Hardware quality

[Mic]

My brother just got his video card back after an the first one broke down after a week, now 15 min after running his new "used" card he got back from rma it stopped working too.

Made me think of all the hardware that has died for me the last few years.
about 1/3 of the video cards has been toasted and thats without any modding og overclocking just normal use.
a few to many motherboards, mostly my own fault due to not being gently enough with the fragile cpu socket pins.
All my external hardrives so far.
2 ram modules,2 mouse exchanges and a broken psu or two.

Just me having bad luck with my stuff or the quality of hardware in general is pretty low? I kinda expect the last to be right answer.

[little_scrapper]

Well, whe you get angry at your computer, and start launching your feet against it, things may break from time to time. :) or maybe thats just my issue.

Yea lately I have heard WAY to many stories of RMA's coming back without being fixed. Or replacements with broken/used boards that dont work. Hell Hanns G has on no less than 5 occasions (2 sets of RMA processes) sent my monitor back without fixing it.

Mostly these companies have nothing to loose by trying to give you broken crap because the reality is that 80% of the time peolple will simply go out and buy a new one so they dont have to deal with the RMA process anymore.

[zanzabar]

what kind of parts so u buy, can u give an example of your normal choice in psus, junk psus will kill lots of componants especially gpus. and do u get angry and slam mice thats the only way that i know of them dieing (or animal attack).

[Serra]

what kind of parts so u buy, can u give an example of your normal choice in psus, junk psus will kill lots of componants especially gpus. and do u get angry and slam mice thats the only way that i know of them dieing (or animal attack).

^ Agree.

Without knowing the kinds of parts it's hard to say. The adage "you get what you pay for" tends to apply. Plus how you treat it. Plus even things like the quality of power coming into you home will effect the longevity of your devices.

[Biker]

I killed a mouse once by accidentally dropping an ashtray on the cable (it severed it). That was my last Razer purchase since they refused to send me a replacement cable or even give me the schematic so i could make my own cable...

Other than that I have had one 8800GTX fry its VRM, a DFI P35-T2R that cooked its NB and a few dead motherboards out of the box...

Oh yeah.... and get a surge protector for your hardware because as Sierra said, loads of hardware gets killed by power spikes...

[STEvil]

My brother just got his video card back after an the first one broke down after a week, now 15 min after running his new "used" card he got back from rma it stopped working too.

Made me think of all the hardware that has died for me the last few years.
about 1/3 of the video cards has been toasted and thats without any modding og overclocking just normal use.
a few to many motherboards, mostly my own fault due to not being gently enough with the fragile cpu socket pins.
All my external hardrives so far.
2 ram modules,2 mouse exchanges and a broken psu or two.

Just me having bad luck with my stuff or the quality of hardware in general is pretty low? I kinda expect the last to be right answer.

Are you using lots of Asus stuff?

[Mic]

Usually the more expensive parts, ocz, lacie, bfg, msi, wd, asus. Would have imagined these would laster longer than than the cheap brands with normal use but that doesnt seem to be the case.
STEvil asus really seems to make the worst hardware, my striker extreme started smoking 5 min after i plugged it at standard voltage, just to mention one example, and of course their support service is pretty much useless, half the guys who do support for asus barely knows what a PC looks like inside.

[aznsniper911]

Are you using lots of Asus stuff?

I assume you consider that bad? I been using lots of Asus stuff from video cards and motherboards to display and netbooks. I never had to RMA anything from them in the last 3 years. I would agree luck has some play into it and it's also you pay for what you get.

[STEvil]

I never used to mind Asus but since we currently have in excess of $7500 of dead Asus motherboards on these forums in under a year i'm rather not partial to them anymore.