The worst purchase you ever made regarding computers or any other gaming stuff.

Well i am sure nobody pulled a bigger one than me 5 years ago when i was just 14 i bought a gaming PC.Well atleast i thought it was one.

P4 1.6Ghz

256MB Ram

128 MB of integrated graphics.:lol::?:cry:

And guess what i thought this was an end of the world PC cuz it was a PENTIUM 4.I got home and installed a game and cranked the graphics to maximum and then got a heartattack looking at the slideshow.And then worse there was no AGP slot in the mobo either.I was totally screwed having burned all my fathers money into a piss poor PC.I still cannot forget that day.

well when i was younger i bought this laptop because it said it had 128 mb of vram not knowing what integrated was and a dual core (not a good dual core) and it couldnt play games worth anything.

then recently i started to build my gaming rig and i bought an 8600gts... yep i know, now have an 8800gt so im feeling better. :)

8500GT 1GB :o

JK JK i don't remember anything for sure.

A bit over 2 years ago I didn't know much about hardware and I was going to get my first "Gaming PC". I kept looking for 256mb graphics and saw those ... ATI Xpress 300 256mb cards and then saw cards like 7800gtx ... both 256mb but like WORLDS apart in price. And I remember thinking... who would pay so much for a 7800 when they could just get these other cheap 256mb cards?

Lol I almost both those things but then I just ended up showing my friend (who builds computers) my setup and he explained how 256mb only means nothing. Ah... thank god I told him... lol.

I feel sorry for you guys.

This last purchase was the first large computer purchace that I have ever made. I could have spent an extra $40 for a E6550 rig instead of a 5000+ BE rig and an extra $60 for a HD 3850 instead of a OCed 7900GS (although I didn't get XP until after I ordered it). I cannot say I regret it though. I wanted to have some money for extras like a monitor. That extra $100 will go to a better cause. At 3.2GHz, it pleases me so much that I am glad I didn't spend the $100.

My grandpa is the one that should be posting here.

He bought a X2 3800+ for $210 instead of $115, and worst of all, he didn't even need that much power.

Even better, it wasn't until recently that I was able to convince him, a big accomplishment, that you can get better than a 1.6GHz P4 w/mobo and 512MB RAM for $200. He thought that P4 system was a great deal to. He might still be questioning me though. I spent only ~$250 for the core of my computer.

well when i was younger i bought this laptop because it said it had 128 mb of vram not knowing what integrated was and a dual core (not a good dual core) and it couldnt play games worth anything.

then recently i started to build my gaming rig and i bought an 8600gts... yep i know, now have an 8800gt so im feeling better. :)

yellowdatsun

8500GT 1GB :o

JK JK i don't remember anything for sure.

Indestructible2

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8500GT 1GB :o

JK JK i don't remember anything for sure.

Thinker_145

A year ago I barely knew anything about computers and I convinced my parents that this computer that costed like... 1100£ were awesome. ( It had 512 mb graphic card. w00t! ) but later I found out that the card. X1650LE actually sucks pretty much! :(

Another big mistake happened like two years ago..
I had a old computer and I wanted to upgrade the graphic card to the nvidia 6600 but after a while I couldn't play any game at all because the graphic became really messed up..
I'm not sure what caused it tho... As I still don't know so much I'm just gonna guess that it's the power supply's fault..
I sent the card back and got a new one but it still had the problem.. :(

I "upgraded" to vista.Silly5

I still dont get all the vista hate.

Anywhoo ontopic, the only thing I have purchased and will never get again is a VisonTeck Vid Card.....complete crap card.

I still dont get all the vista hate.

Anywhoo ontopic, the only thing I have purchased and will never get again is a VisonTeck Vid Card.....complete crap card.

synisterk

But right now i am really pissed that i cant play bioshock in DX10.And i fully blame vista for that.It's my only DX10 game for now but if it happens with any other game DX10 game that i have to play in XP then i'll just go nuts.I can actually play it in DX10 but with either no sound or 60hz refresh rate on my CRT monitor.:|

He gotta be the joystick and controller I bought, that I never ever used and ended up throwing away.

Or that time in the beginning when I bought a case that was too small for my motherboard. Haha.

I don't think I have made any big mistakes when buying PC parts I always check with everyone on here before I buy so I can't really go wrong. but all of people did go wrong when buying 8800GTX cards and thinking they were crysis proof, luckily I waited till Crysis was released before deciding what card to get. adam0926

My absolute first computer. It was a PCChips motherboard with integrated graphics. Yes it was better than the older computers my dad had, but it was still junk. This was made back during AGP x1/x2 era. I got a PCI ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro with 32 MB, although it functioned at half power until I upgraded the motherboard to a Gigabyte mobo with the Intel 440bx chipset. That machine was the most stable computer I ever had. You can keep it on forever without a need to restart it, ever.

I still loved how the final modifications to that machine, 800 MHZ Pentium 3, outperformed this one person's boxed 1.8 GHz machine, Intel Celeron.

the wors tthing i ever did was that i had a athlon 1100 mhz 512 ram anda 32 mb geforce 2 mx 4**

then i saw a lot of AGP 8x and i realized that i had agp 4x so i thouth it wouldnt work in it.

so i bought a RADEON7000. it sucked so much *****.

i even thgought my geforce 2 was better. Finally i sold it and i bouth a 6200 le wich was way better when i realized agp is

backwards compatible... then i burn my athlon and

the story goes on...

mine has to be this crap joystick where the throttle was seperate from it and the buttons that make the airplane turn were impossible to use, $50 down the drain. my brothers $20 joystick turned out to be so much better. Also my first computer build i went with intel p4 instead of amd. big mistakejashua-jash