"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> On 1/12/11, Jean Crystof <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Claiming that low end components have shorter lifespan is ridiculous. >> >> You've never had computer equipment fail on you? > > I've had a lot of computer equipment. > > Failures I've had, ranked in order of most failures to least: > > keyboards > power supplies > hard drives > fans > monitors > > I've never had a CPU, memory, or mobo failure. Which is really kind of > amazing. > > I did have a 3DFX board once, which failed after a couple years. Never > bought another graphics card. > > The keyboards fail so often I keep a couple spares around. > > I buy cheap, bottom of the line equipment. I don't overclock them and I > make sure there's plenty of airflow around the boxes.
My failure list from most to least would be this: 1. power supply / printer 2. optical drive / floppies (the disks, not the drives) 3. hard drive 4. monitor / mouse / fan Never really had probems with anything else as far as I can remember. I had a few 3dfx cards back in the day and never had the slightest bit of trouble with any of them. I used to go through a ton of power supplies until I finally stopped buying the cheap ones. Printers kept giving me constant trouble, but the fairly modern HP I have now seems to work ok (although the OEM software/driver is complete and utter shit, but then OEM software usually is.)
