What's your biggest hardware purchase regret?

Various different sets of headphones probably, i flogged them on quickly afterwards. At the time i was after trying different ones to find out which were best....quickly found out that the medusa 5.1s were the worst i'd ever seen!

I was REALLY disapointed when i sold my Hyundai W240D+ and got 2 x benq HD2420HDBL monitors, they were ****

Actual internal hardware though.......not sure, not really been disapointed with any as i've always invesigated what im going to buy so much first that i've always been pleased :D
 
In the early 90's, purchasing a Creative Labs CD-ROM drive (1x) for £300 and discovering, after it had been delivered, that I also needed a Soundblaster Pro card to plug it in to (this was before IDE existed)- which then cost me another £200!

Had to wait a week for the sound card to arrive and when I finally got it all up and running all I had to play was "Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective" which was absolute ***p. Not the wisest £500 I've spent.
 
korbk said:
In the early 90's, purchasing a Creative Labs CD-ROM drive (1x) for £300 and discovering, after it had been delivered, that I also needed a Soundblaster Pro card to plug it in to (this was before IDE existed)- which then cost me another £200!

Had to wait a week for the sound card to arrive and when I finally got it all up and running all I had to play was "Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective" which was absolute ***p. Not the wisest £500 I've spent.
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Can't imagine they sold many of those in 1991 as all Pros had that interface. Apart from that, was it an improvement in gaming sound for you back then or a total failure?
 
FMTopfan said:
Can't imagine they sold many of those in 1991 as all Pros had that interface. Apart from that, was it an improvement in gaming sound for you back then or a total failure?
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No, it did improve the sound - especially for games like X-Wing and Wing Commander, so it wasn't a total loss.
 
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dandos23 said:
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.
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It was'nt because the PSU in case was proprietary then and when you plugged in the standard PSU you fried the lot?
 
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creative titanium sound card worked fine then went faulty because it was in warrenty they said I had to contact the retailer I got it from and because they didnt sell it anymore I had to accept a different brand of sound card as a replacement so its not so much the product I got but more the customer service I got from creative after it had gone wrong.
 
PC I'm currently using.. To it's credit, I am currently using it still....

I guess as well, I didn't technically buy it, but still yeah.... big mistake that one...

HP m9675UK
Current list of problems that I don't have time to fix:
15 minute boot up time.
15 minutes to put it 'to sleep'
Random freezes, sometimes with sound loops.
Inability to play normal games at a reasonable FPS on anything above lowest settings.
Turn it off. Turn off at Wall. Next Morning. Turn it on at wall, computer turns on without pressing power button.
Running 1.64V through the i7 920 in it, with a BIOS that you can't actually edit it....

Pretty sure it's the PSU playing up, but yeah, don't really have the time to investigate

kd
 
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