Bought wrong CPU like a dumb a$$

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Well hello,im new to the forums but been lurkin since 2006 when i first became a customer!

So heres my dilema.....

I bought an i5 2500 3.3ghz instead of the i5 2500k 3.3ghz because i was in a rush when i placed the order as i wanted it to arrive before xmas and put the wrong one in the cart!( i feel like a total noob-idiot-scatterbrained-moron lol).So when i got it all up and running and tried to overclock it by increasing the multiplier,it was stuck at x38 and i could only get 3.8ghz out of it with the BCLK @ 100mhz.GUTTED! LOL!

Now that its been used only lightly for web browsing and some CSS,im wondering how much i should put it on ebay for? The whole point of me upgrading to i5 was to overclock so i dont want to keep the CPU and i want to get the highest price for it on ebay so i can come back here and buy the 2500K version!

Whats a fair price for it?And if i was to sell it on and provide the reciept from overclockers would the buyer be entitled to the 3 year warranty offered by intel?

(Im not gonna post any links or anything i genuinely just want some advice on how to best minimize my losses from my stupid purchase mistake!)

So the question is,what should i start the bidding at?(Im also an ebay noob lol)

I just saw a thread on here about a guy who somebody attempted to scam a CPU from so i will be taking close up pictures of the CPU with the serial number etc incase the same thing happens to myself!

Cheers for reading and merry xmas to ya all and happy new year when it comes!
 
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Wow quick replies,thanks!

Here is the exact date!

Order Date: 22 Dec, 11, 2:00 pm

I have to admit id feel kinda bad sending it back just because of my own stupidity,wouldn't overclockers lose money from my stupid mistake? I dont think its fair if im being completely honest.
 
Remember i used it too,so its not in perfect condition the thermal paste on the bottom of the heatsink will now be stuck to the CPU and the box is opened :(
 
Hmmm,well the last 2 posts are kinda making me feel slightly less guilt lol.I guess they could relist it in the clearence/B grade section,i was very carefull with it so the only fault is that the box is opened and the thermal paste will have to be replaced.The only problem i can think of now is that its coming close to new year maybe the postal service wont deliver it from Scotland to England in time?What postal service should i use?And how do i go about sending it back?Should i just post it back with a note or should i phone up and embaress myself?lol

Thanks again for the replies guys!
 
Thanks a lot guys!I have just sent an RMA request in the webnote system and will be posting it today!Should i clean the thermal paste off the CPU/heatsink or just the CPU?I told them id pay the extra for the i5 2500K and a bit ontop for the trouble if they feel its appropriate lol.

Cheers Surveyor for posting up the DSR info,it saved me having to look for it on the website!
 
banja said:
Can you return used items under DSR? I thought you could only inspect items.
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Hmmm,i really hope they can accept it back it was only used for a very short period of time,now i wish id looked at the CPU properly before installing it or preferably bought the right one to begin with!Im dying to play my games!

If the worst comes to the worst and they dont accept it back,how much performance would i be losing out on?I have one of those corsair H50 watercoolers + ASUS P8Z68-V motherboard and wanted to get some proper use out of it not just a slight overclock with the i5 2500 @ 4ghz-4.1ghz.I was reading some of them can get to like 5ghz and over,i was hoping for 4.6ghz or over if possable but would have been happy at 4.6ghz(of course i did wish for a lucky CPU @ 5ghz just to increase me E-peen lol).

Anyway i sent the RMA/DSR request 2 days ago and told them the situation and that it was only used for a short time untill i found out the mistake and that id be willing to pay extra for the loss they incur from my mistake i just hope its not been time wasted cause i've been dying to get an i5 and overclock it for like a year lol.If they were to refuse my request then what should i sell it for on ebay?

Cheers again for all the advice!
 
dcsarge said:
Sorry but you can't get price checks outside of the Members Market. If you need to sell it on the auction site just check for closed auctions for the same item and get an idea of prices. I would only sell to someone with 100% feedback in the UK but even then document everything (serial numbers, photos of condition etc).

Hope you can get it sorted without that hassle :)
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Ok thanks!
 
Hi again and happy new year! :D

I was just wondering if anyone knows if overclockers is open today or tomorrow?

Im still waiting for an RMA code or a reply,i guess that they must have been closed over the holidays or something.(in hindsight i should have just waited before i rushed this order and messed it up,lesson learned lol)
 
Right,they sent me an RMA code a couple of days ago and i sent it off with £200 insurance just incase.Result!

What i wonder now is will they email me to let me know when they have refunded it? I've only ever had stuff replaced by overclockers but never refunded so i dont really know how it works.Does anyone know a rough timeframe for these things?

I really wish id bothered checking the components i ordered first instead of worrying if i would receive them for xmas,then i wouldn't be in this mess and enjoying my i5 already,but you live and learn lol.
 
I fancy boys said:
once ordered a am2 cpu for socket 939! know how it feels...
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lol,that reminds me,back in the 90's i had a friend with a pentium 166mhz MMX and we both went to a store so he could get a new CPU as an upgrade.
I didnt have much knowledge at the time about PC's even though id built one somehow at 15 years of age from some parts i got at a store(i fried the first motherboard by plugging in the PSU power cables the wrong way round back when they could plug in any old way lol,i think you had make sure the black cables were in the middle of the power socket?)

So anyways,i didnt know much back then so i didnt question him when he bought an AMD CPU as an upgrade .....We got back to his house and he plugged it in and it fried the motherboard because when we put his old CPU back in the PC it wouldnt turn on anymore lmfao.

Thats when i learned that an AMD CPU wont work in an intel motherboard lmfao,good times!:D
 
lol,i just read up on those old CPU's to see what went wrong back then cause im bored and it seems you could install an AMD CPU into an intel board back then.:eek:

I think the problem was the AMD was a socket 7 and had an extra pin on it so i dont even know how the hell he fitted it into his socket 5 board(maybe it was the other way around,it was over 10 years ago lol) but it resulted in disasterous consequences for his motherboard because it never worked ever again and he had to get a new pc lol

Time for plants vs zombies ,i'll leave this thread alone now the party is over and my i5 has been returned,thanks OCUK!:D
 
nkata said:
If it was pentium 1, a 486 or 386, it would as all the CPU's were pin compatible, an AMD or Intel or SGS Thompson (cyrix).

The socket split came after socket 7 which was compatible with all x86 processors from all mauufacturers.
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Yeah i realised that after i posted i read about it online to kill boredom and to my surprise i found that it was indeed compatable.....so i dont know what the hell happend id always just assumed it was wrecked because it was an AMD in an intel board but w/e happened it wasnt good! All he had after was a black screen even with the pentium installed lol. I guess i learned something new but totaly irrelevant all these years later:D (maybe one day the worlds fate will depend on me knowing that vital peice of history but i doubt it:p)
 
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