Refurb 4890 for $125...good choice, or should I pass?

[n7]

Please do not buy refurbished.

That video card will die in a month or two. It's a big risk and I don't want you to get the axe.]


When it comes to PC hardware refurbished means defective and about to die.

Hold off on that purchase in my opinion. Buy new.. you wont regret it as it will last years and years. gl :hmm:

WTF?
Please explain your statements.

It will die in a month or two, really?
Care to provide anything remotely resembling evidence of this?

I deal with new & refurbished parts all the time, & let's just say that all hardware dies, new or otherwise.
When it dies is not something that can be predicted accurately!

New will last years & years (but refurbs die in a month)?
Once again, you don't know this.
New cards can die, refurbs can die.

He has a ONE YEAR WARRANTY, which is exactly like many NEW video cards have.

Normally i would ignore a post like yours, but as the entire post is a fallacy, something needed to be said.

 

[bryanW1995]

guys, don't feed the troll.

+1 for a tweakboy perma-ban. he has posted nothing but trash since he got here.

 

[Barfo]

Please do not buy refurbished.

That video card will die in a month or two. It's a big risk and I don't want you to get the axe.]


When it comes to PC hardware refurbished means defective and about to die.

Hold off on that purchase in my opinion. Buy new.. you wont regret it as it will last years and years. gl :hmm:

But this card should be faster than Fermi because it has 800 stream processors and Fermi only has 512 at best!

 

[kalrith]

Would this refub card come with a 6 pin PCIe adapter? My psu only has 1 and 2 is required. I don't want to shell out another 8 bucks for an adapter on newegg. Tempted to just grab the 4870 new for $127 and not worry about it being a refub.

The Newegg link in the OP shows that even brand new the card wouldn't come with an adapter. You can probably buy one pretty cheap though.

 

[yh125d]

WTF?
Please explain your statements.

It will die in a month or two, really?
Care to provide anything remotely resembling evidence of this?

In before "my buddies cousin bought a refurb gpu and it broke when he gave it 1.5v, wtf"

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Holy hell that's a steal. I'm tempted to pick one up for crossfire, but I really don't need it! Agh!

You're not the only one officer. Thinking of grabbing two of these for Crossfire (will give my current HiS 4890 to my bro to Crossfire with his HiS 4890)

 

[blanketyblank]

You're not the only one officer. Thinking of grabbing two of these for Crossfire (will give my current HiS 4890 to my bro to Crossfire with his HiS 4890)

You can crossfire across different brands you know. In fact you can crossfire across diferent model numbers to some extent though you sacrifice some performance doing so.
Why not just get 1 to crossfire yourself unless you really want to give your bro a gift.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

You can crossfire across different brands you know. In fact you can crossfire across diferent model numbers to some extent though you sacrifice some performance doing so. Why not just get 1 to crossfire yourself unless you really want to give your bro a gift.

Oh, no worries, I know about the Crossfire shennanigans. My bro would be paying for one of the 4890s and I would like to have two cards of the same design (aesthetics) - just my OCD nature

 

[bryanW1995]

you could always flash them both to the same bios. and put his stickers on the new one. and hit your head really hard with a rock to get amnesia so you wouldn't remember that they weren't the same brand.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Isn't that a lot of trouble when his rig is in the next room?