Which product would most likely be DOA?

[refinedskillz]

Which would it be? MB, GPU, CPU, etc.Title says it all.

[don_svetlio]

PSU/Board/RAM

[Octavialicious]

I'd say RAM or MOBO definitely

[Oshino Shinobu]

"Product" is a very, very broad term. It would depend on the manufacturer, packaging and shipping type used as well. 

[refinedskillz]

PSU/Board/RAM

Why RAM, and my PSU is fine since it comes in hardfoam.

[minibois]

Umm, none more than the other? DOA barely ever happens tbh.. 

But if I HAD to pick one that is 'most likely' I would probably say.. GPU? Just because so much can go wrong

[GlassBomb]

Which would it be? MB, GPU, CPU, etc.Title says it all.

 

Hard drive. Since it has sensitive platters, etc.

[Samfisher]

Hard Drive hands down.  Only thing that really relies on moving parts to even function.

[refinedskillz]

Hard Drive hands down.  Only thing that really relies on moving parts to even function.

That's fine, I have a few tens of HDDs.

[StackUnderflow]

I have a feeling some DOAs are actually dead parts due to static... I had a DOA PSU (Corsair CX) once...

[beach_boy98]

The HDD or the MOBO's are the worst offenders I have found. The CPU's are very rarely broken.

[refinedskillz]

The HDD or the MOBO's are the worst offenders I have found. The CPU's are very rarely broken.

Thought so.

[Coaxialgamer]

Hard drive is most likely.

And possibly mobo, cpu and gpu due to static.

[johnny5c]

In the past 15 years of building for myself and others I've had more DOA PSU's than anything else, in the past motherboards were the biggest culprit but in the last 5 years the only problem I've had was a dead PCIe slot on a server board.  I just help a friend build all new systems for his tutoring business and 2 out of 10 PSU's were bad, these were EVGA 500B's too and not some complete off-brand.

[Speedstack79]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/108284-huge-list-of-failure-rates-on-pc-components-french-but-i-translated-nearly-everything/

 

-Motherboards 1,9% (vs 1,99% before)
-Power supplies 1,5% (vs 1,45% before)

-Memory/RAM 0,76% (vs 0,81% before)

-Graphics cards 2,1% (vs 2,13% before)

-Hard drives 1,07% (vs 1,53% before)

- SSD 1,27% (vs 3,27% before)

[TheAceOffRoad]

I got a CPU that was split in half with all the pins bent but other than that I would go with Hard Drive/SSD, PSU, and Mobo.

[kels]

Hard drives. 

[AlTech]

Thought so.

It's why intel offers 3 year "Limited" warranty

[KB_TheDireWolf]

Hard Drive hands down.  Only thing that really relies on moving parts to even function.

 

 

Hard drive. Since it has sensitive platters, etc.

Yah, and the only thing that its packed into is a anti-statistic bag...

[Samfisher]

Yah, and the only thing that its packed into is a anti-statistic bag...

It's really the only thing that needs it.  Anti-static ain't gonna help you from a thump.

[WkdPaul]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/108284-huge-list-of-failure-rates-on-pc-components-french-but-i-translated-nearly-everything/

 

-Motherboards 1,9% (vs 1,99% before)

-Power supplies 1,5% (vs 1,45% before)

-Memory/RAM 0,76% (vs 0,81% before)

-Graphics cards 2,1% (vs 2,13% before)

-Hard drives 1,07% (vs 1,53% before)

- SSD 1,27% (vs 3,27% before)

that's old though, hardware.fr has a new article with 2015 numbers, didn't even knew they had that! lol

 

 

EDIT : the article (in French, written in Sept. 2015, covering components sold between Oct. 2014 and April 2015);

 

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/944-1/taux-retour-composants-13.html

[KemoKa]

Hard drives. Because "FRAGILE" means nothing to UPS.