Anyone have experience buying refurbished CPUs? I want to upgrade to an i7 960 and refurbished ones are going for around $60 while new ones are ~$450. Are they a joke? Could I at least get a year or two out of a refurbished CPU?
Anyone have experience buying refurbished CPUs...
Andrew Foster
Lucas Lee
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Ryan Peterson
690 is old as shit, do not buy a "new" 690.
Never bought a new CPU in my life, they last a very looooong time. Unless they've been ran at stupid voltages, but If ur buying from a retailer (i.e. not some old cunt on ebay) they'll be fine.
Also "refurbished" just means b-stock or 2nd hand. You can't really refurbish a CPU, it's a closed system.
Charles Peterson
960 not 690. Which is still old. I have a solid mobo and don’t really want to upgrade it but upgrading to a 960 from a 920 would make a solid difference. So you saying if I buy “refurbished” from a retailer I should be good?
You’re right that they can’t be “refurbished” except for maybe new or repaired pins.
Jason Martinez
>You can't really refurbish a CPU, it's a closed system.
Fucking this.
Refurb CPU's have at some point been broken, then fixed. More than likely someone bent some pins when removing it from a socket, someone straightened them out and is now selling it on, because you can't really fix anything else. Maybe a loose heat spreader.
OP if you do buy one, make sure you ask the buyer what was wrong with it before and how it was fixed
Brayden Hall
Sounds good. Bent pins are minor right? If that was all that was wrong with it I should be good?
Matthew Garcia
I was a poor fag for a very long time, and I ran old as fuck computers as a result, like second hand old office computers from my dad's work.
I have NEVER had a cpu fail on me in 15 years and like 7 rigs. OF course I wasn't over clocking except maybe two of them, and only slightly.
I used to lift people's old gaming rigs out of the local dump, in the electronics recycling sea crates, and I have yet to have one of THOSE fail, both intel and amd examples.
Caleb Powell
Anyone know of a trustworthy site where I can find “refurbished”/used CPUs? Of course there’s Newegg. Anything else?
Matthew Walker
depends on how they were bent and how they were put back, either way, they've been forced out/back into shape so i'd just extra careful when installing it. If the guy says they've been soldered back in place, just avoid it
Bentley White
Good to know.
Follow up for someone who has upgraded CPUs before. Will there be a noticeable difference in performance between a quad core i7 2.67ghz (my current 920) and a quad i7 at 3.2ghz (the 960)? Using it for gaming