Post Your Biggest Graphics Card Mistakes

[bicycle_repair_man]

My baby daughter was always fascinated when I took my PC apart for cleaning, so one day I took my GPU out, held it in front of her and BLARGH! She puked all over it!

On the plus side, I got a nice, shiny GTX 770 shortly after. 😀

Clearly the poor girl was so excited she just couldn't contain herself! A future enthusiast in the making for sure. XD

You'd think so, but sadly not. Perhaps the next one will be.

 

[allenxxo]

I grabbed a evga gtx 960 ssc 4gb for $240 a few days ago.

 

[klofijool]

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..).

 

[Epicness937]

not a mistake but i got 5 r7 230s and 2 r5 220s in boxs for when i put them in old pcs and sell them as office pcs

 

[Reynod]

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.

 

[Brainrainz]

Wanna know what my biggest mistake was?
I bought The RX480.

 

[daniel_151]

This literally happened today, a week ago I thought I found a pretty good deal on an MSI r7 360 for basically 80$. Bought it thinking, "man I'm probably not gonna find a better deal for a while." Fast forward to today, walk into Geometry, my friend who'd I told I was building a Pc walks and says "Hey so I was at this convention at an alienware booth and won a GTX960, I don't need it but since you told me you're building a PC i'll sell it to you for somewhere around 60/100 bucks".

Le me: "WELL F#CK YOU TOO UNIVERSE!"

Basically already spent all my graphics card money so...

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

 

[Cannon-Fodder]

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

 

[Epicness937]

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

 

[Thomas_115]

VIDEO CARD - msi radeon r9 390
CASE - Corsair 200r atx mid tower case
Power supply - corsair cx 600w80+ bronze certified semi-modular atx
HARD DRIVE - 1tb western digital
OPERATING SYSYEM - windows 10 pro 64bit

I have tried everything I have read lots of forums of people having the same problem apparently its the graphics card drivers, so I tried unistalling everything with ddu also redownloaded a fresh copy of windows 10 64bit reinstalled same problem, I can watch youtube videos at 1080p 60fps but as soon as I load a game e.g hearthstone, runescape I crash, the longest I have played was an hour, ive tried older graphics drivers still no luck tried writing to amd no luck. if anyone could help or have any suggestions it would be great.

procedures I have ttried and tested:
-fresh install of windows.
-fresh install of drivers.
-msi after burner uping the fan speed and power output
-ddu to uninstall all drivers

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

 

[Reynod]

Wanna know what my biggest mistake was?
I bought The RX480.

Prove it or I nail you for trolling.

 

[DerrickChen]

a friend of mine when i was dusting my pc i left to get more compressed air and i came back to see he had put a bunch of MAGNETS for "decoration" INSIDE my case

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

 

[Epicness937]

a friend of mine when i was dusting my pc i left to get more compressed air and i came back to see he had put a bunch of MAGNETS for "decoration" INSIDE my case

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

i honestly dont have any idea....

 

[DerrickChen]

a friend of mine when i was dusting my pc i left to get more compressed air and i came back to see he had put a bunch of MAGNETS for "decoration" INSIDE my case

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?

 

[Epicness937]

a friend of mine when i was dusting my pc i left to get more compressed air and i came back to see he had put a bunch of MAGNETS for "decoration" INSIDE my case

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

 

[DerrickChen]

a friend of mine when i was dusting my pc i left to get more compressed air and i came back to see he had put a bunch of MAGNETS for "decoration" INSIDE my case

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!

 

[Thenkindler]

GTX 480 with reference cooling.

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.

 

[Ambular]

GTX 480 with reference cooling.

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.

 

[Thenkindler]

GTX 480 with reference cooling.

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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[Tacticall993]

Wanna know what my biggest mistake was?
I bought The RX480.

lmao, whats wrong with it?

 

[Epicness937]

Wanna know what my biggest mistake was?
I bought The RX480.

lmao, whats wrong with it?

as the time it was posted it had power issues

 

[Reynod]

Wanna know what my biggest mistake was?
I bought The RX480.

lmao, whats wrong with it?

He has been warned.

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

Trolls are like flies ... they attract the spiders (moderators).

We drop the husks of the flies on the floor after sucking the guts out of them.

 

[MrCrazy0ne]

GTX 480 with reference cooling.

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.

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

 

[sera1552]

greatest mistake was to buy new card and realized nvidia and amd launched another new card better power with low price