Abit KR7A's...$39 and up (Newegg refurbs, won't last long!)

[Deuce300]

Get them while they're hot and in stock:

KR7A: $39
KR7A-R: $47
KR7A-133: $59
KR7A-133R: $65

Abit AMD Refurb'ed Mobo's

I know many may flame Newegg refurb'ed mobos, but I know that the 4 I bought thus far work perfectly! I think that it not that car's fault but more like the nut behind the wheel... So I bought another KR7A.

Good Luck!

 

[Danman]

Well said, got 2 ECS boards myself, mainly because of the onboard audio

 

[Coraanu]

Very nice find! Some relatives are interested in building new PC's...

 

[stevejst]

Newegg "refurbished" are not refurbished, they are rejects and returns, sometimes even DOA.
I'd be careful calling that a "deal" you might find it is nothing but the hassle.

 

[Creig]

Or you could find a deal just as I did with MY Newegg KR7A-RAID refurbed board. Runs 24/7 with no problems. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another refurb from them.

 

[stevejst]

I have few "refurbished", read returns, from newegg, they work fine, I also had few returns and that was no fun counting on wasted time and energy. The lowest priced motherboards there that sound too good to be true are in many cases exactly that, defective.
It is no fun trying to revive dead or defective motherboard.

 

[Deuce300]

Yup, the many Newegg refurbs that I've acquired already have been nothing short of astounding for the price. Maybe I'm lucky, but I think otherwise. Too bad I missed out on the $69 KX7's that were in stock earlier...

 

[Tanner]

havin' heard all of the negative comments about ANYTHING refurb from Newegg...I'm just wonderin' to myself, what's the easiest thing to do here....least hassle/$ spent. Spend the extra $10-15 for a NEW one! (I'm thinkin' KR7A...I think that's how much more it is... dunno...on a modem right now...not going to look) heh

nice deal for those willing to hassle IF you have to!

 

[Mecheater]

Nice prices, just wish they were still that price. i might have jumped on this deal. The 2 KR7 raids that I have work very well without any problems. good motherboard and great price.

 

[stevejst]

Let me describe to you a hypothetical situation. I already had something like that and it is not worth my time.
You buy $39 defective item. These people in newegg are not inspecting that, they are just repeatedly sending that around until somebody complains it is dead. You will spend 3-4 hours of your time trying to figure out what is going on with that crapy motherboard, then another 2-3 hours getting RMA, repacking that and sending back. It will cost you $5-10 to send it back and you'll have to fax that bill to them again to get that money back. That all assuming you don't get charged restocking.
I am talking about the whole day wasted for nothing.
Some people will give up and newegg are counting on that too, that is why they have so many returns.
You will very rarely get a defective item from Staples, Dell, and similar. The percentage of defective items from newegg is much higher.
I purchased many things from Staples, not once I received a defective item!

The question for you - is this worth the hassle?

And this is not the worse possible scenario! You could keep the defective board, perhaps one IDE controller doesn't work and you didn't notice, that is exactly what happened to me. Perhaps some sensor doesn't work, something is broke and you are not aware of that. Board will go off few months from now, destroying something else in the process, and again you waste your time and energy to figure out what it is. Plus the warranty is gone, 30 days, that is.

As you see I had enough of newegg **refurbished**. Industry standard is to have the word refurbished for something that was repaired and reconditioned, defective parts replaced. No so with newegg, these are rejects and returns.

 

[nealh]

I agree with Stevejst...I defective or partial defective motherboard is the worst thing...I have enough trouble sometimes just getting a perfect one up and running...last time forgot to remove all the brass standoffs that could touch the mobo...I was going nuts for a bit then realized ...moron you forgot to remove the standoff that had no motherboard hole lined up and removed like 4 of them...replaced the mobo and off I went....

But what if this was not an easy problem and the mobo seems ok..but you get alot of reboots, no post...you always have to wonder about the mobo

No thank...a refurbished peripheral that is different if it does not work...pretty easy to tell

If it works for you go for it...but the aggravation and stress for even $100 is not worth it IMHO

 

[xirtam]

What won't last long? The refurbs, or the deal?

