Tech Confession Time!

[Stonep11]

I installed a new GPU into my Dell prebuilt once.  Worked perfectly, except that I forgot the PCI power.  Upon booting up, I smelled burning, shut it down and opened it up... saw the mistake after some tinkering.

[Stonep11]

it pisses me of that they landed on me, i dunno if its bad luck but ill just play it safe and not get asus stuff for a while. 

Its just bad luck, it still sucks though, you could be ASUS jinxed so stay away from them if you want to.

[brownninja97]

I installed a new GPU into my Dell prebuilt once.  Worked perfectly, except that I forgot the PCI power.  Upon booting up, I smelled burning, shut it down and opened it up... saw the mistake after some tinkering.

ive done that to my own system, luckily the pc blue screened quickily and i saw what the problem was.

[Sheldon_King]

Yeah, really. This.

 

I don't believe it at all. Opening Photoshop CS6 on a  standard 7200rpm HDD is god awful slow..a 5400rpm HDD would be even more unbearable slow. An SSD launches PS CS6 in ~2 seconds. There is no way one can own an SSD and not tell a speed difference.

Don't believe it if you don't want to. No one is forcing you to. The facts are this: 

-Windows Startup times are almost equal. 

-I don't use CS6. All programs aside from the browsers are on the HDD anyway. 

-Responsiveness did not improve at all. Going off the SSD to the 7200RPM HDD in the desktop makes 0 difference. Startup times are the same and the same delays opening programs. 

 

You can say I am lying, but it is not going to make me waste another $100+ on yet another SSD in the future. It does not make a large difference for the investment. 

[Mooshi]

Don't believe it if you don't want to. No one is forcing you to. The facts are this: 

-Windows Startup times are almost equal. 

-I don't use CS6. All programs aside from the browsers are on the HDD anyway. 

-Responsiveness did not improve at all. Going off the SSD to the 7200RPM HDD in the desktop makes 0 difference. Startup times are the same and the same delays opening programs. 

 

You can say I am lying, but it is not going to make me waste another $100+ on yet another SSD in the future. It does not make a large difference for the investment. 

 

I suppose for general use, the advantage isn't there. If you ever have the opportunity to launch PS CS6 on an HDD and then an SSD, you will see the SSD shine. :V

[ccaian]

I guess I have to confess. I always pay 1$ for those indie games charity bundle. I just don't give a shit about some poor child somewhere I just want my games.

 

Also I don't seed.

[George8D]

I bought a Mac Mini

and I game on a console

also bought the HD PVR 2 instead of the Elgato 

[Frix]

it improves the overall efficiency of your system tbh.

 

My confession: I misjudged SSD's haha

 

I also liked asus for the first 2 years of my tech filled life.

Whats wrong with ASUS?

[Cryptonite]

Whats wrong with ASUS?

their boards can't take the south african heat even with a mild OC they die too easy and they cost too much for what you get.

[willielikesmonkeys]

My old roommate who knows nothing about tech bought a laptop with an i7 and 8GB of RAM. He uses the thing for facebook. So... I may have swapped it out for 4 GB.... Yeah...

[Tech_Dreamer]

My old roommate who knows nothing about tech bought a laptop with an i7 and 8GB of RAM. He uses the thing for facebook. So... I may have swapped it out for 4 GB.... Yeah...

You EVIL Midnight Darkness Mo****** B)  *high five*

[Tech_Dreamer]

I Spit my old membrane keyboard in half over my head! gaming frustration. *true story* :huh:

 

 

ninja never smiles

[Recon-UK]

I put 1.7v through my Phenom II 955 quad on air cooling at 4.9ghz.

 

To say it died was being polite.

[Ruostunut kokis]

I forgot this thread even existed in the first place.

[WinNut]

I failed to trade my mother's i7 laptop for my Celeron when she uses it for videos and Facebook and I do CPU-intensive shit. 

[sgtbug]

I bought a Razer Tiamat 7.1 gaming headset. It's the worst piece of crap ever! Just terrible.. Sorry wallet..

[brownninja97]

I just broke a 5450 trying to juggle some gpus, yes that just happened, well i think its broken, when it hit the ground one of the caps fell off.

[NewHopeTech]

it improves the overall efficiency of your system tbh.

 

My confession: I misjudged SSD's haha

 

I also liked asus for the first 2 years of my tech filled life.

I have an Asus Motherboard, video card, and sound card. They all work perfectly (except the sound card, but it's death I am responsible for)

[thecalstanley]

I pirated far cry 3.

 

and adobe suite.

 

and microsoft office.

 

and windows 8.

Same here.... Apart from Windows 8! 

[Nicolas]

I just broke a 5450 trying to juggle some gpus, yes that just happened, well i think its broken, when it hit the ground one of the caps fell off.

You probably can fix it

[Lays]

I bought a titan, only to re-sell it for 780 SLI when 780's were released

[SpyRosL]

I build my first pc on the carpet....

Nothing died though

[AlexGoesHigh]

My sins so far PLEASE DON'T KILL ME

I run a non K cpu

I run a low end h67 mobo

no ssd

my drives are a wd blue for boot an a wd green

I run a gx 750 psu whit a 560

I have and use a creative sound card

lastly my PC is full of dust and I don't have the resource nor the space to clean it

again please don't kill me :'(

[MxZeal]

My PC was built with red and black scheme, red fans, red ram, red LED strips etc...

My peripherals all have blue lit LEDs, oh and they are all razor products...

[Cryptonite]

I have an Asus Motherboard, video card, and sound card. They all work perfectly (except the sound card, but it's death I am responsible for)

I didn't say they do not work. but they are by no means better than other brands and cost a lot more where I'm from. also quite a few of their mobo's have died around here for no particular reason and people from here still fanboy over them. I love my asus 680 but the only reason I bought this specific one was because it cost the same as a 760 costs where I'm from.