Thread 107003540

What is the biggest /g/ purchase regret you've made?
>PhysX PCI card in ~2009
>WOAH COOL, THE FABRIC ACTUALLY MOVES
>AND SOME MORE PARTICLE EFFECTS!
>...that's it?
16 years later and I'm still mad

>>107003540 (OP)
Pixel 9. Fighting the voice feature between Google Assistant and Gemini was so fucking frustrating I have it away for free.

>>107003540 (OP)
Well now you can get a new Nvidia card and run 32 bit PhysX games. Mirror's Edge, Mafia 2, and Batman Arkham Asylum are some of my favorites with PhysX support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUjUNrbHis

>>107003540 (OP)
I paid $800 for a 4k monitor and its only used for shitposting and reading email. Total waste

>>107003540 (OP)
It was the way to get good physics at the time.
The CPUs got better, Nvidia bought them out and physics was solved without the need for a separate accelerator.

>>107003540 (OP)
"Upgrading" from Socket 754 to 939, it was a completely pointless waste of money at the time, then C2D completely BTFO'd Athlon 64.

>>107003540 (OP)
Sony cybershot and an iPod around ~2005. My windows phone replaced both shortly after and obviously iPods were trash once phones had storage in them. Around ~$1000 gone 20 years ago which is almost $1700 today. Also a 360 which I bought and sold twice. I don't think I've ever regretted PC stuff directly.

>>107003652
>zoomers upset old tech is out of fashion
Why are you guys so retarded about this shit? 32-bit is depreciated nigga, it's time to move on. You retards bitch about shit like this but never cry about things like actual old hardware that cannot even use modern software at all and old software that can't use modern hardware at all. Hell, firewire being almost impossible to use post windows 7 is a bigger issue than fucking physx which you can still use by putting in literally any GPU in a spare slot.

>think Windows 7 is the one true OS and I'm gonna run it forever and use my beloved software with it
>by multiples of all the parts in my old ass computer new old stock in the fucking box because it has 7 drivers
>Windows 7 support goes to shit, Chrome won't update
>try W10
>it sucks
>upgrade computer, it can't run 7 anyway
>way out of my comfort zone
>Get Linux
>install windows 7 in virtualbox with all my software
>it's runs faster than the bare metal I had previously and I can get new hardware
>could've taken all the money spent hoarding and bought new hardware years ago
Don't be a fucking idiot like me, virtualize your old software

Bought a 6500 xt during the pandemic because I was desperate to game. Honestly, not a bad card but there was nothing else unless I wanted to play the ebay lottery on 1060s.

>>107003829
lol, same. Then immediately wanted a 940.

>>107003540 (OP)
RTX 4090 (plus the new PSU I needed for it). Don't get me wrong, it's a good card, but I don't really game anymore (and I don't give a flying fuck about AIslop).

>>107003540 (OP)
R9 380
IDK if mine was defective but it was never truly "stable"
One driver version had a set of issues that would get fixed in another but then you'd have different bugs instead.
I was upgrading from a GTX 560 Ti who's biggest issue was some crashing with Minecraft of all things. The R9 380 aside from the graphics issues on mutiple occasions just outright cashed the entire PC.
Left an extremely bad taste in my mouth for anything AMD

>>107003870
My League of Legends addiction says NO

>>107003540 (OP)
2789 PLN ($750) for a RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X in July 2022 instead of waitfagging some more.

>>107003988
I could see retro gaming as a reason to keep a bunch of old ass shit around, but I was literally just shitposting and cutting clips together using Sony Vegas, meanwhile hoarding an inventory of parts that would keep my machine alive forever as well as build copies of it. I'm probably the king of baby ducks and should kill myself.

>>107004002
Oh yeah, and it started coil whining and artifacting less than 3 years later.

>>107003870
>Windows 7 support goes to shit, Chrome won't update
chrome works fine on windows 7, there are also forks of chromium that support windows 7

>>107004045
I sometimes regret ditching my based Windows 7 with all the forks out for web browsing, but I'm glad I just sent it, at least I can drag my Windows 7 and software into the future forever, and I can get faster, more efficient computers.

