Purchased a 19" Lcd monitor about 10 years ago and didn't notice it's input lag. Used it and returned it immediately. Also after I got the better 17" model I made my friend buy one and on first use, it actually caught fire. He wasn't impressed.
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The "worst" purchases you've ever made
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Bought a £30 ATI card around 10 years ago so I could play CS:S at more than 5fps.
Spoke to the purple shirted wizard who checked my PC specs and told me yeah it'll be fine.
Gets the GPU home, takes the side panel off, too find...that the mobo on that Purple Shirted POS didn't have any PCI slots, at all.
Spoke to the purple shirted wizard who checked my PC specs and told me yeah it'll be fine.
Gets the GPU home, takes the side panel off, too find...that the mobo on that Purple Shirted POS didn't have any PCI slots, at all.
Soldato
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Gigabyte 970 gtx windforce
I highly doubt I'll buy a NVIDIA card again after the lies they pulled with that one
I highly doubt I'll buy a NVIDIA card again after the lies they pulled with that one
GTX 550 Ti with a phenom X4, second computer that I made
I thought it would be amazing because it was a quad core cpu and a
new graphics card that cost over £100, was trying to play Guild Wars 2
and getting under 30 frames per second a lot of the time, probably only
used that computer for about 6 monthes total before I gave away half of the parts
I thought it would be amazing because it was a quad core cpu and a
new graphics card that cost over £100, was trying to play Guild Wars 2
and getting under 30 frames per second a lot of the time, probably only
used that computer for about 6 monthes total before I gave away half of the parts
Depends how you define worst... Arguably my monitor is my "worst" due to expense..
My rig at the time: i5-2500k @ 4.8. 8GB ram. 7970 GHz Ed.
*buys Samsung U28D590*
Oh **** I don't has enough powers!
*buys 7970 to crossfire*
Ok it "kind of" works.
Fury X comes out.. Oh I'll buy one of them for it.. *sees benchmarks* Ok better make it 2 of them
*furies arrive*
Now I'm pretty sure my CPU is a bottleneck and my PSU is probably close to its limit... Guess I'll go for the new z170 stuff... It's bad? Ok I'll get a shiny X99 system.
*buys 5820k, 16gb ddr4, samsung 850 evo, msi x99 gaming7, 1300w superflower psu*
Finally able to use monitor. So.. £450 ish for the monitor at the time. £100 or so for the second 7970. £1050 or so for the 2 Fury X's. £930ish for the rest.
All in all, my £450 monitor cost me near 2.5k
My rig at the time: i5-2500k @ 4.8. 8GB ram. 7970 GHz Ed.
*buys Samsung U28D590*
Oh **** I don't has enough powers!
*buys 7970 to crossfire*
Ok it "kind of" works.
Fury X comes out.. Oh I'll buy one of them for it.. *sees benchmarks* Ok better make it 2 of them
*furies arrive*
Now I'm pretty sure my CPU is a bottleneck and my PSU is probably close to its limit... Guess I'll go for the new z170 stuff... It's bad? Ok I'll get a shiny X99 system.
*buys 5820k, 16gb ddr4, samsung 850 evo, msi x99 gaming7, 1300w superflower psu*
Finally able to use monitor. So.. £450 ish for the monitor at the time. £100 or so for the second 7970. £1050 or so for the 2 Fury X's. £930ish for the rest.
All in all, my £450 monitor cost me near 2.5k
Now you can sell it for the Philips 40" oneDepends how you define worst... Arguably my monitor is my "worst" due to expense..
My rig at the time: i5-2500k @ 4.8. 8GB ram. 7970 GHz Ed.
*buys Samsung U28D590*
Oh **** I don't has enough powers!
*buys 7970 to crossfire*
Ok it "kind of" works.
Fury X comes out.. Oh I'll buy one of them for it.. *sees benchmarks* Ok better make it 2 of them
*furies arrive*
Now I'm pretty sure my CPU is a bottleneck and my PSU is probably close to its limit... Guess I'll go for the new z170 stuff... It's bad? Ok I'll get a shiny X99 system.
*buys 5820k, 16gb ddr4, samsung 850 evo, msi x99 gaming7, 1300w superflower psu*
Finally able to use monitor. So.. £450 ish for the monitor at the time. £100 or so for the second 7970. £1050 or so for the 2 Fury X's. £930ish for the rest.
All in all, my £450 monitor cost me near 2.5k
I didn't have a really bad GPU, but I really regretted buying 680gtx when it came out.
I think those were 1st GPUs with turbo, and that thing was su inconsistent it wasn't even funny. Add up the coil whine and it was a real disappointment
Beyond GPUs, motherboard EVGA x79 FTW, which later we renamed to WTF. It was such a disaster of a motherboard especially for the price. Ended up chucking it away and getting asus sabertooth. Which is still with SATA issues, but not as horrible as EVGA.
I think those were 1st GPUs with turbo, and that thing was su inconsistent it wasn't even funny. Add up the coil whine and it was a real disappointment
Beyond GPUs, motherboard EVGA x79 FTW, which later we renamed to WTF. It was such a disaster of a motherboard especially for the price. Ended up chucking it away and getting asus sabertooth. Which is still with SATA issues, but not as horrible as EVGA.
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If we are talking about bad products then nothing as I never buy anything on release. I usually wait a good couple of months for prices to settle and reviews and actual owner feedback is widely available.
