Poll: What's a normal (your) number of dead components per year?

What's a normal (your) number of dead components per year?

  • 0

    Votes: 85 53.5%

  • 1

    Votes: 49 30.8%

  • 2

    Votes: 18 11.3%

  • 3

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • 4

    Votes: 3 1.9%

  • 5

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • 6

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 7

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 8

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10+

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Total voters
    159

JonJ678

JonJ678

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The missus thinks I'm cursed. My parents do too actually (memories of my learning process when younger perhaps). Certainly I feel like a lot of hardware dies in my hands, so I'd like to see how close to the mean I am, and perhaps whether I'm statistically negligent. Defined here as number of components failed badly enough to need rma or recycling, per computer, per year.

Across the last two years I've lost a cpu, two motherboards, two sets of ram, three hard drives. About four per year.

Please indulge me. I'd like a poll if a mod feels so kind, integers from 0 to "10+" perhaps.

Cheers
 
Per year on average maybe 1. If we are talking things not limited to computers and any electronic devise then that would raise. If we include cars it would raise again.

:)
 
Either your wife and parents are correct or you are doing something seriously wrong.

Maybe 1 item a year (3 machines).
 
I have always taken the correct ESD precautions when building my machines.

Since doing self builds from 1999, i have lost 2 hard drives (they were 40GB ide IBM 'deathstars', so they didn't stand a chance).

I lost one motherboard, a soltek amd board,where the capacitors blew, probably due to extended overclocking.
 
Only been into PC's for about a year, since then ive lost a mobo, ram & graphics card, last 2 at the same time.

Also had a HDD not work but that was an old one.
 
1 Graphics card and three DVD drives (although one drive was external and i dropped it on the floor so oops!)

Also a CPU fan - one of the plastic pins wont stay locked so slips off due to mavity and CPU overheats -.-
 
On average, less than one. In the last decade I think I've had a Fujitsu hard drive die on me, and the CD laser go on a DVDRW (although in fairness I may have been directly responsible for that myself!).

I've had more issues with faulty components though, over the years I've had one bad set of RAM, one bad PSU, and a graphics card.

You're definitely some sort of hardware antichrist :P
 
Built a few PC'S now, l've only had 4 failiers lol all at once, built a new PC for my son the PSU(Corair) failed went FLASH BAG when l switched the PC on for the first time and it took out the CPU / MOBO / RAM. Got them all replaced under warrenty, it never put me off using Corsair PSU's, and that PC is on at least 12HRs aday just over 2YRs old.
 
been going strong for about 10+ years now with components....

quite surprising actually, things normally break on me left right and center, on my 3rd MX518, first one was a replacement of the MX510 which was about 3/4 years ago.... my old monitor gave up last year (about 6 years strong) and then my replacement decided to jump off the desk and smash....
 
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How do you lose(break) a CPU? I have had about 1 HD die in a couple of years.

Anymore than 1 a year then you need to get PSUs that cost more than £30 :p
 
I had a run of bad luck with memory on my last rig - had 3 kits die on me (2 Corsair, 1 Cellshock). No idea why - they were all running at the right settings. Also lost my trusty 8800GTX last year (not hugely unexpected given the hefty overclock, but still a huge disappointment). Once you rule out user error, I think luck has a fair bit to do with these things.
 
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