| ▲ | cosmic_cheese a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anecdotally, RAM failures are more common than they used to be in previous decades, I assume due to increased capacities and smaller process nodes. Looser manufacturing standards may also play a part. The component category I've never seen fail is CPU. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | seanp2k2 a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I've worked in and around datacenters for a few decades now and I've seen pretty much everything fail, but power supplies in particular do so at a higher rate than I expected. I've had one literally start smoking in my home office recently too. Luckily, it didn't damage any components, but it was pretty dramatic and abrupt -- just powered on my desktop and got nothing but a fog machine coming out of the rear fan until I yanked the power cord a few seconds later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | derf_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The component category I've never seen fail is CPU. The CPU can fail if the heatsink falls off! That is something that happens (I've had one come off in my hand that was being held on by nothing but hopes and dreams, fortunately not while the CPU was powered on). More likely in a desktop tower form factor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | forinti a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You didn't hold on to your Pentium 4 long enough. :-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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