Greetings people, my brother was looking to buy a new gaming pc and he found this offer;
It's a used system, from a "trusted" seller (has positive feedback on a trusted nationwide forum)
i5 6600k
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
COOLER Enermax (ETS-T40-TB)
Gainward GeForce GTX1080 8GB Phoenix GS (3644)
2xAvexir Core Series, Red LED, DDR4-2400, CL16 - 8 GB ( AVD4UZ124001608G-1COR )
SSD 240GB
PSU seasonic M12II-850 EVO
CASE CASE SUPERCASE MIRROR MI06A BLACK
for 900 euros (about 1000 usd)
Also, very important, what to look when buying a used system? Is there something we can do to check?
Thank you very much! Any help/insight is appreciated!
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Don't really know where to look at exact that everything looks fine and clean. Check the vents I for dust. Check for loose parts I guess?
CPU: $140
Motherboard: $80
GPU: $400
Memory: $90
SSD: $70
PSU: $80
Case: $50
That comes to about $1100 new if you include an OS license. You're getting a slight discount for it being used, and also have the advantage that it comes assembled for you rather than having to screw parts together yourself.
But it's possible that the reason someone is trying to get rid of it is that it's having problems that the original user wants to be rid of. If it blue screens once per week, for example, the reseller might not know that. Even if it isn't having any such problems, it probably already has about 2 1/2 years worth of wear and tear on it. Or possibly the equivalent of a lot more than that if it spent a year mining cryptocurrency around the clock at the height of the bubble.
May can you could also suggest a build for the budget that he has (~1k usd)?
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As to where to buy it, where exactly are you buying from? That is, which country?
Also, are you capable of assembling parts yourself?
On the same budget, the performance you get building new won't be quite as good as what you'd get from that used rig, but it will have a lot less wear and tear on it, meaning a lot less likely to give you problems.
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Also, does the used computer price include shipping? If he wants another $100 to ship it to you, that affects its cost quite a bit.
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It looks like Skroutz is basically a shopping search engine of sorts that links to other sites. That's what I looked through, and this comes to a little over 760 Euros, though that's probably excluding shipping and doesn't include an OS license:
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/14650949/AMD-Ryzen-5-2600-Box.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/15598886/Asrock-B450M-Pro4.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/17546025/Gainward-GeForce-GTX-1660-Ti-6GB-Pegasus-4375.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/13785263/Crucial-MX500-500GB.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/12518015/Seasonic-Focus-Plus-550-Gold.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/8394569/Antec-GX200-Window.html
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/14526602/G-Skill-Value-16GB-DDR4-2666MHz-F4-2666C19D-16GNT.html
That's probably in the ballpark of your stated budget. Prices on European sites tend to include VAT, though I didn't see anywhere that it explicitly said that VAT is included. If it's not, then it could be much worse prices than I thought. I assume that you're fluent in Greek, so you'll have to parse through the details there.
As compared to the used computer, the CPU has six cores rather than four and has SMT enabled, but they're slightly slower cores, making it debateable whether the CPU is better or worse. The video card is a little slower, but not by a huge margin; it's more comparable to a GTX 1070 than a GTX 1080. The SSD is double the capacity, and likely faster, too. The power supply is better quality but lower wattage; on net, it's more appropriate to your needs. The memory capacity is the same. And most importantly, the parts would be brand new rather than having a bunch of wear on them already.
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