>>107004080
do you have a linux/win10 base system that just runs a vm which passthroughs your gpu, or what?
do you use it as a more-or-less win7 system (i.e. never leaving the VM) or do you go into the host OS to do stuff

>>107003772
>he fell for the 4 monitor meme
kmao

>>107003595
You could have put graphene on it and had a nice clean android experience.

Only recently. Picked up a Zenbook for a spare screen/computer. 8th gen Intel i7 with soldered DDR3 RAM. Kind of sluggish for the specs, I notice after picking up a similar machine but Dell and with socketed DDR4 RAM instead.
Good grief. I even replaced the fan and battery on the Zenbook. Hopefully one of the locals will eventually buy it. I do love the screen and build quality, though.

Buying a 1080ti in 2021.

>>107003540 (OP)
my first and only laptop
did I use it to take notes at the uni? no. was it any good for gaming? also no. did I like hauling it around through different cities? no. did I accidentally break the cooler for the graphics "card", having it burn out and be (cpu) integrated only? yeah.
next pc was obviously a desktop

>>107003540 (OP)
A 360 to play oblivion

>>107004125
I just use it with no GPU passthough and a shared folder for getting video clips in and out, super simple, I should've been doing this years and years ago.

>>107004337
I should've added that all daily usage browsing and basic stuff is happening on Linux Mint, the Windows VM is basically just running Sony Vegas Pro 13, Photoshop CS6

>>107003540 (OP)
back when i was 12-13 i regret convincing my parents to buy me an alienware laptop (15 years ago)
because i was too scared to try build a proper pc myself

although it wasn't that bad, it still works and my grandpa plays on it chess till this very

>>107004334
Did you get the Horse Armour DLC?

>>107003874
I'm still mad about it, to add insult to injury the ATI chipset for the 939 board was buggy and my 3200+ could barely overclock at all.
I used that PC for way longer than it was relevant as a way to punish myself for being that stupid.

>>107003540 (OP)
Kaby Lake Pentium. Getting i3 performance (sans AVX/AVX2) for Pentium money was great, but going with Ryzen 3 instead would have enabled years of great upgrade options.

>>107003540 (OP)
27" 4K 60Hz monitor. What a POS, give me 1440p 144Hz any day.

>>107004018
Wish I had a Gigabyte AM3+ board. My Asus is half broken and can't even boot uefi through sata, it can through usb

getting a kobo elipsa 2E, i sold it at a 100$ loss after 2 weeks

nothing because i don't impulse buy like a low testosterone basedjak

>>107003540 (OP)
I have a list from when I dunning kruger'd:
>Logitech K750 Solar Keyboard
I thought the light from the monitor would be enough to charge the keyboard. Turns out you have to literally be somewhere where you have direct sunlight.
>Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T 7
I was surprised at the physical build quality. But even with the weights off, it was still heavier than my Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a. Also, you HAD to use software to set the DPI. And the software was so buggy, it would randomly spin my mouse around at times. Worst purchase ever made.
>ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound card
It had this nonstop humming. Drivers came with unnecessary software to add global reverb effects for whatever reason. At some point it would cause a screech to come out of the speakers. I got it replaced and the new one did the same thing. So I ditched them entirely.
>Logitech G13 Programmable Gameboard with LCD Display
I was hype about having a LCD screen to display stats. But turns out there were no keys above where you rest your hands in a WASD position. (i.e. you didn't have access to any keys where 1-9 normally sit. Which made it ultimately useless). Also, I realized you never really have time to be looking down at a LCD screen while gaming. Also, the game support it had for the special LCD screens was very limited. In my usecase at the time, World of Warcraft was the only game I played that had something special. And it was my character stats, which I don't need to look at when I'm not equipping new items. If I'm equipping new items, I'm already looking at stats. Also, software was the only way to program it.
For some reason when I bought it, I was expecting it to behave like a flash drive and you could just drag and drop .txt files into each key to make a macro for each key without software (kind of like the Optimus Maximus keyboard.

