QOTW: What was your last PC component to fail?

[Tunnah]

Oh that's easy. A Razer mouse. And you wanna know what it was before that ? A Razer mouse. And the time before that ? Oh ya, a RAZER BLOODY MOUSE.

Will never buy em again. POS's

Last PC component though was a GTX670, and the shop that I bought it from had closed down so I had to go through Asus. Bit of a ballache but they sorted it pretty quickly. Charged me £25 which eh isn't too bad.

[Queelis]

Gigabyte AM3 motherboard - after somewhere around 1 year of use, would cause boot issues. The replacement is still going strong

[OOSeven]

Z97-K motherboard, all be it after several years faithful service and it didn't take anything else with it so not that big a deal.

I had to RMA my RTX 2060 due to a faulty (noisy) fan but I don't think that really qualifies.

[ozkrmz]

External, X-Fi Soundblaster sound card died on me... Made me really down...

[mondayriot]

Mine was the case going faulty actually. After replacing the motherboard and therefore CPU (was due an upgrade soonish anyway) due to it not powering up - turns out it was the USB2 header on the case causing a board short out.

When I figured it out I felt like such a pleb and £400 lighter

[raygdunn]

PC components are generally very reliable.

I think the last was a case fan bearing becoming noisy. So caught it before it actually failed.

[Mngereso]

Gaming mouse, motherboard onboard sound, and more recently case fan.

[chj]

My Asus P6X58D-E mobo. So I just got the same on ebay. Cannae afford a new build.

[hexxer]

Hard drives keep on failing on me because of low quality components.

[jm101]

Power supply which the manufacturer quickly replaced under warranty. It was 6 years old when it failed. I have been using Corsair products for as long as i can remember - really good stuff.

[nar53]

4TB Hard drive Western Digital I think. My new Hackintosh only has SSD's now and the only mechanical hard drives I have are in a raid enclosure.

[MORDIMER]

Gigabyte motherboard

[malculator]

Replaced a noisy 14" Phanteks case fan recently. I guess the bearing was going. At full belt it sounded somewhat like a noisy mechanical hardrive during some intense reading/writing operation. Oddly enough, when placed in a vertical position (front fan) rather than a horizontal one (top fan), the noise ceased.

[meuvoy]

Motherboard, and before that motherboard and well... My 5 last components that failed waere motherboards... Apparently AMD FX chipsets ran too hot which in the climate of where I live means death by cold solder in a year and so I exchanged motherboard yearly untill I upgraded to Ryzen, 3 years ago. And I'm happily upgrading to 3rd gen Ryzen right now just because I can. I've only had a FAN and a GPU fail me besides motherboards. And the GPU only failed because of a motherboard fault...

[h4d3z]

Last week 1 nas reported a failed disk 3tb

[Stuen4y]

An Asus Matrix Platinum R9 280X after less than a month's use. Must have been in 2013. The VTX3D 280X I bought for the same money after Asus refused to give me another card and gave me my money back is still alive...