Philippines Dealer data shows which brand is more reliable.

Seller Shares Failure Charges for GPUs, Motherboards, SSDs and Different Merchandise. {Hardware} Sugar retailer from the Philippines has shared an attention-grabbing vary of failure charges for the most well-liked {hardware} manufacturers throughout its four-year operation.

Regardless of the small pattern measurement, it’s attention-grabbing to find which manufacturers are returned most frequently. Observe that in addition to the comparatively small gross sales space, different elements reminiscent of consumer error can even have an effect on this kind of knowledge. Consequently, strategy it as fascinating data slightly than absolute data.

Graphics playing cards, particularly these from Gigabyte, had probably the most super failure fee of any {hardware} part. RMA knowledge from the shop revealed a 5% failure fee for Gigabyte branded graphics playing cards. MSI graphics playing cards appeared extra dependable with just one.5% of models offered failing. Nonetheless, {Hardware} Sugar offered 9.3% extra Gigabyte graphics playing cards than MSI graphics playing cards, which must be taken into consideration. Sadly, the shop didn’t specify which fashions are most liable to breakdown. It will even be attention-grabbing to seek out out if Nvidia or AMD makes the most effective graphics playing cards. In terms of motherboards, it is the other. MSI motherboards had the next failure fee (2.4% versus 1.8% on Gigabyte motherboards). Nonetheless, we do not know if the very best RMA ratio is required for Intel or AMD motherboards. Seasonal energy provides are additionally vastly in style within the Philippines, outpacing massive names like Corsair and Cooler Grasp. As some extent of comparability, {Hardware} Sugar offered 42.8% extra Seasonic models than Corsair. Nonetheless, Corsair was probably the most trusted model total, with a failure fee of lower than 1%. For instance, Seasonic and Cooler Grasp have been 1.8% and a couple of%, respectively.

Corsair and DeepCool’s cooling programs didn’t fail. Nonetheless, NZXT, the most well-liked cooling product, had a 4% failure fee. We do not know if the info applies to air cooling, liquid cooling, or each. We contemplate the latter as a result of CPU air coolers usually are not very liable to failure. A fan can die prematurely at instances, nevertheless it’s uncommon for a heatsink to fail. G.Ability is the model of alternative for reminiscence amongst DIY customers and shoppers within the Philippines. Based on {Hardware} Sugar, G.Ability reminiscence kits outsold TeamGroup reminiscence kits by 235.8 p.c. Regardless of the massive distinction, G.Ability had a failure fee of solely 0.66%.

Samsung and TeamGroup have been the 2 hottest high-speed NVMe storage manufacturers. Though the gross sales figures have been shut, Samsung was the dependable producer with out RMAs. TeamGroup models had a 1.2% failure fee.