DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:iglsge$2evs$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 1/12/11, Jean Crystof <news at news.com> wrote:
>>> Claiming that low end components have shorter lifespan is ridiculous.
>>
>> You've never had computer equipment fail on you?
>
> I've had a lot of computer equipment.
>
> Failures I've had, ranked in order of most failures to least:
>
> keyboards
> power supplies
> hard drives
> fans
> monitors
>
> I've never had a CPU, memory, or mobo failure. Which is really kind of 
> amazing.
>
> I did have a 3DFX board once, which failed after a couple years. Never 
> bought another graphics card.
>
> The keyboards fail so often I keep a couple spares around.
>
> I buy cheap, bottom of the line equipment. I don't overclock them and I 
> make sure there's plenty of airflow around the boxes.

My failure list from most to least would be this:

1. power supply / printer
2. optical drive / floppies (the disks, not the drives)
3. hard drive
4. monitor / mouse / fan

Never really had probems with anything else as far as I can remember. I had 
a few 3dfx cards back in the day and never had the slightest bit of trouble 
with any of them.

I used to go through a ton of power supplies until I finally stopped buying 
the cheap ones. Printers kept giving me constant trouble, but the fairly 
modern HP I have now seems to work ok (although the OEM software/driver is 
complete and utter shit, but then OEM software usually is.)