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stupidest component/thing you've ever bought?

It's a quite a toss up, I almost have a shortlist. I'm trying to think but all of the things that've been bad have plus points. Even the £130 GeForce 8600GT (massive rip off in retrospect) had a plus point - better value than ATI equivilant, fastest card PSU could take at the time.

The "winner" (or rather loser) is probably my mobo. Whilst being cheap, having RAID, PCIe 2.0, amazing for overclocking etc etc it is not crossfire (can only have 1 GFX card) and my GFX card now costs £50. so +£50 and I could have two that beat a GTX280... At the time though (bought it for £90) I would never imagine after paying an extra £40 for a CF mobo that i'd ever get aroudn to paying another £70 or so for an "old" GFX card for crossfire, but then again I never knew HD5800 would be so expensive.

Actually the stupidest thing is probably myself. I probably paid around £100 extra to have a system that is rather top notch for overclocking, and here I am thinking about a new GFX card and I haven't even overclocked my current one which one of the reasons I bought it was because it is one of the best overclockers in recent times.

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TheLighterDark

I gave my friend a quarter for an old cable that happened to be the same one that plugs in the back of my computer... I'm to computer illiterate to try to get involved with any other higher forms of this conversation.

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abc

ah. I think I changed the title whilst you were replying

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fenny

A LAN adaptor for my Wii and it didnt work.......

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Dante

Yep, probably my mobo as well. It's a P45 with PCI-e 2.0 and 5.1 sound. But again, it doesn't support CrossFire, and since 4850s are so cheap now I would definitely buy another. Ah well, a lesson learned.

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HBK

A gamepad for playing FPS's >.>

Yes I'm disgrace for the PC community.

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TheLighterDark

Oh, in that case, I never buy stuff for my computer. xD

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funkmunky80

Er... What? When the 8600GT's first came out I picked one up for £70... Admittedly it was a crappy brand (sparkle), and it only stayed in my system for two weeks before I dumped it and went and bought a 7900GS... Old tech, but it was miles better. Eventually I went and bought another and had them running in SLI for abot a year before I melted one

Another stupid purchase; was 4 92mm fan guards, to fit on the 4 12cm fans I'd just bought... Must've clicked the wrong link or something, a real DUH moment

And worst thing that I've ever bought for my computer? One of those flexible silicon keyboards... Cheapest one I could find too... Lets just say you couldn't touch type with it...

Yes.

Yes you are

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amw_drizz

For me I would say a el cheapo KVM switch that I thought had all the cables with it. When I got it I realized that it didn't so now I have to go buy another KVM since buying all the cables will cost more than a replacement kvm with it included.

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abc

The 8600GT came with the computer. I bought it with the PC as an upgrade from intergrated, hence I accept it may have been a little overpriced.

Nevertheless all the reviews/benchmarks on release state the price as £100-£120~ so i guess you must have bought it a bit later after release than you thought?

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ViNMan46

a micro atx form case overheated the first week sold it

IxXCamZXxI

lmao. Mine is a wireless mouse, they are terrible

fishdude19

i bought Black and White 2 for my PC a few years ago. found out i couldn't play it on my laptop (screen went all weird and crashed) so about a year or so later i get a brand new laptop which i know will run it and i think hey why don't i try and play it now? so i install it start playing and it crashes again (in a different place though) it sucked really bad. i thinkk the disk is faulty or something.

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funkmunky80

Nah, I get my components quite cheap (plus it as a really crappy cheapo brand). Rarely pay full retail price for anything. No VAT ftw!!!

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