Whats Your Personal Tech/Hardware Fails?

[T.Vengeance]

Installed a motherboard without standoffs. G_G

[shouldervalley]

no ssd: and trying to fix my microphone on my siberia v2s and soldered the connectors to the plug the wrong way ended up frying the mic totally, so I bought  10euro desk mic and my friends hate me now (not really tho)

[Bikkabo]

I could of saved myself some money though.

The PSU will be future proof for future upgrades thoe.. 

[megadarkwood]

I hope you will both forgive the off topic nature of this, but I wanted to let you know that my cat, who my better half does not allow on the desk, a rule the cat usually obeys, loved both of your gifs enough to climb  up and investigate.  This is the first time I can recall him doing this, he seemed to approve. . .  always good to get approval from cats.

 

 

Hey look, its me!

[theNejCar]

NEVER LISTEN TO YOU PARENTS WITH TECHNOLOGY

Well, my dad knows quite a bit about computers, he has been building them for a lot longer than me. Not gaming computers though. 

[orangecat]

Years ago i was building a system for myself and i was installing the CPU. I put on some thermal paste but the time kinda exploded all over the CPU so i cleaned some off but not enough. I installed the cooler and the system ran for a few days until the metal based compuund dripped under the CPU and shorted the system. The CPU survived but the motherboard did not.

[random guy]

Non modular PSU, motherboard flash (I failed)

[Newbix_Cube]

Using ALL of graduation money on:

iMac 21inch (bought it for "graphic design" ended up trying to play video games more...)

Steelseries Shift (hated it)
Razer Blackwidow Tournament Edition (Razer's key switches already breaking ._.)

Two Razer Naga's (One for gaming then I stopped playing MMOs and gave it to a friend then later played MMOs again....)

One Razer DeathAdder (My hands are small/medium sized so it's not very comfortable to use.)

Steelseries Siberia v2 with sound card (3 months of use and there's no sound from the right side of my headphones.)

Razer Goliathus Control Edition (Not too bad of a buy but it has some wear and tear from use.)

 

......

 

And now I'll spend a bunch of money again on something useful! (i hope)

Build down below, getting all the parts today

[SirReallySam]

 

RAT 7 gaming mouse (i liked shiny things)

skullcandy products

I did the second one..... *insert face palm here*

 

and the RAT 7 isn't that bad

[GunnAthax]

Bought non PWM Sp 120's a dvi cable at a local store the 1.5 cable was 3.5 times more expensive than my other 3m cables from china

Killed my old desktop cleaning out dust with aircompressor (I was probably to close with the nozle)  it was a P4 machine tho

[IdeaStormer]

I did the second one..... *insert face palm here*

 

and the RAT 7 isn't that bad

 

Put the mouse on the same surface as your speakers and turn it up!

[SirReallySam]

Put the mouse on the same surface as your speakers and turn it up!

hmmm

[needmorewood]

I did the second one..... *insert face palm here*

 

and the RAT 7 isn't that bad

try a mionix naos or a new logitech mouse. the experience is just plain better. i didnt notice it till i switched

[GlassBomb]

As title says. What kind of hardware failures have you had with any of your systems.

 

Here are some of mine;

500GB harddrive from my first computer.

Zalman 600W power supply.

Logitech G500

Dell Keyboard. Thing was a trooper, went through so much abuse you wouldn't believe. I even fixed it twice, that's how much I loved it.

 

And most recently, my <1 year old GTX 780

[Firestorm]

RMA that GPU right away

 

I have had two 1TB HDDs fail, RMA'd those!

[Vavetti]

~10 year old mouse

[GlassBomb]

RMA that GPU right away

 

Already sent them an RMA request.

[Godlygamer23]

A 660 Ti died on me while folding - a capacitor blew.

[flibberdipper]

My ASUS P4V8X-X and P4P800 SE. Kinda OCd a 2.8GHz Prescott P4 too much.

[lani100]

As title says. What kind of hardware failures have you had with any of your systems.

 

Here are some of mine;

500GB harddrive from my first computer.

Zalman 600W power supply.

Logitech G500

 

And most recently, my <1 year old GTX 780

5  XFX graphicscards

My H100i pump

Madcatz rat 5 mouses 3 of them within a year

[GlassBomb]

A 660 Ti died on me while folding - a capacitor blew.

My reason behind why my 780 died might have been from Folding. I'm not certain about that though.

 

My ASUS P4V8X-X and P4P800 SE. Kinda OCd a 2.8GHz Prescott P4 too much.

And these days you really have to try to destroy CPU's. They throttle themselves really well.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

My xbox, the games looked so crap I smashed it.

[Briggsy]

If it spins, its going to go at some point. Hard drives and power supply fans in my own experience.

[Godlygamer23]

My reason behind why my 780 died might have been from Folding. I'm not certain about that though.

 

And these days you really have to try to destroy CPU's. They throttle themselves really well.

At least the 660 Ti didn't die in vain. One thing that may have contributed to its death was that it was overclocked by a significant amount.

[GlassBomb]

If it spins, its going to go at some point. Hard drives and power supply fans in my own experience.

 

This is a reason why I will be moving over all of my storage over to SSD's at some point. Once they get cheap enough for it. Which should only be a year or two.