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FreedomEclipse

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I bought an AMD FX-55 off ebay for what must have been around £300 back in the day. Wouldn't overclock for shit and ran pretty hot due to it being the 130nm clawhammer variant instead of the 90nm San Diego version - Absolutely disappointed and my disappointment deepened when i went out and bought an AMD 3000+ 'Venice' just for shits and giggles to see how far i could push it. That 3000+ didnt cost nowhere near the FX-55 and hit 2.9 or 3Ghz with a zalman flower cooler but I daily'd at 2.8Ghz just to be safe..

The FX-55 was one of my earliest purchases with my ebay account - I was starting to get deeper into the enthusiast arena while hanging out with the chuds at Guru3D. At the time i didnt know where were two versions of the chip, so i didnt think to ask before bidding. if i knew it was clawhammer, i wouldnt have bid.

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Second thing i regret was my X1800XT. I bought it and ATi pretty much came out with the X1900 series of cards within a few months and everyone forgot about the X1800 series.


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Third regret was buying some DDR2 for a friend while away in Hong Kong. The exchange rate back then was really good and i didnt mind as he was a really good friend of mine. Bought the ram, bought it back with me and he just wasn't interested in it and would try to avoid the conversation each time i mentioned it.

I never bought anything for him again. I didnt even bother telling him when i was going back for holiday. I didnt want to even if he paid me up front for what he wanted.

Not that im a petty guy but this pretty much signalled and started the decline in our friendship. He just didnt turn out to be as trustworthy in general after that.
 

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I bought an AMD FX-55 off ebay for what must have been around £300 back in the day. Wouldn't overclock for shit and ran pretty hot due to it being the 130nm clawhammer variant instead of the 90nm San Diego version - Absolutely disappointed and my disappointment deepened when i went out and bought an AMD 3000+ 'Venice' just for shits and giggles to see how far i could push it. That 3000+ didnt cost nowhere near the FX-55 and hit 2.9 or 3Ghz with a zalman flower cooler but I daily'd at 2.8Ghz just to be safe..

Had the same Venice, it was ace. I only did 2.4Ghz though, probably the motherboard held it back (Asrock 939 Dual-Sata2, the one with a PCIe slot and an AGP slot).
 

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Had the same Venice, it was ace. I only did 2.4Ghz though, probably the motherboard held it back (Asrock 939 Dual-Sata2, the one with a PCIe slot and an AGP slot).


I think I ran mine on an MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum,
 
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I bought an AMD FX-55 off ebay for what must have been around £300 back in the day. Wouldn't overclock for shit and ran pretty hot due to it being the 130nm clawhammer variant instead of the 90nm San Diego version - Absolutely disappointed and my disappointment deepened when i went out and bought an AMD 3000+ 'Venice' just for shits and giggles to see how far i could push it. That 3000+ didnt cost nowhere near the FX-55 and hit 2.9 or 3Ghz with a zalman flower cooler but I daily'd at 2.8Ghz just to be safe..

The FX-55 was one of my earliest purchases with my ebay account - I was starting to get deeper into the enthusiast arena while hanging out with the chuds at Guru3D. At the time i didnt know where were two versions of the chip, so i didnt think to ask before bidding. if i knew it was clawhammer, i wouldnt have bid.

-----

Second thing i regret was my X1800XT. I bought it and ATi pretty much came out with the X1900 series of cards within a few months and everyone forgot about the X1800 series.


-----

Third regret was buying some DDR2 for a friend while away in Hong Kong. The exchange rate back then was really good and i didnt mind as he was a really good friend of mine. Bought the ram, bought it back with me and he just wasn't interested in it and would try to avoid the conversation each time i mentioned it.

I never bought anything for him again. I didnt even bother telling him when i was going back for holiday. I didnt want to even if he paid me up front for what he wanted.

Not that im a petty guy but this pretty much signalled and started the decline in our friendship. He just didnt turn out to be as trustworthy in general after that.
The X1800 was the worst card I every owned from ATI, second was a friends 2900 with the short lived GDDR4 and it’s immense power spikes. Killed 2 PSUs before it died.
 
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A 35 inch 1440p monitor. I love it and it is a super nice monitor. However there is 1 million more pixels than my 32 inch 1440p so i lost 20-30 fps on every game. Even with a 2080 super. I have been trying to sell it and switch back to my old monitor(now my secondary screen) or buy a corsair xeneon monitor.
 
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ATI X850xt (RIP ATI), it wasn't noticeably faster than my 9800 pro and the performance difference in the original Crysis negligible. That's when I made the decision to only upgrade only every two generations, a decision I reversed when I bought a 1080ti to replace my 980ti.

I also bought a Gigabyte LGA775 board that had bare MOSFET's in the VRM circuit -- bad idea. One day when trying to dial in my overclock at one of the MOSFETs released the magic smoke and that was the end of that motherboard (and socket LGA775 for me).
 
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I bought a brandnew Steelseries Stratus XL gamepad few years ago, tested 1 time and I left it in the box....
Tried to sell it but no one interested, yeah for a buck......It's still new.
 
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Asus G73 Laptop with GTX 460m (really laptop itself was fine, but the video card was flat useless for any gaming and the battery life was so atrocious it made no sense. But I mostly blame the 460m on that)

All I can think of at the moment.
 
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GTX 660 in SLI.

A hot headed, low OC, 1,5+0,5GB gimped stutterfest and often SLI support lacking or poor scaling for the titles I wanted it on. Lessons learned, indeed...

It looked cool, but definitely wasn't.
 

