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Carrot44

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Say you get something Brand new in and Trash it totally by trying to improve it such as a new heat sink Fan or prying a CPU apart?
Lets have a tally of what you did.
Me first So many things I cant even remember them all :eek:
 

Vikaden

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Apr 10, 2000
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I fud up an Athlon 700 trying to pry the heat sink clips off, that was 250 bucks down the drain 5 months ago
 

Jazar

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I was messing around with my new home-built system (P3 800 w/ Geforce2) playing Deus Ex when the entire ATX tower tipped over and fell on it's side (hard!!) onto tile floor. The game didn't even crash and all the parts still seem to work ok but the strangest thing is my sound card ( SBLive Value) to this day isn't recognized when I close the case. ::shrug::
 

Vikaden

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Wow Jazar, that would have scared the crap out of me, i would have been Sh!ting bricks
 

Viper GTS

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I destroyed a Voodoo3 2000 PCI. Plus a couple of K6-2's, although one of them still works you just have to be VERY careful that the heatsink is properly balanced (ala coppermine type CPUs).

Viper GTS
 

Carrot44

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I used to collect antique pocket watches so destroyed alot of them :( Never Ever Ever have I destroyed a piece of Computer hardware on accident deliberate that is another story........
 

downhiller80

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I killed an Asus v6800 deluxe when a BIOS update went horribly wrong. And all because I wanted that extra 2% or whatever sidebanding gives you . . .

Seb
 

Demon-Xanth

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Took an ATX case, $32, brand new. Started doing my case mods, about 80% of the way through the pilot bit on a 3" hole saw powered by a 1/2" milwakee drill broke and the saw ended up scratching the hell out of the side of the case
 

apoppin

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I broke my Iwill Slocket removing it without fully disengaging one of the clips.

It didn't matter since it was defective anyway and I already had my Abit Slotket (but I couldn't RMA it with broken capacitors and later sell it - actual loss about $10).
 

Pretender

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Mar 14, 2000
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I smudged the thermal grease on my golden orb when I took it out the box, and had to replace it (the grease, not the orb). Does that count?
 

DesignDawg

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I once royally F@@@ed up a 4X CD burner in a fit of rage.
I was having a lockup problem, and the drive wouldn't read or anything. The tray was sitting open, and I just rared back and SMACKED IT BACK INTO the drive. Of course, at that point, it would no longer open or close.

--Nothing a little warranty voidage, some quickset epoxy, a finish nail, a dremel, and some good ol' American mechanical know-how couldn't fix. :)

Ricky
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narzy

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Feb 26, 2000
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I tosted my monitor cable taking it outa the box, I cut where it said not to :(
 

Warrenton

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I have had 11 digital research brand CDROM drives fail... bought 3 of them, and RMAed all one 3 times and two 4 times. I finally stopped when shipping was costing more than new drives would have. I feel kinda foolish for RMAing them so many times without calling my attourny and filing a suit against them. It is illegal to sell known defects, even if they deny it, when there is continual failures like that it is a know defect.
 

Carrot44

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I watched my neighbor once have a raging fit and threw his Apple computer out into the yard and smash it............. all cause his mom complained about him being on it to much Wheeeeeeeee :cool:
 

syber321

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Yeah, I love this computer so much, and am so addicted to it, I'm going to throw it out the window and demolish it... Makes sense..
 

Yo Ma Ma

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Well, not lately :p but there was that time we tried to fit a hard drive in using a hammer (you know, it just seemed to need a little tap :() :eek: :disgust: :frown: don't EVER do that.
 

Pretender

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Yeah, "my game didn't save correctly so I figured the write head was too far away from the platter....so I just tapped the top of the drive with a sledgehammer".