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An Alienware desktop. Actually, I didn't buy it but it's not worth the money.

yup. You're basically paying about twice the price compared to building it yourself. Their cases and the components they use aren't bad though, it's just that they are stupidly overpriced.

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yup. You're basically paying about twice the price compared to building it yourself. Their cases and the components they use aren't bad though, it's just that they are stupidly overpriced.

The build in total was $800. It has a GT 640 and an i3 2120 along with a 240 watt external PSU.

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Cooler Master Elite 430. Worst case ever

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OUYA, although after much hacking it has turned into a fun project.

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Cooler Master Elite 430. Worst case ever

and that my friends, is why you don't just buy cases on newegg based on the best reviewed. Some of the best reviewed cases on newegg are the cooler master haf x and some old antec cases, and all of those are complete junk in this day and age. They may have had their heyday, but these days there are muuuuuuuch better cases for the same prices.

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and that my friends, is why you don't just buy cases on newegg based on the best reviewed. Some of the best reviewed cases on newegg are the cooler master haf x and some old antec cases, and all of those are complete junk in this day and age. They may have had their heyday, but these days there are muuuuuuuch better cases for the same prices.

I bought it when it was my first case purchase and I was on a budget. That case couldn't even have a flat fan connecter behind the motherboard

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GT 620... Self explanatory...

HD 7750. This was a mistake I made. It was a good card until I fucked it by doing a failed bios flash.

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For me would be my old I5 3570k. Don't get me wrong its a awesome CPU, it did everything I needed but, I have always been a AMD guy and just got the fx 6300 with a asrock 990fx board. I have no regrets going back to AMD. To me it is more of a fun CPU to use then Intel. Thats IMHO.

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My motherboard. It doesn't support SLI... 

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My TI Nspire

 

my professor doesn't let us use calculators 

you think that is bad i have had a ti-86 for over 10 years and have never once been able to use it in a class as teachers would only let people use ti-83 and ti-83 plus

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My GT 420 I had, and my motherboard

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GT 620... Self explanatory...

HD 7750. This was a mistake I made. It was a good card until I fucked it by doing a failed bios flash.

Same situation here kinda of.

 

7750. Could of gone with a 7790 or something else but I needed a new PSU

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Same situation here kinda of.

 

7750. Could of gone with a 7790 or something else but I needed a new PSU

7790 was never really worth it when you could find 7850s for the same price..

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My wireless card on my desktop, I could have gotten a much better one but I knew nothing about tech at the time.

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My wireless card on my desktop, I could have gotten a much better one but I knew nothing about tech at the time.

Even the best wireless setup always gives me problems.

 

Wired>Powerline>wireless access points (even the 1000 megajigabits p/s 4000$ routers)

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wtf... why did your motherboard kill your hard drives? are you sure it was the cause?

 

 

TI calculators are so overpriced anyway. Casio masterrace. It's just that TI loves inflating prices because they know 90% of high school and college students are required to have TI-84 calculators etc.. so they charge 150$ for them.

I wish mine was only $150

In Australia, mine costed $400 and had a touch screen, but its so unnecessary and shitty.

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I wish mine was only $150

In Australia, mine costed $400 and had a touch screen, but its so unnecessary and shitty.

wtf... why don't you guys import stuff from shipping forwarding services more often? Even with the import duty, it'll  still end up a lot cheaper. I know of a lot of people who import from Japan, the US etc.. when ordering headphones in Australia.

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I just bought a couple of Cooler Master JetFlo 120 fans. I had read that they're noisy, but this didn't prepare me for how noisy they truly were. I also regret getting the Sennheiser HD 558 headphones when I could have had the HD 598s for a couple bucks more.

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This stupid piece of crap

 

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Cool idea but it blocks airflow for the entire PC just so the RAM can have a fan (in a case), if you have an open build without a case then it's a pretty good idea.

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