What hardware have u broke !

Rastalovich

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Just out of interest, out of the items below, what kind of scale of things have broken during ur hardware enthusiasm ?

I'm including here the assumption that EVERY bit of kit that arrived to your house worked 100% - so on that basis, even if something was DOA, include it as something u broke for the sake of the exercise.

Perhaps broke is too strong :p Let's use "failed to work once utilized" - just to be silly.

Including also things u pushed and they died, and things that broke over time ofc. Throw in a rough number of how many u think u owned.

Just numbers really and ofc I'll start it off, keep it to personal stuff not work related (to save embarrassments :p) - years u reckon u been messing with stuff at the bottom :

MOBO: 3 / 20

CPU: 0 / 20

PSU: 2 / 20

GRAPHICS: 1 / 20

MEMORY (per stick): 1 / 50

HARDDRIVE: 3 / 50

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 10

MISC PCI (nics etc): 1 / 20

YEARS est.: 25

Be a funny estimation, be nice to see all the numbers laid out in some kind of graph if some1 is particularly bored.

(don't forget to include the DOAs, we'll assume everything works ootb for arguments sake)

What I'm interested in particularly is how reliable things have been over the years.
 
MOBO: 1/3

CPU: 0/3

PSU: 0/2

GRAPHICS: 0/4

MEMORY (per stick): 2/6

HARDDRIVE: 2/4

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 0

MISC PCI (nics etc): 1/3 (Wireless PCI card)

YEARS est.: 4
 
Years: 4

Broken:

MOBO: 0 / 8

CPU: 0 / 18

PSU: 0 / 5

GRAPHICS: 0 / 20

MEMORY (per stick): 0 / 13

HARDDRIVE: 0 / 5

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 1

MISC PCI (nics etc): 0 / 0
 
MOBO: 2 / 15

CPU: 1 / 14

PSU: 2 / 7

GRAPHICS: 0 / 65

MEMORY (per stick): 0 / 16

HARDDRIVE: 2 / 520

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 9

MISC PCI (nics etc): 0 / 26

Years: 16
 
MOBO: 1 / 11

CPU: 0 / 7

PSU: 0 / 3

GRAPHICS: 0 / 12

MEMORY (per stick): 2 / 18

HARDDRIVE: 0 / 24

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 4

Years: 4
 
Years 5

GPU: 1

HDD: 1

RAM:1

MOBO:1

CD DRIVE:1

PSU:1

The CD drive was the coolest thing i broke - the wires were messed up at the back and i tried to twist them back together. The drive spun up with a cd in - and kept getting faster and faster until the cd shattered inside and bits of cd actualy came through the back of the drive! My PSU was the scariest when bits of wire somehow touched and it went with a bang taking the gpu and mobo with it.
 
Motherboards 1/8

Processors 2/6

Powersupplys 3/7

Memory 0/20

Harddrives 3/12

Optical Drives 2/15

Graphic Cards 1/18

Sound Cards 1/4

8 Years with computers. :)

Very few of the things 'broken' was down to user error mind you. Apart from one AMD processor. I was about 10 at the time and just built my first machine with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, a mate of mine wanted to see the processor so I showed him what it looked like. The only downside to this action was that the computer was on. :rolleyes:
 
name='Toxcity' said:
Very few of the things 'broken' was down to user error mind you. Apart from one AMD processor. I was about 10 at the time and just built my first machine with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, a mate of mine wanted to see the processor so I showed him what it looked like. The only downside to this action was that the computer was on. :rolleyes:

hahaha! classic :D
 
I think I'm going to disappoint you :(

MOBO: 0 / 7

CPU: 0 / 7

PSU: 1 / 11 (CM m850 with rattling fan, sort of DOA)

GRAPHICS: 1 / 10 (HD3450 seems to have been clocked to death, first card that was mine :D)

MEMORY (per stick): 0 / 20

HARDDRIVE: 0 / 12

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 0

MISC PCI (nics etc): 0 / 5

YEARS est.: 3
 
MOBO: 3 / 10

CPU: 9 / 14 (oc's on old ones i got given/found mainly)

PSU: 3 / 8 (cheapo ones)

GRAPHICS: 6 / 13 (3 oc and 2 doa)

MEMORY: 7/25+

HARDDRIVE: 6 / 25 ish (general use and out of old systems mainly

SOUNDCARD: 0 / 2

MISC PCI (nics etc): 6 / 20 (all DOA

YEARS est.: 3 1/2

Most of the kit i killed was old stuff i found (dumpster diving) or got given
 
MOBO: 12+

CPU: 1

PSU: 8

GRAPHICS: 8 (probably more but lost count)

MEMORY (per stick): 6 (all RMA)

HARDDRIVE: 30+

SOUNDCARD: 0

MISC PCI (nics etc): 0

Years erm : 30+
 
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