What are the risks of broken part?

ricas123

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What are the risks if I will but broken graphics card and ram into a new system?
Ive got hard drive, graphics card(asus nvidia geforce gtx 550ti) and ram (corsair vengeance 2x4gb and im not sure if graphics card and ram isnt broken , i checked hard drive, it was ok.
Please tell me the risks ,what can happen if i will put that ram and graphics card in a new build?
Can it harm the whole system?
 

spdragoo

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If the parts are broken, I don't see why you'd put them in the system anyway. Unless you're trying to test to find out which part is actually broken or not, I suppose.

However, broken video cards & RAM shouldn't cause anything else to break, you just won't be able to boot up.