** B-Grade Motherboard Price drops! **

I just built a new PC for my nephew and bought a B grade Gigabyte Z68 board for £35, it was mint condition, boxed, manual etc. The only things missing were 1 x sata cable and the driver cd, was very impressed!
 
I bought a B grade board ages ago. It was just pure bare but I think had been taken out of an old ocuk machine that was overclocked as standard
So I put it in and from the very first boot it went to 4ghz instead 2.66ghz and its run perfect ever since, I cant really top that so it was a no hassle overclock
 
Much better layout in the Mobo clearance, easier to search for a board to match your budget.
Some really good improvements to the sight, keep up the good work.
 
Just a thought guys, I bought the z68 B grade board from here for my dads budget beast rig (2500k, now gtx 670 2gb, 8gb ram, 120gb force 3) for a bargain 35 quid. sata ports blew a week outside the warranty with OCUK. However, maufacturers warranty was still present, the guys at OCUK told me to contact gigabyte, did, and got it repaired for free. can't complain too much at that.
 
Smoogels said:
Might be a silly question but how do you know if there is still manufacturer warranty left?
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The best thing to do is to estimate from the date when the product was originally manufacturered/launched (manufacturer can identify this by the serial number of the label I think). Say a Gigabyte board, it would be 3 years from the date that it was launch.

Considering that Gigabyte got UK based RMA support, they would be better choice than other brands like Asus, should you be unforunate enough to need to RMA outside of OcUK's 90 days warranty.
 
Sorry for the late reply

Essentially a board can be from just a board ion a brown box missing accesories OR can be a full blown retail unit that has just been returned under DSR as Cupra has found out.

Most boards come this way but you need to be careful as some do not.

Asus are most likely to be brown box with gigabyte mostly full retail DSRs however this is not a guarantee.
 
I picked up an ASUS Z68 board a few months ago. Brown box, no accessories at all including back plate (IO shield).

I was really lucky that I managed to contact a person at ASUS who sent me an IO shield in the post FOC. I wouldn't expect this is normal practice though! I thought I was going to have to fashion my own backplate at one point.

You pays your money, you takes your chance.
 
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