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Which piece of hardware has the highest failure rate for you?
Out of all the systems i have built over the past decade, the GPU seems to have the highest failure rate for me. I have yet to do a RMA for mobo, PSU, RAM, CPU or even a AIO CPU cooler.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 03:22:34
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For me it seems to be fans. I usually have to replace 1-2 fans a year.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 08:35:03
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After thinking about this for awhile, other than a few fans going bad, I can't think of anything else failing in 9 yrs or so. I still have motherboards (750i, 780i), GPU's (two 8800's, 8600, many others), CPU's (Q9650) as examples still in use today on a daily basis. Anything older than that is no longer in use. Not due to any failures, just no longer needed.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 09:48:12
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I have killed my fair share of Mobos and GPUs. Most of the mobos were due to a cooling failure and the GPUs were more of a manufacturer defect issue (sorry EVGA). I have lost a GTX590, two GTX480's, several GTX470's, and a GTX Titan for video cards that I have bought and used. As far as mobos. Multiple 775 socket mobos including an ECS p38, DFI X48, EVGA 680i, and some asus something or other, then several EVGA X58 mobos (4 or 5).
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 09:53:24
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SSD's and HDD's. Lost 5 years worth of photo's once to an hdd failure, and just dropped 2 ssd's (one intel, one ocz) over the last 6 months.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 10:07:15
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What I seem to "kill" are DVD drives. They seem to work for reading, but I have to be very careful when burning a disk. I have had several drives that look like they burn and it verifies, but when you look at the bottom of the disk you can see where it fades for half an inch and then gets dark again. And then it doesn't read in another drive. Ive replaced a dozen over the last 5-6 years.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 11:23:16
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Years ago - quite a few HDD failures, but since switching to SSD that hasn't been an issue. In the last 4 years I've had 3 Motherboards and one 980ti Classy die.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 11:30:25
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Mechanical HD 
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 14:36:27
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In my memory, I have had 3 solid state drives fail, 3 motherboards fail, and one hard disk drive fail.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 14:46:09
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Mechanical hard drives were always failing for me. Then GPU Followed by Motherboard. My current build has been Rock solid though, first build I didn't use EVGA cards or motherboard in 10 years. Might just have to keep same brands for next build.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 14:49:45
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 14:57:44
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I've lost a lot of mechanical hard drives; the worst was the Velociraptor X where you could actually see where the head crashed. Perfect triangle right in the middle of the platter.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 20:01:03
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It's a toss up between motherboards, (all ASUS), HDD's and fans, especially the sleeve bearing type. But I expect fans to fail, so usually have several on hand for that event.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 21:17:54
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Hard Drives. 
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 21:27:42
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Over the years things I bought new under warranty.
3 memory sticks
3 GPUs
2 PSUs
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/06 23:07:48
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Have had a GPU fail as well as a HDD. Never had a fan flat out stop, but have had them start making more noise. Out of the 12 fans I just replaced, I had three I would not want to put back to use for one reason or another.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/11 08:20:56
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I've pretty much only had hard drives fail. I've had errors with GPU's in the past, but that's it. Technically I've had a GPU die (my old GTS 450), but it died in storage, not while in use. I have no idea what happened, I assume static, even though I kept it in the anti static bag and box my new card came in *shrug* If it weren't for that whole debacle I had upgrading RAM (of all things) I wouldn't even know. That being said, I haven't had a ton of computers, and I've only really been getting into them (and PC gaming) for the past two years; but I did have a few computers growing up (for more casual gaming, internet, and such), and on the older ones the hard drives are what died. The one before my current rig, which I've had for 8 or 9 years still works afaik (technically it was half my older brother's, and when we got an upgrade, I let him have it, no idea if he still uses it).
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/11 08:30:11
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Id have to say USB sticks ive lost the most of. PC components id have to say Fans mostly.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/16 23:13:10
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GPU - I've had to RMA a couple.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/27 21:40:57
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Yep.... mechanical hard drives.
Moving parts .... friction.... heat..... bad news.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 00:51:59
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Had a few different things fail, but hdd the most, but only after they lived a long life. Have had a mb fail ever since everyone stated using good capacitors again, but the bad cap issue killed psu's and video cards also.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 04:25:17
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Well given that most of my hardware is early 2000's hardware, its motherboards, damn capacitor plague
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 09:09:48
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hard drives by far for me. I think I have only lost one motherboard and one GPU and a few DVD drives here and there
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 15:30:25
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i would honest ly say RAM and MOBOS are a close tie
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 15:46:03
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Tough question. I've had a lot of HDD failures, but then again, I have 27 hard drives between three systems. I've also killed more fans than I can count by not cleaning my cases. Never killed a single GPU or CPU, only two motherboards, so yeah, I guess HDD.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/04/28 21:36:57
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It's been a while since I've really dealt with much hardware failure. In the past it was power supplies for me. I've dealt with quite a few pieces of hardware failure, oh and multiple slap in face RMA's that send you a bad replacement. Buying and selling hardware so often I would have to RMA a lot to get good deals on stuff because people didn't want to deal with the process...
@RJohnson, dude... That's crazy. You need to get some Cougar fans.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/05/01 03:40:10
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For me personally its' been mechanical HDD's. Have SSD's now and not had an issue in a long time...
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/05/01 18:34:45
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Scarlet-Tech
SSD's and HDD's. Lost 5 years worth of photo's once to an hdd failure, and just dropped 2 ssd's (one intel, one ocz) over the last 6 months.
My Crucial 960gb drive randomly stopped working but I paid to have a data recovery center get everything off it - reformatted it and it works fine now. I just store my games on it now.
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/05/03 15:00:17
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Re: which hardware has the highest failure rate ?
2017/05/04 11:45:42
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Fortunately the only hardware failures I've had in the last 10 yrs or so have been sound cards(multiple).
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