Second Hand Hardware

[TypicalAsian]

Hi looking to purchase some preowned hardware but i'm not to sure what kind of hardware is safe to purchase second hand. Need your guys suggestions. I am more a less doing this to squeeze every cent out of my pocket.

[IntMD]

4 minutes ago, TypicalAsian said:

Hi looking to purchase some second hardware but i'm not to sure what kind of hardware is safe to purchase second hand. Need your guys suggestions. I am more a less doing this to squeeze every cent out of my pocket.

I've bought several GPUs & CPUs secondhand (from ebay) and they've all worked perfectly fine. Bought a motherboard (after my X58 board died) from Amazon marketplace, and that was DOA and hand a nice burn mark below one of the PCIe slots, so it got returned for refund. It just really depends.

 

RAM quite often has a lifetime warranty so you can RMA that relatively easily from what I've heard, if it's DOA (I've never had to personally RMA any RAM, however and I've never bought any secondhand either).

 

Pretty much the only things I definitely wouldn't buy are a HDD secondhand, and probably wouldn't buy an SSD secondhand either (unless it was spectacularly cheap). Motherboards I would generally only do secondhand if the boards have stopped being made and I don't want to upgrade platform at that time, or I'm going to be upgrading shortly and just need something that might only last a few months.

 

 

[NelizMastr]

Giving us a budget to work with and a purpose for the system would be a good place to start, also, what's your location?

 

Edit:

 

CPUs and RAM rarely die, so those are safe. 2nd hand PSUs are a big no, and so are harddrives that don't come with a proper SMART report. GPUs are a mixed bag. They can last 5 more years, or 5 hours, who knows.

[Trevor87]

The best advice a I can give you is if going to buy second hand hardware buy it from place or site that has good returns policy. That way if do have trouble you can return it for a refund.     

[Cypher-Jackson]

Make sure youre getting a really good deal or its not worth it.

[TypicalAsian]

10 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Giving us a budget to work with and a purpose for the system would be a good place to start, also, what's your location?

 

Edit:

 

CPUs and RAM rarely die, so those are safe. 2nd hand PSUs are a big no, and so are harddrives that don't come with a proper SMART report. GPUs are a mixed bag. They can last 5 more years, or 5 hours, who knows.

 I have around a 2-3k budget im really after purchasing ddr4 ram and a motherboard. 

[NelizMastr]

12 hours ago, TypicalAsian said:

 I have around a 2-3k budget im really after purchasing ddr4 ram and a motherboard. 

2-3k what? Roubles? Pesos? Yen? Rupees?  

[TypicalAsian]

On 3/27/2018 at 9:01 PM, NelizMastr said:

2-3k what? Roubles? Pesos? Yen? Rupees?  

dollars nzd sorry