Out of post space, will type a part two below

>>107003540 (OP)
A gigabyte motherboard (B550i Aorus Pro AX) when I was first considering an ASUS alternative. Apparently these B550is have a bluetooth hardware issue and you just randomly lose bluetooth once every few months. Not connection, literally bluetooth disappears from your PC

and X230 Thinkpad, not necessarily the thinkpad itself but the idea that upgrading it and 'sticking to what works' with old shit is not worth it. Buy it cheap if you can, don't upgrade it beyond anything of say ~8gb ram and a fresh ssd.

>>107003540 (OP)
A couple sets of headphones that I really hated (fuck M40X), some computer mice that I hated (most notable Razer Lachesis what a fucking awful shape).

I also fell for the multi-core meme (at the wrong time) and bought a 1090T. I didn't really regret it THAT much because it was still a massive upgrade from my previous build at the time, but it only took about a year for the relatively shitty single-core performance to start to show. I would have been better off buying a fast 2core instead of that fucking 6core shit. Ever since then I prioritize single core performance over multicore and I've been much happier.

>>107006862
List cont'd:
>Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick
I thought any joystick in the world could do exactly what the Microsoft Sidewinder could do without the force feedback. This was the first time I fucking annoyed that a joystick didn't have the most important function: yaw. I couldn't even comprehend why the fuck sell a joystick if you don't even implement yaw.
>USB Hubs (but for My Book)
The only reason I would ever run out of USB ports is because of MyBook. I wish someone explained to me sooner that MyBooks needed dedicated USB controllers for each MyBook. I was explained this to by a tech expert way back in the day but I didn't see the reason why (I wasn't using MyBook at the time). But I eventually remembered that conversation and thought maybe I'd give dedicated USB controllers a try. Turns out that solved the problem. Now I have 7 different useless USB hubs with no use case.
>Razer products
Worse than I thought it would be. Especially for the price. I bought these headphones that were advertising that they had really nice ear space (which I need with a cochlear implant) and had rabbit fur feeling fluff. Turns out, the sound quality was worse than $20 Sony MDR headphones. The microphone was causing so much feedback that I'd get kicked out of most voice chats. The rabbit fur feeling fluff would catch my ears on fire. I fell for the meme.
>Corsair products these days
Not as good as they used to be. When it used to just be the Corsair 800D, that was them at their peak. Everything they made was indestructible and reliable (except for the sandforce SSDs). Nowadays, my shitty Logitech G512 Carbon Brown has already lasted longer than all three of my Corsair K100s.
>EVGA SR-2
I never realized that by having two processors joined via QPI would cause a lot of games to shit itself or not even run. The only way I could game on the SR-2 was to turn off hyperthreading. I do miss that board though, but fuck HPTX and everything around it needed to support it.

>>107006986
>Optimus Maximus
Biggest meme NA. Uses Cherry ML switches which feels like really hardened rubber domes. The viewing angle for the keys means you had to look directly down at the keyboard. The spacing was weird. The whole keyboard just blew. It was handy having a profile specifically for FL Studio, but the FL Studio keyboard was easier and better for that.
>Motorola Droid 3
Coming from blackberry, and into iPhone (1st gen), I really missed my keyboard. So I opted for the Droid 3 being the flagship phone at the time. I could not believe how fucking bad android was. The longer the phone existed, the much worse it became. Then the backlight died. I've never had that issue with any of my phones I've ever owned to this day. What a piece of shit.
>Synology RS812+ and RX410
Holy shit I don't even want to write a review for this.
>DDRdrive X1
My thought logic at the time was that RAM is much faster than SSD. But I didn't realize many things about it. 1) external power needed. 2) What volatile storage even means 3) 4GB max 4) Was somehow slower than the SSDs even in 2009.
It was neat, but holy shit, what a swing and miss
>Sunshine-tipway STW 5.25
This was before I even learned about fan controllers having maximum amperages for each fan. I figured if it was hooked up to a PSU, it should be as much as you'd like. Not only was this touchscreen garbage, all of my delta fans burnt out this controller and made lots of smoke. Nowadays, we at least have fan controllers that don't suck nor need cd bays.
>G.SKILL FTB-3500C5-D Fans
Barely held on to the ram. Fans were so shitty they died often. The noise from it rattling was insane. The rattle would make the thing fall off the ram often. Moving the computer around would make it fall off. What a piece of shit.
>Thermaltake RAM Heat Spreaders
Actually ended up increasing RAM thermals. Honestly, thermaltake anything is fucking ass. The Thermaltake Armor A30 Case was so poorly designed that the PSU blocks the exhaust.

