What's your biggest hardware purchase regret?

The case I'm using is a Thermaltake V9, very antiquated design, having two external 3.5" drive bays which means I only have 4 internal ones.
No cable management features.
The side panels have lots of holes in them which means dust builds up more than I would like - I have installed dust filters into the side panels tho, so probably isn't as bad as it could be.

I still like the way it looks, but is effectively a waste of £70. My next case will be a Lian Li.

That ties with the XFX 4890 which is the major source of noise in my system, which I regard as too loud anyway. I bought it weeks before the 5800 series came out. Which is much more powerful for gaming, yet quieter and uses less energy.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a quiet 6850.
 
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chaparral said:
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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Ah man lol! what a loss!:p. You probably still get sleepless nights from these events
 
Some rubbish S1156 cooler I got, Alpine 11 Pro or something? It literally sheared apart when I was screwing it on (not at first, but the contact was really bad so I was trying to make it tighter), by far the worst heatsink design I've ever seen.
 
The purchase that sent me down this road was my worst.

Had spent about £400 on some hp desktop (dont know what one now). Couple of years later I go to turn it on (not for the first time) and nothing happens. I notice that the power light on the case was fading on and off and immediately assumed that it was the psu. Went to my local computer shop and purchased another psu, rushed home, installed it. turned it on and the watched in horror as what seemed like every component in the pc had smoke coming out of it.

Turned out it was the motherboard and psu that had gone and by me replacing just the psu the broken motherboard just killed everything.

That was not a good day.
 
No major regrets. A minor regret is buying a CX430 over a CX400 on release when they were both in stock. Never again will I fail to read reviews/specs in more detail before I make a purchasing decision.
 
am i allowed to join this thread with the regret of buying most of the bits for my new system from a competitor who so far have had the worst customer service i have experienced
 
Many years purchasing hardware. Too many regrets to mention here. :D

A certain XFX 6850 is my current :(. Lousy rattling fan at idle temperatures and could no longer cope with doing any remotely intensive after three weeks. Currently trying to RMA the thing. I'm gong to lose some proper cash with this thing.

Many years ago I spent £15 on a IDE cable (:eek:) from the Purple shirt place. I got it home and discovered it wasn't even ATA 100. To be honest not one of my purchases from that place has ever gone well.
 
2 x 6800 ultra when sli first came out....they wouldnt run due to heat and cost me £800......
4 x 1gb ddr1 400mhz corsair ram modules with the flashy indicators on the side to show you ram load....£100 a gig and made no difference whatsoever in 32 bit windows xp.....sold them quickly
 
Buying a replacement BFG 8800GTX that broke:o

Card was great until i went about starting an RMA process only to realise i would be sending it to errmm no one?

Replaced my old BFG 8800GTX (which i paid top dollar for) with another for 60 quid brand new, got about 6 months out of it, went to RMA and found out BFG went under.:mad:

Serves me right for not keeping myself up to date:o
 
My regrets are always digital cameras - batteries turn to jelly over a period of 6 months and by then the camera is obsolete so I just get a new one. Done this several times.

I'm now using a digital camera as a £400 webcam :(
 
Gigabyte i-Ram, never used it apart from installing XP once on 4gb RAM, had it in a pc case for years not as the boot drive. Finally decided to use it in a build and found the battery split in half :D Needs a new battery.. not sure i even want to get one :D

Seagate 750gb, bought for 200 quid, never used it for yrs.. finally went to and dead within 4 weeks long out of warranty :D
 
in 2006 had some money and was starting to get into pc gaming bought a new dual core skt 939 3800 amd and the best graphics card the shop had with the monies left an x800gto

had been overseas for a few months and was therefore unaware that AMD were bringing out AMD2 one week later .........DOH:eek:!!!

cpu prices almost halved i almost cried , :mad:

i could have bought so much more DAMMIT!
 
Tikkabhuna said:
Not really a regret but they day I got my CM-690 ii they released the new ones with windows which I really wanted. :(
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they went out of stock for me (the windowed ones) coulnt find them anywhere, found one on a site (ex display) they send me the wrong one (Cm690) (false advertising - said cm690II)
so i made a custom one :lol: looks loads better.
 
Buying an nforce 680i, great dual core clocking board, rubbish with quads, thankfully it died. Also a thermaltake tsunami dream case, the panels were like glorified tin foil and the cooling was rubbish.
 
KiiYzOo said:
Buying an i3 540 and realising that if i'd went with AMD i would've been able to get a quad core for the same price...

and I think that my i3 is starting to die :(
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CPU's dont die :P. Well unless it's a sandy bridge with 1.6V but that's a different matter. There isn't a huge difference between your I3 and the AMD quad at that price range. Your i3 is more powerful per core and supports Hyper Threading, plus has built in graphics. I chose an i3 over an amd quad aswel. Don't regret that :)
 
Buchanan0204 said:
CPU's dont die :P. Well unless it's a sandy bridge with 1.6V but that's a different matter. There isn't a huge difference between your I3 and the AMD quad at that price range. Your i3 is more powerful per core and supports Hyper Threading, plus has built in graphics. I chose an i3 over an amd quad aswel. Don't regret that :)
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by die I mean it's starting to wear out.
I'd rather have a quad core as it's better for Starcraft 2 (which i love).
 
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