Surely in 2012 these boards are fine. The boards appear to be well made, and technology has moved on from the older days.

Warranty is 6 months on boards ofcourse, and with them running in some locations hot, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, surely a issue would show up pretty quickly. The other thing is that I have never heard on this forum ever, of anyone having a bad Stern board.

Beaky(Andy) has been repairing boards from every different pinball machine and has had hundreds of boards through his workshop and I have never seen a Stern board for a late model Stern go through there once. If these boards are better than boards from a few years ago, surely they have been designed to last.


please do so brett,i need at least five swap outs for my 10 grand.lol.they will not go the distance.
Would you send a maned spacecraft into the abis.knowing it had surface mount components on board.i don't think so.you should see what they send into space.the components look like the were designed in the 50's.very reliable.
I will ask AMD for a cost $ to replace each board (there are only 2), if a board had to be replaced, so to speak (ignoring warranty) and I will report back the actual costs.