What Part is the most likely to fail after usage?

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massa902

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I m wondering what would be the PC parts that will most likely fail and need to be replaced. I would assume the PSU and then the motherboard, but I would like to know....////???
 
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each type of device, and each tier of manufacture will have different failure rates of electronics. Also, failure rates change with the age and type of device. initial failure rates might be high before the burn in period and low after that. (device may just fail to work or die in a short period of time but if you make it 30 days without problems you might go years before a failure of the device)

you can sometimes get a general idea of how well a manufacture or device is doing by looking at the return rate of the devices while under warrantee. Most...
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Hdds are most likely to fail. Anything else is most likely not to fail and typically outlasts the useful period of the pc. But second would probably be graphics card. And typically there are more posts about mobo and ram dying, then cpus and psu least likely.
 
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From my experience I would go with:

1. Fans
2. Hard drive
3. Optical drive
4. Motherboard
5. PSU
6. Memory
7. Video Card
8. CPU ( although this may be higher, if using high voltages and overclocks )

However you can greatly reduce the risks and frequency by spending the extra to get quality items.
You may pay a bit extra to begin with, but in the end the items will last you.

But in that sense the PSU is the component that will most like be the easiest to transfer to a new build, and the one component that will easily break the others if it fails. So yeah PSU is the one component not to skimp out on.
 
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each type of device, and each tier of manufacture will have different failure rates of electronics. Also, failure rates change with the age and type of device. initial failure rates might be high before the burn in period and low after that. (device may just fail to work or die in a short period of time but if you make it 30 days without problems you might go years before a failure of the device)

you can sometimes get a general idea of how well a manufacture or device is doing by looking at the return rate of the devices while under warrantee. Most manufactures keep this as a closely guarded secret. Sometimes a parts vendor like newegg might spill the beans on failure rates but most often they will just stop selling the offending device if it has a high return rate during the first 30 days, after that it is the manufactures problem to deal with the return.

all that being said, the more complex the device, the more circuit connections the more likely a manufacture defect. In general the lower tier of the company equates to lower testing and higher manufacturing variability and higher failure rates.

all in all, pick quality trusted and tested hardware from manufactures that have money and reputation. They will still have defects but your odds might be better after the initial burn in.

long term failures accumulate in mechanical devices: keyboards, fans, spinning devices. Any device that is under thermal stress should be considered to have a failure profile like a mechanical device (overclocked memory for example will over heat, stress accumulates due to heat/cooling cycles (expansion/contraction) of the device and the device will work correctly until the solder joints fail. example, a monitor that puts out a lot of heat might fail before another one that does not put out as much heat.
 
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