Referbed MOB's are up @ newegg

[RobCur]

it's quite risky, bought 4 so far and all are defective. even if you can get them to work, their is problems like random crashes and some don't even post. not worth it imho, i rather buy something new for must less that are obsolete like at compgeeks.com and tigersurplus.com. 1 out of 4 that I have not thrown away, had this usb 2.0 problems that everytime I try to install the driver, it would crash upon boot up. so it stays disabled for the time being. heh, and it costed me 39 bucks. most likely you have to return them, and usps charges alot for even postal mail like 9-11 bucks 1 mobo, 13-15 for 2 mobo and so on. ask yourself this, what are the chances of someone returning a perfectly working motherboard?

 

[cheapgoose]

maybe you have bad luck, I've bought a few refurbs from newegg, haven't had any problems yet. and by the way, if you fax them a copy of the shipping reiept with you rma number on it, they refund shipping too.

 

[volrath]

I checked yesterday and they had dfi ultra infinity as well as lan party. Checked a few minutes later and the ultra infinities were all gone. And I was going to buy one.

Not that I actually need any of this...

 

[Beavis1313]

Just a little side note on my experience with refurbs.


My current board that I am using was a refurb from Newegg. I ordered it, got it in 2 days with all the accessories. Slapped it in and it wouldn't even post. CRAP!! Packed it all up and sent it back in for a replacement. Newegg rushed out another refurb for me. Got it in 2 days but without any accessories at all. Dang it!! Oh well, I don't need them anyway. Slap this board in and again it doesn't post. WHAT THE HECK? Turns out that I needed to reset the BIOS and then everything worked out fine.

Moral of the story: Some people will send a motherboard back thinking it is junk when actually it was a loose nut behind the keyboard.

 

[Southpaw]

I have been sitting on the fence with this....
I just ordered my first refurb motherboard from Newegg.
It is an ABIT NF7...
The only accessory I really want is the extra USB2 backplate....

I guess we will see....

SP

 

[stultus]

nabbed an Abit IS7-E for $41.

 

A co worker of mine ordered a $10 P4 board during the last refurb mobo offering. They accidentally sent him a A7N8X-E Deluxe. He didn't wan't AMD, so he sold it too me for $10! BTW, it posts, and it came as board only in a white box.

 

[Delbert]

Originally posted by: Beavis1313

Moral of the story: Some people will send a motherboard back thinking it is junk when actually it was a loose nut behind the keyboard.

 

[dabuddha]

What's a good motherboard for an XP 1900+. I want the option to upgrade though as far as I can go. I've been out of the loop regarding motherboards/cpus for awhile so any information would be great

 

[Falloutboy]

any recent board will run that but I will recomend a NF2 based board, persoanlly I like the NF7-S

 

[zodder]

Maybe it's just me, but I'd never buy a refurb mobo. It's a pretty damn important part and I want to make sure it comes with everything and in new condition.

 

[yeba]

What number/dept did you call to get accessories? It's so hard to get a hold of a person when I called MSI HQ.

THanks.

edit: I finally got a hold of a guy, the accessories are zero cost but he had to charge $15 for shipping and handling. Is this right!?

Originally posted by: tiggersbowl1
I had ordered a refurb msi mobo, came with absolutely nothing, called msi and they sent me the accesories.

Worked great.

 

[Sleeping]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
What's a good motherboard for an XP 1900+. I want the option to upgrade though as far as I can go. I've been out of the loop regarding motherboards/cpus for awhile so any information would be great

Go with the nforce2 chipset, the most stable, don't buy pcchips chipsets-the least stable. Asus, A-bit, Gigabyte, MSI, Shuttle are all pretty stable. You will probably want a mobo with a 333mhz FSB so you can always upgrade your processor later. All else is up to you as far as video, lan, and audio is concerned.


Who to call at ASUS for a backplate for my refurb??

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: Amber


Referbed MOB's are up @ newegg

LINKY

Was attempting to ascertain the motive for one wanting to purchase a large or disorderly crowd, or why the need would arise for said crowd to undergo refurbishing.

All jocularity aside, NewEgg refurbished (which is the correctly spelled cousin of "referbed") products are recertified by the individual manufacturers, if memory serves. In the few refurbished motherboards I have purchased myself (approximately twenty or so) from NewEgg, experienced one partially defective and the RMA process was quite painless. A majority appeared brand new, and included all the accessories. Roughly three or four of the boards were manufacturered by ASUS. As mentioned earlier, nearly all ASUS refurbished boards lack accessories. In the past, ASUS had presented board extras and accessories to new owners (even refurbished owners) for no charge. With the rise of the resale of refurbished products, they seemed to have discountinued this practice. A nominal fee is now associated with the board extras (backplates, bracketing, various flavors of ribbon cables and connectors, etc), although some still report success, dependent upon which ASUS representative with whom you speak. I think the surcharge is quite understandable from a business perspective, and even acceptable; although admiittedly I too dislike the extra charge.

