What's your biggest hardware purchase regret?

Noticed a few people mentioning there Thermaltake cases. I have had two of these in the past, My first custom build pc was a thermaltake shark. I loved them, ahh the naivety :(

I went on to buy a thermaltake kandalf LCS, I hated it. The holes didn't even align properly for the resevoir and pump, this was a well known problem! I had to drill other holes and "make do"

The case gathered so much dust in the front panel and there was no way of cleaning it off without taking the whole panel and radiator off. It was stupidly heavy at over 20KG empty. The pump blew up last month and I replaced the whole case with a CM690II Advanced. Wish I done it years ago, also had to buy a new cooler, got the Coolermaster V8. Allowed me to push my quad to 3.6 easily, which the crappy built in cooling on the Kandalf wouldn't allow.

I will never buy Thermaltake again.
 
Buying my P4 system just when AMD was coming good.

Buying a Zalman HD160 case at great expense to use as a HTPC but never really got it up and running, it is huge, lacks any real expandable space and has rubbish cooling. All these years later it is just acting as a media server...

Oh and buying a TN monitor instead of something better.
 
KiiYzOo said:
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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I have an i3 and SC2 absolutely flies on max settings :confused: There must be something wrong with your system....SC2 isn't that demanding.

Anyway, been building PC's for about 15 years and have never had any major regrets. I think the GTX 460 I just got might be the only one I can think of - too big (it's the Asus Top version), too noisy, and overpowered for the couple of games I actually play....SC2 and Football Manager.
 
i bought a Dell XPS Studio 16 laptop a year ago.. opted to pay like £100 extra to get a SSD in it... i am sure the SSD is slower than a 7200rpm SATA-II HDD =/ and the laptop on the whole is so badly designed it's crazy
 
Curio said:
I have an i3 and SC2 absolutely flies on max settings :confused: There must be something wrong with your system....SC2 isn't that demanding.

Anyway, been building PC's for about 15 years and have never had any major regrets. I think the GTX 460 I just got might be the only one I can think of - too big (it's the Asus Top version), too noisy, and overpowered for the couple of games I actually play....SC2 and Football Manager.
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I have basically the same system as you (i3 and a gtx 460) and i get lag while i'm on the ship and it never used to...
 
Buying an XClio Nighthawk case to save money when I should have spent £20 extra and bout the CM Storm Scout that I bought 3 weeks later.

Generally that's the biggest regret.... can't think of anymore atm :)
 
Mine was not checking my current spec against the build i was doing last week (see sig), i had all of the boxes in the lounge and when building it i first thought that i could use my old GPU to tide me over until i could afford a good spec one.

However it was a AGP card and my new motherboard only had PCI-E!!! had to drive for 1 1/2 hours to my "local" store which had the 8400GS in stock just to get everything working
 
redfist said:
Mine was not checking my current spec against the build i was doing last week (see sig), i had all of the boxes in the lounge and when building it i first thought that i could use my old GPU to tide me over until i could afford a good spec one.

However it was a AGP card and my new motherboard only had PCI-E!!! had to drive for 1 1/2 hours to my "local" store which had the 8400GS in stock just to get everything working
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I woulda done that if my old man hadn't pointed it out. I completely forgot to check for it!
 
Dont really have any regrets, sometimes i wish i had got something else, but iv never been unhappy with anything, well maybe a DFI Lanparty board i had ages ago, that was rubbish.
 
geforce 4 MX (was first ever build on a tight budget and I didnt know much about it, thought 4 = better than 3 etc)
Geforce 5600xt (thought that was the break point for the chipset being the good one, i was wrong, it was the 5700, although i didnt regret it as first as it was a damn site better than my MX 440 lol)
qtec 550watt lol....only took out 3 7950gt's before I realised that it was the cheap pos psu that id had to go back to after my hyper type r blew up.
Favourite purchase ever, 6600gt OC 256mb, that card was awesome for its price.
 
An xbox 360 controller if it counts I used it twice put it away and didn't use it for a year and then when I went to use it it stopped working, I swear I will never buy anything from madcatz again.
 
spent £650 odd quid on a vaio laptop about 4 years ago, before I knew anything about computers. Biggest waste of money ever, the battery chargers have died on me twice, the battery life is appalling and the performance is god awful, not to mention non upgradable. I'm running vista on a celeron dual core @ 1.6ghz and 2gb of ****ty laptop DDR2, and intel GMA965 integrated gfx, which is just appalling and a waste of space. for the actual power it has, it might as well not be there. FML, I want a desktop so I can actually open programs in less than 5minutes, and not constantly freeze up and crash.
 
Antec P160. bought it & the power button & front USB ports packed up shortly afterwards. Godawful case.

8600 GTS, Not much faster than the 7900GTO that preceded it (it was bought when I 1st started dabbling with HTPC setups) Noisier than Concorde :mad:

Flogged it off at a large loss, hated it.

5600 Ultra. thought it was a good card until I introduced to Doom 3 :rolleyes: Nothing better than a slideshow at minimum settings. :o
 
probably buying a 965 when I could have gotten a 1055t for around the same money. Only if I had researched :(

Also, letting my parents talk me into buying a dell instead of building my own computer :mad:
 
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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.
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+1 for the 680i. My EVGA was rubbish with a price tag to suggest awesomeness. The only board I've ever owned that has killed RAM and only board I've never sold on when upgrading.
 
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