Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Whiskers]

I spilled lasagna on my optical drive O.o

 

Ooh, Lasagne. <3

 

Stupidest thing I've done... hm, probably destroying my iPhone's screen after trying to fix the camera. I took it apart no issue but after I'd sorted the camera and I was putting it together again I put the wrong screw into one of the holes connecting the main board with the screen and it penetrated through the controller module thing at the top of it.

 

T'was a sad day. :( But then a non-issue when I realised I could get a replacement on Amazon for ~£30. And I still haven't bothered anyway, heh.

[iAsuno]

ants inside my laptop. it was do many it was not even funny. oh and spilling milk on my gameboy. fortunately it was off abd it worked fine after letting it dry for 3 days.

[Henry]

"So is Windows 8.1 a vmware"

[lolasianboylol]

My friend thought that his mobile 650m was just as fast as my gtx 670

[Thibaudv]

Bought an iPad 3.

 

For 600EUR.

 

A week after the iPad 4 was launched.

 

 

 

 

Damn you past me!

[MalenskiiPC]

Cousin starts watching me play a game of heavily modded Skyrim, and says, "Hey, those are almost as good as Xbox graphics!" I proceed to tell him they are inferior, then he says "Well the Xbox 360 was built for gaming, not internet browsing." 

[Henry]

Macs are PCso so this counts :

 

I was looking at the new mac pro on the apple website in a classroom, and some girl was like (thats not a computer, thats a cpu) when it was showing all the hardware and the motherboard...



Apple fags these days...

[Nicolas]

I saw a video of a guy doing an "BEAST SUPER EXPENSIVE KILLER PC BUILD" for gaming, he got an extreme edition, 32 gigs of RAM and a quadro, and he was like "yeah! this will run battlefield at 500 fps on max, I mean look at the price tag" and I'm sitting there going like, "dude, if you use the cpu graphics for gaming, you might get higher fps that with that quadro"

[Bluethulhu]

I let my 3930k run without a cooler when testing it. I touched it while it was on. It felt like ice for a few seconds and then the burning pain came. Also, I convinced my friend to buy a $1000 laptop with a 630m. I feel guilty.

[Bluejay0]

I let my 3930k run without a cooler when testing it. I touched it while it was on. It felt like ice for a few seconds and then the burning pain came. Also, I convinced my friend to buy a $1000 laptop with a 630m. I feel guilty.

 

Did the 3930K live?

[Bluethulhu]

Did the 3930K live?

Yes. Typing this on the unfortunate rig at the moment. I can't get anywhere in overclocking, I get BSODs at 4.2. Not sure if that is caused by the excessive heat, but what a waste considering I have a very nice OCing motherboard :S. At least it has an infinite amount of other features.

[Tmh85]

dumbest thing ive seen, My friends dad spent 1200 dollars on a computer, and he didn't even have a graphics card, and had the stock heat sink. *facepalm

[Bluejay0]

dumbest thing ive seen, My friends dad spent 1200 dollars on a computer, and he didn't even have a graphics card, and had the stock heat sink. *facepalm

 

wow....

[Guest]

Heard and always hear idiot gamers saying that i7s are not good for gaming, but the i5s are.

[Bluejay0]

Heard and always hear idiot gamers saying that i7s are not good for gaming, but the i5s are.

 

Kind of. The Hyperthreading isn't really helping.

[orangecat]

Low end GPUs like the GT 210.

[Tmh85]

wow....

that what i was thinking, how could you spend 1200 dollars without a GPU

[Bluejay0]

Low end GPUs like the GT 210.

 

HEY. THAT'S NOT NICE! ( forgive me. I have a GT610. I'm suffering. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp)

[eoso]

Heard and always hear idiot gamers saying that i7s are not good for gaming, but the i5s are.

 

What.

[orangecat]

HEY. THAT'S NOT NICE! ( forgive me. I have a GT610. I'm suffering. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp)

OMG REALLY! lol dont you have integrated graphics? im sure its just as good.

[Bluejay0]

OMG REALLY! lol dont you have integrated graphics? im sure its just as good.

 

Yes. HD4000. But i heard baaad things. Like CPU Hotter and low end. I just don't know *sniff*

[Ookami]

Bought Z77 Stinger (no no thats not it; its a great m-ITX board for me) and plugged the CPU fan to normal fan header on mobo and wondered for 1 hour why the hell my CPU temp is 65 on idle.

[Bluejay0]

Bought Z77 Stinger (no no thats not it; its a great m-ITX board for me) and plugged the CPU fan to normal fan header on mobo and wondered for 1 hour why the hell my CPU temp is 65 on idle.

 

THAT"S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! I kept getting a notification that no CPU_FAN was connected. I was like "wut" for a good 10 Minutes till i noticed the FAN_01 was next to the CPU_FAN header.

[SGuitarist]

Bought A computer with a GT 640 In it and then continued not to upgrade for 2 and a half years, thinking it was "good enough". while I was playing BF3 at 30fps

[TheSLSAMG]

Building this for my sister: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1rj6r

 

That was when RAM was cheap, and I didn't know too much about hardware.

 

All of the parts were purchased at Micro Center, and due to many good deals, including $140 for the 2500K, it was only $700 at the time.