Referbed MOB's are up @ newegg

[Amber]

Referbed MOB's are up @ newegg

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[raysum]

Any opinions on refurbished MB's from Newegg as I am looking to purchase one.

 

[Falloutboy]

all refurbs from newegg are customer returns. they don't test them so if you get a dead one your out return shipping to send it back depending on the product and the price its sometimes worth it other times not

 

[raysum]

Thanks for the reply...was wondering whether the boards were tested or not....

 

[conehead433]

NewEgg must use this process to determine if a MB actually needs to be returned to the mfg. If one idiot can't get it to work it may not be the fault of the MB.

 

[porkbun]

Every time I ordered a refurbed Abit board, it came with the original box with some, if not all, of the accessories.

Every time I ordered a refurbed Asus board, it came with a brown box with nothing.

Nothing also for AOpen.

Anybody have the same experience?

 

[Pelochas]

newegg states that refurbs are the motherboard only and includes no accessories. but several posts or the refurbs have that the refurbs were complete with accesories. Have anyone experience a refurb mobo without the accesories?

i willing to buy a refurb Abit KV8-Max3 or the Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP for my new AMD 64 setup but wondering if all the accesories that are most useful are included.

btw, which is the better board of the two above?

 

[raysum]

I am looking at buying the A7N8X-E Deluxe on refurb. By the way, what accessories do you mean,
ie the cables and software. This is a good deal if it is the whole thing.

 

[Richardito]

Originally posted by: Pelochas
newegg states that refurbs are the motherboard only and includes no accessories. but several posts or the refurbs have that the refurbs were complete with accesories. Have anyone experience a refurb mobo without the accesories?

i willing to buy a refurb Abit KV8-Max3 or the Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP for my new AMD 64 setup but wondering if all the accesories that are most useful are included.

btw, which is the better board of the two above?

From my experiences MSI and Abit refurbs contain everything and the Gigabytes come with nothing.

 

[Delbert]

Originally posted by: porkbun
Every time I ordered a refurbed Abit board, it came with the original box with some, if not all, of the accessories.

Every time I ordered a refurbed Asus board, it came with a brown box with nothing.

Nothing also for AOpen.

Anybody have the same experience?

exactly. gigabyte boards came bare in white box also.
The more the assys there are to loose the less the value. I/O shields are the biggest issue for me.
I've probably done at least 12 refurb mobos from newegg. The only one I rma'd turned out to be a dead CPU on my end.

 

[conehead433]

"I am looking at buying the A7N8X-E Deluxe on refurb. By the way, what accessories do you mean,
ie the cables and software. This is a good deal if it is the whole thing."

From previous threads I remember a number of people who were having to order a number of items from Asus at a cost ~$20 to have everything they needed for the MB. Consider that when purchasing a refurbed A7N8X deluxe.

 

[Beavis1313]

I have ordered refurbs in the past from Newegg and have a split rate for accessories.

Sometimes you receive a motherboard with everything and sometimes all you get is the board. It is a crap shoot but if you know where to look you won't need the manual or drivers. If you are like me, then you have extra cables laying around somewhere also.

 

[whiteboy81]

I've had the same experience with the ASUS mobo's...but generally with just about everything else I've ordered, whether it be video cards or MOBO's, they have come in retail boxes.

 

[dailyfreestuff]

i just got an a7n8x deluxe refurb today from newegg and it came with nothing but the mobo, and was in an oem type box.

 

[tiggersbowl1]

I had ordered a refurb msi mobo, came with absolutely nothing, called msi and they sent me the accesories.

Worked great.

 

[Mephistokur]

Man, even placed an order, then decided against it. I only use Asus, and these are going into a couple home servers. Need to pay for retail - I can't be swapping out mobos that aren't good.

 

[marvdmartian]

My experience is about 50/50 for receiving the extras with motherboards, and also for receiving good motherboards.

In fact, the mobo I have in this machine right now is a newegg refurb.

I think if you receive one without any extras, it's likely because the previous owner "forgot" to include them when they sent it back to Newegg.

One bit of advice I have is, if you get a bad or dead refurb from newegg, do an rma repair, versus refund. If they have another refurb of that model, they'll send you that. Most likely, they'll state that they don't have a replacement, and issue a 100% refund. Yeah, it's playing their own rules against them, but I don't believe in having to pay a 15% restocking fee on a dead component that they haven't tested.

 

[InlineFive]

I have had good success with all of NewEgg's refurbished products. In fact the motherboard I ordered recently looked brand new and came with the retail box! Except one corner of the box was smushed and it had no wrapping but pretty good!

-Por

 

[Amber]

I buy a lot of the referbed MOB's from newegg, most come with most of the goody and about 98% work very well

what I do is look for a MOB that is a good savings over the retail one say $59 for an ABIT NF7-S, next when I get the MOB I build a system with it and tes the sh*t out of it, if it's good ok if not then I have 14 day to call newegg for RMA or 1 year to RMA to Abit or who ever shipping is about $10, sometimes if the price is good and I'm busy I will just send the part to the maker RMA with out testing it and they send me a tested part

you have to price the MOB some are only $15 less for referbed

you have to like playing with computer if not then spend the money I have 5 system in my house that are referbed and have built over 100 with referbed MOB's, RAM and or CPU's

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

What is the best way of testing a mobo out?

~RaNDoM

 

[richardycc]

dont buy the Albatron K8X800 Pro II, chances are, they are the 2 bad ones that I sent back to newegg.

 

[nucleoid]

I'd say best way to test a mobo is to build a breadbox (hook everything up without putting it in a case) with it using parts you have laying around. Or you can go all out with a multimeter and check everything lol.

 

[Chang10is]

Originally posted by: richardycc
dont buy the Albatron K8X800 Pro II, chances are, they are the 2 bad ones that I sent back to newegg.

LOL. Thanks for the warning.

 

[Hyperfocal]

Ordered an MSI K7N2 Delta-L. It works great, but came in a FedEx box stuffed inside a bigger FedEx box. No accessories.

The center HSF lug was sheared off, but it works with a three-lug HSF.

It is just a cheap cruncher so I'm not too concerned.

 

[Tsunami982]

all the asus mobo's i order come with NOTHING and in a white box. they all did work though and the savings (a7n8x dlx @ $59) is well worth the lack of accessories. i know you can order the accessories for $20, but i called anyways to ask for them (from asus) and they sent me the package for free. i told a friend and they sent it to him for free. and yes... i did tell the csr that it was a refurbished package.