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The X1800 was the worst card I every owned from ATI, second was a friends 2900 with the short lived GDDR4 and it’s immense power spikes. Killed 2 PSUs before it died.

why you gotta do me dirty like that :laugh:
 

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AMD FX CPU. Such garbage. Yeah it was 8 core but my 3930K did circles around it and didnt run at 95c
My Sig Rig stays at 55c under Gaming at 5.0GHz on air. Only touched 75 under Ryzen Blender. As of 2020 there has been a renaissance for them now that there is no sandbagging in software.

why you gotta do me dirty like that :laugh:
I had a x1950 Pro AGP 512, it was single slot and handled COD4 smooth on the AXP (2 files modded to make game load and run)
 
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AMD FX CPU. Such garbage. Yeah it was 8 core but my 3930K did circles around it and didnt run at 95c
Bruh, that 3930K was like 3-4 times more expensive chip and no FX chip ever ran at 90s stock. They had hard temp limit of 62C (later raised to 72C). You bought budget product and got what it was, it's pointless to bitch about it.

Must be some cool place where you have your PC.:cool:
FX chips are easy to keep cool. Big tower is all you need to keep 4 module ones cool with OC. For 3 module chips, you can have even lesser cooling.
 
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Physx accelerator card (bought for me, not by me).

Got it as a gift, because I'd been salivating over the potential to offload all that calculation elsewhere. The resultant technology was so depressing that within a couple of generations the things evaporated and were simply incorporated into anything beyond the worst GPU.


My regret here stems entirely from the fact that this was a great idea on paper...but in practice it died in the cradle. It would have, theoretically, offloaded entire types of calculations so that even a middle tier GPU could deliver insane performance. In practice, the game selection was terrible and its usage was left up to software until it was rolled into general GPUs. I still think that a $200 Physics and a $200 dedicated GPU would blow our current $400 GPUs out of the water...but if dual GPU cards died, and MCM is the future, then we already have no hope of GPU improvements without simply brute forcing it.
 
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A 35 inch 1440p monitor. I love it and it is a super nice monitor. However there is 1 million more pixels than my 32 inch 1440p so i lost 20-30 fps on every game. Even with a 2080 super. I have been trying to sell it and switch back to my old monitor(now my secondary screen) or buy a corsair xeneon monitor.

Erm, how does a 1440p monitor have more pixels than a 1440p monitor?
 
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I've had plenty of buyer's remorse, even with my recent GPU purchase, but I don't regret getting it.

My most regrettable purchases were my Cryorig R1 Ultimate and XF140 fans.

Reviews made the R1 seem like it was among the best air coolers on the market, and that the XF140 fans were nice and quiet.

The R1 with two fans performs slightly worse than my current NH-U14S with one fan, and compared to the Noctua fans I have now, the XF140s aren't even remotely close to being silent.

I currently have the XF140s in my server, and I can't wait to replace them with more Noctua fans. My server is very audible over my main PC under all but the heaviest loads.
 
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Physx accelerator card (bought for me, not by me).

Got it as a gift, because I'd been salivating over the potential to offload all that calculation elsewhere. The resultant technology was so depressing that within a couple of generations the things evaporated and were simply incorporated into anything beyond the worst GPU.


My regret here stems entirely from the fact that this was a great idea on paper...but in practice it died in the cradle. It would have, theoretically, offloaded entire types of calculations so that even a middle tier GPU could deliver insane performance. In practice, the game selection was terrible and its usage was left up to software until it was rolled into general GPUs. I still think that a $200 Physics and a $200 dedicated GPU would blow our current $400 GPUs out of the water...but if dual GPU cards died, and MCM is the future, then we already have no hope of GPU improvements without simply brute forcing it.
$400 GPU's, I'd like to see any of those even in mid-tier parts these days...
 
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Sapphire 7950 this model specifically it was hot garbage I had two die on me after about 2 weeks.... Swapped them for 2 Vapor X 7970 that were also pretty terrible both cards I purchased had horrible coil whine the worse of any gpu I've ever owned even at 60hz.....

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Anything made by:

Razerio...

Roccatico...

Antec...

Sapphire....

Several brands of so-called "bifurification cards" that neva, eva worked at all

just to name a few :)
 
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My stupid girlfriend
Your honor, here is why I think modern relationships are a joke. I rest my case.
 
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Video Card(s) Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7800 XT
Storage 2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 2 TB Corsair MP600 R2, 4 + 8 TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5"
Display(s) Dell S3422DWG, 7" Waveshare touchscreen
Case Kolink Citadel Mesh black
Power Supply Seasonic Prime GX-750
Mouse Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard Logitech G413 SE
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores Cinebench R23 single-core: 1,800, multi-core: 18,000. Superposition 1080p Extreme: 9,900.
I had a Radeon X800 XT that I swapped for a GeForce 7800 GS AGP for DirectX 9.0c support. Not only that it wasn't better than the X800, it was also hotter and a lot noisier.

I also sold my Ryzen 9 5950X after a couple of months because I wasn't even using half of its cores. Luckily, it was around the time when the component shortage began, so I got back most of its original price.
 
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System Name micropage7
Processor Intel Xeon X3470
Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. P55A-UD3R (Socket 1156)
Cooling Enermax ETS-T40F
Memory Samsung 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Video Card(s) NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
Storage V-GEN03AS18EU120GB, Seagate 2 x 1TB and Seagate 4TB
Display(s) Samsung 21 inch LCD Wide Screen
Case Icute Super 18
Audio Device(s) Auzentech X-Fi Forte
Power Supply Silverstone 600 Watt
Mouse Logitech G502
Keyboard Sades Excalibur + Taihao keycaps
Software Win 7 64-bit
Benchmark Scores Classified
android tv box with rockchip processor
4Gb RAM and 64 internal memory, first i think it will be enough if i need something like browsing but i was wrong, it's hella slow AF and dead in few months
 
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