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
>>107003540Pixel 9. Fighting the voice feature between Google Assistant and Gemini was so fucking frustrating I have it away for free.
>>107003540Well 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
>>107003540I paid $800 for a 4k monitor and its only used for shitposting and reading email. Total waste
>>107003540It 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"Upgrading" from Socket 754 to 939, it was a completely pointless waste of money at the time, then C2D completely BTFO'd Athlon 64.
>>107003540Sony 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 fashionWhy 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 agoDon'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. >>107003829lol, same. Then immediately wanted a 940.
>>107003540RTX 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).
>>107003540R9 380IDK 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
>>107003870My League of Legends addiction says NO
>>1070035402789 PLN ($750) for a RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X in July 2022 instead of waitfagging some more.
>>107003988I 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.
>>107004002Oh yeah, and it started coil whining and artifacting less than 3 years later.
>>107003870>Windows 7 support goes to shit, Chrome won't updatechrome works fine on windows 7, there are also forks of chromium that support windows 7
>>107004045I 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.
>>107004080do 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 memekmao
>>107003595You 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.
>>107003540my first and only laptopdid 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
>>107003540A 360 to play oblivion
>>107004125I 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.
>>107004337I 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
>>107003540back 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
>>107004334Did you get the Horse Armour DLC?
>>107003874I'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.
>>107003540Kaby 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.
>>10700354027" 4K 60Hz monitor. What a POS, give me 1440p 144Hz any day.
>>107004018Wish 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
>>107003540I have a list from when I dunning kruger'd:>Logitech K750 Solar KeyboardI 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 7I 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 cardIt 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 DisplayI 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
>>107003540A 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 PCand 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.
>>107003540A 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.
>>107006862List cont'd:>Logitech Extreme 3D Pro JoystickI 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 productsWorse 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 daysNot 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-2I 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 MaximusBiggest 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 3Coming 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 RX410Holy shit I don't even want to write a review for this.>DDRdrive X1My 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 5.25This 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 FansBarely 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 SpreadersActually 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.
>>107007386That reminds me of the whole 1997 Mac era where you also had to get a DVD decoder card.
>>107007386>>107007396The 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 bongscould've paid half of that or less and i wouldn't have lost anything because all this thing's ever done is run emulatorsmaybe when lord gaben finally ports proton to android i can buy a phone fitting controller and put that snapdragon 8 gen 3 to use
>>107007537I 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
>>107007567No way he did that without a whole bunch of expensive upgrades along the way.
>>107006909I 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>1090TI 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.
>>107007621That'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
>>107007678I updated my BIOS recently and I still experienced it about two weeks ago. I don't think I'll buy another Gigabyte motherboard again.
>>107007710get frosted glass?
>>107003540ati 4650
>>107007710get rid of the glass, keep the frame and glue a fuckhuge dust filter over the sidebig 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
>>107003540fx cpu
>>107007992fx cpu
>>107003540Pixel 3 XL, because not long after I got a free Pixel 4 XL from daddy bezosDell 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. >>107003829That's rich. I used my socket a athlon all the way up until 2015.
