French hardware site Hardware.fr recently released a new report, detailed statistics of the market in Europe, the failure rate of computer parts, including motherboards, graphics cards, hard drives, memory, power supply. The report covers hardware sales in April 2009 to September 2009 the 6-month period, each sample is still at least 500 cases (some at least 100 cases), sources were France, vendors, thus do not represent the world market conditions for information purposes only.
1, motherboard
Manufacturers:
- ASRock 2.21% (previous 3.11%)
- Gigabyte 2.36% (previous 2.83%)
- Micro-Star International 2.54% (last 2.46%)
- ASUS 3.05% (last 3.5%)
Solely on the sales of the largest in terms of mainstream P43/P45 Motherboard:
- ASUS 3%
- Gigabyte 3.51%
- ASRock 3.62%
- MSI 5.95%
Board some of the high failure rate model:
- ASUS P5N-T Deluxe (nForce 780i): 26%
- ASRock N7AD-SLI (nForce 740i): 7.6%
- ASRock 770CrossFire (AMD 770): 6.4%
- ASUS P5N-D (nForce 750i): 6.1%
From the results of view, this in addition to a slight increase in MSI, the other brands have decreased the failure rate. And high-end motherboards higher than average failure rate. Among them, the failure rate at 5% of the motherboard models, nForce family occupied the majority, it seems NVIDIA chipsets out of the desktop area is a wise one.
Second, graphics
Manufacturers:
- MSI 1.24% (previous 2.05%)
- Gigabyte 1.28% (previous 2.63%)
- ASUS 1.51% (previous 1.71%)
- Sapphire 2.02% (previous 2.7%)
- Gainward 2.33% (previous 3.15%)
- PNY3.1% (previous 1.69%)
- Point Of View 3.35% (previous 4.67%)
The failure rate of surge PNY, other brands are better than the last.
Some card types:
- Radeon HD 4770 0.80%
- Radeon HD 4830 1.82%
- Radeon HD 4870 1.94%
- GeForce 9800 GTX 2.22%
- GeForce GTS 250 2.9%
- GeForce GTX 275 3.05%
- Radeon HD 4850 3.23%
- Radeon HD 4890 3.36%
- GeForce 9800 GT 3.51%
- GeForce GTX 260 3.70%
- GeForce GTX 280 4.6%
- GeForce GTX 285 4.71%
- GeForce GTX 295 4.72%
- Radeon HD 4870 X2 12.34%
Based on single-core GPU graphics card, GeForce GTX series the failure rate is still higher than the Radeon HD. The 4870 X2 based on dual-core occupy the lowest position is still relatively GTX 295 is much better reliability.
The five most likely the fault of the card:
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870X2: 15.6%
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X: 5.1%
- Gainward Radeon HD 4850 GS: 4.9%
- Gainward Radeon HD 4870 GS: 4.2%
- PNY GeForce GTX 260:4%
Third, the hard disk
Manufacturers:
- Hitachi 0.92% (previous 0.92%)
- Western Digital 0.99% (previous 0.89%)
- Maxtor 1.73% (previous 2.79%)
- Samsung 1.93% (previous 2.25%)
- Seagate 2.58% (previous 2.89%)
Some specific models:
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB: 39%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500GB: 10.4%
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB (8MB): 10%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 1TB: 8.9%
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB: 6.5%
1TB capacity model alone in terms of:
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22:8.9%
- Seagate Barracuda LP: 2.3%
- Samsung SpinPoint F1: 2.2%
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11:2%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 23:1.9%
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12:1.8%
- Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B: 1.2%
- Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS: 0.7%
- Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS: 0.7%
Although due to the volume of the reasons for the failure rate of loss of Western lowest rankings. However, Caviar Green and Caviar Black series of excellent reliability, occupied the top two high-end models of reliability. The Seagate / Maxtor’s DiamondMax 22 and 7200.11 series is still as "firmware door" effect, reliability rankings to bottom. In addition, as a 5900 only to switch products, Seagate Barracuda LP series, the failure rate is pretty disappointing.
