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Post by anthonyshirley13 on Jul 18, 2012 7:47:39 GMT 10
Title says it all  . I will not be playing Minecraft for at least a year. If someone could, please give all of my stuff to asrealn20 and readchaosnight please. I would like to start freash when I can play on the server again. R.I.P Anthony's Computer 2010-2012 |
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Post by rpaipersone on Jul 18, 2012 9:35:04 GMT 10
wow....a PC that only lasted two years lol. Shoulda got a decent one from the start! Poor PC.....it shall be missed!
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Post by xPhoenixXx on Jul 19, 2012 18:31:43 GMT 10
Sad thing is - working in a PC shop, it appears most brand name PC's are designed to "conveniently" fail after about 2 years or so.
Laptops in particular seem to be very bad like that. Seems to have started happening with PCs made mid 2009-10, in particular HP/Compaq/ASUS/Toshiba
Compaq branded machines appear to be the worst.
I went a whole year with just 6+ year old pcs coming in dead, then as of mid 2011 i started getting a steady flow of 2 year old ones all in the same age range; no particular model, mainly compaqs mixed in with the odd ASUS/Toshiba. A lot of Desktops but mainly laptops.
In desktops "pryon" brand appears to be the worst followed closely by HP/Compaq once again.
Too many to be cooincidence.
In clones hard disks fail first - "green" model western digital seem to fail like clockwork after 1-2 years. 2 years on 3.5" 1 year on 2.5"
I have had brand new 2.5" Western digital drives dead right out of the packaging.
First generation 1tb drives particularly external ones seem to fail after 6 months like clockwork in western digital.
Never seen any "black label" ones fail tho interestingly.
Budget Seagate SATA drives seem to play up too after about 2-3 years. Most of the time you can catch them in time tho, while the WD's just stop.
Many cheap low-mid range video cards particuarly Nvidia ones usually last about 2-3 years before all the caps start to blow. (and if you replace the caps they are fine!)
Monitors.. so far low failure rate there except with Acer branded ones - once again dead or dying right out of the box. LG and HP ones early on had under powered supplies and tended to blow caps too. (but if you replace with more powerful cap often fixed)
CD/DVD drives, DVD drives usually burn out their DVD laser after about 100 - 500 dvds. Quicker if you installed anything using the securom copy protection patch that usually causes your DVD laser to fail to turn off and burn out after about 10 burns.
Older model Pioneers were good for up to 5000 burns - and only needed calibration at that point to keep working.
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Post by chadinha on Jul 19, 2012 23:06:22 GMT 10
Macs dont bother me (apple)
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. I will not be playing Minecraft for at least a year. If someone could, please give all of my stuff to asrealn20 and readchaosnight please. I would like to start freash when I can play on the server again.
