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The "worst" purchases you've ever made

pastymuncher said:
***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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Oh grief, I'd forgotten mine as well.

Destroyed my P35-DQ6, E6750 and 4GB of DDR2.

The git. I didn't use the replacement they sent out.
 
When I was poor and not very clued up about PC hardware, I "upgraded" my 7300GT for a 8400GS thinking it was newer and a higher model... Pretty sure it was worse at everything I played.
 
My first GPU purchase from MM... Guy said it was working fine, however it was not as it was not only covered in dust but it was giving major artefacts. Unlike my other card which was working good!

Sent the card back and the seller claimed I washed it! Thankfully I got my money back, but that put me off from ever buying GPU's in that section
 
8800ultra sli, bought them for dx10 crysis. Turns out Dx10 and sli were both garbage at the time, people got about 2 less fps than me on their single 8800gtx cards for fraction of the price.
 
If anyone here is familiar with the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, then I think you will agree with me that it was the most ludicrous piece of hardware ever!

It was soooo hyped as THE leap in gpu tech, yet it was nothing of the sort and as loud as an industrial vacuum cleaner. This was in the days where the fan was either at idle/ low rpm's on desktop, but as soon as you launched a game..... "WOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" with the fan running at a constant 100% and it was LOUD. Disgustingly loud.
 
5 - 5870 Crossfire. Superb when CF was supported in a game mind, but support was patchy.

4 - Athlon XP 4400+. Not that bad, just utterly destroyed a few months later by much cheaper members of Core 2 Duo family.

3 - Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard. Wouldn't run memory over 1600 Mhz, constant BSODs, accessing the BIOS was a lottery. Had two of these and both were the same on every BIOS. Replaced with current board = all fine.

2 - I too had a Cyrix MII 300. The floating point unit was so poor that it could either power a USB modem, or play a game - the modem would disconnect the moment the CPU had any other load on it. "Upgraded" to an ISA modem so I could play HLDM and TFC :)

1 - The winner by a country mile. nForce 680i motherboard. Ran like a furnace, despite being utterly unable to overclock the CPU at all. Physically burned myself touching the northbridge heatsink to check it was making contact, and that was after the machine was turned off.

I've had my share of badly timed GPU purchases, but am thankful that I've avoided any truly bad cards. I appreciate my 980s but would have snapped up the Ti instead had it been available at the time.
 
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5 - 5870 Crossfire. Superb when CF was supported in a game mind, but support was patchy.

4 - Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard. Wouldn't run ram over 1600 Mhz, constant BSODs, accessing the BIOS was a lottery. Had two of these and both were the same on every BIOS. Replaced with current board = all fine.

3 - I too had a Cyrix MII 300. The floating point unit was so poor that it could either power a USB modem, or play a game - the modem would disconnect the moment the CPU had any other load on it. "Upgraded" to an ISA modem so I could play HLDM and TFC :)

2 - Athlon XP 4400+. Not that bad, just utterly destroyed a few months later by the much cheaper members of Core 2 Duo family.

1 - The winner by a country mile. nForce 680i motherboard. Ran like a furnace, despite being utterly unable to overclock the CPU at all. Physically burned myself touching the northbridge heatsink to check it was making contact, and that was after the machine was turned off.

I've had my share of badly timed GPU purchases, but am thankful that I've avoided any truly bad cards. I appreciate my 980s but would have snapped up the Ti instead had it been available at the time.
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They were really bad I think I had a asus striker II couldnty even get near 3ghz with my Q6600 G0 :(
 
It was the Asus P5N32-SLI I had. Prior to that I'd had the same E6400 on a P5B deluxe and it ran at over 3Ghz no problem. I couldn't get more than a few MHz over stock on the 680 board - I even under-clocked the FSB to get temps down in the end.
 
GTX480 (reference), hotter than the center of the earth.

3 Way CF HD6950s, only got three because I thought it looked cool, CF support was frustrating and very hit and miss, the HD6950 was actually a pretty good card.

Worst motherboard was a EVGA X58 SLI 3, overheated at stock...RMA'd it and got a refund.

Worst PSU was a OCZ 1000W, couldn't output 1000W and squealed like a stuck pig.
 
Worst Gpu purchase , Ati Rage Fury Maxx, what a horrible pos that was , virtually no games supported it and i think Ati gave up doing driver support after one official release.

Worst computer tech purchase, or the one that gave me the most grief (to date) was my old K95, ended up with 5 of these with led's dying/repeating key issues before corsair admitted defeat and gave me an Rgb one, which touch wood has never been a problem.
 
VTX3D HD 7870 Black Edition - utter garbage, ran loud and super hot, case airflow made barely any difference, not surprising looking back at it now, that cooler looks complete pony.
 
Back in the day i had a 4mb 3dfx and i was in purple shirtland and saw a voodoo card maybe a banshee maybe not. It was far worse than my 3dfx card so i took it back and got a refund.
 
Nvidia 5900 (non ultra). Purchased in 2003 and kept for about 3 months.

Got a 9800 Pro not long after and haven't bought another Nvidia card since.
 
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