Puget Systems names Intel Core Ultra 7 265K most reliable consumer CPU in 2025

Custom PC builder Puget Systems has published its Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 report and says the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K was the most reliable individual consumer processor it sold, registering a 0.77% failure rate across its sample. Puget also highlights AMD's Ryzen X3D processors as having a better track record than AMD's regular 9000-series chips, with a 1.51% failure rate, and notes that both major CPU makers now show impressively low failure rates overall.

For graphics cards, Nvidia's Founders Edition GeForce RTX models led Puget's charts with a 0.25% failure rate, followed by Asus at 0.40% and PNY at 0.45%. The report contains no AMD GPUs, which Puget suggests is likely because it does not offer those cards in its systems. On motherboards, Puget names the Gigabyte B890M Aorus Elite WiFi6E ICE and the Asus TUF B850M-Plus WiFi among the most reliable boards it sold, noting it only sold 100 of the Gigabyte board and reported no failures, while the Asus model had a single failed unit in 2025.

In memory, Kingston edged out Micron with a 0.19% failure rate versus 0.27%. The report also observes that reports of AMD chips failing in their sockets are more common than Intel ones, but says that appears to be more of a motherboard manufacturer issue than a CPU problem.

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