PC Hardware Warranty Comparison Guide

Making the best quality hardware is pointless without the best hardware warranty – no company is immune to acute device collapse and catastrophic failures, whether initiated by other devices or a result of prolonged decay and eventual death. We know – it’s tough to talk about your dead components, but it’s an important part of moving forward; the process is tough, but well-defined: Acceptance, grieving, thermalpaste, gaming.

Device failure sucks. Troubleshooting is a painful process and may point to a zapped motherboard, bent pins, faulty memory, or a collapsed video card. Warranties serve as a backup and tend to be of 1, 3, or 5 year durations (which are absolutely planned to be within ‘average’ parameters), and as Google’s HDD test showed, failure rates in hardware tend to be highest at the 3-month and 3-year marks.

ASUS, Corsair, EVGA, and other gaming-brand hardware manufacturers might claim to have the strongest community, but unless these companies offer the staying-power of a solid warranty, it’s tough to be loyal.

We’ll compare the best motherboard, video/graphics card, power supply, RAM, SSD/HDD, CPU (and coolers), and case warranties in this guide.

As an add-on to this guide, new and intermediate builders may want to check out our "Common PC Build Mistakes" article.

Note: The guide has been split into multiple pages for decreased load times and ease of sorting.

Note 2: This is a very big guide - we are human and prone to error, so please, if you see any errors at all, point them out in the comments and we'll correct them immediately.

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• 2013-03-13 23:45:37 | sumanta ray  - warranty support

  Model No.G31MM7s
  Sl.No. KWD1800283669

  Please say that the have any warranty remain on this board.

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• 2012-11-28 10:00:14 | Ronnie Lee

  Could you please advise who repairs motherboards by Coastal Amusements, # on the board is V626emp. The board goes on the game called GT2003 by Coastal Amusements.

  Thank you,
  Ronnie, Hilton Head Amusements

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• 2012-09-03 19:52:12 | Sung Kim  - Transferable?

  Very informative. It seems to be hard to find if a warranty is transferable. Can you find any information on that?

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• 2012-05-09 01:45:19 | Lelldorianx  - re: Purchasing extended warranty
  

  JV wrote:

  Certain sites allow you to purchase an extended warranty for a small fee (Newegg's Service Net for example), so depending on the product, would it be considered a smart purchase? Thanks!

  That's pretty tough to answer - I think everyone will have a different response based on experience, so I'll come at it from a practicality angle: Depending on what you're buying and how long you intend to use it, the standard warranty is normally enough to cover the component until you get bored and build a new system or face obsolescence issues.

  If a couple bucks gets you another year or two and you're the type of person that uses a system build for more than 3-4 years, it may well be worth it. Most hardware fails right around the warranty expiry date (this is well-planned, of course). I typically build a new system every 2-3 years, so I have no use for them. I just go with products that have a longer default warranty (3 - 5 years preferred) and then forget about it.

  tl;dr: In general, no. If you're looking for many, many years of use, yes.

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• 2012-05-08 19:52:15 | JV  - Purchasing extended warranty

  Certain sites allow you to purchase an extended warranty for a small fee (Newegg's Service Net for example), so depending on the product, would it be considered a smart purchase? Thanks!

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