Top 5 hardware failures (stats)

Hiper 580w PSU x 2 fail
samsunge spinpoint 500gb fail
WD 250gb sata2 HD fail
stock q6600 cpu cooler - quickly replaced by arctic freezer pro 7

that is about it from the last 4 or 5 years, before that we had lots of old mobo's and ati gpu's that failed :D
 
2 asus a8n sli motherboards
1 evga 680i a1 motherboard
1 seasonic s12 600w psu
1 enermax liberty 620w psu
2 leadtek 6800gt video cards (both in one day)
1 2gb set of crucial ballistix ddr.

All of this stuff was from various builds of my own.
 
DvD RW
2900 ati card
2900 ati card
2900 ati card
Dell Monitor ( was awesome, started smoking and boom )
 
1x 27gb seagate
1x xp2000
1x cracked gfx waterblock
1x liteon dvdrw
1x 17" iiyama CRT
1x shuttle onboard sound

MW
 
In 10 years of computering (5 self builds, and various upgrades on builds)..

Sparkle S3 Savage 4 DOA
Asus 5900 ultra DOA
 
Hiper Type R 580w which exploded spectacularly and took out a two week old DFI motherboard.

OCZ GameXstream 700w (different pc) blew up with less than 10 days use.

Powercolour ATI 4850 1GB that arrived faulty.

2x MSI P35 Neo-F and 2x MSI P31 Neo-F motherboards. Most unstable, poor quality pc components i have ever had the misfortune of coming across.

3x Maxtor Diamondmax hdd's. The original was a Diamond Max 7 which was warranty replaced with a Dmax 9 which was warranty replaced by a Dmax 10 which also failed and found itself getting beat up with a sledgehammer. Lesson learnt? Avoid Maxtor like the plague.

Posted in the other thread too as i did'nt know which one you wanted to shut down.
 
1-Asetec water pump
1- Epson scsi scanner
1-Early DVD burner make ?
Apart from those bits have been lucky over 10-12 yrs of builds
Seems the gear today is far better or am I lucky?
 
ATI R8500le
Enermax 550w noisetker PSU
2 sets of ballistix pc6400 DDR2
Maxtor 250Gb diamondmax
80Gb Western Digital
A pelt cooler got frosty once too and took out a mobo.
Razor Boomslang x2 from OcUK didn't bother to RMA 2nd failure was too much hastle first time.
 
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I used to be a techy so i've seen loads but the most common

1) PSU then components damaged by insufficent or faultly PSU in order HDD, RAM, mobo
2) HDD various but IBM was a common make I used to see faulty.
3) CD-ROM/DVD drives - benq was popular in failing
4) RAM - normally unbranded stuff found in Tiny, gateway, HP and other pre constructed monstrosities
5) Mobos special mention to MSI.

Problem is with this it's hard to say if they where bad components in a way that I don't know what the market share for each product was at the time. The only products that I found regularly faulty new out of the box was gigabyte motherboards and IBM hardrives.
Hope that helps:)
 
The most common component I've had fail over the past 20 years would be hard drives, PSU's then motherboards and finally CPU's.

I think maybe one sound card and a couple of monitors ... I've always shifted and upgraded stuff before it gets too old though.

The rest I've contributed to their early demise, keyboards, mice ETC.

I've always aimed high with the best knowledge available and chose components for quality and known durability where possible.
 
Quantum Fireball 8GB HD
Enermax 500W Liberty
MSI Neo2 Platinum S939
And a Hercules ATI 9800 AGP decided to melt.

All from 1999+

And forgot a prehistoric creative CD-RW drive failed.
 
connect 3d X1800XT
HIS ICE Q3 3870
HDD from Tiny pc (think it was a WD)
HDD fro evesham pc (that one was a cheap WD drive)
appart from that had no other issues touch wood!
 
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