MPEG-2 decoder, for watching DVDs on your computer back in 1998~1999.

Shit was SO cash... for about two movies. Then 3D accelerators got better and obsoleted this almost instantly.

>>107007386
That reminds me of the whole 1997 Mac era where you also had to get a DVD decoder card.

>>107007386
>>107007396
The 90s were horrible times for computing all things considered.
We could barely play multimedia on PCs and everything cost lotsa money and became obsolete in a year.

bought a zte nubia redmagic 9 pro gaymer phone for 800 bongs
could've paid half of that or less and i wouldn't have lost anything because all this thing's ever done is run emulators
maybe when lord gaben finally ports proton to android i can buy a phone fitting controller and put that snapdragon 8 gen 3 to use

>>107007537
I really must know what my dad did when he bought this 90MHz Gateway 2000 that was still able to play Quake 3 Arena, RuneScape 2, and went from DOS all the way to Windows 2000 with no problems.
He did say he blew about $31,000 on it at the time. But I still can't help but wonder.

>>107004018
>6 (six) motherboards

>>107007567
No way he did that without a whole bunch of expensive upgrades along the way.

>>107006909
I have the same crappy board. The Bluetooth issue was fixed by a BIOS update. Before the update, it could be brought back to life by unplugging the computer for a few minutes.
Then a BIOS update broke suspending on Linux.

>>107006961
>1090T
I overpaid for the 1100T and paired it with a crappy 512MB ATI GPU, games were running so badly that I was getting nauseous.
That computer still works, it has an Apple PCIe SSD that the BIOS can't boot from so the bootloader is on the HDD.

>>107007621
That's what I was thinking. He must have gotten a 3dfx later down the road or something. I know it had 128 MB of RAM and the jumper pins were configured for 100MHz. But if I had to guess, there were 2 GPU upgrades along the way. The HDD was always the same. If I recall it was 1.8GB or something, which was pretty much infinite storage. Quake 3 was the biggest application on there with 127MB or something.

i fell for the tempered glass computer case meme, now i see reflections of my monitor on my case

>>107007678
I updated my BIOS recently and I still experienced it about two weeks ago. I don't think I'll buy another Gigabyte motherboard again.

>>107007710
get frosted glass?

>>107003540 (OP)
ati 4650

>>107007710
get rid of the glass, keep the frame and glue a fuckhuge dust filter over the side
big airflow

Audeze Maxwell headset.
The microphone is incredibly bad, and enabling noise cancelling makes it sound even worse.
The headphone itself is very heavy and uncomfortable, and the phone app is junk.

>>107007573
>he isn't stacking AM3+ boards and AM3+ chips

>>107003540 (OP)
fx cpu

>>107007992
fx cpu

>>107003540 (OP)
Pixel 3 XL, because not long after I got a free Pixel 4 XL from daddy bezos

Dell Alienware AW2724DM because HDR was shitty, highlights would clip more if the rest of the screen was also bright, I'd have to play games with HDR with a black wallpaper. In fact HDR didn't even work with most of my HDR supported games.

A genuine copy of windows 7 professional. Everyone was putting windows 7 on their old computers so I did it too. Couldn't get aero to work, ran out of ram often. I eventually used it when my xp laptop died in 2020, I got a year or two of use out of 7 before everything started dropping support for it.

>>107003829
That's rich. I used my socket a athlon all the way up until 2015.

>>107006986
>I never realized that by having two processors joined via QPI would cause a lot of games to shit itself or not even run.
This is entirely a Windows 7 problem, fuck you and fuck linus fucking nigger tips for your shitty irrelevant opinions in this modern age. The board works perfectly fine for all games on Windows 8,Windows 8.1,and Windows 10. Yet every mouth breather on the Internet has to go put win7 and some shit ass gpus in it and then showcase all the problems they caused.

>>107003540 (OP)
ATEM Mini. Fucking thing won't stream to youtube or facebook because of some firmware bug that they refuse to fix.

