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The most embarassing thing you did wrong in a build?

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So, what's the most embarassing mistake you've ever done when building a computer? Well, mine is that I forgot to plug the 8 pin connector in.. And when the computer didn't start I contacted a friend, and when I found out I didn't plug that in, it got pretty awkward.. :)

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So many of these 

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buying a second hand hd4870x2 and then buy watercooling for it and after i installed it all the gpu broke :L 

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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I put a 630 4 gb in a build with an 3570k

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buying a second hand hd4870x2 and then buy watercooling for it and after i installed it all the gpu broke :L 

Oh, that must have sucked..

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I bought a pre-built $1000 PC from Costco two years ago, when I could've built something much better with the same money if I had had the knowledge I have now.

"M. Aronnax." replied the Canadian, "your arguments are rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, 'We shall be there! we shall be here!' I speak in the present, 'We are here, and we must profit by it.'"

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With like the second build I ever did I actually took a picture of the system running without a cooler installed (not with OS or anything, just showing the lights and fans turn on), noobiest picture ever :D Luckily nothing got damaged.

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Open a computer do something and then when turning it on and doesn't realizing you forgot to plug it back in...

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I forgot to put on thermal paste.

 

Shit, I did that on an old Extreme Edition Pentium 4, she was not happy lol

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Shit, I did that on an old Extreme Edition Pentium 4, she was not happy lol

Luckily, my overcloked settings didn't save, otherwise I would have been fucked.

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Oh, that must have sucked..

yep 500 euro just wasted well not comletly i can now overclock my i3 to 4ghz 

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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yep 500 euro just wasted well not comletly i can now overclock my i3 to 4ghz 

 

Which Core i3 and how high is the baseclock set at?

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I also once tried to remove my PNY GTX 560 from my computer without first removing the power connectors.

 

And that, kids, is how I got my GTX 660.

"M. Aronnax." replied the Canadian, "your arguments are rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, 'We shall be there! we shall be here!' I speak in the present, 'We are here, and we must profit by it.'"

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Considered a 4300 for a gaming build, then I smacked my face and went with an 8320.

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Which Core i3 and how high is the baseclock set at?

pfff i am not sure but it might be something like 160 ish but i will check it tomorow if i dont forget it 

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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I didn't tighten up my MPC-655 enough after installing a Bitspower mod top. I had a nice little puddle in the bottom of my Cosmos after leak testing. Nothing was damaged :P

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Commenting on this thread :| 

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A couple of years ago (before I even really cared about tech) I bought a GT440 from my friend and carried it all the way home in my pocket. Not to mention I kept a firm grasp of it to prevent it from falling out, and I swapped it from left to right pocket because my hand kept getting sweating. I didn't know anything about static damage back then, but god am I ashamed of being that dumb now. 

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I forgot to put on thermal paste.

I forgot to take the wire off from the Cpu cooler so when I started my computer it was on 100C..

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pfff i am not sure but it might be something like 160 ish but i will check it tomorow if i dont forget it 

 

Is it Clarkdale (1st), Sandy Bridge (2nd), Ivy Bridge (3rd) or Haswell (4th)?

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I've made two big mistakes.

One on my first build, I forgot to remove the plastic on the base of the heatsink.

 

The second was one my sixth or seventh build. I was building the PC (a Bitfenix Prodigy) on a small table (LACK from Ikea :D ), was practically finished, all hooked up when the right door panel fell from the table and took the USB3 header with him :(

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pulled one of my 290x's out and was wondering why it wasn't coming out easily until i trashed a HDMI port cable by it still being plugged in the back. Lucky absolutely no damage to the port its self.

 

Also rebuilding my loop I put the pump the wrong way so it was trying to go from Pump > up to res > rad > cpu > back to pump..... yeah it dint get very far and i was like omg wth.... then i realized, Had to drain my loop without wasting all the coolant i just put in and got a mouthful of it.... YUMMY!

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Commenting on this thread :|

What do you mean?

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