Failures of this year? Omg that is a lot... lets see:

- Nvidia's whole 9 series of cards, because they are simply rebadged, cheap ass copies of a more than 2 year old card design
- Nvidia's crappy chipsets might have improved, but the 790i still can't compete with Intel when it comes to reliability. Corruption issues, bad raid drivers and a whole lot more, no thank you
- Nvidia STILL not being able to manufacture GTX 280 cards that don't overheat. From the dozen GTX 280 I have used for customer builds so far, around 40% of them were crashing at >110C core after 2 minutes of Furmark. WATERCOOLED cards, no less. Had some fun RMAing 3000$ worth of GFX cards
- Intels 45nm Quadcore lineup. C0 CPUs mostly had crap FSB capabilities, and no usable mult to speak of until recently.
- Phenom still blows of course, which is sad
- Samsung ing F1 drives. Almost every 1TB drive I got died, some of the 640's too. WD FTW!

I bet I forgot loads, so much crap was released this year, it's hard to keep track.