NewEgg Refurb

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I'm considering buying a new video card and have been looking at the refurb High Tech Radeon 9800 128MB for $187. Anyone ever had trouble with NewEgg Refurbs or this manufacturer? Thanks!

Oh, I'm upgrading from a BFG Ti4200 128 and can't afford more than $200.
 
do it, ive never had a problem with newegg refurbs, and many of my friends buy newegg refurb mobos and videocards and they all run great.
 
About 8 months ago I bought an Asus Geforce FX5800 refurb from them. It cost about half of what a new one would have. I ran it for awhile then sold it for what I paid for it. You can get some good deals buying the refurbished stuff, but I have noticed that lately the prices are getting too close to the new items. There are some refurbished items I would steer clear of like Hard drives and Motherboards.
 
I say go for it, that's a great card with great cooling. Someone probably returned it because it didn't overclock well or something...it is a bit risky but that's a nice card for a nice price. But I do stress, it is taking a risk. :D
 
They also have a Sapphire (256 bit memory) for $166. The cheaper the better...anything wrong with that card?
 
My current motherboard (Gigabyte 8IHXP rev. 2.1) was bought refurb at Newegg.com for like $60.00, and I've had no trouble with it.
 
ive had pretty good experices with newegg refurbs,

first one was a chaintech ti4600 that ran great until i totally destroyed it with watercooling,

then i got a cheap Gainward gf3 ti200 as a placeholder that was absolutely horrible, theres no way it should have passed any refurb testing. Using the included drivers it clocked itself a little over stock, with the whole guarenteed overclock think gainward had going on the golden samples, but at that speed it would produce really bad artifacts, i had to downclock it to just at stock speeds to remove them, just the whole guarenteed overclocking on a card that couldnt overclock 5mhz past spec



if you wait and watch the refurbs ive seen quite a few 9800pros 128mb/256bit go through there for $165-$175, probably be a great deal
 
They do say they have a 15 day guarantee, though, so its guaranteed not DOA, right?
 
Could be DOA, Newegg doesn't test the components...the manufacturers do. And there can always be shipping accidents, although I wouldn't worry about that (Newegg packages really well). But hypothetically speaking, your chances of DOA are more or less equal to a non-refurbished part, IMHO, although there may be other issue. The 15-day guarantee means you can return it within 15 days of purchase only.
 
Also, never get a refurbished card if you plan on softmoding or something like that.

Example, if there is a 9800se thats been refurbished on there, don't expect to get a softmod to work even if you hear there is an 80% probability.

Chances are it was one of the 20% that didn't softmod and the person RMA'd it. And thats the card that you will be getting. (although otherwise works great im sure)
 
Goride said:
Also, never get a refurbished card if you plan on softmoding or something like that.

Example, if there is a 9800se thats been refurbished on there, don't expect to get a softmod to work even if you hear there is an 80% probability.

Chances are it was one of the 20% that didn't softmod and the person RMA'd it. And thats the card that you will be getting. (although otherwise works great im sure)
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Not everyone out there is a modder, but i can see how this is partially true
 
Well, I'm a poor mofo so I do VERY little OCing. Can't afford to replace any burned out parts. So, even if I can't upgrade the BIOS, thats fine by me! Thanks for the input folks.
 
I didn't mean every refurbished video card is a failed mod job, but the likihood is pretty high. So if you plan on softmoding or whatever I would stay away, but if you plan on running it stock, im sure it would be fine.
 
electech98 said:
My current motherboard (Gigabyte 8IHXP rev. 2.1) was bought refurb at Newegg.com for like $60.00, and I've had no trouble with it.
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I bought my mobo refurb as well, works fine
 
I had a 9600XT refurb from newegg... up until now (2 months), it served me great!
 
The only problem that ive seen with neweggs "refurbed cards, was about a year and a half ago when they were advertising refurbished Gainward TI 4200 golden samples.

From the articles that i read (including here on Hard OCP i believe) they where shipping out returned cards that had problems, without actually doing a legit refurb. There were quite a few of these cards sent out to customers because Newegg knocked the price down so low.

It was actually a pretty big deal, but i havnt heard or experienced anything bad since then.
 
My video card and motherboard are both Newegg refurbs. The motherboard even came in a box with all the cables and drivers. Never had a single problem.
 
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