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You'd think so, but sadly not. Perhaps the next one will be.
 
i might be killing my graphics card as we speek... r9 280x, factory 1020 mhyz oc till 1380 now, 1450 yesterday. i started a thread about me not being able to find the culprit of my issues. i might be one of those dorks that doesnt know how to trouble shoot after watching videos about it. please halp, if i may spam a little bit. but yeah, i dont know when or why to upgrade so im stuck at my r9 280x (causee it ''should be fine'', i only play LOL and i cant max it all out anymore. might be that the game got updated and a lot heavier so i should get an upgrade but i dont hit nearly 50% GPU usage (with v-sync on, come to think of it..).
 
Coolant from my neat water-cooled rig leaked ... ran down the pipe ... onto my brand new Ti4600 graphics card ... "flash" ... dead.

Back in 2002? I think it cost a week's salary.

Temporarily went back to an old MX card ... the pain of that experience still haunts me.

:)
 


lol, i had just replaced my 960 yesterday its not that good so dont be so mad,try selling your new gpu on ebay and try to hustle your freind, whatever tho goodluck with your gpu

 
Wow so pleased to see all "forgot to plug in gpu" with associated mental relapse of varying time spans! Hahaha

Not GPU mistake but similar - built my first ever PC a few weeks ago, turned on got lights and a loading bios screen and all but then got "CPU error" message. Total freak out omg musta broken pins when i installed the cooler or something, spent a sleepless night thinking about how to tell my wife i broke £300 of brand new CPU. Next day continued freek out start searching threads for fixes. saw a similar issue in a thread ..... Reply was "i know its a dumb question but have you checked you cpu power connection?" And im like " the CPU has its own power connection?! I thought it just ran off mobo!"

Open side panel plug in cable all works sweet as a nut ;-)

I felt like a fool but tbh i was so fkn relieved i was smiling all day lol
 


there is a cpu mistakes post 😀
nice story not the worst here so thats good :)
 

I am not sure but this is not a thread to post this. Choose the graphic card tag. You might get help from there.
 


WTF?? How did ya friend get so many magnets!?
 


i honestly dont have any idea....
 


Too bad~ So is your PC still intact, I mean, is it still alive?
 


it ****ed up the motherboard but other than that it was fine it was long enough ago that i have had two pcs since then
 


Holly molly, I'm sorry to hear that. "i have had two pcs since then" that's ... afraid someone do some unexpected to ya, lol! My MB is MSI H87M E35, it's very cheap, if it broken I won't be sad lol!
 


I did worse 6 years ago: 2x GTX480s SLI reference (EVGA SSC). They run on an average of 90 degrees C but somehow they're still operational! They're absolutely useless now though as NVIDIAs neglect of Fermi support has made the cards practically obsolete. I'm still rocking them, patiently waiting for that tasty RX 480 Nitro... from two 480's to one 480. Hopefully this one will remain relevant as we move on into the future.
 


Six years is a pretty good run, though.
 


6 years and bazillions of $$$ in electricity. I don't know of a more power inefficient chip than the GTX480.

 
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He has been warned.

We are interested in true and interesting stories about mishaps ... not trolling.

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gtx 1060 and rx480 both use a single six pin so those are two options if you want power efficiency, also if you want power efficiency then you would need to use intel, they take way less wattage and have better performance FOR NOW, we'll see when Zen cpus come out
 
greatest mistake was to buy new card and realized nvidia and amd launched another new card better power with low price