4, memory
Manufacturers:
- Kingston 0.37% (previous 0.47%)
- Crucial 0.78% (previous 1.70%)
- G. Skill 1.53% (previous 1.46%)
- Corsair 1.66% (previous 2.19%)
- OCZ 2.76% (previous 2.56%)
Some of the high failure rate of memory models:
- 10,9%: OCZ Value 2 Go (2x 1 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 – OCZ2V8002GK
- 10,4%: Corsair Dominator 4 Go (2x 2 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 CL5 – TWIN2X4096-8500C5D
- 9,8%: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 Go (2x 1 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 4-4-4-12 – BL2KIT12864AL80A
- 9,4%: Corsair Dominator 4 Go (2x 2 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 CL5 – TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF
- 6,5%: Corsair Dominator 2 Go (2x 1 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 CL5 – TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
- 6%: G. Skill PI Series 4 Go (2x 2 Go) DDR3-SDRAM PC3-10600 – F3-10600CL7D-4GBPI
- 5,6%: Corsair XMS2 DHX 2 Go (2x 1 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 CL5 – TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX
Kingston reliability continues to stay ahead and continue to improve its excellent rate. Its sales more than 100 cases of memory models are only the highest failure rate of 2.3%! In addition, Crucial and Corsair reliability of this has also been a substantial increase, while the G. Skill and OCZ are slightly lower.
5, power supply
Manufacturers:
- Antec 1.20% (previous 0.84%)
- Corsair 1.36% (previous 1.67%)
- CoolerMaster 1.45% (previous 1.52%)
- Fortron 1.46% (previous 1.7%)
- Rhine 1.89% (previous 1.31%)
- OCZ’s 2.03% (N / A)
- Thermaltake 2.62% (previous 3.45%)
- Enermax 3.61% (previous 3.1%)
- Hiper% 4.75 (previous 4.47%)
Part of the 500 ~ 550W Model:
- Thermaltake TR2 RX 500W: 0%
- Antec EarthWatts EA500: 0.5%
- CoolerMaster RealPower 520W: 0.5%
- Thermaltake TR2 RW 550W: 0.7%
- Corsair CMPSU-520HW: 0.7%
- Fortron Everest 500W: 0.9%
- CoolerMaster Silent Pro 500W: 1.1%
- Antec TruePower New 550W: 1.6%
- Corsair CMPSU-550VX: 1.7%
- Thermaltake PurePower RX 550W: 1.7%
- Fortron Blue Storm 2 500W: 2.1%
- CoolerMaster Extreme Power 500W: 3%
- Thermaltake TR2 500W: 5.2%
Failure rate of more than 5% of the Five Power:
- TT PurePower RX 450W (8.3%)
- TT TR2 500W (5.2%)
- Hiper HPU-4S425-PU (5.1%)
- TT ToughPower 600W (5.1%)
- TT PurePower RX 400W (5%)
Compared with the previous data, end to end position has not changed, but the failure rate increased. The top center of the Corsair, CoolerMaster, Fortron, and Thermaltake has the lower failure rate Dao Shi.
6, the latest
Can be seen from the data, the failure rate of five components all decrease compared to last year, we hope that this trend is maintained. Unfortunately, the most high-end product yield is still down, the product performance at the expense of reliability for the price.
September 2009-March 1010 period are only just beginning, there are 5 product failure rate of over 5%, while the previous statistics was 16. Please note that when consumers buy accessories avoid these products. The following is a high failure rate so far 10 Product Type:
- 10.7% Memory Corsair 2x 2G DDR2 PC8500 – TWIN2X4096-8500C5D
- 7.2% Memory OCZ Value 2x 1G DDR2 PC2-6400 – OCZ2V8002GK
- Corsair TX 950W Power Supply 6.1%
- 5.3% Memory G. Skill NQ 2x 2G DDR3 PC3-10600 – F3-10666CL9D-4GBNQ
- 5.2% Memory OCZ Value 2x 1G DDR2 PC2-5300 – OCZ26672048VDC-K
- 4.6% Motherboard ASUS P5N-D SLI (NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI)
- 4.6% Memory Corsair XMS3 2x 2G DDR3 PC10600 – TW3X4G1333C9
- 4.5% Memory OCZ Value 1G DDR2 PC2-5300 – OCZ26671024V
- 4.4% hard drive Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B – 1 To 7200 RPM 16 M Serial ATA II
- 4.3% Memory OCZ Gold Edition 2x 2G DDR2 PC2-6400 – OCZ2G8004GK
Absolutely beyond your imagination: Failure rate statistics of five main hardwares I
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