open-box newegg.com processor

[AmpedSilence]

Is this any reason that purchasing an open-box processor from newegg would be a bad thing?

Anyone have experience with that?

 

[Appledrop]

i doubt it... chip maybe just not an excellent overclocker

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: QuaziK
i doubt it... chip maybe just not an excellent overclocker

what if i don't care about getting an uber overclocking chip? This what i want to purchase... http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16819103046R

 

[imported_LoKe]

Get this instead. Free shipping. =]

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Get this instead.

FTW, faster CPU, only $4 more after shipping.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: QuaziK
i doubt it... chip maybe just not an excellent overclocker

what if i don't care about getting an uber overclocking chip? This what i want to purchase... http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16819103046R

And before jumping the gun, take a look around. Retail with HSF is only like $7 more. =/
Text. Free shipping again, so it's costing you an extra $2 for a brand new processor.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: QuaziK
i doubt it... chip maybe just not an excellent overclocker

what if i don't care about getting an uber overclocking chip? This what i want to purchase... http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16819103046R

And before jumping the gun, take a look around. Retail with HSF is only like $7 more. =/
Text. Free shipping again, so it's costing you an extra $2 for a brand new processor.

Actually it's only $0.36.

 

[pontifex]

too bad we don't have a hardware forum in general, or even a cpu specific forum that might even include overclocking said cpus...

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: pontifex
too bad we don't have a hardware forum in general, or even a cpu specific forum that might even include overclocking said cpus...

This isn't so much about processors as it is about openbox items in general.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: pontifex
too bad we don't have a hardware forum in general, or even a cpu specific forum that might even include overclocking said cpus...

Yeah, the original question was about open-box items and the thread kinda moved into the direction of suggesting better solutions than the one i was thinking about.

It would be prudent considering the direction it went to have it moved into the 'General Hardware' forum.

 

[Mxylplyx]

I wouldnt want an open box processor. Might still have cheapo thermal paste and such smeared all over it.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: QuaziK
i doubt it... chip maybe just not an excellent overclocker

Yup, that's the only reason I don't buy an open-box processor.

 

[Miramonti]

Imo, its far from worth getting an open box cpu in order to save a couple bucks. A disk drive, or a card, but not the processor...its too valuable and too much a pia to swap out.

And just because it may have been returned because its not a good overclocker, and you don't overclock, doesn't mean its not a concern. It may run hotter than normal thus not a good overclocker, and that would be a legitimate concern.

 

[n7]

Dunno about online stores, but at retail stores, i love open box stuff, as i can often get insanely good deals

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: n7
Dunno about online stores, but at retail stores, i love open box stuff, as i can often get insanely good deals

yeah, but most of that stuff you can inspect. This is buying open box without inspecting, not that inspecting would help you with a CPU anyway.