Tech Confession Time!

[ZapJack]

I bought an Intel Graphics 4000 laptop, and tried to game on it. I still have this laptop.

Also, I give all my PCs human names.

What's the laptop called? (Human Name?)

[SamwiseDB]

What's the laptop called? (Human Name?)

Bertha.

I'm so sad

[Mushious]

I have 2x 780TI running a single 1080p monitor...

^{_{Saving up for an ultrawide, I swear.}}

[steezemageeze]

The biggest USB flash drive i've ever held is only 1GB

 

I'll go sit in the corner now...​

[HumbleMobo]

Everyone has some dark secret about tech that you are just too embarrassed to talk about. Maybe you're still using a trackball mouse (gasp!), or maybe you still run Windows Vista!

 

 

I once bought a pair of Beats Studio at an airport because I stupidly forgot my regular airplane headphones AKG K267's I also bought lots of pocky before I got on the plane to Dubai...20 packages to be exact.

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

(Fairly Minor)

 

I'm not one for the minimalist things that nearly everyone swoons over :'). i like my agressive styling, even if bordering on what people would consider "tacky" + I plan on more purple + blue for my PC.

 

I actually like noctua's fan colours./colour scheme

 

i'd take my 4820K over a 6700K/4790K/5820K

 

I still want the next computer i build to be AMD. (Ethier a Phenom X6 or FX 8320 for my sisters one)

 

I'm Terrible with cable management thus why i've not thus far shown a bigger picture of my PC's insides (done once cause of someone asking about the z11+ length)

 

I have a squishy spot for having massive ram capacitys (my old 3770K rig had 32GB RAM) and my 7970ghz has 6GB vram (Got it before the r9 390 and 980ti came out) + i've planned to upgrade to 24GB RAM for my current rig

 

i'm using a 3 quid dell keyboard that's really rad, + best keyboard that i've ever used was a Dell Quietkey from 1999

--

 

I once tried to install a GPU with the PC turned on.

 

I bought a single Core Celeron (LGA 775, 3.06Ghz clockspeed and 1GB ram) with the intention of getting into video editing and such (I wasn't very computer smart back then)

[BOT Edward]

I've got my entire home-server infrastructure running on a mac mini.

 

Instead of working to get my IP camera setup on the network properly, I have it patched so you can only access it through the server because im too lazy to setup a dns lookup for it

[Guest]

One of my clients punched me in the face...

 

And I did nothing about it.

[iamdarkyoshi]

I trusted my data with a seagate

I ran a 7970 Dcu ii at max CCC clock speeds on a 250w raidmax psu

I removed my dust filters

I run my loop with straight distilled water

I often reuse thermal paste

My keyboard and mouse were freebies

I used to game on five 1280x1024 monitors in eyefinity

I use turtle beach headphones because I got them free

I dont mind rubber dome keys

A GOOD TN panel is good enough for me

I like AMD GPUs

I suck at networking

I often have to break the grounding pin off of things

I use a sandy bridge CPU

My sandy bridge CPU beats your 6700k on multithreaded workloads

I have had said cpu to 5ghz before

My fans are the quietest part of my PC

I am trusting my OS on an SSD with over 10tb of data written to it

I am spewing random facts at this point

Ducks have a 9in corscrew shaped-okay, I am done now.

[MeDownYou]

I ran a 7970 Dcu ii at max CCC clock speeds on a 250w raidmax psu

I often reuse thermal paste

 

...WUT.

 

I ran a single core celeron D at 100% for weeks on vacation. 

I bought a broken PCB with the intent to fix...

