Advice for buying a USED AM3 system?

[LuckyGiant]

Hi guys,

I've come over from New Zealand and now I'm in located in the UK. It didn't make sense to bring my computer from NZ so I sold it.
Buying a new complete system in the UK is expensive and I might be forced to sell it after ~1.5 years (my work visa duration).

The games I play are pre 2007 so I can get by with a used AM3 system for now and re-assess buying a high end system in ~1.5 years time.

Questions:
1) Is buying a used AM3 system risky?
2) What auction sites etc can you buy a decent complete used system from? (not many on ebay)

Examples of what I'm looking at:

X4 965 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-Phenom-X4...t=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item4aa8ef4d69

X3 720 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Awesome-Gamin...t=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item19c35ea298

X2 Black http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gaming-PC-w-6...t=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item35b0336f53

[FONT=&quot]Thanks for the help![/FONT]

 

[Veliko]

If the games you buy are old it might be easier just to buy a laptop. I personally wouldn't trust second-hand PC parts and I especially wouldn't trust eBay.

 

[mfenn]

The bad thing about used gaming rigs are that the previous owners either want too much money for them or abused the components to hell and back with ridiculous overclocks.