Did you ever had a PC part die on you?

[Lotte]

I've never had anything die on me that I haven't broken myself.

 

Well, nothing but my graphics card so far, after playing a game for a while or leaving the computer on for more than a day, I usually get visual corruption and have to restart the computer.

I've just ended up letting the gpu overheat for a while, it's a dieing card so I stopped caring as much. My main issue is that I don't have a job (also being that I live in a small, town that likes acting like city) and can't seem to find one, unless I sell my life to working a factory job.

 

Once the card doesn't send a signal to my monitor altogether, I'll put it in the oven and play the role of necromancy. While praying to almighty cthulhu, I'll also make sure to have a bunch of dim candles. 

[SkarKrow]

yea my hitahcie's last forever i use them soo often for clients

The one I have about is renowned for catastrophic failure.

[Valentyn]

Some lovely expensive 8GB  Mushkin DDR2 RAM at the time.

 

 

 

Also my PSU blew, it was the old Gigabyte Odin. It took my water pump, and AMD 4870X2 graphics card with it. :'(

[SeriouslyMikey]

Oh, I forgot to add. My PSU blew after 6 moths of owning it. 

[ShadowCaptain]

Never had a single component break or fail

[-iSynthesis]

No. Must have had luck. 

[Denned]

I once got a dead EVGA GTX 275

[killtothis]

I had an Asus P8Z77VLX die a few years ago, and a couple of months ago my 3570K bit the dust (still unsure of the cause). Also numerous fan bearings, had a few monitors develop dead pixels. 

[Speed]

and a CPU never dies no matter what you do with it 

well they are very tough, but my ivy pentium died after water damage

[The_Evenger]

well I'm the guy with 6 part failures in the first 4 months, and 3 more in the next 2

[sebischmitz]

I use many old parts that got used 24/7, and the only thing that failed is a redundant server PSU, it had been running for like 7 years straight, powering 2 Pentium 2 on a Asus board with some SD-RAM in it, impressive thing being that the SCSI HDD wich has been running for the same amount of time is still not dead.

[dha07]

1 asus motherboard, 1 corsair PSU, thats about it.

[SenZjoo]

few years ago i bought my 2nd 690 for my previous build (RIVE, 3960x) i had the thing for a few days when i was presented with the dreaded RSOD (red screen of dead: slichip on the card died shorting at least 1 core out) needless to say i was not amused :3

 

Luckely the warrenty on the thing was great and after sending it back and waitiing for a few weeks i got a brand new one back...

[sulairris]

onboard ethernet port we had a power spike though the LAN in a storm.

[joenewbie]

the problem with user reviews is that people are far, far more likely to review the product if they've had a bad experience than if they had a good experience.

I read Amazon reviews and wonder why if something arrived a day late you give it one star.  Most of the 1 star reviews in my view also have to do with receiving a product that's DOA but they return it and get a replacement without trouble, still they judge the product itself with 1 star.  Occasionally in any production process there is going to be a dud, it's how that dud is handled by the company you bought it from that matters and really should be subject to a separate review.  

[SidDefinition]

Yup, my graphic card die, well not actually die, but more like broke, there was a fan attached to graphic card, that broke, while I was playing

[nick99n]

i had a crappy psu die (it was from a really bad company and i was a newbie back then) ,i have ram stick that caused instability (i got another one from the shop for free) and a motherboard that it was physically damaged hard and lead to bsod 

[IrkenWarrior]

the hard drive in my dimension 2400 died when I was 17 or 18 and I lost everything (though it did last me a while and, frankly, i should have seen the end coming). I was pretty gutted. At the time i was basically the photographer of the family so very nearly all of my, at the time, 4/5 year old sister's baby pictures were lost forever. the hard drive that we got to replace it a few days later is going now (not that it matters as the computer has not been usable in well over a year) and i am not entirely certain what is wrong with my laptop. it BSODs and freezes a lot. on the bright side, the Great Hard Drive Failure of 2009 taught me the importance of always backing up data.

[ofr057]

I've brought 3 x 120gig ocz ssd's all failed within 6 months.

 

Kingston ftw

[Tech_Dreamer]

My PC specs! :mellow:

[Pugs501]

Hasn't happened to me but a failed/defective PSU can set your build on fire.

[xnoobftw]

What is the biggest as in most important part in your rig that has failed. Previously recently. 

getting a h87 g43 gaming motherboard

[LemonSpice]

H100i

[Archangel1994]

Motherboard, it just died after a small incident with an electrician sorting things around the house and me cleaning my pc in the meantime. I was lucky only my motherboard was destroyed. The electrician offered to pay for a new motherboard though so that was nice.

[ZetZet]

My gpu died after 6 years or something. It was MSI ATI HD3870.