We all have some hardware regrets
I was reading this blog post on TechReport about it got me to thinking about mistakes we've all made over the years. I think mine was either the screamer heatsink I got back when I built my first computer or the bright blue VU meter/fan controller I have on my old system that's bright enough to light a room. What are your biggest regrets?
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Thanks to this group of guys.
I had a Micron 486. Not a bad machine.
I decided to build my own replacement and found this forum.
That would have been in about 2000~2001.
That first build was a KT7 and I haven't looked back.
Of course, I was like 16 or something. $80 was a significant amount of money.
Then there was the time I didn't ground myself and zapped a PCI modem ....
The most memorable was probably OC'in my old XP 1600 to the point that I killed it . It was a fast son-ofa-bitch while it lasted though :cheers2:
Thankfully, $600 isn't necessary any more for a great card.
Well, ok, the 15" CRT and cheapo keyboard were still good, too.
Pinicle tv card. Got it right before xp was released, they never put out xp drivers for it.
View sonic, gaming brite monitor. Sucker started having sync problems right after the year warranty. Never will buy another viewsonic because of it.
There's some more but then I found Icrontic and saw the light. I'll never forget my KT7A-raid, duron 650 (oc'd to 950ish) cpu, and dual 20gb IBM desktars in raid 0. Sometimes I still think that thing booted faster than anything I've built since.
I chipped the edge of an Athlon 1400 mounting a HSF once. You could see the edge was jagged but the thing still ran fine and I could have sworn overclocked better afterward.
but the most, BUYING Vista
Personally I didn't do much better. While I never had the pleasure of owning a Quantum drive, I remember one year I went through 4 IBM "deathstar" hard drives - worst hard drive (besides the Fireball) I've ever seen. Thank God for warranty.
I went on a buying spree of IBM Deathstars for clients. Raid 5 arrays in servers, etc. At the time, Deathstars were the cheapest biggest drives you could get.
FML those ****ing things made my company look like assholes....
I bet that fail rate was damn near 50%!
Then again it was a thread here about that board that got me more interested about Icrontic...
Abit 754 Board
Athlon 3200
1.5GB PC3200
160GB
7800GS OC (I was beside myself when I got this card, the fact I could max out BF2 was amazing to me.)
Anyway, it was a major crap shoot, it sucked, and contained many very long nights trying to get the system up and running. That was 3 years ago when all I knew how to do was put one together and didn't realize what it took when selecting parts, things have changed and I've learned a lot since then.
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!
Prime, so far, you are in first place, with: Oh, dear God! Several of you are in second place, with: ;DIf Packard Bell were still assembling computers for the North American market with returned parts (yes, it really happened), they would probably seek out RMAed Asus M2N32-SLI boards.