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B-Grade checks
- Thread starter RavenXXX2
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I got my wife from the B-grade section, 3 months warranty, Can't send her back.
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Soldato
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I've bought a few things in the B-grade section over the years, with a mixture of results.
Sound card - DOA. Meh, could have happened if it had been non-B grade. Quick and painless refund, sent it back.
Motherboard - no I/O shield, which meant I had to buy one from eBay, which wiped out the £10 saving on new.
GPUs - bought a couple, both faultless and perfect, just in a plain white box rather than retail packaging.
Cases - bought two cheapies a couple of weeks ago, one has a crack in a decorative plastic trim bit, and the other came without some accessories. Doesn't matter, not using these for show pieces just LAN machines, and I've got so many boxes of accessories over the years that I wasn't missing anything.
So long as you're happy that the product you're buying will be functional, but may not be perfect, and you won't get any accessories/add-ons with it, I wouldn't have a problem recommending B-grade and save a little cash. If it turns out to be perfect, or comes with accessories/retail box, that's a bonus. Personally, a stuck/dead pixel would bug me constantly, so I'd never go for a B-grade monitor, but most other things I'd be fine with.
Sound card - DOA. Meh, could have happened if it had been non-B grade. Quick and painless refund, sent it back.
Motherboard - no I/O shield, which meant I had to buy one from eBay, which wiped out the £10 saving on new.
GPUs - bought a couple, both faultless and perfect, just in a plain white box rather than retail packaging.
Cases - bought two cheapies a couple of weeks ago, one has a crack in a decorative plastic trim bit, and the other came without some accessories. Doesn't matter, not using these for show pieces just LAN machines, and I've got so many boxes of accessories over the years that I wasn't missing anything.
So long as you're happy that the product you're buying will be functional, but may not be perfect, and you won't get any accessories/add-ons with it, I wouldn't have a problem recommending B-grade and save a little cash. If it turns out to be perfect, or comes with accessories/retail box, that's a bonus. Personally, a stuck/dead pixel would bug me constantly, so I'd never go for a B-grade monitor, but most other things I'd be fine with.
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Not even for coil whine ?
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I bought a B-grade monitor from OCUK and there is nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
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This made my morning. Lol
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I got a monitor and motherboard, both absolutely fine. The motherboard had all the extras so was probably just DSR, the monitor has a bit of backlight bleed but not enough to bother me.
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I've just purchased a B grade Fury x from OCUK, delivered today, opened box to find its definitely not B grade!!!, it's bloody used and has some damage to cooling fins.
Appears to have done quite a bit of work judging by dust build up of dust on fan and core of radiator!
To top it off it almost looks like it's been apart and there's hardly any water in the radiator..... :-\
I feel both extremely disappointed and nieve, don't really know what to do with it now, should I bother farting around testing it or should I just send it back?
The old saying: if it's to good to be true then it probably isn't....
Appears to have done quite a bit of work judging by dust build up of dust on fan and core of radiator!
To top it off it almost looks like it's been apart and there's hardly any water in the radiator..... :-\
I feel both extremely disappointed and nieve, don't really know what to do with it now, should I bother farting around testing it or should I just send it back?
The old saying: if it's to good to be true then it probably isn't....
We sell quite large volumes of b-grade product with most customers being very happy, especially with the large savings b-grade is normally sold at.
Not whenever I look. Normally it's £5 off a £200 product with a 30 day warranty. Just makes me wonder what the guy who prices B-grade items is smoking
Should have bought her from the DD-grade section.
There was a time when B Grade was good value. I remember it used to be savings of like 50-60%. Now you're lucky to get 20%, and it's not really worth losing the warranty (and extra bits) over..
Also the comment about X34A's in the bin.. damn, that's tragic. I really want one of those too.
Also the comment about X34A's in the bin.. damn, that's tragic. I really want one of those too.
I've just purchased a B grade Fury x from OCUK, delivered today, opened box to find its definitely not B grade!!!, it's bloody used and has some damage to cooling fins.
Appears to have done quite a bit of work judging by dust build up of dust on fan and core of radiator!
To top it off it almost looks like it's been apart and there's hardly any water in the radiator..... :-\
I feel both extremely disappointed and nieve, don't really know what to do with it now, should I bother farting around testing it or should I just send it back?
The old saying: if it's to good to be true then it probably isn't....
Weird.
Just checked their site. They say B-Grade is "B Grade items may have been used, have damaged packaging, missing accessories or a combination of these.
Some items may have scuff marks or slight scratches but should otherwise be an operable product."
So...by rights... Can be essentially a used, second hand item.
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I have bought a few B-Grade items. A Gigabyte motherboard LGA775 that ran nwithout issue for many years.
Recently I bought an Asus RT-AC87U router that I am having doubts about as I cannot set it up for DLNA as the option is not there, and I seem to get frequent drop outs in my WiFi connection that even my old Superhub 1 didn't have issues with.
Big problem with the clearance section is quite simply the lazy cannot be bothered copy paste description. Some of the items are pretty expensive, I myself was going to buy a 4k gsync gaming monitor from clearance last week, but without any descriptive text about why it was B grade I decided not to, same with a graphics card this week.
Would it hurt to put text in relevant to the product and condition?
Recently I bought an Asus RT-AC87U router that I am having doubts about as I cannot set it up for DLNA as the option is not there, and I seem to get frequent drop outs in my WiFi connection that even my old Superhub 1 didn't have issues with.
Big problem with the clearance section is quite simply the lazy cannot be bothered copy paste description. Some of the items are pretty expensive, I myself was going to buy a 4k gsync gaming monitor from clearance last week, but without any descriptive text about why it was B grade I decided not to, same with a graphics card this week.
Would it hurt to put text in relevant to the product and condition?
That really is not on.