For a while now I've wondered how to build the most stable gaming/workstation possible. I'm sick of crashes, stutters, and general un-reliability. However, it's a balancing act between price, performance, and reliability. (for example ECC memory is stable, but more expensive and slower)
Ideas I've had:
ECC memory
CSM sku motherboard
Hugely overkill power supply, or even dual redundant PSUs
RAID M.2 boot drives
All air cooled
What do you all think? If you were to spec out a (realistic) ultra-reliable PC what parts would you use and why?
P.S. I'm looking less for specific recommendations as I am for general ideas, which is why I didn't specify the use case or budget. I'm more interested in the concept and if it's feasible.
They specified stable (which I think means "least prone to failure"), and I still maintain that a passive setup with a 65W or less TDP would do better than a fan-bound setup for that purpose, though you'd have to go with a mesh case or no case at all. The Noctua cooler I mentioned can handle 65W just fine, so as long as you don't go overboard on the CPU, it shouldn't be an issue.
You're right that fans don't often fail and usually give mechanical warnings that they will, and I would also recommend fans normally, but this sounds like a min/max dream build.