Refurbished items?
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Richard Longfellow
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The best deals I've found are on new old stock stuff at Newegg. They generally meet or beat prices I see for used components on ebay.
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I was in a similar spot last year and decided to try some refurb stuff from Newegg and other used goods from ebay.
My experience is generally positive. The refurb mother board I got from newegg was wacked out because someone apparently had tried to OC their processor, which caused the board to malfunction in a way it would not boot up.
I just reset the bios and away she went. 40 bucks for 80+ dollar mobo. (It also did not come with the extras that most mobos come with, like PATA\SATA cables and the like, but overall I saved big time.)
After that mobo shorted out due to some misfortunate circumstances I went on the cheap again and bought a used Intel Media Series DG965WH from ebay for about 60 bones (around half its retail price). The guy I bought it from included EVERYTHING it had come with as well. It works like a charm.
Both of the harddrives I have in my computer I also bought used from ebay. I had a refurb pentium 4 from newegg for a while that ran fine (Did not come with a fan though, luckily I had a spare one). I have a gig of used PC2 5300 kingston ram as well, I got it for half off on ebay. Works like a charm.
Those are my experiences at least. I buy used when I think the deal is right and my chances are good. I would reccomend the same to anyone.
My experience is generally positive. The refurb mother board I got from newegg was wacked out because someone apparently had tried to OC their processor, which caused the board to malfunction in a way it would not boot up.
I just reset the bios and away she went. 40 bucks for 80+ dollar mobo. (It also did not come with the extras that most mobos come with, like PATA\SATA cables and the like, but overall I saved big time.)
After that mobo shorted out due to some misfortunate circumstances I went on the cheap again and bought a used Intel Media Series DG965WH from ebay for about 60 bones (around half its retail price). The guy I bought it from included EVERYTHING it had come with as well. It works like a charm.
Both of the harddrives I have in my computer I also bought used from ebay. I had a refurb pentium 4 from newegg for a while that ran fine (Did not come with a fan though, luckily I had a spare one). I have a gig of used PC2 5300 kingston ram as well, I got it for half off on ebay. Works like a charm.
Those are my experiences at least. I buy used when I think the deal is right and my chances are good. I would reccomend the same to anyone.
As long as you buy from a reputable seller/store, should be ok. Only thing is that their return policy might be a lot shorter for refurbs.
I picked up a refurb 7950gt 256mb from ebay for about $100. Worked great. Even better after I slapped on a Zalman vf900.
I picked up a refurb 7950gt 256mb from ebay for about $100. Worked great. Even better after I slapped on a Zalman vf900.
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