>>107009037
It had the same problem on Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. That's why I switched over to the ASUS X99-E WS.

>>107007710
Why the fuck would you get a glass case panel?
>why yes, I would like to accidentally kick it or drop it and sever an artery

>>107009060
>He's a streamer
>unironically and unapologetically
Tell your 3 viewers I say hi (including your parents)

>>107003540 (OP)
Logishit mice.
Thankfully I wisened up
Also a relatively expensive Philips headphone that had shit sound quality and started falling apart in less than 6 months

I think it's interesting how many devices in this thread are Logitech.

>>107009037
my brother has an asus z9pa-d8 Motherboard with this same problem on Windows 10. he also had to disable hyperthreading for games. i wonder what the issue is if it's not a Windows 7 problem.

nothing. I cannot afford buyer's remorse

my Logitech G900 (bought in 2017) has been the opposite of a regret. Works great 8 years later, no issues.
Biggest regret was an nvidia Tesla P40, thought I was gonna do super cool AI image generation with it, only to find out all local image models fucking suck donkey dick. $200 on a brick lmao

>>107009338
Any "glass" case uses tempered glass. So it's more "yes I'd like a 0.0015% chance every day of it suddenly exploding because a nickel sulphide inclusion grew past an internal stress line".

>>107003540 (OP)
GTX 770
Spent something like 1.8 BTC on it back in 2014 (mined with my previous GPU).
Nvidia stopped properly supporting that piece of shit after like a year and a half, and it ran like dogshit until I replaced it in 2018.
Shadowplay was cool though.

>>107009652
>1.8 BTC
No wait I remember, it was 1.1 BTC. I think it was 1.8 BTC including some other parts I picked up at the same time.
A close second were a pair of 2TB Seagate HDDs I bought at the same time (for whatever $90 x 2 converted to 2014 BTC was), that both died after 2 years and a month, immediately after the warranty ran out. Fucking Seagate.

>>107003595
7a for me
broke the screen and got rid of it horrid phone shit battery life shit screen shit ergo everything is just shit my 13 pro redmi mogs it

>>107003540 (OP)
A hp pavilion dv6 laptop. It was the worst lamest piece of hardware I owned.

>>107009888
Holy shit fuck those things, mine overheated and the keyboard did this, so you end up going external keyboard and mouse like a nerd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3uFyvrelU

>>107009907
it overheated so badly the traces on the membrane traces reflowed? that is impressive

>>107009982
I guess it is impressive if that's what happened, that thing was doing thermal shutdown on the regular and running at 95C if you made it do stuff.

Thinkpad X1E gen1. Awful laptop with loud fans. It ran hot and didn't even perform well. I own a MBP now.

>>107003540 (OP)
>biggest /g/ purchase regret i've made
Buying a 5080 instead of a 5090.

>>107009888
>hp pavilion dv6
tried to open this fucker to but it had many extra steps to open it, cpu stays at 100c

>>107003540 (OP)
some chink mechanical keyboard that is not hot swappable, is not that its bad, its just that if I want to get new switches I'd have to get yet another keyboard

>>107009363
Let me guess, double clicking? I fixed mine with wd-40.

I almost bought one of those g-sync modded korean qhd panels before freesync was everywhere
then they went out of business

486SLC CPU
It wasn't really a 486. It was a 386 with some 486 instructions.
>The 486SLC can be described as a 386SX with the 486 instruction set and 1K of onboard L1 cache added. Unfortunately it inherited the 386SX's 24-bit address bus (16 MB max. DRAM), and 16-bit datapath which limited its memory bandwidth. Like the 386 and 486SX, it had no on-board x87 math coprocessor, but unlike the 486SX, it could make use of an Intel i287, 387SX or compatible x87 coprocessor. Due to the limitations of the 386SX's bus and its smaller L1 cache, its performance could not compete with the 486SX when the latter was running on a full 32-bit bus.
I needed a true 486 to run a multiline BBS. The 486SLC wasn't able to do the required multitasking, so it was wasted money. At the time I was a teen so I wasn't exactly flush with cash for this type of mistake.

>>107006986
You're supposed to get rudder pedals, you know like in a real plane