Buyer Beware - refurbish Athlon 64

[joe2004]

This is funny thing that happened to me. I bought newegg refurbish 3400+, some $300+. The thing arrived and I popped it immediately in the Asus. No matter what I tried it is always recognized as 3000+. The Windows keeps on crashing so I decided to take it out. All of a sudden the top (heatsink) comes off! You know it is really hard to remove it if you want but this one comes off no problem.
Now I got it! Somebody bought 3000+ and 3400+ and then returned 3000+ with a heatsink from 3400+. Amazing. Well, it goes back to newegg by a virtue of RMA. Beware of newegg refurbished processors.

 

[Technonut]

Damn.... I had my eye on one of the FX-51 refurbs... I hope that Newegg traces your RMA back to the original buyer and burns their ass....:|

 

[Shimmishim]

do you mean the integrated heatspreader?

 

[joe2004]

do you mean the integrated heatspreader?

Yup.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Technonut
I hope that Newegg traces your RMA back to the original buyer and burns their ass....:|

 

[mamisano]

I am surprised that this hasn't happened with P4 chips a long time ago!

 

[grdh20]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: Technonut
I hope that Newegg traces your RMA back to the original buyer and burns their ass....:|

Yah!

 

[jose]

P4's come without the heatsink attached.

Regards,
Jose

 

[pspada]

I hope newegg traces the RMA back to the original buyer and sues him! What an incredible a$$hole!

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: jose
P4's come without the heatsink attached.

Regards,
Jose

So do Athlon 64s, he's talking about the metal plate(heat spreader) ontop of the cpu.

 

[beatle]

No kidding... what a fraud! He did this all to save less than $150 since he likely had to pay a 15% restocking fee on his returned "3400" in addition to shipping back to Newegg.

 

[LouPoir]

Wow

 

[chr6]

nice catch

i hope karma runs over his dogma