safe to purchase a used cpu from aliexpress?

[maldyus_grm]

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[bear]

Escrito originalmente por maldyus_grm:

Escrito originalmente por notkennyS:

Buy either new or used from a reputable source, just never Aliexpress.

I am grateful for the advice, would you trust ebay sellers with great feedback profiles?

Absolutely. As someone that sells refurbished hardware on Ebay I can vouch that any seller with 100s-1000s of good feedback in the 98%+ range is working very hard to make sure that the products they sell are exactly how they are described. Ebay is also very good about protecting both the buyers and sellers from any kind of scams. I wouldn't waste the money going for a NiB 8350. Theres perfectly good used hardware waiting for you.

Also the stigma with Aliexpress really should end. There are many reputable sellers out there and amazing deals to be had. The problems come from people blinded by greed that think that anyone would ever sell something new at 80+% of its MSRP. Those people are asking to be scammed. There is just as much knock off and pure garbage being sold through Amazon to people that gloss over descriptions or let greed blind their senses and judgement.

[iceman1980]

Yeah no. Aliexpress is like Wish stay away. FAR AWAY.

[shoopy]

Escrito originalmente por TIGGER:

Why not? a CPU will either work or not work. If it's a good price used, buy it. I have bought ten year old CPU's from CEX and they still work fine after a year.

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Used or not isn't the problem. The real problem is the possibility of getting something fake.

[L37]

Escrito originalmente por ardiel:

Used or not isn't the problem. The real problem is the possibility of getting something fake.

For videocards - highly likely. For storage - possible. For cpus - extremely improbable.

[Harry Gumdropzap]

Escrito originalmente por TIGGER:

Escrito originalmente por notkennyS:

I always buy my tech either new or from a refurbished certified place like Amazon Warehouse, so I can't say.

How do you refurbish a CPU? give it a quick polish?

if a CPU has bent pins that have been fixed it could be considered refurbished

[iceman1980]

Escrito originalmente por Harry Gumdropzap:

Escrito originalmente por TIGGER:

How do you refurbish a CPU? give it a quick polish?

if a CPU has bent pins that have been fixed it could be considered refurbished

Yeah they have a pretty loose definition of "refurbished" to me refurbished parts have a bit of dust and scratches, have been cleaned appropriately and stored in an acceptable manner.

[Clint E]

Escrito originalmente por Tarantula Hawk:

Escrito originalmente por Harry Gumdropzap:

if a CPU has bent pins that have been fixed it could be considered refurbished

Yeah they have a pretty loose definition of "refurbished" to me refurbished parts have a bit of dust and scratches, have been cleaned appropriately and stored in an acceptable manner.

I only do refurbished if they offer warranty, but yeah CPU is a bad idea. Even fixing pins is cold working and loss of strength on that pin. Pass

[hawkeye]

Anything from China - no, as there have been incidents where the cpus have been demonstrators or engineering samples which have lower specs than the retail models.

It's also a good idea to google the info printed on the top of the cpu.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Only ones who are buying from Aliexpress are Youtubers who want to make a video of how bad they were scammed.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Buy a CPU from Newegg, Amazon or even Ebay
Aliexpress CPUs will likely not be what you actually want.

[_I_]

only if you want to throw your cash away

buy parts from somewhere with at least a return policy or some kind of warranty

[Hazard to the populace]

well, here are some figures relating to Aliexpress for you to get your head around-
AliExpress has over 60 million active buyers.
Alibaba group earned $30.8 billion in one day.
AliExpress’s revenue almost doubled for a year.
Alibaba owns 58.2% share of all retail e-commerce sales in China.
Over 150 million people made purchases from AliExpress.
16% of all cross-border digital buyers use AliExpress.
There are over 732 million visits on AliExpress a month.

Yeah dodgy as ♥♥♥♥

Have a read-
https://techjury.net/stats-about/aliexpress-market-share/#gref

And learn something

[hawkeye]

Escrito originalmente por mrbigdick8inches:

well, here are some figures relating to Aliexpress for you to get your head around-
AliExpress has over 60 million active buyers.
Alibaba group earned $30.8 billion in one day.
AliExpress’s revenue almost doubled for a year.
Alibaba owns 58.2% share of all retail e-commerce sales in China.
Over 150 million people made purchases from AliExpress.
16% of all cross-border digital buyers use AliExpress.
There are over 732 million visits on AliExpress a month.

Yeah dodgy as ♥♥♥♥

Have a read-
https://techjury.net/stats-about/aliexpress-market-share/#gref

And learn something

Logical reasoning error.

Aliexpress isn't the seller, just the website that allows potentially dodgy sellers to offer items for sale. It's the sellers that are dodgy. The sellers aren't aliexpress. There are dodgy sellers on ebay too. And logically, the bigger the site, the more dodgy it is.

It's like the mall. The mall isn't inherently dodgy, it's the shoplifters, purse and purchase snatchers etc who use it to commit crime.

Would you be careful shopping at a mall?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Escrito originalmente por mrbigdick8inches:

well, here are some figures relating to Aliexpress for you to get your head around-
AliExpress has over 60 million active buyers.
Alibaba group earned $30.8 billion in one day.
AliExpress’s revenue almost doubled for a year.
Alibaba owns 58.2% share of all retail e-commerce sales in China.
Over 150 million people made purchases from AliExpress.
16% of all cross-border digital buyers use AliExpress.
There are over 732 million visits on AliExpress a month.

Yeah dodgy as ♥♥♥♥

Have a read-
https://techjury.net/stats-about/aliexpress-market-share/#gref

And learn something

Dont come crying here when GTX 1080 Ti you bought turned out to be 15 years old GT 8600 with BIOS that was cracked to display as GTX 1080 Ti in Windows specs and wont be able to work with any drivers you download.

[L37]

Escrito originalmente por hawkeye:

Anything from China - no, as there have been incidents where the cpus have been demonstrators or engineering samples which have lower specs than the retail models.

It's also a good idea to google the info printed on the top of the cpu.

Aaand... people buy those on purpose. They are often useful as they are cheap for what thay are and/or may even represent things that never got released to general public. Any decent shop tells SKU in description and if arrived one does not match there is pretty good chance to get your money back. If somebody bought ES unknowingly because it was very cheap or something, it is his own fault.

Escrito originalmente por Rumpelcrutchskin:

Dont come crying here when GTX 1080 Ti you bought turned out to be 15 years old GT 8600 with BIOS that was cracked to display as GTX 1080 Ti in Windows specs and wont be able to work with any drivers you download.

Yeah, totally have to be aware of this. Do your research, do not buy "too cheap to be true", use good stores and such. Time required is not always worth what you get too. But on the other hand i've been using aliexpress for a lot of things from electronic components to computer hardware to phones/accesories etc for a long time, and as long as you know what you are doing you will get what you want. Or get your money back. In general it is typical asian market, just online one.
In a sense getting scammed the same way with GPU on ebay may be even worse.


You can get a lot of fun stuff there too. Stuff that was never intended to exist or reach general public. CPU samples, laptop CPU-s made to work with desktop boards, LGA2011(3) boards with all the modern stuff like working M2/NVME boot etc, different weird GPU-s, SBC-s, etc, etc.
Not all the things are good, you can get scammed, but for someone who likes working with hardware it is so much fun... much more so than pretty sterile and extremely expensive modern "official" "well known brand" hardware.