I cooked bacon on an athlon 6000+

[iamdarkyoshi]

I usually reuse the existing paste by just putting a little bit more on the middle. And yes, after several months, both the raidmax psu and GPU still worked. I did replace the caps and add a bit of extra filtering, as well as beef up the cooling. But hey, it worked

[Cobiee]

I used a WD Caviar Blue 500GB SATA II hard drive up until recently to store my games on, it came from then my old rig which I did not build my self and had always assumed it was a SATA III, Funnily enough it was BF4 ridiculous load times compared to my friends which made me question it then I looked into it deeper and realised :'D

[Jackdaw]

Used to play games on a mac. Could run skyrim high settings with 200 mods easy. yet garage band killed my logicboard and video card

[TheRandomness]

I trusted my data with a seagate

I ran a 7970 Dcu ii at max CCC clock speeds on a 250w raidmax psu

I removed my dust filters

I run my loop with straight distilled water

I often reuse thermal paste

My keyboard and mouse were freebies

I used to game on five 1280x1024 monitors in eyefinity

I use turtle beach headphones because I got them free

I dont mind rubber dome keys

A GOOD TN panel is good enough for me

I like AMD GPUs

I suck at networking

I often have to break the grounding pin off of things

I use a sandy bridge CPU

My sandy bridge CPU beats your 6700k on multithreaded workloads

I have had said cpu to 5ghz before

My fans are the quietest part of my PC

I am trusting my OS on an SSD with over 10tb of data written to it

I am spewing random facts at this point

Ducks have a 9in corscrew shaped-okay, I am done now.

- Really? They're fine? :c

- Did it go nuclear?

- You made a thread

- Good one

- I do that like once every time I change cooler.. then reapply later

*skips to last one* I already knew that 9 inches though.

[DarkBlade2117]

I am losing interest in gaming these days and I prefer to play more casual games than fast paced ones

I see in no way on how this is a confession. The most fast paced game I play is Farming Simulator when a high demand is happening. Ohh the RUSH!!

[PlayStation 2]

My brother's rig has a Corsair CX600M

That same rig is a shitty prebuilt from Cyberpower PC that had a ECS GT 520 and now has a Sapphire Dual-X HD 7850

I used a netbook with 2GB of RAM it, and it was a blue Toshiba with a single-core Intel Atom

I tried playing Team Fortress 2 on said netbook

I tried playing GTA 5 on my current laptop with 4GB of RAM in it

I own a 360GB hard drive and some old 80GB hard drive pulled from a custom built PC that had a Pentium III

I actually kinda like Corsair's CS power supplies

I tend to lean much more for AMD

[Sharif]

I see in no way on how this is a confession. The most fast paced game I play is Farming Simulator when a high demand is happening. Ohh the RUSH!!

I probably had something else in mind.

Tell me about farming simulator gets my adrenaline pumping! 

[Juggernaught]

Bought and still use Turtle Beach Tango Headset.

 

Have a $1,000 in my HAM radio equipment that I use but twice a month (and I still want more equipment).

[Gikero]

Having used many WRT54G/G2 routers, I grew fond of them. I bought a Linksys WRT1900AC and I am mad at myself for falling for the marketing hype. I've had for nearly 2 years and DD-WRT isn't ported, and OpenWRT only became available within the last year. I recently tried setting it up as a dumb AP but they do not include that functionality on the stock firmware. Currently looking into OpenWRT and how difficult it will be to install/manage.
 

[Dash Lambda]

Every one of us has broken hardware we'd really rather not have. Sometimes, it's spectacular. I'm curious about what everyone's worst stories are~

(If there's already a thread for this, link it please.)

 

I have a few, but my most recent one is trying to repair an H100i. It was making a very loud buzzing sound, and I decided to take the block apart to see if I could fix it. I took out the screws and started prying, but it wouldn't go. I found another screw to take out, then started prying again. I thought it was adhesive or a clip or something, so I just stuck a guitar pick in the edge and wrenched it --Once I got it apart, I saw that I had actually ripped the wires running to the motor out of the controller board...

 

EDIT: So my topic was moved to this one... I don't really think it fits that perfectly, mine is about people breaking stuff, but okay...

[mikat]

i dropped my computer at a friends house (the side panel is still a little bit bent)

and i've dropped my macbook wayyy too many times

[Murasaki]

@Dash Lambda 

 

[Charcoal_]

Carpet... It was a useless system that I was just looking at though so... meh..

[GeekaWhat]

installing a hdd a couple years to a server on carpet, with the PCB on the carpet with no static protection.... back in the noob days

[ben dover kid]

when a was such newbie that i didnt even build my own pc(ordered them to build it), i paid 100 euros to get wifi, now few months ago noticing that that wifi pci card costs 13 euros in their website.. well, ignorance costs