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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

French hardware site Hardware.fr published a special report, detailed statistics of the motherboards, graphics cards, hard drives, memory, power supply computer parts that the failure rate of five cases.
This report covers hardware sales in September 2008 to March 2009 period, each sample at least 500 cases (some at least 100 cases), although the source is the French distributor, so does not mean that the world market situation, only for reference.
1, motherboard
Manufacturers:
- ASUS: 3.50%
- ASRock: 3.11%
- Gigabyte: 2.83%
- MSI: 2.46%
Solely on the sales of the largest in terms of mainstream P45 motherboards:
- MSI: 7.28%
- ASRock: 4.22%
- Gigabyte: 3.81%
- ASUS: 2.69%
Some specific models:
- MSI P6NGM-L (GeForce 7050): 2.2%
- MSI K9N6SGM-V (GeForce 6100): 1.0%
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R (P45): 6.4%
- Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 (X48): 5.1%
- ASRock Penryn1600SLI-110dB (nForce 650i): 19.3%
- ASRock 4Core1600-P35D (P35): 15.8%
- ASRock P43TWINS1600 (P43): 6.8%
- ASUS P5NT-Deluxe (nForce 780i): 16.8%
- ASUS Striker II Extreme (nForce 790i): 8.6%
- ASUS Rampage Formula (X48): 8.0%
- ASUS P5N-E SLI (nForce 650i): 7.7%
- ASUS P5Q (P45): 2.7%
- ASUS P5Q Pro (P45): 1.5%
As the first motherboard maker, Asustek variety of product failure rate high, but basically are all nForce series (ASRock nearly a fifth of that paragraph is true), and NVIDIA chipset in the desktop area has been uninterested.
Second, graphics
Manufacturers:
- Point of View: 4.67%
- Gainward: 3.15%
- Sapphire: 2.70%
- Gigabyte: 2.63%
- MSI: 2.05%
- ASUS: 1.71%
- PNY: 1.69%
PoV has improved than before but still the worst, Asus, and PNY best performance and also to see progress.

Some card types:
- Radeon HD 4870 X2: 10.5%
- GeForce GTX 280:8.3%
- Radeon HD 4870:6.1%
- GeForce GTX 295:6.5%
- Radeon HD 4850:3.3%
- GeForce GTX 260: 2.4%
GTX 280 is still the most unstable single-core graphics card, but the accident was 4870 X2 and 4870, the last statistical failure rates are still 4.3% and 3.2%, but this time a lot higher.

However, in terms of the manufacturers, NVIDIA more than 60%.

