How do you feel about buying second hand components?

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:04

As the title suggests, how do you guys feel about buying second hand parts?

Armageus · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:10

No issues for me whatsoever, as can rarely justify buying anything high end new, so at least gives me the opportunity to pick up still decent hardware, as others upgrade to the latest and greatest.

Only personal gripe I have is where people advertise kit as never been overclocked or never mined on, when majority of the time it is either untrue, or clearly can't be verified.

chroniclard · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:13

No problems with second hand here. Though I only buy from members market on here and have had no issues.

Last year or so bought monitor, ssd's, gpu's, cpu, motherboard(s), RAM and a few other bits.

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:18

chroniclard said:
No problems with second hand here. Though I only buy from members market on here and have had no issues.

Last year or so bought monitor, ssd's, gpu's, cpu, motherboard(s), RAM and a few other bits.

I would love to be able to use the members market, only 907 posts to go if the rules are still the same ><

chroniclard · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:27

Yes its an excellent resource. Not sure what rules are these days.

Either way, get involved/posting, worth it.

foster grant · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:30

I have an X34a and a 27" Rog swift TN , both I got 2nd hand and both work lovely

..oh and both together were less than the price of a brand new X34a

, I have also got other stuff thats B Grade from OcUK too and all have been good .

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:37

foster grant said:
I have an X34a and a 27" Rog swift TN , both I got 2nd hand and both work lovely ..oh and both together were less than the price of a brand new X34a , I have also got other stuff thats B Grade from OcUK too and all have been good .

Can you send a me a link to their B grade product range? I can't seem to find it.

GhostWKD · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:37

For me I prefer the security of buying brand new. a lot of the time used components fetch almost as much as their new counterparts if you shop around.

I have bought a B grade graphics card before though, but that had to be returned as it was faulty.

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:38

chroniclard said:
Yes its an excellent resource. Not sure what rules are these days.

Either way, get involved/posting, worth it.

Definitely will

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:38

GhostWKD said:
For me I prefer the security of buying brand new. a lot of the time used components fetch almost as much as their new counterparts if you shop around.

I have bought a B grade graphics card before though, but that had to be returned as it was faulty.

Did they cover your delivery costs?

GhostWKD · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:47

Patberts19 said:
Did they cover your delivery costs?

From memory I was out of pocket on return delivery costs, but don't take that as fact as I had a lot going on at the time so not 100%. I also got a refund rather than replacement as the person I was building the PC for sadly passed away.

foster grant · 6 Dec 2017 at 09:59

Patberts19 said:
Can you send a me a link to their B grade product range? I can't seem to find it.

I would be more than happy to , but I cant find it either , which is partly why I have started to drift away and explore other outlets .

chroniclard · 6 Dec 2017 at 10:01

Clearance section has all the b grade stuff.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/clearance

Glanza · 6 Dec 2017 at 10:05

Not been a issue for me yet with 2nd hand parts I've bought from here in the MM, would be more dubious when buying from places like Ebay.

Patberts19 · 6 Dec 2017 at 10:07

Does anyone know how their "B Grade" stuff becomes B Grade? Is it returns that they just throw onto there? Repaired returns or just stuff they drop on the floor in the factory?

chroniclard · 6 Dec 2017 at 10:09

Think its mostly returns, unsure though. So some stuff will be slightly used.

new boy · 6 Dec 2017 at 10:21

Most of my pc is made from 2nd hand components.

Buying cutting edge tech 2nd hand doesn' make sense a lot of the time as it tends to go nearly for new prices, but stuff that' one gen old can often be a good deal.

Paracelsus · 6 Dec 2017 at 14:22

Computer parts are a great 2nd hand market - no moving parts (barring fans and hard drives ofc) and generally long-lived yet they have the kind of depreciation cars do, except cars are full of moving parts and things that get rusted or worn out!

I've bought my last 2 graphics card 2nd hand from the MM here and both are still going strong - both bought for around 25% of the original price around the time of their EOL, which suited me as I'm still on a 1080p monitor. Also a few hard drives years ago, bit more of a risk but with screenshots of SMART and SSDLife etc can be mitigated.

The only reason I haven't bought more 2nd hand stuff is I'm still happy with my 2011 era 2500k build and probably will be for another few years

Blackjack Davy · 6 Dec 2017 at 18:00

No problem so long as its not been thrashed to death. I just popped in a used i7 4790k as it happens, a replacement for a i5 4690k.

GhostWKD said:
I have bought a B grade graphics card before though, but that had to be returned as it was faulty.

Same here, unfortunately the replacement didn't fair much better.

Kelt · 6 Dec 2017 at 18:07

I feel OK.