Tech Confession Time!

[Unhelpful]

That dude who snapped his 980 ti in half lol

[Samfisher]

I was young, and stupid.  I used to play with Tamiya cars.  Thought, hey, batteries are pretty darn expensive where can I get cheap power.  Took 2 pieces of wire, attached it to the + and - ends of the motor and stuck it in a socket.  Fuckin thing exploded and the flashbang gave me serious flash bang eye syndrome for 5 or so minutes.  The burn mark is still on my room tile.

 

[ben dover kid]

Just now, JoeyDM said:

That dude who snapped his 980 ti in half lol

uuuuuuuu. UUUUUUUUUUUUUU! 

[Murasaki]

4 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

I was young, and stupid.  I used to play with Tamiya cars.  Thought, hey, batteries are pretty darn expensive where can I get cheap power.  Took 2 pieces of wire, attached it to the + and - ends of the motor and stuck it in a socket.  Fuckin thing exploded and the flashbang gave me serious flash bang eye syndrome for 5 or so minutes.  The burn mark is still on my room tile.

 

I DID THIS TOO.

 

My parents were in the kitchen while it happened in the living room. Suprisingly they did not notice and I just washed my charcoal colored hands.

[Aleksbgbg]

Accidentally wrenched my PCIe card out with force, breaking the slot locking mechanism.

 

Dragged a cable too far and broke it.

 

Probably lots of other stuff that I was being careless with when building my first PC.

[Coaxialgamer]

Destroyed pins on the back of my i7 3770k while trying to delid it with the "vice" method  Thought i had lost it for good .

 

Luckily , with a soldering iron and switching memory slots , i got it working.

 

ended up delidding it with a razor instead ( i never learn )

 

 

Edit: also , my case/psu choice

[Aleksbgbg]

1 minute ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Destroyed pins on the back of my i7 3770k while trying to delid it with the "vice" method  Thought i had lost it for good .

 

Luckily , with a soldering iron and switching memory slots , i got it working.

 

ended up delidding it with a razor instead ( i never learn )

How do you fix it with a soldering iron?

 

Isn't this stuff extremely precise and all?

[Coaxialgamer]

Just now, Aleksbgbg said:

How do you fix it with a soldering iron?

 

Isn't this stuff extremely precise and all?

Just put a drop of solder where the pin was destroyed . Luckily , only like 2 or three were destroyed .

 

still lost dual channel capability though .

[Lolucoca]

Back in the old days, I had my first shot at delidding processors. I bought a high end CPU (some Pentium 4 I guess) and tried delidding it with a razor blade. But apparently I slashed the die. I didn't notice. So I put my rig back together and tried turning it on. Loud bang. This thing had fried my motherboard, power supply and graphics card. And I had to buy a new fuse for my home. 

[Emeryy]

i once tried replacing the thermal compound on an hd 4870 a long time ago, i cheaped out and used some shitty $1 stuff, ended up frying it

[Dash Lambda]

1 minute ago, Lolucoca said:

Back in the old days, I had my first shot at delidding processors. I bought a high end CPU (some Pentium 4 I guess) and tried delidding it with a razor blade. But apparently I slashed the die. I didn't notice. So I put my rig back together and tried turning it on. Loud bang. This thing had fried my motherboard, power supply and graphics card. And I had to buy a new fuse for my home. 

Jesus Christ, that could happen? I can see slashing the die, but all that collateral?

0.0

[Lord_Karango17]

Shipping my desktop over the Atlantic ocean, when the screws holding the rad in place are smaller the holes on the case...

I had a mini heart attack when i opened the box and saw this...

[Lolucoca]

@Dash Lambda Could've happened because I shorted out some power-delivery parts of the CPU  Also, It was like the sketchiest PSU ever, so I was happy it didn't catch on fire Apparently this CPU had sent a surge through the Northbridge and into the PSU

[Dash Lambda]

2 minutes ago, Lolucoca said:

@Dash Lambda Could've happened because I shorted out some power-delivery parts of the CPU  Also, It was like the sketchiest PSU ever, so I was happy it didn't catch on fire Apparently this CPU had sent a surge through the Northbridge and into the PSU

Damn, what GPU was it?

[Lolucoca]

@Dash Lambda It was a Radeon 8500 with 128MB of RAM... It was a pretty high end rig back then... I shouldn't have cheaped out on the PSU though

[Smhole]

I think my biggest screw up was buying a Alienware m14xR2 for $1200 at years end, next week the new models came out. Then my laptop starting crapping itself 3 weeks into it and caught on fire 4 times so far in the past 4 years. Still somehow works and damage looks minimal (other than when I open the back piece and look at the back of it then its pretty messed up).

 

My 2nd biggest screw up was in 2014 when I decided to get a GT 740 as my GPU instead of a GTX 770 or 780(ti) type with a $2500 budget.

 

My 3rd biggest screw up is letting a company try to "fix" my main PC I built in july of 2015 (my current PC) and then made everything much worse.

[Eyal_]

I'm using an alienware

[Frostshield]

The first PC I built can turn on, but never shows a display, I still keep that computer in the corner of my room to remind me of my failure everyday. (Also, I don't do cable management.)

[You_are_a_cunt]

I cheaped out on my PSU, bought a fairly no-name one. So far it's working just fine.

I buy stuff on impulse (and ended up using the awful Razer Lycosa Mirror for over a year because it was cheap and I was buying it off of a friend)

I bought mice on impulse as well: Steelseries Diablo 3 (which turned out to be a good choice) and a Steelseries WoW Wireless blah blah blah one which has issues with its left switch (also can't find replacement feet and I no longer play WoW so the buttload of keys on it are redundant. I use it as a bed mouse alongside an awful Zalman mechanical keyboard).

I'm kind of a hoarder when it comes to spare parts. I keep mostly everything, even if it's severely outdated or ever broken.

[Scatoogle]

I mounted my motherboard with only 2 screws

[FRN]

1 minute ago, Scatoogle said:

I mounted my motherboard with only 2 screws

So you like to live dangerously *austinpowers

[Brian McKee]

I game primarily with a controller. (On games that are not MOBAS)

[AlTech]

I use a Xbox One controller for driving in games.

 

I use a membrane keyboard whenever i'm not gaming.

 

I almost bought Windows 8.1 for my first PC but I got Windows 7 instead cos friends recommended it.

 

I like the form factor of the Xbox One (but it just needs moar powahhhhhh!!!!!!!).

 

I bought a phone with 1GB RAM and 8GB storage..............

[SilicateWielder]

Spoiler

I have an old Toshiba gaming monitor old enough that it uses 1024x768 resolution

 And It's TFT but I still adore using it.

 

[TheSuspect]

Windows 8 was my OS for a year.

 

I used to game on a touchpad.

 

I own this... http://orwww2.benq.com/product/monitor/g610hdpl/

 

I have a graphics card released on April fools.