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.

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.

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.

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.

They don't sell Macs, so I guess Apple Silicon chips woulnd't make the list anyway, but would be interesting to see reliability compared to the Intel ones. In my experience CPU are nonetheless a very low percentage of failures in consumer hardware these days, regardless of the designer.

Did they manage to get USB to work reliably, because ime that's always a gamble.

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.

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?

Puget is a specialist seller of high-end workstation, so their component choices are certainly a cut above what the average PC seller uses.