Refurbished Hardware - Yay or Nay

[jscho]

My local online PC store is having a huge sale on refurbed hardware, 90% GPUs. What are the pros and cons to reburbed hardware? Are there any major risks?

[911^NEmeSis]

As long as there is some sort of warranty on it, I don't see why not. I mean they aren't exactly going to sell you broken stuff so as long as the stuff works fine I don't see why you shouldn't get them.

 

I guess there is a possibility of a reduced lifespan on certain products like hard drives or something that have been perhaps used excesvily.

[GuppyTech]

can you share the site?

[jscho]

can you share the site?

PC Case Gear, of course. - http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?tab=Clearance&cPath=67

 

There's heaps of old GPUs and motherboards.

[WoodenMarker]

Pretty much all my refurbs have turned out fine so I don't see why not. It will depend on who refurbs the item.

[GuppyTech]

Those prices suck, not worth it IMO.

[Opsilon]

Hmm well even if they give warranty i would stay clear... you get 1 year warranty, that is nice, but when a gpu is busted, the only real way to fix it is to bake the card, i have not seen many other ways, sure you can replace a part, but i don't think stores do that.

If they bake a card that means that it might work now, be dead in 2 days, or weeks, but it can also be dead a few days after, but you still paid too much, this is not like buying a car that had a bad engine or something, i saw some cards on that list, you can get 670 ( not Asus ) for 30 $ more, so i don't see the value in this, now if the price was mid 260$ for the 399$ card, that would be nice, it's not only about the "broken" thing you get it's also about sending stuff that was broken to warranty, so you lose time as well.

 

On the other hand it might be that cards BIOS was broken, and they just fixed it, or the product needed firmware changes, it's too risky in my opinion

[PuNkPoEtS]

Pc case gear have a good rma section and I would shop around first. Remember guys this is an Australian website so prices are completely different to the states and UK

[mgsstar]

Don't they give you only like 30 days of warranty on refurbished hardware? If they had warranty like a normal card did and it had a huge discount, I would get one.

[EChondo]

Those prices suck, not worth it IMO.

Agreed. A GTX 680 for $500? A 7870 HAWK for $240? You can get brand new GPUs for that same exact price...

[jscho]

Agreed. A GTX 680 for $500? A 7870 HAWK for $240? You can get brand new GPUs for that same exact price...

Aussie prices are much higher.

[Godlygamer23]

Agreed. A GTX 680 for $500? A 7870 HAWK for $240? You can get brand new GPUs for that same exact price...

I bought two refurbished 560 Ti's 2GB for $250 each.

[Glenwing]

Just FYI, repairing a GPU is not really realistic; "refurbished" doesn't mean broken and repaired, it just means it was returned by the customer, and by law it cannot be sold as "new" in that case.  The seal on the box even could be intact, it can be returned for any reason including the customer just deciding they didn't want it after all or wanted something else.  They are verified to be working to spec fully and then sold as refurbished.  The worst that could be wrong with it is some cosmetic damage but that's usually rare.

[jscho]

I bought two refurbished 560 Ti's 2GB for $250 each.

And how are they going?

[Godlygamer23]

And how are they going?

Sold them both, but they were going strong. Overclocked the GPUs as well by 28MHz(from 820MHz). They were at 950MHz at one point, but couldn't run them at that frequency with a fan speed of 40%(goal). So I bumped them down.