The one time I had a DOA card was a ATI 4870 that displayed squares all over the screen when installed. Unfortunately I had bought it from Scam who sent me the same card back as a RMA replacement (serial numbers were the same). I then had to fight them to get my money back before going elsewhere and buying a 4850 that worked perfectly.
***Edit***Just remembered (don't know how I forgot) I had a Hiper Type R 580w that blew up on me and took a 2 week old DFI motherboard with it. That's the one time reviews and feedback has let me down.
The one time I had a DOA card was a ATI 4870 that displayed squares all over the screen when installed. Unfortunately I had bought it from Scam who sent me the same card back as a RMA replacement (serial numbers were the same). I then had to fight them to get my money back before going elsewhere and buying a 4850 that worked perfectly.
***Edit***Just remembered (don't know how I forgot) I had a Hiper Type R 580w that blew up on me and took a 2 week old DFI motherboard with it. That's the one time reviews and feedback has let me down.
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295x2, loved how solid the card was built but in some of the games I was playing I saw little to no improvement over a single card, I had a freesync monitor at the time but couldn't use freesync due to drivers and no way to disable one core of the card. The card was also always on the edge of hitting the throttle limit, using 2 fans at high speed on the rad just to keep it a few degrees below throttling wasn't ideal. If I'd owned it in the height of summer I think it would have throttled.
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I bought a Voodoo Banshee card (after generally enjoying my Voodoo 1 card). It wasn't great.
Got an ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB (yes MB). Then found out that pretty much nothing could use the 2nd GPU (I guess it was sorta like early crossfire, except with even worse support). So I'd basically bought a very expensive ATI Rage Fury card. Not sure I've ever really forgiven ATI/AMD for that one, you think the 970 RAMgate was bad, imagine having 50% of a GPU you can use instead of 12.5% of VRAM that is slower!.
I then got one of the original Radeon cards. Which seemed ok-ish, as long as you didn't compare it to the GeForce card that was out at the time (GeForce 256 or Geforece2, can't remember which).
I did have a 5000 series Nvidia card, not sure which possibly 5600 or 5900 of some kind. Was happy enough at the time.
Not really done too badly since then with GPUs. 4870x2 was probably a mistake though. I got it very late, I think the 6000 series might have been released. Wanted it as a card to test out watercooling with. Was never happy with it and it didn't support DX11. Later replaced it with a GTX 480. The card may not have been bad, but it was the wrong card for what I wanted at the time.
Also I had 3 x Gigabyte 670 Windforce X3 cards. Windforce cards are not good in SLI, especially 3-way. To make it worse the sag on the cards meant the fans on the card would catch on the soldered 'spikes' on the top of the card underneath making horrible horrible sounds. Returned one card and just ran 2. Temperatures in SLI were still bad and there was a nasty small like something was getting hot. About this time I moved to a TJ11 case and so bought 2 x MSI reference 7970 cards, and then found out there were all sorts of issues with X79 boards (especially the Rampage IV) so returned them and then got 2 x EVGA 670 FTW cards which I was much happier with. For a short while and then the 7970 issues were resolved via an AMD driver and a lot of 7970 + RIVE owners got free games from AMD.
On a non-GPU front, the EVGA S775 Geforce6 SLI board I bought was a nightmare. It was a reference Nvidia board with EVGA stickers over the Nvidia logos and it wouldn't clock a S775 CPU for love nor money. Glad to see the back of that one!
I also bought a Hiper PSU...
Ah the smoke...
Got an ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB (yes MB). Then found out that pretty much nothing could use the 2nd GPU (I guess it was sorta like early crossfire, except with even worse support). So I'd basically bought a very expensive ATI Rage Fury card. Not sure I've ever really forgiven ATI/AMD for that one, you think the 970 RAMgate was bad, imagine having 50% of a GPU you can use instead of 12.5% of VRAM that is slower!.
I then got one of the original Radeon cards. Which seemed ok-ish, as long as you didn't compare it to the GeForce card that was out at the time (GeForce 256 or Geforece2, can't remember which).
I did have a 5000 series Nvidia card, not sure which possibly 5600 or 5900 of some kind. Was happy enough at the time.
Not really done too badly since then with GPUs. 4870x2 was probably a mistake though. I got it very late, I think the 6000 series might have been released. Wanted it as a card to test out watercooling with. Was never happy with it and it didn't support DX11. Later replaced it with a GTX 480. The card may not have been bad, but it was the wrong card for what I wanted at the time.
Also I had 3 x Gigabyte 670 Windforce X3 cards. Windforce cards are not good in SLI, especially 3-way. To make it worse the sag on the cards meant the fans on the card would catch on the soldered 'spikes' on the top of the card underneath making horrible horrible sounds. Returned one card and just ran 2. Temperatures in SLI were still bad and there was a nasty small like something was getting hot. About this time I moved to a TJ11 case and so bought 2 x MSI reference 7970 cards, and then found out there were all sorts of issues with X79 boards (especially the Rampage IV) so returned them and then got 2 x EVGA 670 FTW cards which I was much happier with. For a short while and then the 7970 issues were resolved via an AMD driver and a lot of 7970 + RIVE owners got free games from AMD.
On a non-GPU front, the EVGA S775 Geforce6 SLI board I bought was a nightmare. It was a reference Nvidia board with EVGA stickers over the Nvidia logos and it wouldn't clock a S775 CPU for love nor money. Glad to see the back of that one!
I also bought a Hiper PSU...
Ah the smoke...
Soldato
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ATI HD6870 - hot, loud, with awful coil whine. Rubbish performance in games too.
What is this RIVE? Googled but still can't understand.