Ever felt buyer's remorse on your CPU?

[seitur]

Pentium 60 (yes first Pentium) shortly after it came out and huge premium was associated with this purcharse.

Would be much better to just go for 486DX90 or 100 or whatever was called one with comparable power for ALOT less $.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Rofl. Man...sorry for that but the p2 400 was a nice cpu. But never buy the most expensive cpu. If you do dont wait then use it NOW

I did
Had a couple of Seagate Cheetahs and a miro DC30 in that rig. Made a few grand doing video conversions for a local company (from VHS to VCD), so the price of the CPU was more than covered, just peeved that I could have saved some dough.

The PII 333 that I got my younger brother could OC to almost 400MHz, whereas my PII 400 topped out at a crappy 412MHz

 

[wilds]

Tegra 3. It wasn't awful, but it's single-channel ram limitation and weak single-threaded performance just made it a poor competitor to Qualcomm.

 

[blackened23]

Pentium 60 (yes first Pentium) shortly after it came out and huge premium was associated with this purcharse.

Would be much better to just go for 486DX90 or 100 or whatever was called one with comparable power for ALOT less $.

Not sure I agree. Were you a gamer at the time? I remember lots of folks were using DX4-100s and DX4-120s but they were so awful in terms of Quake performance due to FPU usage. Whereas the Pentium had exponentially better FP performance than the 486.

Aside from quake, though, yeah the 486s were pretty good.

 

[stockwiz]

once... buying and building an AMD opteron something or other right before the launch of core 2 duo.... but my mother got to use it so it wasn't all bad. Other then that maybe buying a netbook. Not going to buy a tablet for this reason.. I'll just never use it and the last thing I need is another toy that keeps me glued to the net.

 

[ehume]

The 3770K new. Bought it directly from Intel on their Holiday deal.

What was a holiday deal? What holiday? Do they still do them?

 

[JohnDC]

Ever felt buyer's remorse on your CPU?

Not since the pentium 4 prescott space heater I bought lol.I had a few video cards i felt that way about too.I just realize I am not stuck.Sure took a loss selling it or giving it to family or friend in need,but in the end the experience made me wiser for the next purchases.

With new hardware and software arriving all the time,there is always the next upgrade.

 

[nenforcer]

Only buyer's remorse I had has my 2007 build which I waited until 6 months after the Vista driver debacle but still had some issues with a

Core 2 Duo E6600
ASUS P5N32-E Deluxe nForce 680i (PCI-E 1.0)
1GB (2 X 512MB DDR2)
Geforce 8800GTS 320MB

I quickly realized 1GB of RAM was not enough for Vista and I barely used the machine as XP was still going strong and games hadn't really made the switch to dual core / DirectX 10 yet.

 

[Blue_Max]

I like huge performance but HATE spending the money to get it... Any big purchase has lingering buyer's remorse! I just bought a 4670k rig out of the profits from other sales, so the actual "spending" is close to zero... but it's no longer in my bank account and that hurts!

 

[sequoia464]

FX6100 - kept trying to like it and it would clock up to 4300 MHz pretty easily, but my 6 core Thuban running at 3800 still seemed faster for most of the things I was doing.

Managed to use it again in a new build for the little lady so not a total loss.

 

[Leyawiin]

Yep. Phenom II X4 955 BE C2 stepping. A month or two later they came out with the C3 stepping. Was disappointed to say the last (although I still have it in one of my PCs).

 

[Zodiark1593]

My DV7 laptop for a short while. Id been out of the loop for awhile and needed a laptop in a hurry. Got it literally a week before Sandy Bridge laptops started showing up. (mine is a dual core, 2.53 ghz Arrandale).

Oh well, considering my laptop is on it's third year, and still working just fine without any issues, I say it was an $800 well spent. Most reliable laptop I've owned, hardware-wise anyway.

 

[ninaholic37]

Other then that maybe buying a netbook. Not going to buy a tablet for this reason.. I'll just never use it and the last thing I need is another toy that keeps me glued to the net.

Amen. I sold my last netbook on kijiji for $70 and am using an old heavy 15.4" laptop for surfing now. It's so much bigger and heavier that the convenience is not there anymore so I spend less time using the net pointlessly now (mission success :awe: ).

 

[Blue_Max]

Not sure I agree. Were you a gamer at the time? I remember lots of folks were using DX4-100s and DX4-120s but they were so awful in terms of Quake performance due to FPU usage. Whereas the Pentium had exponentially better FP performance than the 486.

Aside from quake, though, yeah the 486s were pretty good.

I had a 486DX4-120 as well! My dad bought himself one of the first Pentiums, 60, 66 or the improved 75... I thought the slower number was silly, but my games (like Tyrian) looked so, SO much better on the "slower" Pentium!

