What component of your computer fails most often?

[FordGT90Concept]

I'm curious which component tends to cause the most problems for people that work on computers.

 

[Maban]

I've had more motherboard failures than anything else.

 

[[Ion]]

Memory. I replace a lot of memory, everything else seems to last quite a while.

In laptops, disks also go out a lot, but not so much in desktops

 

[cdawall]

ram but i blame myself you see no one tells you that you cant still run 3.45v through DDR2 and 2.4v through DDR3

 

[Deleted member 74752]

HDD's

 

[Steve-007UK]

CD/DVD roms and i hardly ever use them anyway so makes no sense.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Poll is up.

 

[wolf]

CPU fans for me, I've had one just stop working, one rattle and then fall off.. others get buggy and stop ramping up when theyre supposed to.

everything else definitely fails a whole lot less, like I've lost only one HDD, mobo, stick of ram.. and a few other misc things.

 

[Dave65]

Memory then HDDs..

voted.

 

[Frick]

HDD's and optical drives. Optical drives are tricky though, they might not be entirely broken, but they can act wierd.

 

[95Viper]

Users, HDDs, mice, keyboards, and fans. In that order.

 

[blu3flannel]

For me, it's power supplies. The most recent event was in my old C2D machine, I was playing FO3, and it revved up and exploded.

 

[streetfighter 2]

8/12! (66.7%)

I got a D!

 

[cdawall]

For me, it's power supplies. The most recent event was in my old C2D machine, I was playing FO3, and it revved up and exploded.

i have killed my share of those 3x700w FSP units all are the same time was my best i dont think they were designed for a pure 12v output just using PCI-e connectors

 

[CDdude55]

Memory tends to always be the issue when i'm troubleshooting my own systems, so im going with that.

Though i have had a video card die on me.

 

[yogurt_21]

under normal use for me it's optical drives, they just seem to give out after a while. gpu fail because I push them too far but I marked it as well.

 

[Hms1193]

Memory has failed twice, Fixed that by changing the slots of ram.

 

[brandonwh64]

Optical Drive fails alot, in my main rig i have installed 3 total since it was built

 

[Zen_]

Since I built my first computer back in '00 I've probably been through a dozen PSUs. There was a period in 05/06 where no less than 4 died me in a 12 month span...the last of which had a cap and glob of solder fall out in the first day! I had two Corsair VX's fail on me. It's a curse and not because I buy cheapo models. Thinking back...maybe one stick of memory has failed and one hard drive.

 

[erocker]

Optical drives, hard drives and PSU's. Two mechanical components and one component that is the direct link between the computer and the wall socket. Even if I were to guess, it would be these three.

 

[newtekie1]

Optical drives, hard drives and PSU's. Two mechanical components and one component that is the direct link between the computer and the wall socket. Even if I were to guess, it would be these three.

Yep, those are the three I see most often. I repelace PSUs far more than anything else. Hard drives would be second and optical drives thrid(though I'm sure a lot of optical drives are dead and people don't even know it.

 

[mrw1986]

On my personal systems, I've only had RAM and fans fail so I voted for those. However, at my work we've had several HDD and SDD failures. This last month alone we've had 4 SSD failures, all of them being Crucial Real SSDs.

 

[Peter1986C]

Optical drives and mobos

 

[Soylent Joe]

In my experience, definitely hard drives. They'll start scraping and being all loud, then you'll get bad sectors, then things will start screwing up before it finally dies.

Also, the cheapo PSU's prebuilt manufacturers use tend to die pretty fast.

 

[hat]

Personally, video cards, motherboards, and power supplies. I only ever had 1 HDD die on me, but I've dealt with lots of bad cards, power supplies, and boards.