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The "worst" purchases you've ever made

fastwunz said:
LOOOL! I had a 6600GT and it was one of the best cards ive ever owned.

I also had the 8800GTS and I adored that thing - it ran anything I could throw at it and some. Loved it to death.

I also had an X1900XTX and its the best ATI card Ive ever owned. Ive got team green again now but the 1900 offered performance at the time that in my opinion was far better price by price than any green offering.

I game less now sadly but have a 970 and honestly its superb also.
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Yea I was meaning that the 6600gt was epic . Also the x1900xtx was brilliant on it's own, in crossfire though they were just so dam hot with them blower fans spewing hot air into the room. I was literary dripping with sweat after 2 hours hehe.

I agree with you the single x1900xtx was the best ati card ever. It aged so so gracefully. Timeless.
 
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nvidia 6200 le

probably an agp somewhere that was worse, but i dont remember, other than that just be computers that had hardware that couldnt run vista and used pc133 ram ha
 
humbug said:
Sapphire HD6950 2GB.

It wasn't bad but it didn't overclock more than 30Mhz and didn't unlock to a HD6970
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Seems unfair to blame the GPU for not overclocking much or being unlockable, as that is a free bonus.
My release day HIS 6950 2GB (which did overclock and unlock, but ignore that here) was £199.99 and it did a cracking job for 3 years.

My worst purchase? Has to be a Hyper power supply. It was the one that the joke was about on here about them all setting on fire. Mine did.
 
Been happy with all my GPUs although I did have a GTX680 go kaput.

Genuinely I can't say I've made a purchase that I really regret. Most are pretty thought out and only get stuff if I can justify it.
 
Silent_Scone said:
Having a card that was DOA is hardly justification for the worst purchase you ever made. :rolleyes:

The Ti 4600 was an awesome GPU. The Geforce 4MX range was basically just a Geforce 2 MX on steroids.
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Considering I had just come off the back of the MX440 dying, it didn't give me much faith in Nvidia and I felt like an idiot for trying again. That's why I deemed it a terrible purchase.
 
sanaxe1 said:
My fx5200 128mb was gutted that it was terrible compared to my friends ti4200 64mb.
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This must be one of the worst abuses of a product numbering system ever. The Ti4200 was a superb card and could probably be considered against the 4600 at the same ratio as GTX 970 vs 980 IMO. The 5200 was a dreadful performer - I know someone who did the same as you based on the number scheme, and it being marketed as a gaming card :D
 
Worst thing ive ever bought was a ocuk v12 watercooling kit on the 17th of july 2012 because i thought it looked cool and fancied trying overclocking.

Spent thousands since that day.... Damn ocuk with there shiny temptations
 
Gerard said:
That got me laughing for some reason, just imagining it out of the box, turned on and bang straight away. :D
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This is exactly what happened, on my first ever self build. you can imagine how 14 year old me who'd saved up for 2 years birthdays and christmas to buy all the parts, spent all day super carefully building and checking and re-checking and double triple checking, turns on PC, immediate sparks and smoke. PSU gone.

Thankfully didnt take anything down with it. Bought an enermax 1000W galaxy. Still using it a decade on currently pushing CF290s no problem. A proper PSU is a solid investment :D
 
jakspyder said:
This is exactly what happened, on my first ever self build. you can imagine how 14 year old me who'd saved up for 2 years birthdays and christmas to buy all the parts, spent all day super carefully building and checking and re-checking and double triple checking, turns on PC, immediate sparks and smoke. PSU gone.

Thankfully didnt take anything down with it. Bought an enermax 1000W galaxy. Still using it a decade on currently pushing CF290s no problem. A proper PSU is a solid investment :D
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I still have so many friends that don't believe this and will buy a case that includes a PSU because it's cheaper.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I still have so many friends that don't believe this and will buy a case that includes a PSU because it's cheaper.
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Truth is people will never believe you until it happens to them.

Even in the "spec me" threads on here people baulk at the idea of spending £100 vs. £20 on a PSU.
 
Been a student and thinking rather than buying a 780 like I should have I will jump straight to 660 SLI bare in mind that I had to upgrade my motherboard my PSU and then add the 2nd card would have been cheaper me throwing in the 780. But then I sold them got a 980 and ended up SLI and honestly the improvement has been huge.

When I had 2 660s running I hardly used the 2nd card due to so many issues probably due to the difference in clock speeds tho not huge when running to 980 refrence cards it has been working great !
 
Gigabyte GTX460.

First one wouldn't work properly in my PC, but did in a couple of others. Turned out to be a faulty card (not my PC). The replacement worked properly in my PC, but didn't in another. Kept it until I upgraded my motherboard/CPU. The replacement card wouldn't work with the new motherboard and was repaired by Gigabyte. Card died a few months later.
 
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