In short, would summarize by saying most refurbished motherboards are nearly brand new and quite functional, but add a caveat emptor on the accessories as they are a YMMV situation.

 

[TheRepoMan]

I have ordered many refurbs from Newegg,

Some of them come in the box like brand new with all the accesories and are repacked and tested byt the manufacturer
These Are the best ones to order
Biostar
ECS

These do not come with anything but the mobo and are in a white box
Abit
Asus
MSI
AOpen

 

[billbillw]

I picked up a Shuttle AN35n Ultra a few monthes back. It looked new in box, with all accessories. It has worked perfectly for me.

I've bought a few other things from the refurb area also. No problems with any of them.

I think Newegg sells their refurbs from more than one source. Some customer returns, some manufacturer recertified.

I think that the refurb Asus boards are sent from Asus as white box and no accessories.
Many of the others seem to be customer returns.

I've noticed that many times there is very limited stock (like only 1) and after a few minutes (or after I purchase), it goes out of stock. I assume those are customer returns. Others that seem to stay in stock are probably coming from the manufacturer (or they are not desireable).

As long as the warranty is there, I'm comforatable buying most anything. I wouldn't buy anything that has a lot of accesories that I really need for it to function. My Shuttle board is pretty basic. The extras in the box were not essential (except for the I/O shield)

I've bought a CPU that definetly didn't come back from the manufacturer because it was covered in silver paste! Cleaned it off for like an hour and it worked perfect.

A Coolermaster case that I bought looked brand new with all accesories. A DVD burner was shipped in bubble wrap with nothing else, but I didn't need anything else for it. I picked up a great deal on a 1GB Mushkin Level 1 PC3500 kit. I came in little antistatic cases wrapped in bubble wrap. For memory, what else do you need?
Ok, I ranting on...I love Newegg refurbs. In fact, I bought another hard drive and a DVD-ROM from them last week. Waiting for delivery...

 

[breweyez]

ive had great luck getting all the parts with abit....with the other MB makers i was not so lucky

make sure you test them right away

 

[dp004i]

Got an Abit IS7-G for $55 a few weeks ago. It came with all the accessories and seems to be working fine so far

 

[Chucu]

here's my $1.25

I have ordered MANY( atleast 10-15) refurb boards from newegg. And all of them have come complete with everything, sometimes not in a sealed baggy, sometimes not in the "pretty" box.

Also I know they do REFURB them themselves or send them to the maker... how do I know this? Well I worked at a computer store for many years and quite frankly you can smell a board and tell that it has been dipped in contact cleaner(or something like it), boards that this has been done too also have a different shine to them.

So in my experience I believe that newegg does check the boards, maybe not a real good check, because I have known people to get a bum board, but they do check and really refurb bad boards.

bottem line REFURBs from newegg are a good deal.

chucu

 

[Delbert]

For ASUS assys I've used:

Bonnie Ly
Asus-Customer Service
Tel: 510-739-3777 ext. 5011
Fax: 510-608-4511
Email: bonnie_ly@asus.com
WWW.ASUS.COM

For Gigabyte I've been told but not tried:

contact our customer service dept at 626-854-9338 ext 222 / 225 for I/O shield ordering

 

[Sleeping]

Thanks for the reply Delbert

 

[Gerardjg]

I have purchased many items from NewEgg refurbs 50 + and never had a problem, it is hit and miss with accesories. On the other hand I have sent back at least 4 new retail items to new egg because of problems.

 

[Pelochas]

Just bought me a Gigabyte mobo GA-K8VNXP for $95 almost $70 off the new mobo for my new AMD 64 PC
also grab a AMD 64 3400 for $312 , i beleive it was the last one, OOS after completing the purchase

 

[cheapgoose]

i've had good luck with refurbs. I'm in the market for a Nforce board. asus or abit, any comments?

nf7-s or a7nxa delux.

 

[Delbert]

Originally posted by: cheapgoose
i've had good luck with refurbs. I'm in the market for a Nforce board. asus or abit, any comments?

nf7-s or a7nxa delux.

I've picked up both as refurbs before. As has been mentioned several times, with the Asus borad you are sure to get no assys. Not so "delux" without assys.That means no 1394, external usb or gameport dongles. No Sata cables. You will have to modify or leave out your existing I/O sheild.
But it's a great board, and for $20 they will ship you all the assys including the book and CD-rom with drivers and such.
If you are on the fence, I'd get the Abit board. My nf7-s came in retail box with everything.