 

[xenolith]

Originally posted by: stevejst
Newegg "refurbished" are not refurbished, they are rejects and returns, sometimes even DOA.
I'd be careful calling that a "deal" you might find it is nothing but the hassle.

Why does this misinformation continue to flourish? It is true newegg does not test or "refurbish" anything. I've been told directly from newegg that they send them back to the vendor, and then they're returned back to newegg for resale. BTW, how do you refurbish an internal FRU? It's not like they need to be cleaned and buffed so they will look like a shiney new pair of shoes. I'm sure the vendor just tests them and if they pass... back they go.

When ever I have an issue with newegg, I call them. They've always been very cordial, and give me a staight answer everytime, a rare quality with many of today's e-businesses. I wish more people would practice this concept before posting rumors.

I've ordered 7 refurbed mobos from newegg, all going strong without one issue... yet.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: xenolith

Originally posted by: stevejst Newegg "refurbished" are not refurbished, they are rejects and returns, sometimes even DOA. I'd be careful calling that a "deal" you might find it is nothing but the hassle.

Why does this misinformation continue to flourish? It is true newegg does not test or "refurbish" anything. I've been told directly from newegg that they send them back to the vendor, and then they're returned back to newegg for resale. BTW, how do you refurbish an internal FRU? It's not like they need to be cleaned and buffed so they will look like a shiney new pair of shoes. I'm sure the vendor just tests them and if they pass... back they go. When ever I have an issue with newegg, I call them. They've always been very cordial, and give me a staight answer everytime, a rare quality with many of today's e-businesses. I wish more people would practice this concept before posting rumors. I've ordered 7 refurbed mobos from newegg, all going strong without one issue... yet.

From Newegg website:

NewEgg Policy and Agreement

Refurbished Items
Refurbished products are products that contain components that have been owned by other clients and returned to NewEgg.com

Item Testing
Like any other retailers, all items are shipped as we received from the manufacturers. Newegg.com does not test any item.


"Refurbished" is a joke and it should be illegal to call it refurbished when they are not refurbished, but simply used and resold. You may be lucky to get a mobo that someone returned because they didn't know what they were doing, but I've had terrible luck with their mobos. I'd rather buy used from the f/s board.

 

[lucid00]

hahaha... jjsole and xenolith posting nearly the same info, and drawing the opposite conclusion from it.

Item Testing
Like any other retailers, all items are shipped as we received from the manufacturers. Newegg.com does not test any item.

note, jjsole: the passage you quoted says "as we received from the manufacturers." as in, newegg sends it back, the manufacturer tests/refurbs it, and then returns it to newegg. it's not like they're turning around and reselling whatever the consumers mail to them.

i mean, think about it. newegg is a retailer. why would it be equipped to test and refurb all the different kinds of computer parts it carries?

 

[jetpeach]

well you do wonder how they get those ridiculously low prices :Q

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: lucid00
hahaha... jjsole and xenolith posting nearly the same info, and drawing the opposite conclusion from it.

Item Testing Like any other retailers, all items are shipped as we received from the manufacturers. Newegg.com does not test any item.

note, jjsole: the passage you quoted says "as we received from the manufacturers." as in, newegg sends it back, the manufacturer tests/refurbs it, and then returns it to newegg. it's not like they're turning around and reselling whatever the consumers mail to them. i mean, think about it. newegg is a retailer. why would it be equipped to test and refurb all the different kinds of computer parts it carries?

Thats the whole issue, that they don't test anything, yet refurbs are previously owned and returned to Newegg. The percentage of bad boards is absurd and it says right there on the website that these are boards previously shipped to newegg customers. I also read in a post about a month ago where someone said he knew an employee there, and the ee said they test nothing, they don't even have equipment to test anything. There's no refurbishing done with these.

 

[stevejst]

I read from newegg web site but I also think.
A friend of mine returned the specific "refurbished" item to them because he had a specific problem with that item. That was not something that gets sold all the time. After his return I have seen that item in less than a few days on the "refurbished" list again. There was no time for sending that back and forth to manufacturer! Unless there was another item which I doubt. They just put that back because he did not say to them it was dead only that there was a particular problem.
That is how I know they don't do a squat, they just keep on sending the junk around until it dies or until it sticks.