The Celeron 300A (99% identical performance to the much pricier Pentium2-300) and its 50% easy overclock was a steal of a deal at the time! The Celeron 600 to 900 was another hot item! Socket-A AMD cpu's jumping 33% was another amazing value!

I regretted getting the first-gen P4 with PC-133.... It was oookayyyy but really overpriced.

 

[Remobz]

I bought a 2 gig 7850 that has never been used yet (got it in Jan 2013) and I regret it now.

 

[bononos]

Not sure I agree. Were you a gamer at the time? I remember lots of folks were using DX4-100s and DX4-120s but they were so awful in terms of Quake performance due to FPU usage. Whereas the Pentium had exponentially better FP performance than the 486.

Aside from quake, though, yeah the 486s were pretty good.

The dx4 had few good years for gamers before Quake came out.

 

[Shivansps]

I did a lot of CPU buying in my life, and i dont remember regetting a single one of them, i did a lot of bad buys, but all related to gpus and mbs.

Pentium 100, K6-266, K6-2 450, XP 1800+, Athlon 64 3200+ (754), X2 4200+, Phenom X3 710, 2500K (brought the same day that FX8150 benchmarks where released).

All of them give me good results, we can argue about K6 and K6-2 but they worked fine for me.

What i did regret is to buy a DM1z with E-350 coming from a U230 with L335 that allowed me to greatly overlock the IGP, with single channel the E-350 ended up equal or slightly faster, what a waste of money.

But im not sure if that counts.

 

[sm625]

My current cpu is the xeon version of the i5-750 that I picked up on ebay for pretty cheap at the time. As soon as I find a 2500k for $100 or less I will upgrade again. The first time I spent more than $100 on a cpu was when the athlon X2-3800 released. In retrospect I dont think it was worth it compared to a P4 w/HT. After that was the Q6600 and that was probably not worth the price either. After that I said $100 max end of story.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Hated the Cyrix P166+. Never really figured out if the problems I was having were mobo or CPU so not really fair to blame the CPU but I will anyways. It almost drove me out of the hobby.

The K6 that followed brought me right back into the joy. Since then it's been a steady stream of good chips. Can't say the same for mobo's or GPU's though. Some real stinkers in that pile.

 

[abbcccus]

I had two less than stellar cpu experiences: a 950 Duron that overclocked all the way to . . . 950. Actually, I think I might have gotten it to 1 GHz at one point, but it was a worthless overclocker.

Much later on I picked up a Q6600 on an insane deal at Fry's (what made it insane was that they totally botched my return / rebut which I didn't even realize until my credit card statement came). It was a great processor, but I bought it in the fall, marveled at how toasty my office was all winter, and finally had to decommission it in the spring as it raised the temperature in my office by close to five degrees. I didn't touch another quad until Lynnfield as I didn't want to repeat that experience.

 

[wilds]

I bought a 2 gig 7850 that has never been used yet (got it in Jan 2013) and I regret it now.

Let me know if you need someone to use it

 

[skipsneeky2]

Only cpu or platform I regret buying for the time was a x79 3930k, always wanted a extreme processor and I had some cash sitting around so I figured I would go for it.

Awesome build but god was it overkill, I built it for gaming and didn't really find a single game that benefited from the 3930ks 6 cores so I sold it and went back to the i5 in my sig but now with BF4 about here I may have made a mistake selling it lol.

The E6750, Q6600 G0 and this i5 2500 have been the best purchases I have made as far as processors go.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I regret buying that second Katmai just to try out two CPUs back in 2004. It was still barely enough to play a divx file because no program was multi-threaded then.

Less than two years later I bought my first dual core (x2 3800) and the P3 got trashed. Oh well the x2 was my favorite CPU ever. I remember arguing with others online who swore a higher clocked single core would have a longer life.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I remember arguing with others online who swore a higher clocked single core would have a longer life.

Did the same thing myself, looked high and low locally for a Pentium 4 extreme to drop into my Asus p4c800-e deluxe 478 motherboard.

Ended up instead picking up a e4500+ecs mobo combo from frys and I remember myself saying wow wow wow when I was using it then the e6750 went on their shelves with a combo and I did a exchange and blown away even more.

I play a ton of the older games from then still and man has the nostalgia bug hit me, msi p35 platinum , e6750 and a evga 8800gts 512mb with a 150gb raptor would be a awesome retro gamer as those were my specs all housed in a antec 900 which is still my favorite pc case.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Not really. There were a few CPUs that I did not end up using as much as I planned, I think those were P4 Celeron 2.4GHz (sold it less than a year after I got it) and e7200 (still in a drawer somewhere). But even those I got relatively cheap so no real regrets. In general I go for CPUs one or two steps down from top of the line, such as Q9450 or i3570k. I get most of the power of the top of the line chip at a significantly cheaper price. There is not much to regret there.