How often do receive dead components when upgrading?

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Out of interest, how many times have you had to send a piece of hardware back because it was faulty?

I've sent 1 cdr/dvd combo, 2 motherboards (in a row) and now 1 graphics card back. I've been building\upgrading PCs for about 8 years now, and so its not such a bad return, but it makes me cry that my new 8800 doesn't work :(
 
Very infrequently for me.

Although I find that my components either fail very quickly or go on for years.
 
A competitor used to ship me hard drives that always seemed to be broken on first attempt. Think it happened at least 3 times.
Had some dodgy ram once (it died after about 2 days)

Thinks that's all, did send my zboard back eventually because it had a fault from day one (seemingly all zboards had this fault though)
 
never had any new comps go **** up at arrival, couple of HDDs over MM have arrived no functioning courtesy of the royal mail, as such ive avoided buying hdds in MM now, its a lot of hastle claiming against RM or RMAing the product (atleast for someone as lazy as me)
 
WoZZeR said:
Very infrequently for me.

Although I find that my components either fail very quickly or go on for years.
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they will fail quickly probbably because there is something wrong with them.

Has anyone actually ever had a computer die due to age or simply getting old?

I never have.
 
2 are faulty, and one hasn't been returned and is lying in a box...
Samsung 226BW scratch in middle of screen, RMA.
Pioneeer DVD RW faulty, RMA, not yet returned.
 
jamoor said:
they will fail quickly probbably because there is something wrong with them.

Has anyone actually ever had a computer die due to age or simply getting old?

I never have.
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Never a whole computer, but I've had hard drives fail after several years of 24/7 use.

Never had a component arrive dead though. *touch wood*
 
Not that often. I'm pretty good at selecting good quality components so my computer is very stable and
 
Used to buy a lot of stock from OcUK's orange-branded competitor when I was in business. Took me a while to realise their own branded stuff was utter utter trash. About 50% of their own branded ram was faulty and the ECS motherboards they did I sent about 5 in 8 back. Only had one dead hard disk and a couple of DOA network cards. That's in about £15-20K's worth of stock per year over the last 4 years so I reckon I must have sent back a few grand's worth!

The secret is to find a reliable brand and stick with it.
 
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