Personally I think they have good customer service and they are excellent place to buy many things but their "refurbished" sale has a stinky odor as far as I am concerned.

Buying motherboards from them is a risk. You can easily get a board that has voltage or temperature sensors dead or setup wrong, or fan controls/sensors bogus, that has controllers defective, that is missing parts, has capacitors almost broken, has been tampered with ...
That board can run for some time but ... for example the wrong voltage sensors can cost you both board and the CPU at some point and so on.

 

[tommigsr]

i got a refurb lite-on 40x burner and they left the rma information from lite-on in there just a couple of days before it was actually shipped out...so they did send it to lite-on to refurb the item and then had it sent back without taking out the paperwork.

 

[stevejst]

I am sure they get some of the stuff straight from manufacturer, truly refurbished.
By the way, CDRom is not much of a trouble, if it dies nothing else will die. Motherboard is different.
I would not buy motherboard or power supply that is "refurbished" from them. That is a heart of any system and if there is no proper repair done it should be considered nothing but junk that can affect almost everything else..

About Liteon I think this way - you got a thing that is not known for a particular reliability, for that is not Yamaha or Plextor. Refurbished sounds like it may not last very long. For $10-20 more you could get a new one from Dell that is retail packaged with manufacturer warranty. When it dies within the warranty period you get a new one. With newegg refurbished you saved $10-20 (?) and now you are pretty much left with a roulette.

 

[nugglife4me]

ok, I guess I can get in on this conversation:

I have bought a couple of things from newegg under refurb section.

1. ga-7dxr mobo- board works fine, have found no probs yet, even lived thru,well see below
2. Chieftec(read antec clone) 1030b case with "upgraded" enermax 330w ps- case had small dent on top
which is why I thought it was a refurb( no prob there, good $ ya know) *BUT* kept having screwy probs
w/ mobo/graphics/HD's acting funny for a couple o weeks. finally figured out it was the ps, didn't die just was
flaky somehow, HD got corrupted and could very well be the reason my Radeon LE died. I have recieved a RMA
approval request(ps and Radeon) so Ima send it back even though the case was refurb, so well see what happens.

I think to sum it up YMMV & not for the technically challenged - ie if you don't know alot about this stuff and you think you wana
build some b@d @ss rig for dirt cheap wit refurbs - um, no. soooooo, noobs' loosen your grip on the wallet or tone down your expectations.

 

[divxdude]

ok, thanks for the heads up.
I ordered a kr7a-133raid.
wish me luck.

 

[stevejst]

Nugglife, Gigabytes are extremely stable motherboards. In this case perhaps it is a good deal. I think people are returning them because they don't know to set up RAID which is in your motherboard.
Check the sensors for voltage, I think that would be a good idea. Make sure your CPU core voltage is shown the way it is expected.

That is always my first fear with motherboard.

 

[gltyrian]

this is a sweet andperfectly timed deal... my soltek kt266a died yesterday... and that redstorm was POS... back to good ole' abit.. thakns again!

 

[BurninUp]

off topic but
on the refurb video page they have this bargain : (not!!)
REFURBISHED: Guillemote Prophet II GTS 64MB DDR 4X AGP 350Mhz RAMDAC The 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB card takes speed and realism beyond imagination. Based on the GeForce2 GTS from NVIDIA, this card includes 2nd generation T&L and per-pixel shading for rich, lifelike cinematic effects. (OEM, BAREBONE) ONLY 173$$

This got me thinking that maybe they sell their employee's old parts - how would anyone price this card so high (even if it was new) -

My experience with newegg refurbs is 75% good,
GF3 Ti200, GF4Ti4200,Raid card,Antec power supply, all perfect - looked like open box - running perfect and CHEAP

Western Digital 60GB 5400 RPM - (53$ delivered) - would not format - 2 hrs wasted - they also payed my return shipping after a phone call, credited my CC after 3 days - so not too bad -
I will continue - the money savings are too good to pass