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what computer parts are usually the first to stop working as a computer gets older?

I'm talking about the internal parts. i can get a free tune up for parts and i want to know what parts i should get changed so my computer lasts longer and is better.

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1. i guess the first thing would be mother board...
2. In my experience, moving parts. First to go has always been CD/DVD drive: guaranteed to give up the ghost. Next? Hard drive (unless you have SSD). All the more reason to do scrupulous backups!!! Fan, of course - goes without saying, and extremely important!
3. Hard drive is usually first or most frequent to fail. I'm assuming they won't just replace your hard drive for you unless you paid for a BIG warranty. A hard drive usually costs around $60-80 and takes about 2 hours of labor to swap out when all is said and done with a data transfer. However, a lot of hardware failure is luck of the draw. You can have 2 identical hard drives, one fails in 6 weeks, the other works for over 10 years. There really isn't a way to tell how long a drive will last, which is why backing your data up is so important. You could get a replacement drive and have it fail on you in a month. The important thing is warranty. Also realize that the usable life of a computer regardless of working parts is about 7 years. At which, the technology is so dated that it won't work with most current applications or even some modern web sites in some cases.
4. The first thing to go is ALWAYS the power supply.
5. The most important is power supply, bacause if it fails it can spoil also your motherboard, cpu, ram... So for safety is to have better power supply. The next thing is your motherboard. Having a good motherboard wiil increase lifetime of your pc and also will make possible future upgrades ( cpu, ram, hdd and videocard). HDD is important as all your files are on it, so if it is possible place second hdd and backup all your important files on it.
6. Any part can fail at any point in time, but my experience shows that hard drives tend to be the first to go. For defective parts though, I've seen power supplies in new servers as the most frequent part to fail in the first week of using a system, or it last the lifetime of the system. My order of predicted failure: Hard Disk (in my case, Maxtor seems to die fastest for home systems) Motherboard (not the whole board, but maybe a controller or the FSB - essentially killing the board) Memory Power Supply (haven't seen on a desktop system but have had several problems with servers (Dell & IBM) in the past when initially setting them up) CPU CD/DVD drive As far as tuning up the system, you should really look at making sure the OS is updated and protected (anti-virus) to keep it operating smoothly. You may also look at using compressed air to periodically cleaning out the system dust. If you find a component under performing (not enough memory, video card not supporting gaming, etc...), consider upgrading within reason (if the system is very old, replacing to the latest component may not be possible and upgrading the whole system may be a better option).
7. Fans die first. There are fans on most graphics cards, CPU's, cases, and power supplies. The graphics and cpu fans are prone to excessive dust that will eventually cause them to stop spinning and result in overheating. Depending on use, a CD/DVD drive could be next, but with light use should be fine. Hard drives are prone to failure at inopportune times, if you hear a clicking sound from your hard drive, thats a very bad thing, drive head is getting stuck. Again, these depend on use, but manufacturers publish MTBF stats for drives. Your board and RAM should be fine, assuming you don't tinker with them or overclock, they are pretty much solid state, and nothing is changing there. Once you start moving the computer around you run the risk of electrical components touching and this can lead to shorts.
8. i guess the hard drive or the cd-rom