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Did you ever had a PC part die on you?

TheRagingGamer
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1 Mother Board 

 

4 video cards 

 

2 PSU (same unit) pop like a pop corn.

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Anytime i read newegg reviews most of them are "DOA", "Lasted 6 days" etc...

So did anything like this happened to you because it never happened to me.

Only thing that ever dyed on me way my old PSU

nope. not yet.

Nothing to see here, move along

 

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One of the older corsair SSDs died on me, I have had HDDs, SSDs, motherboards and RAM modules die. Some new some old.

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Never had anything die on me.... hopefully not any time soon either.... (does a Corsair K70 count?..)

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i have my old mobo ( ASUS P5KPL-AM SE) Die for no reason

and my old PSU (Corsair PSU 400W) Cause of i surgery that PSU LOL

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Antec PSU after 3 days, the replacement is still running. Two Sidewinder X6 keyboards, 3rd replacement is still working. Club3D GPU. Matrox HDD. Acer TFT monitor. BenQ TFT monitor. Razer Copperhead mouse. HP camera, twice. HP laptop. Lenovo laptop cooler.

 

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Nothing die on me, but I killed the first motherboard of my current build. 

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Haven't had anything die on me, but I'm 75% sure my graphics card is going to some time this year.

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I've had a few HDD's die on me, but idc, i don't have any pictures on my HDD. All of my family photo's are stored on either a USB or in my google drive account. I have to many USB's to ever worry about losing them, and then if the do all die, i can just redownload them. I don't even have to worry about my massive steam libary either, I have fibre optics with 80mb down, 19mb up, and i only ever download the games i want to play, i don't bother downloading all my games.

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Well I made one HDD die by putting pressure on it (I'm such an idiot) It was a old 80 gigabyte one anyway. Also had 1 kingston usb die on me, also had a corsair one died, The 64 GB corsair survivor one, died 15 seconds after first using it...

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I had my first MSI Z77 MPower (New) die after a few months, my Intel 2600k (New) also died. My EVGA GTX 670 (Used) was dead on arrival. EVGA replaced it with a GTX 670FTW, I had to buy another 2600k and MSI replaced the MPower.

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i had a mobo and a hdd die on me only oh and a psu but that was old ,really old

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DOA's are just a part of buying electronics.  I hate reviews for 1 star if the product is doa.  If you get a replacement and the process is not terrible then DOA shouldn't be a black mark on the product.

and for the second part

I have had computers and computer parts fail over time but nothing out of the ordinary for this kind of thing.

pretty much this,  the only time a DOA is bad news for a complex tech product is if there is an unusually high number of DOAs for that brand/product, but this is impossible to determine from reviews as we don't know how many units have been sold.

 

And as I always say, how many DOAs are actual DOAs as opposed to how many die because people install them without anti-static bands or use too much force?

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Well I made one HDD die by putting pressure on it (I'm such an idiot) It was a old 80 gigabyte one anyway. Also had 1 kingston usb die on me, also had a corsair one died, The 64 GB corsair survivor one, died 15 seconds after first using it...

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My Arctic i30's packed in fan was DoA.

 

Didn't notice for like 3 days.

 

So with that heatsink you can run an i5 4670k at stock and game on it without active cooling. Then I stole an old corsair for filler and replaced with some BeQuiets, then I got an H100i because it's sexier that way and I can have higher profile RAM.

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An SSD, 3 Motherboards, 2 GPU's, 1 CPU, 1 HDD... I'm not the luckiest of people. 

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I've had 2 Seagate HDD's fail on me within a year. Done buying Seagate now.

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I just had a Barracuda implode a few months ago, outright stopped working, windows couldn't even see it. Using another system the data was salvaged but I invested in some WD enterprise drives and now have actual backup.

 

Now I use the Seagate platters as coasters.

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I've had a lot of components die on me over the years. Most notable amongst these: I've had three PSUs die on me; one caught fire and almost went out of control, another smoked and the third whined a lot before going pop. I've also had a motherboard go pop and take out RAM, modem (yes back in the day), graphics and hard drive. Also a few interesting graphics and display array (Eyefinity/3D Surround) related deaths including but not limited to EDID failures on a few monitors as well as display adapters blowing up.

 

Plenty of DOA kit...

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I've just had a stick of Corsair XMS3 RAM die on me because I was careless when I pulled the label off and I cut a trace.

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I think in total I've had two motherboards, one hard drive, one GPU and a few fans fail in the 20 years I've owned a PC.

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Just a Bluetooth keyboard and a wall wart were DOA once. Nothing else. Most of the stuff that died on me was due to old age. I think on the old all-in-ones I once had it'd been the monitor that died, laptops met their end through mechanical problems, mostly. Broken hdd's, broken screens and in one case a solder joint on the GPU had cracked, which was fixed by reflowing in the oven but only lasted for 3 months after. That was in the early days of lead-free solder.

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I've had two parts die, although from the same problem. A H100i failed on me and caused my CPU (an i5-4670k @ 4.4ghz) to kill itself in the process. Currently dealing with Corsair's own RMA, fingers crossed. How to lose a AIO and a CPU at once :)

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I just had a Barracuda implode a few months ago, outright stopped working, windows couldn't even see it. Using another system the data was salvaged but I invested in some WD enterprise drives and now have actual backup.

 

Now I use the Seagate platters as coasters.

Yup that's how my first drive went.
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