Post Your Biggest Graphics Card Mistakes

[Immitem]

I bought a 9800 GX2 without checking to make sure it would actually fit in the tiny stock ACER case back in 2008. Not even close!

 

[bublik1]

hah funny topic.
let me see, ii washed my gpu heatsiink in the sink with the pads on and dried a bit and assembled the gpu and run iit.
thiiis gpu is dead now. idk if its because of the water though. i disasemmbled it now and i see watermarks on the vrams. i read oil can leak form pads.. idk

i ruiined mugen screws somehow and dremeled it out of the motherboard..
i put washers between mobo and case...
i spilled water on my mech keyboard. that just dont function normally anymore... see the typos.. key chattering alot.. most anoying iis TAB and ALT

 

[Thenkindler]

I bought a 9800 GX2 without checking to make sure it would actually fit in the tiny stock ACER case back in 2008. Not even close!

...ballsack that's a shit one hey XD

 

[Reynod]

Anyone buy a PCI-E card and then find they had an AGP slot in the mobo?

Surely someone else in the universe did that ... other than me?

 

[KalTorak]

Anyone buy a PCI-E card and then find they had an AGP slot in the mobo?

Surely someone else in the universe did that ... other than me?

I got very close, but my dad stopped me after he checked over my parts list. Made me really mad at the time, because everything else was perfect, and it was the first PC I had speced out.

Not something you need to think about now, which is pleasant, so it wasnt really a lesson I needed to learn.

 

[Epicness937]

Anyone buy a PCI-E card and then find they had an AGP slot in the mobo?

Surely someone else in the universe did that ... other than me?

yes i did thats way back when i tryed to cross fire r9 280s

 

[Immitem]

I bought a 9800 GX2 without checking to make sure it would actually fit in the tiny stock ACER case back in 2008. Not even close!

...ballsack that's a shit one hey XD

It fit in my next computer. The acer was my first desktop computer but I was a total dumbass and did not understand what a piece of garbage it was when I bought it.

Intel core Duo 2.2GHZ
4GB DDr2
Gefore 7600 onboard GPU
500GB HD
Windows Vista

The GPU was listed as having 4GB of memory but I did not understand that that was the system memory it was referring to and back then that is all I believed a powerful computer needed.

My second computer which I built from scratch was much, much better.

i7 940
12GB DDr2 1333
Geforce 9800 GX2
The 500GB OS drive from the previous computer plus a second one
Windows Vista then 7 a few months later.

Sigh, so nostalgic.

 

[Epicness937]

I bought a 9800 GX2 without checking to make sure it would actually fit in the tiny stock ACER case back in 2008. Not even close!

...ballsack that's a shit one hey XD

It fit in my next computer. The acer was my first desktop computer but I was a total dumbass and did not understand what a piece of garbage it was when I bought it.

Intel core Duo 2.2GHZ
4GB DDr2
Gefore 7600 onboard GPU
500GB HD
Windows Vista

The GPU was listed as having 4GB of memory but I did not understand that that was the system memory it was referring to and back then that is all I believed a powerful computer needed.

My second computer which I built from scratch was much, much better.

i7 940
12GB DDr2 1333
Geforce 9800 GX2
The 500GB OS drive from the previous computer plus a second one
Windows Vista then 7 a few months later.

Sigh, so nostalgic.

aside from the gpu thats still a fine pc

 

[Immitem]

aside from the gpu thats still a fine pc

I sold it and got myself an EVGA 285 GTX 2GB which ran even better a year later. That computer served me well but I sold it to my younger brother when it was time to upgrade again a few years ago.

 

[Rexer]

Anyone buy a PCI-E card and then find they had an AGP slot in the mobo?

Surely someone else in the universe did that ... other than me?

Gone there, done that. I had a bit of luck. I was able to get a refund because I didn't open the box. It's like saying, "smart fellow, fellow smart" ten times as fast as you can. After a few seconds, it means two different things.
I was planning to buy a 750 SeaSonic G series psu but got persuaded from a friends advice to buy a Corsair RM750 psu. This particular model had a recall because the auto fan feature didn't kick in at the proper temperature. Without knowing this, I ran it for 6 months and experienced numerous crashes every week to everyday to every hour then 'poof', it was dead. When I began trouble shooting all the problems, I found my board, cpu, gpu and psu were all bad or going south. Windows Event viewer made countless notices of something wrong or something crashed due to hardware. So many, I ended up with a new computer.

 

[LazerL0rd -]

I tried to cook my dead gpu in the oven to try to revive it. I forgot to take the fan off when I did it. 10 mins later, I smell burnt plastic..

Had to clean out my oven and dispose of deformed card. I half wanted to try it out to see if it would work but since the fan couldn't even spin any more, I decided against it.

