CEX, What to buy...

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I took a load of old HDD's into CeX, and they gave me £193 on voucher..

Thing is, what do I do with it now, I fancied the £193 vs the £140 cash, and noticed that they had a Vega 56 in and a Ryzen 7 3700x..

The Vega is £185, but I already have an RX5580 8Gb (they'll give me £101 for the RX) and I've just upgraded to a 1600AF from i7-3770s, plus the 3700x doesn't have the heatsink with it...

Thinking maybe a monitor upgrade as I'm only on 1080, or perhaps something a bit more left field.

Anyone got any decent suggestions?
 
I seen a 1080ti in my local store but to be honest I don’t think I would buy anything pc related. I bought a iPod 64 gig and the button to shut of the screen does t work so I wouldn’t buy anything outa cex after it.
 
You can use the voucher online also so you may find something more useful on there, they just ship it direct from the store its at. If you don't necessarily need a PC upgrade could put it towards an iPad or something?
 
Stuff's meant to be warrantied for 24 months, which helps, especially with the store being about 10 minutes away.
I've already got an iPad, I've just upgraded my PC, I got my Bose headphones for work, I'll have a look on the website and see if anything else jumps out as the local store doesn't seem to have a huge amount of stuff in, certainly anything that I fancy..

I could sell the vouchers I guess, I was thinking there might be something that I hadn't thought about, something to tinker/faff with that I hadn't immediately thought about..
I got more for the drives than I thought I would so I'm happy either way..
 
Hate that shop... “24 month warranty “. ... some thing like 3 day warranty if you want cash back ..after that its a credit note.
I know a lad that took 4 faulty graphics cards in over a year .. all 4 passed their “30 min test” . They dont know what they are doing and im sure they dont test half the items they purchase
 
Tempted to take my RX580 in for £101 and then see what I can get for ~£300 on the GPU front, will do some spec/performance checks and then go from there..

Failing that I'll flog the voucher, whats the normal going rate on stuff like that?
 
They seem to go closer to face value on the bay to be fair, I'd let someone here have it over some random on the bay though.
 
Last I checked the Cex credit notes don't expire (unless you plan to live to the year 3000 because that's what it said on mines!). You could save it for next generation?
 
I was thinking about saving it, but given how long my last rig lasted, it'll be 2028 by the time I do another major upgrade :D
 
Carl81 said:
Hate that shop... “24 month warranty “. ... some thing like 3 day warranty if you want cash back ..after that its a credit note.
I know a lad that took 4 faulty graphics cards in over a year .. all 4 passed their “30 min test” . They dont know what they are doing and im sure they dont test half the items they purchase
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They don't test half the stuff they take in hardware wise and half of what they do take in, they haven't a clue.

Some examples I had, bought RAM that wouldn't work, brought it back to the shop and explained....this lad with long greasy hair and dirty fingernails picks it up and gives it a good sniff...."hmmm, doesn't smell faulty". Serious.

Another lad took in a graphics card for testing and when I came back told me it failed testing as it "overheated". Given I had been using the card and it was only about 10 months old I asked if he could explain, he said "Yeah it went over 75c a few times so we can't take it".....I tried to reason with him and explain that 75c isn't even close to overheat levels but he kept sticking to "it overheated, it failed the testing, we can't take a faulty card".

In the same shop they had a reference 290 in the window.....

They do "test" graphics cards but CPU's, RAM, hard drives and all that stuff, they don't.
 
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