Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

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BadBadJellyBean yesterday at 7:27 PM
I always wonder how many system crashes that we put on the software or the OS are actually just sub optimal components. Computers are so complex and so fast that just a little bit of instability can probably lead to data corruption.
mrweasel yesterday at 8:03 PM
Maybe they just don't really use anything else, but I just love that the most reliable memory is just Kingston ValueRAM. No fancy heat spreader or packaging, not even a black PCB, just chips on a classic green circuit board.
skobes yesterday at 9:20 PM
My main home PC is a Puget Serenity workstation from 2017. It has been rock solid and outperforms much newer laptops. And it has almost zero fan noise which is a priority for me. Unfortunately it looks like they may have discontinued the Serenity model, at least I don't see it on the website anymore.
rpcope1 yesterday at 10:20 PM
I am not surprised at all to see the W series Xeons with very high reliability. I know they tend to be pricier than AMD, and maybe not as fast, but I can't recall the last time I managed to kill an E3/E5/W series Xeon in the last 15 years, no matter how hard they're worked. Intel pooched it with the i-series core parts, but the workstation xeons have always been really reliable and more thrifty with power especially at idle than AMD.
cmxch today at 1:33 AM
Can at least vouch for the (Sapphire Rapids) Xeons. With the right cooling, you can throw absurd TDP generating loads and they just keep on chugging along.

With octochannel memory, an 8480 can be slightly indistinguishable from an older GPU if used that way.

amelius yesterday at 11:07 PM
Did they manage to get USB to work reliably, because ime that's always a gamble.
sergiotapia today at 12:01 AM
I always dreamed of owning a Puget Systems computer. They seems a cut above the rest.

Either them or a Falcon Northwest. What other builders exist at this level of premium quality?

fmajid yesterday at 9:35 PM
Puget is a specialist seller of high-end workstation, so their component choices are certainly a cut above what the average PC seller uses.