Hardware return rates in France....for a large e-tailer

[Evildead666]

Motherboards :

http://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/news/lire/11-03-2009/&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhh4htGS2PHQISqxdNWzYkVtQal2Vw

Hard Disks:

http://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/news/lire/13-03-2009/&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhib07TeJRy6YvOdu5k0mmweIpxKIg

PSU's : 3rd article down

http://209.85.227.132/translate_c?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/news/lire/12-03-2009/&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhjgdWfZ2igMNrVSQQ0AlG8r76ix8g

[Evildead666]

one more for graphics cards:

http://74.125.77.132/translate_c?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/news/lire/16-03-2009/&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhiS0z6-01dK_7a2shJN_SFAN_MgLg

[Marshmallowman]

Interesting stats, I'll be keeping them in mind on my next purchase

[Evildead666]

What scares me is the extremely high return rate for NForce chipset mobos...
I'm sooo happy I went intel this time round...

next time will probably be AMD since i want to OC the balls off the CPU.....

[Nowhere]

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next time will probably be AMD since i want to OC the balls off the CPU.....

Ekhem, how does that work for you reliability-wise?

[Technoid]

By his frequent "my computer crashes" posts, I'd say "badly"

[Evildead666]

The "computer crashes" are for information and help.
I like my main PC to be on the "Razors Edge" and won't quibble about breaking something.
Its annoying,. but so far I have only killed the 4850....
If everything went perfectly then I would't be OCing far enough...

I've tried Watercooling twice, and I could have gotten the same results on air, so I left Watercooling.
My current rig is rock stable now.

AMD will allow overclocking to 6GHz, providing the cooling is there. LN2, ok, thats a bit far for me, but extreme aircooling is pretty easy.
The Quad is not going any higher due to manufacturing issues of the CPU and Chipset.
If AMD can go a lot higher, then I'm all for it.

The difference in games at normal resolutions is a few fps at best. and AMD is a lot lot cheaper for the "unlocked" cpus...a hell of a lot cheaper...

[Evildead666]

I've been doing this since my Cyrix 120+ OC to 150+....and the voodoo 1 OC to 60MHz from 50MHz...

[Nowhere]

...The difference in games at normal resolutions is a few fps at best. and AMD is a lot lot cheaper for the "unlocked" cpus...a hell of a lot cheaper...

So what's the point?

[Evildead666]

The difference between intel and AMD cpus, sorry.
Once overclocked.

Just wait until the underclocking thread comes up when the itx mobo arrives...