sounds to me like Windows NT...

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Yes mine once shut down itelf as it overheated.

He may had apply to much voltage

 

Well does he still blame you?

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Tried to hotplug a Hard Drive while the computer was on. Motherboard SATA was Hotswap capable, and I did use the Windows Safe Eject Device, but when i pulled the SATA cable out, Windows froze and i ended up bricking my new Hard drive. Sad Face. (Drive was not the OS drive, it was a secondary storage drive.)

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After formatting and re-installing Windows 7 on (what used to be) an HP Pavilion p7-1154 (from what was a separate partition) because of a hardware update at around 1:30AM, in the middle of the "Initial Setup" process I thought it would be a great Idea to lean on my computer case out of exhaustion. Of course, the one part of the case I blindly leaned on just so happened to be the reset button. Since I had thrown the original case with the Windows 7 code on it, and didn't have any DVDs or thumb drives with Windows 7, I had to go out and spend $140 to get a new copy.

Why not use one of the "cheaper" alternatives, if you know what I mean?

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Wining the lottery online on freeloto.com :p

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Peer pressure...

true dat.

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Dell 

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Dell 

 

That single word speaks volumes :)

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Mac mini... Nuff said...

 

yeah, but all of my all friend's dad's that buy it ONLY and I mean ONLY use it for programming iPhone apps

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Blackberry Torch 9800, had about five of them

Greetings from the Netherlands!

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What is that XFX card?

I'm also curious to what it is and why they were such a bad choice, I moved to AZ last year and although it is very hot, I mean A/C?

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This beautiful DAC came out last year, and was like nothing I'd ever seen before. I knew I had to have it. Akai usually make really great stuff so I didn't think of checking feedback first.... Bad mistake.

 

It still to this day does not have a set of fully functioning drivers. It is marketed as a 24bit/96Khz DAC, which you can only attain with an older set of drivers that use over 10% of CPU with the original firmware when idling (no matter the CPU and clock) and if you do update the firmware you get random device disconnections. However, if you literally sit for an entire day and install/uninstall over and over again, it will somehow work flawlessly until the next time you install ANYTHING that TOUCHES audio or USB settings on your computer.

 

I'm keeping it around mostly for it's looks. It has been relegated from my workstation music production DAC to my gaming sound card now though. It is very nice to operate and it does have excellent mic and headphone amp so with my heavy duty headset with XLR mic and everything, I'm the clearest-sounding gamer you'll ever hear on voice chat. lol.

 

Thankfully, it wasn't nearly as expensive as it looks!

 

The non-24bit Akai EIE non-pro apparently works just fine.... And it's even cooler looking :( :

 

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And to make it worse, none of these devices have ANY problems on Mac OS!

In case the moderators do not ban me as requested, this is a notice that I have left and am not coming back.

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Dell 

 

 

That single word speaks volumes :)

 

/\ This!

 

My last desktop was an xps. That coupled with vista. Just no!!

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Deleting every single one of my drivers.

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I'm also curious to what it is and why they were such a bad choice, I moved to AZ last year and although it is very hot, I mean A/C?

Thats fun, our swamp cooler has be dead and broken for 5 years, with zero permission from my father to fix or replace it, because "its not broken"

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I assume you don't own it then, since:

it's impossible to fit an 8 pin power cable through the 8 pin cutout with a motherboard installed

the rubber cable grommets leave a weird black residue on your hands when you touch them

the grommets come out of the holes if you put any significant amount of force on them

the cable routing holes are pretty small

the side doors are way too flexible and vibrate sometimes

the 5.25" bay door vibrates easily

the fan controller is near useless

only 7 PCIe slots and not enough space to hang a fourth graphics card off

CPU backplate cutout is too small

The hard drives are spaced out really badly if you are using corsair SATA power connectors

no front intake dust filters

airflow is mediocre if you don't want to use side fans

I own one, the only thing i don't like about it is the HardDrive bays. 

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Thats fun, our swamp cooler has be dead and broken for 5 years, with zero permission from my father to fix or replace it, because "its not broken"

 

Hope it isn't as hot as AZ, gets around 110-120 around here in the summer, I think I would literally die without A/C.

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thermaltake commander ms-i snow edition. cheap out on the case when i put my build together (case was on sale 4 $30). Cheap materials, cable management is bad, stock fan is horrible, little to no air being pulled out and also i have a noctuca nh-l12 cpu cooler when my legs lean agianst the case its the fans start to coilwhine because the case is not strong enough to hold it.

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an old gateway back when gateway was gateway and the motherboard burned somehow ... 

ohhh and this one had PCI-e ports so i was one of the cool kids

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