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How many hardware failures are due to overclocking? Underclocking? Are desktops more reliable than laptops? Name brand versus generic systems? If you have the time, I recommend you give this 14 page report from Microsoft a read. Thanks to pelo for the link.
A machine that crashes from a fault in hardware is up to two orders of magnitude more likely to crash a second time. For example, machines with at least 30 days of accumulated CPU time over an 8 month period had a 1 in 190 chance of crashing due to a CPU subsystem fault. Further, machines that crashed once had a probability of 1 in 3.3 of crashing a second time. Our study examines failures due to faults within the CPU, DRAMand disk subsystems. Our analysis spans desktops and laptops, CPU vendor, overclocking, underclocking, generic vs. brand name, and characteristics such as machine speed and calendar age.