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Mitch
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bought a 550 ti... if that wasn't enough, I bought my 550 ti before buying a decent psu, I think my system died a little (literally)

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As in he had no SSD, or as in he used it for storage? In the last case it really isn't stupid at all.

that was the only storage device he had! it was from a thread on this forum i think called 'most hated part of your rig' something like that.

i was wrong about the GPU but this is what he said 

 

For me, it would definitely have to be my storage solution. I'm running a 6 year old 750 GB sata 2 HDD. My PC takes about 12 minutes before I can do anything on it, and loading a map in any game takes about 3 minutes or so  ;). To put this into perspective here's the rest of my rig:

 

FX 8350

HD 7950 1055/1525

MSI 990FX GD80V2

16 Gb G.Skill Sniper Ram @ 1600Mhz

Coolermaster Silent pro 1000w 80+Gold

CM Storm Sniper 

Something Awesome!

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Tried to download RAM.. I know, I'm a fail human being.

lol, I know people who share their findings of ram for free on facebook  :rolleyes: (some of them are trolling, others think it's legit.)

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CPU: R5 1600 @ 4.2 GHz; GPU: Asus STRIX & Gigabyte g1 GTX 1070 SLI; RAM: 16 GB Corsair vengeance 3200 MHz ; Mobo: Asrock Taichi x470; SSD: 512 gb Samsung 950 Pro Storage: 5x Seagate 2TB drives; 1x 2TB WD PurplePSU: 700 Watt Huntkey; Peripherals: Acer S277HK 4K Monitor; Logitech G502 gaming mouse; Corsair K95 Mechanical keyboard; 5.1 Logitech x530 sound system

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I killed 3 motherboards within 2 months. Then, I killed an i3 3220 for good measure. (By accident, of course). Now I need to go through the RMA for Asrock and Intel. Apparently, Intel doesn't like RMA because they're asking for a lot of info and whether or not you went through troubleshooting, etc.

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Someone i know bought a prebuild PC with a I7 3930X and a ....

GTX 650

("hardc0re gamerz")

Maybe it was marketed towards professional use, instead of gaming. Was it?

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Cousin said that smart phones dont have CPUs. or anything like one.

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bought a 1800$ Mac 2 years ago

PC : i7-3820 @ 4.3 GHz | Patriot Viper 3 Black Mamba 16 GB @ 2133MHz | Gigabyte GTX 670 SLI Windforce 3X | Gigabyte X79-UD5 | OCZ Vector 128 GB (Died) | WD Black 1TB |  | Asus Xonar DGX | Antch P280 | Asus PA238QR & NEC PA271w | LG 1440x900 Monitor | CM Storm Quickfire Pro (Cherry MX Brown) | Corsair M60 | Blue Snowball | Sennheiser HD 439 | IKEA Kitchen Table 

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bought a 1800$ Mac 2 years ago

 

may the Computer Gods have mercy on your soul...  :mellow:

Big Bertha3570k @ 4.5GhzASRock Fatal1ty Z777970 DCUII TOP EVGA GTX 780Swiftech H220 w/ NF-F1216GB RAM128GB Kingston HyperX 3K1TB Western Digital Black40GB Western Digital Raptor 10K PeripheralsMionix 3200 MouseCMStorm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues2 x Dell U2713HM AudioAsus ROG Orion Pro HeadsetSony XB-500AKG K240Bose AE2i​Fiio E10

Samsung Galaxy S45.0" 1920x1080p Super AMOLED screen16GB Storage2600 mAh battery1.9Ghz quad-core Krait CPU2GB RAMCyanogenMod CameraNikon D310018x55mm NIKKOR VR Lens14.2 MP
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I killed one of my titans during an Ln2 overclocking. I've put ln2 in the cpu pot, ram pot and.... fail inc.. only 3 gpu pots, instead of all 4.... luckily I had some titans in back-up.

 

It was more funny than embarrassing tho, sometimes you do something so seriously that you forgot a little detail

[build Log] Aperture Engine - CaseLabs STH10 - Dual GTX 690 - i7 3930K
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I'm gonna do something this weekend that a lot of people find stupid.

 

1: I have the i5 2500k yet bought my little brother the 3570k for his birthday and don't care that it is supposed to be "better" than the 2500k

 

2: I am going to put a laptop 500 GB WD 5400 rpm hard drive into my little brothers desktop because he ran out of disk space and my laptop still has another almost unused 500 gig hdd inside.

