Hardware failure rate

[PeachGr]

What was the hardware that you have seen/ heard of failing most and what isn't?

Burn a few laptop motherboards and heard of many more

I have burn a PSU

Burn a GPU (Radeon) and a few really old (2001-2005) Nvidia

Never burn CPU nor heard of it ( I ve heard one after really crazy overclock, and one after Linus dropped)

Never heard of RAM (only after physical abuse)

 

Edit: I forgot to mention that I burnt 2 HDD (1 intentionally) and 1 SSD

Edited July 24, 2020 by PeachGr

[Wh0_Am_1]

Well there were some Pentium Ds that would cook themselves alive....

[IntMD]

This is all anecodtal from a sample size of 1, so...

 

I had some RAM arrive DOA, every single stick (it was a quad channel kit) so I don't really know what had happened to that before it arrived, but it was OCZ RAM and not long before they went bankrupt, so there's that... Never had a problem with any other RAM.

 

I've had a couple of PSU's die, 1 or 2 cheapos and 1 decent for the time.

 

Had a motherboard go bad, but this was the same time as one of the PSUs died, so it might have been that that killed it.

 

Laptop hard drives back in the day used to die with some regularity from people dropping them.

 

I've never had a CPU die, I've never had an SSD die, I've never had a 3.5" hard drive die (still have one that works from 2007-2008 time, or did when I took it out of my system 4 or 5 years ago when I went all SSD). I've never had a fan die, never had a GPU die (still have a working 8800 GTX when it was last used around somewhere). I've never had a monitor die, except the one I accidentally shot with a BB gun ricochet that hit the screen when I was dicking about in my younger days.

 

 

[NeuesTestament]

So if we are just going by personal expierence it is MicroSD cards (I had two of them fail on me in a short amount of time).

Apart from that it's usually SSD and HDDs that fail. I never had a CPU or GPU fail and only one bad RAM stick ever.

[PeachGr]

8 minutes ago, NeuesTestament said:

So if we are just going by personal expierence it is MicroSD cards (I had two of them fail on me in a short amount of time).

Apart from that it's usually SSD and HDDs that fail. I never had a CPU or GPU fail and only one bad RAM stick ever.

For me sd cards do not count because I will have to count USB sticks as well, and I burnt 2 in the past 6 months

[-iSynthesis]

I mean... I guess it counts as hardware?
Cables. Any kind of cables that you plug in and out more than once in your lifetime.
Either they just don't last or I roll over them with my office chair... (And both)

[mariushm]

Shitty psus that came with cases (those 400-450w premier/deluxe) ... capacitors blown or leaking... can usually be repaired

The crappy design of the cooler on the radeon 4850 which was a dust and hair magnet and would make the card overheat until you removed the crap from the radiator

 

What fails from time to time on more modern hardware ... fans of video cards. Shame there's no agreement/standard on screw locations for video card/peripheral fans - if only some companies could agree on some standard sizes (ex 25/40/65/80/92/120 and 1-2 ways of screwing them to heatsink so we could have interchangeable fans.

 

Besides these, mechanical drives typically fail more often then everything else... 

[jones177]

In 2011 I built my i7 2600k rig along with two i5 2500ks. I consider it the start of the modern era for me. Before that PC parts were much more unreliable.

I had PSUs catch on fire. Monitors fill the room with smoke than catch on fire. I retired HDDs every year since non lasted much longer and it was crazy how many motherboards I went through.

 

Since 2011.

 

HDDs.

Three have died out of five. All retired.

Moved to SSds in 2016. Non have died.

 

Motherboards. 

Two have died out of ten. Both slow deaths.

 

GPUs.

One has died out of 15. Two had issues.

 

PSUs.

Non have failed since I started buying brand name overpowered ones. I have replaced non modular with modular ones for aesthetics. 

 

CPUs just work.

 

My biggest problem now is Windows updates. They are making my PCs unreliable again.