What's your biggest hardware purchase regret?

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Buchanan0204

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Just wondering what other people have bought and then totally regreted it afterwards. Or maybe you bought something to realise the price dropped the next week?

Personally I wasn't too happy when I bought my OCZ Vertex 2E's. I got them when they first came out and paid £160 each, I bought two.

Only to now discover they are selling for a lot less. I wasn't exactly over the moon with them either which made it all the worse.

Apart from that all my purchases have been pretty good, apart from the odd little thing like a sata drive enclosure that broke off... was only cheap though.

So what's your biggest hardware purchase regret?
 
SSDs were always going to fall in price fairly sharply after release. Same can be said for most things I think in this business.

...biggest regret...not buying another GTX 470 when I had the chance a few months back.
 
Just dumped a load of cash into a whole new sandybridge set up. Parts should arrive later today (hopefully).

I just hope I don't regret it. :eek:
 
I can't say ive ever regretted buying anything. Anything i've ever bought, i've thought long and hard about it first. I'm not exactly swimming in money, so I have to think about everything I buy.
 
Loque said:
I can't say ive ever regretted buying anything. Anything i've ever bought, i've thought long and hard about it first. I'm not exactly swimming in money, so I have to think about everything I buy.
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I'm the same. I always spend hours reading reviews from everywhere before buying anything just so I don't regret it. However the SSD's were on an impulse. I can't say I regret them as they are good, just the price.
 
HD 4770. Great little card, but I upgraded my monitor to 1080p a couple of months after buying it and found I needed something more powerful. Doh.
 
Spending about £1000 on buying three 7800gtx's :o

And then selling the 7800's very cheap a few weeks later and Spending £400 on buying the newly released ATI x1900xt-x :o

:mad: And then i broke the x1900xt-x not long after by having a loose wire fall in and jam the cooling fan :mad:
 
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Spending about £1000 on buying three 7800gtx's :o

And then selling the 7800's very cheap a few weeks later and Spending £400 on buying the newly released ATI x1900xt-x :o

:mad: And then i broke the x1900xt-x not long after by having a loose wire fall in and jam the cooling fan :mad:
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Jesus! Your lucks about as bad as mine.
 
Buying an Nvidia FX 5900 128mb

Sold it soon after and got myself the awesome Ati 9800 Pro

The FX 5900 was the last Nvidia card I bought for use in a main system.
 
In my first computer, I put in a 128MB ATI Radeon card. I started having problems after a few months and the second monitor would not turn on. I went out and replaced it with another one which had the same problems.
Turns out my PSU was dying :(

Have since tried both of the graphics cards in other systems and they work fine. Regret buying the second one
 
A thermaltake cases years ago, can't remember what it's name was but it was MASSIVE, noisy, terrible build quality, all the fans had molex connectors not 3 pin fan ones and the fan control system was shocking. Plus it was expensive. Eventually managed to sell it on eBay.

Two 250GB hard drives which I managed to break before I'd even used them.
 
My current asus motherboard I brought from OCers and asus don't support it at all it's had one bios update since it was released and that was to add support for CPU's it was sold as supporting..... Not only that the only fan header that works is the CPU one..... worthless junk never buying asus again! :mad:
 
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