French hardware website Hardware.fr posted PC hardware failure rates. Data is taken from one large French e-tailer. This time statistics include hardware sold between 2012 April 1st and 2012 October 1st and returned before April 2013.

Statistics by brand include only brands with at least 500 samples sold and exact models require at least 100 units to be sold. Highest sales reach tens of thousands sold products by brand and thousands by exact models.

 

Results of previous report (2012 H2) are included inside brackets.

Motherboards failure rates by brands:

Gigabyte - 1.19% (1.77%)
ASUS - 1.79% (2.34%)
ASRock - 2.09% (1.67%)
MSI - 3.05% (2.24%)

Motherboards by model:

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme - 5.88%
ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP - 5.59%
MSI Z77A -G45 - 4.94%
ASRock 960GM/U3S3 - 4.10%
ASUS P8Z68 -V Pro/Gen3 - 4.09%