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No probs what so ever with the hardware being at fault just my ******** tinkering and ignorance that has broke things but after a few costly mistakes I think I have learnt now!!
Have you been very lucky over the years?
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only thing i can remember in the last 8 years or so is a graphics card dieing on me other than that ive been pretty lucky. Oh and a 17" samsung lcd died on my after 2 and half years but it was under warranty and they replaced it with a refurbished one which is still running to this day. Guess i am lucky 
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! stick of bad ram, which ocuk ramed in no time 
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some inverter thing (not sure precisely) failed between my laptop mobo and screen causing coloured lines to streak down it permanently. Failed a couple of months outside of warranty when i was 15, and didnt know about the fit for use part of the consumer good act back then. Would have cost 200 to repair as it needed to be soldered onto the mobo. Only jus sent it to the tip in the last couple of months, and im 22 now xD
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That's just cual.. but funny
Yeah not been too bad.. Just the odd stick of memory and HDD failure and a Samsung monitor which went bang a days after delivery.. OcUKquickly replaced it though.
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That's just cruel .. but funny
Yeah not been too bad.. Just the odd stick of memory and HDD failure and a Samsung monitor which went bang a days after delivery.. OcUKquickly replaced it though.
I have been reletively very lucky over the years, nothing has ever broken or died on me. the only problem i've ever had is right now, some sort of memory problem where the pc reboots again within 30's of reaching the desktop. It happens once per session but i have been really lazy about fixing it as when it boots up the second time it's prefectly stable
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I have been lucky over the years as well, but there was a time (release of 9700 pro) that i spent roughly a year with a system that was never stable. The problem was that the 9700 pro in the first instance also had massive compatability problems with the VIA KT333 chipset on my asus A7V333r which caused 6 months of component changing before finally finding the issue.
After that I managed to kill 2 x nf7-s boards, 3 x 9700pro's and 1 x 9800pro, but since that fiasco and dropping my water loops for air all has once again been well. As with the op my first try with SLI/Crossfire also went without any issues (3870&3850).
It all brings back the memories though, I remember being driven to every local computer store on the release day of the 9700pro trying to get the card and failing miserably only to have one sitting there for me when I got home. Ahh those were the days.... when the best thing to do was spend pittance on a barton 2500m or a magic throughbread 1700xp and clock the nuts off of it for the magic 3200+ (and more) speeds.
/random rambling on about the good ol' days.
After that I managed to kill 2 x nf7-s boards, 3 x 9700pro's and 1 x 9800pro, but since that fiasco and dropping my water loops for air all has once again been well. As with the op my first try with SLI/Crossfire also went without any issues (3870&3850).
It all brings back the memories though, I remember being driven to every local computer store on the release day of the 9700pro trying to get the card and failing miserably only to have one sitting there for me when I got home. Ahh those were the days.... when the best thing to do was spend pittance on a barton 2500m or a magic throughbread 1700xp and clock the nuts off of it for the magic 3200+ (and more) speeds.
/random rambling on about the good ol' days.
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Hmmmm since 1996 when I got my first PC, I've had 3-6 HDD's fail. 1 SSD fail. 3-4 CD/DVD drives fail. 2-3 PSUs fail. A couple of CD's expload inside my rigs. It's never really been too bad though, always RMA'd if it was worth a lot of money or had a backup. Here at NASA we double up on everything.
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Had a PSU HX620 go pop, taking out cpu,mobo, apart from that been trouble free.
Must have been unlucky with it. Ive had a Hiper 580w since they were new and im still using it now. So in your time of having 4 PSUs ive been using one. *hopes it hasnt blown up today and set fire to my house*
Ive been reasonably unluckly, RMAd 2 hard drive, memory twice, sent back one motherboard and many random problems. Most of my older problems were down to my 300w (maybe lower) psu that came with an unbranded case. I think the case and psu cost me £30 and it went on to run an 8800GT, 4 hard drives, a dvd drive, dual core cpu and some other stuff
It eventually went when I got so annoyed I flicked it to american voltage and fried it, then binned the case and spend around £150 on a new PSU and case
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Had a Hiper 580watt blow on me, and a 6800GTO get burned alive when my ex blocked the exhaust vent on the PC. neither my fault, but both annoying problems all the same. Thats since my first build at 16 and im 28 in june. So its been okay
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