RE: Buying a refurbished PC?
July 4, 2015 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 6:22 am by bennyboy.)
I've had to RMA about 1/5 of the motherboards I've got. So if I bought them refurbished, I'd need to save 20% on average to break even, and then take off maybe another 20% to avoid the stress of watching my money go up in smoke.
That being said, after building maybe a dozen computers in the past few years, almost nothing ever goes wrong; my horror stories are from about 10 years ago, not recent boards. If there's a provider with a good review from thousands of customer experiences, I'd probably save the money and take the chance. That being said, if you take your current hard drive and monitor, you can probably build a good gaming computer for well under $1000: I'm thinking about $800 including a moderately kick-ass 2GB gfx card and an i5 or i7 CPU. So for me, getting a computer of comparable quality for $500 minus warranties would be a coin toss (because it's close to that 40% cutline).
That being said, after building maybe a dozen computers in the past few years, almost nothing ever goes wrong; my horror stories are from about 10 years ago, not recent boards. If there's a provider with a good review from thousands of customer experiences, I'd probably save the money and take the chance. That being said, if you take your current hard drive and monitor, you can probably build a good gaming computer for well under $1000: I'm thinking about $800 including a moderately kick-ass 2GB gfx card and an i5 or i7 CPU. So for me, getting a computer of comparable quality for $500 minus warranties would be a coin toss (because it's close to that 40% cutline).
