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which hardware has the highest failure rate ?

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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ? 2017/05/04 14:58:45 (permalink)
DVD drives. Don't use them anymore. But I believe there was a class action recently against manufacturers.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ? 2017/05/06 14:35:42 (permalink)
Seagates HDD & Radeon GPU.
 
 
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ? 2017/05/07 00:17:14 (permalink)
I'm afraid to answer because I am going to jinx myself, but I have only had issues with my old laptops. The first laptop had a user replaceable graphics card even, and the fans the original and on the replacements kept dying (Alienware from 2003). Ultimately, they replaced laptop with new one, then the graphics card on that one was failing, and sent it in. They never were able to replace it so I got my 3rd laptop from them. Granted each of these laptops were replace,nets after Alienware help my laptop for over a month. The BBB helped me get them to act and send replacements since I was also on the 3 year warranty.

Moral of this story don't buy Alienware, but since this is an EVGA forum I don't think anyone here would.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ? 2017/05/07 01:30:15 (permalink)
Highest rate of failure I think is motherboard. That's my opinion.
Failure is not so usually as failure of some parts, controllers... 
Failure is if USB Controller die, LAN, SATA, Bluetooth, Sound processor, few PCI-E slots, few memory slots.
Many things could go wrong with motherboards and biggest chance if you build something that problem will show up is motherboard.
At least 10% of all RMA don't deserve to be replaced but customers back in store or ask replacement and if computer behave weird mostly is culprit motherboard and sometimes people blame GPU or PSU even if mobo is problematic.
 
RAM could be problematic, last years more than before, RAM alone die very rear but compatibility every year is harder to achieve.
XMP. XMP 2.0, higher frequency than default and many many times not work as planned.
Everyone buy memory and think example on 3200MHz... real default speed is 2133.

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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ? 2017/05/07 17:42:33 (permalink)
For me it was always fans or hdds (the mechanical ones, not the sdds).
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