That "revived it" I'm Sure xD

 

[Lightening02]

My cheap PSU only has one 6-pin PCIe power connector. A GTX 970 needs two. Due to poor planning I needed to run down to a local computer store and pick up a molex to PCIe adapter. The price for the cable wasn't bad, but it shows poor planning on my part.

 

[Rexer]

I tried to cook my dead gpu in the oven to try to revive it. I forgot to take the fan off when I did it. 10 mins later, I smell burnt plastic..

Had to clean out my oven and dispose of deformed card. I half wanted to try it out to see if it would work but since the fan couldn't even spin any more, I decided against it.

That "revived it" I'm Sure xD

Lol. That's a good one. I heard that you can bake a motherboard but temperatures and time, I know not. Now I won't even think about it. Thanks!
I use to flame thrower flies buzzing the trash can with a can of hairspray and stick matches. Was sorta fun. They said the flame would crawl back to the spray can but it's never happened to me!
Rumor goes on a dropped laptop, baking a motherboard reseals solder points which may be cracked by a fall. I'm NOT certain so don't quote me on this. Lol.

 

[alth0triplemadang]

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

seriously?

 

[OfficialG3]

my still running r7 260x, man that card got some abuse, overclocked it a bit too much, lots of random bsod's and some smell issue... and the gpu cover for the fan is broken so it dangles, force-glued it so it stays, forgot to put thermal paste when opening it to retighten the nuts for the cover, thankfully it didnt burn, now this card is too damn fragile i wont even touch it anymore unless i really do

 

[Rexer]

my still running r7 260x, man that card got some abuse, overclocked it a bit too much, lots of random bsod's and some smell issue... and the gpu cover for the fan is broken so it dangles, force-glued it so it stays, forgot to put thermal paste when opening it to retighten the nuts for the cover, thankfully it didnt burn, now this card is too damn fragile i wont even touch it anymore unless i really do

What I can say? Obviously, you're one of us. Lol.

 

[rush21hit]

A friend linked me to these pics at my facebook wall with no context. Let it be a lesson to us all.

Packaging, people! Packaging!

 

[burgessanthony]

^that's outrageous

9200se, 5200, x1300....made some terrible low end choices when tight on money. It's why I so strongly advise people to save a bit more!

The x1300 was good enough for a laptop. The 5200 average. 9200se terrible

Xfire 6770s.....awful. Not a fun experience

Also remember my friends 9800xt (absolute beast) that he pushed way to hard in summer and didnt end too wrell

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Did that box get stabbed by a tow motor?

 

[Epicness937]

let this be a lesson to all "do not run a 1080 over with a car if you must destroy some tech go buy a mac

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Car tires are much thicker and that's a 1070.

 

[rush21hit]

I don't think its a car. Even a light car would simply flatten it. It's a solid build. But not that solid.
Judging by the damage, more like the result of being run over by some small motorcycle which common in SEA, or just bad placing among other things they deliver.

I guess the term "handle with care" doesn't bode well to these delivery services. Then again, we can also blame the store for not pack it properly. I mean, it only got covered by some cartons. I, for one, would pack it with some rigid wood frame.
Expect the worse that could happen when you pack something, would you please?

Whatever the case, somebody going to sue somebody. And it ain't going to involve MSI.

 

[Rexer]

I don't think its a car. Even a light car would simply flatten it. It's a solid build. But not that solid.
Judging by the damage, more like the result of being run over by some small motorcycle which common in SEA, or just bad placing among other things they deliver.

I guess the term "handle with care" doesn't bode well to these delivery services. Then again, we can also blame the store for not pack it properly. I mean, it only got covered by some cartons. I, for one, would pack it with some rigid wood frame.
Expect the worse that could happen when you pack something, would you please?

Whatever the case, somebody going to sue somebody. And it ain't going to involve MSI.

Good Gawd. I take the hint and concur. I use to work at sound studio a few years back. The last horrible piece of shipping I seen was a $2,500 Conrad Johnson tube pre amplifier got punched by a fork lift. If anyone knows audio equipment, that was a heart breaker.

 

[Forte777]

A friend linked me to these pics at my facebook wall with no context. Let it be a lesson to us all.

Packaging, people! Packaging!

Is there a story behind this? Can't find anything.

 

[Immitem]

A friend linked me to these pics at my facebook wall with no context. Let it be a lesson to us all.

Packaging, people! Packaging!

Vut Da Phuck?! It looks like somebody flattened it with a pallet jack fork! My guess is that it fell off of a stack of other items to be moved and the operator of the pallet jack/forklift did not notice and lowered the tongs to lift up the pallet and crushed the box. I hope that they see this and rue the day they caused so much pain and misery.