 

3. I think people underestimating the 2500k are morons which in turn makes them think I am a moron.

 

4. I still hate Asus motherboards which people find me to be a moron for, your cash your choice, my cash, my choice.

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CPU: R5 1600 @ 4.2 GHz; GPU: Asus STRIX & Gigabyte g1 GTX 1070 SLI; RAM: 16 GB Corsair vengeance 3200 MHz ; Mobo: Asrock Taichi x470; SSD: 512 gb Samsung 950 Pro Storage: 5x Seagate 2TB drives; 1x 2TB WD PurplePSU: 700 Watt Huntkey; Peripherals: Acer S277HK 4K Monitor; Logitech G502 gaming mouse; Corsair K95 Mechanical keyboard; 5.1 Logitech x530 sound system

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I killed one of my titans during an Ln2 overclocking. I've put ln2 in the cpu pot, ram pot and.... fail inc.. only 3 gpu pots, instead of all 4.... luckily I had some titans in back-up.

 

It was more funny than embarrassing tho, sometimes you do something so seriously that you forgot a little detail

 

You forgot to put nitrogen in the 4th Titan? lol.

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The Ghetto nVidia Shield, which costs more than an nVidia Shield.

"BUT WAIT!" proclaims Linus. "This presumes you already have a phone!"

I suppose I can make a ghetto laptop as long as I buy or use a pre-existing monitor, tape an mITX board to the back or an Intel NUC, and have terrible battery life with a rigged system? Seriously, this Ghetto Shield is an incredibly stupid idea. Even more stupid of an idea as the nVidia Shield itself! (I kid, I kid..) :P

I think that the ghetto shield is a cool idea. What is stupid is that you left a dumb ass comment then try to justify it by typing "I kid, I kid"

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Restarting while BIOS flashing

shit, I bet you felt like crying. 

So I spelt something wrong in my post... I don't care I don't read through what I write and I type very quickly.


Intel 3770k stock, MSI Z77A-GD65, MSI GTX 760, Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz 16Gb, Corsair RM 550W, Samsung 830 256Gb, some random hdds.

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shit, I bet you felt like crying.

Yeah, and I was sweating like hell cause I didn't know what was happening

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Yeah, and I was sweating like hell cause I didn't know what was happening

I hope you had a mobo with either dual bios or an easy way to get back a bricked bios without an RMA 

So I spelt something wrong in my post... I don't care I don't read through what I write and I type very quickly.


Intel 3770k stock, MSI Z77A-GD65, MSI GTX 760, Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz 16Gb, Corsair RM 550W, Samsung 830 256Gb, some random hdds.

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I hope you had a mobo with either dual bios or an easy way to get back a bricked bios without an RMA

It was under guarantee and MSI covers failed BIOS flashing

CPU: A10-5800K, GPU: 7660D, RAM: Corsair XMS3 2x 4GB 1600Mhz, PSU: Rosewill Stallion series RD500-2SB 500W, Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35, HDD: WD 10EZEX 1TB Blue, Case: Rosewill Line-M mAtx

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I hope you had a mobo with either dual bios or an easy way to get back a bricked bios without an RMA

So no I had none of these options of recovering my mobo

CPU: A10-5800K, GPU: 7660D, RAM: Corsair XMS3 2x 4GB 1600Mhz, PSU: Rosewill Stallion series RD500-2SB 500W, Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35, HDD: WD 10EZEX 1TB Blue, Case: Rosewill Line-M mAtx

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It was under guarantee and MSI covers failed BIOS flashing

well atleast it was covered 

So I spelt something wrong in my post... I don't care I don't read through what I write and I type very quickly.


Intel 3770k stock, MSI Z77A-GD65, MSI GTX 760, Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600Mhz 16Gb, Corsair RM 550W, Samsung 830 256Gb, some random hdds.

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It was under guarantee and MSI covers failed BIOS flashing

well atleast it was covered

Still very pissed :\

CPU: A10-5800K, GPU: 7660D, RAM: Corsair XMS3 2x 4GB 1600Mhz, PSU: Rosewill Stallion series RD500-2SB 500W, Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35, HDD: WD 10EZEX 1TB Blue, Case: Rosewill Line-M mAtx

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