10 paragraph most likely the fault of the card:
- Sapphire 4870 X2: 10.6%
- Gigabyte GV-N98TOC-1GH: 10.6%
- Sapphire 4870 512MB: 10.1%
- Gainward GTX 280:8.7%
- Gigabyte GV-N98XPZL-1GH: 8.1%
- Gainward 4870 512MB GS: 7.5%
- ASUS GTX 280:7.4%
- PoV 9800 GT: 7.0%
- Gainward 4850 512MB GS: 6.9%
- GIGABYTE N28-1GH-B: 6.4%
Third, the hard disk
Manufacturers:
- Seagate: 2.89%
- Maxtor: 2.79%
- Samsung: 2.25%
- Hitachi: 0.92%
- Western Digital: 0.89%
Some specific models:
- Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB: 12.9%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 1TB: 6.5%
- Seagate 7200.11 500GB: 5.2%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500GB: 4.8%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 750GB: 3.9%
- Seagate 7200.11 1TB: 3.7%
- Seagate 7200.11 750GB: 3.6%
- Hitachi 320GB IDE: 3.2%
1TB capacity model alone in terms of:
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22:6.5%
- Seagate 7200.11:3.7%
- Samsung SpinPoint F1: 2.9%
- Samsung EcoGreen F1: 1.6%
- Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EACS: 0.9%
- Hitachi 7K 1000.B: 0.8%
- Western Digital Caviar Black: 0%
- Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS: 0%
"Firmware" incident on the Seagate (including Maxtor) is very adverse, DiamondMax 22 and 7200.11 two series is really a nightmare, not only in the past by the end of this year until the beginning of the outbreak, the impact is not particularly large (the last you will see this article to the horrors of the past six months).
Western Digital’s performance is the most robust, in particular, is a black disk and a green disk are no failures. Two hard disk giant announced earnings later this month will, in accordance with the previous trend estimate, Western Digital’s market share is expected to more than Seagate.
4, memory
Manufacturers:
- OCZ: 2.56%
- Pirate Ship: 2.19%
- Crucial: 1.70%
- Chi Qi (G. Skill): 1.46%
- Kingston: 0.47%
(Note: Kingston Hyper-X 0.84%, Corsair Values 0.83%)
Specific Model:
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 BL2KIT12864AL1065: 16.3%
- OCZ Value 2 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 OCZ2V8002GK: 9.8%
- Corsair Dominator 2 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 TWIN2X2048-8500C5D: 8.5%
- Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 Go DDR3-SDRAM PC12800 TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHX: 8.3%
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 BL2KIT12864AL80A: 6.7%
- Corsair Dominator 4 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 TWIN2X4096-8500C5D: 5.9%
- Corsair XMS2 DHX 4 Go DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX: 5.2%
- Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 Go DDR3-SDRAM PC12800 TW3X2048-1600C9DHX: 5.2%
As a well-known high-end memory manufacturers, Corsair has not only the overall failure rate of the second, most likely the fault of eight products in the Corsair account for as much as five, really unusual.
5, power supply
Manufacturers:
- Hiper: 4.47%
- Thermaltake: 3.45%
- An anti-US (Entermax): 3.10%
- Forton: 1.70%
- Pirate Ship: 1.67%
- CoolerMaster: 1.52%
- Rhine (Seasonic): 1.31%
- An Ti g (Antec): 0.84%
Part Model:
- CoolerMaster RealPower 520W: 0.5%
- Rhine M12II-500: 0.7%
- An Ti g TruePower Trio 550W: 0.8%
- Corsair HX520W: 1.1%
- Rhine S12II-500: 1.1%
- Corsair VX550W: 1.4%
- An Ti g Earthwatts EA500: 1.5%
- CoolerMaster Silent Pro M500: 1.6%
- Fortron Blue Storm 500W: 1.6%
- An Ti g NeoPower 500:1.9%
- An Ti g NeoPower 550:1.9%
- Thermaltake Toughpower Qfan 500W: 1.9%
- An anti-US Modu82 + EMD525AWT: 2.1%
- Fortron Blue Storm 2 500W: 2.7%
- CoolerMaster Extreme Power 500W: 2.9%
- Hiper HPU-4M530: 4.5%
6, the latest
From March 2009 to September period are only just beginning, but there have been 16 major products of more than 5% failure rate, especially in large-scale outbreak of the Seagate firmware issue, 7200.11 series of almost "notorious."
- ASUS P5NT-Deluxe (nForce 780i): 17.3%
- Seagate 7200.11 1TB: 16.8%
- Seagate 7200.11 500GB: 10.3%
- PNY 9800 GT 512MB: 9.0%
- OCZ Value DDR2 PC2-6400 1GB × 2:8.2%
- Thermaltake PurePower 450W: 7.3%
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2: 7.1%
- ASUS P5Q-SE2 (P45): 6.9%
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 (P45): 6.7%
- ASRock N7AD-SLI (nForce 740i): 6.6%
- ASRock A770CrossFire (770): 6.6%
- OCZ OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC2-8500 2GB × 2:5.7%
- Corsair DDR2 PC2-8500 2GB × 2:5.3%
- Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500GB: 5.2%
- ASUS M3N78 (GeForce 8200): 5.1%
- Corsair DDR2 PC2-8500 1GB × 2:5.1%

Absolutely beyond your imagination: Failure rate statistics of five main hardwares II