Are Open Box PC parts worth it? - This PC is almost ALL Open Box items!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- We have talked about used parts before but what about Open Box and Returned PC parts? Let's talk about how NOT to get screwed when saving money by buying open box parts! Thank you to Micro Center for sponsoring this video!
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I loved this video. I recently did the same thing to assemble my PC, but you are creating a doubt for me regarding software and if it is worth buying Windows 11 and Office?
In my humble opinion, if you already spend money on a good PC, then it is better to have everything legal and without any restrictions.
I think it's the best, right? And if you can tell me how you bought it?
If it's better, it's always better and good websites that are dedicated to that. In my experience, BNH software worked for me.
I will continue spending money on the PC hahahahaha thanks for your time
At your service, my friend, I hope everything goes well for you.
Pro Tip for Microcenter fans. If you are unsure about the MB bios being able to support the CPU out of the box, after you make your purchase bring them over to the tech crew there. Super friendly and they will test bench the cpu for you and also flash the bios for you if needed. You can do this after the visit but they may apply a charge, but from my experience they consider this part of the sale and will often times not charge you.
Been a Microcenter regular since the early to mid 90's and will never shop anywhere else. Super friendly and Super helpful this store has outlasted every competitor that has come in to the area, Fry's, Comp USA, you name it Microcenter has beaten them all.
it's the last bastion of retail stores that are worth going into, much less driving hours to go to.
Took a huge risk with doing am open box purchase of a Z790 motherboard at a local Microcenter last year. The better Z790 boards were very hard to come by early on & they had one on the better boards available but as an open box. The entire experience was excellent. They had no issue testing the board with no guarantee that I was going to purchase it. Ended up saving around $80 from the MSRP of the board if it was purchased new.
Too bad there's no Micro Center near me. 🙁
There isn't one near most people - it's big enough tho that it can be worth a 2-4hr trip, especially to get deals during a full build.
@@hi_tech_reptiles i drive three hours sometimes to get to the one closest to me lol
MicroCenter would probably consider their store as "near" me, even if getting to the store is absolutely horrible, and the traffic there is even worse. I went there *ONCE* and will never go there again.
The Miami one just opened and it's 4 hours from me. I'll make the drove when I've got the cash to drop.
@@hi_tech_reptiles Closest one to me is like 14 hrs away lol...
Open box deals are incredible if you search hard enough.
My local Micro Center stores usually let me test out MB/CPU/RAM bundles and other parts before I take them home. It's a nice perk for being a former service technician for them. They let me use their test PSUs and a monitor that isn't being used. I dunno any other store that is that generous. This is one of the reasons I keep coming back to their stores.
I live 10 minutes from micro center and I buy open box stuff all the time I literally go there once a week just to see what deals I can find. Definitely thankful for the open box stuff 👌🏻
On my latest build I got 2 open box items in like new condition, a LG OLED monitor and a Powercolor Hellhound 7900XT. Saved a hundred at least on each one. Parts have been working great.
I've bought many many open box parts from Microcenter over the years and never had a problem. I have found several MBs with bent pins that I have taken to the staff to remove. Always look things over.
My best Microcenter find (and probably the best deal I'll get the rest of my life) was some boxes of loose parts for RPi 3 "arcades." They had 2 boxes left, missing some of the parts, but each both still had the RPi - a great value for the $15 each box was on clearance for. HOWEVER - shoutout to the management at Microcenter as each box rang up at $0.01, and they honored the price in the system. Ended up getting 2 Pi's and a bunch of tinker stuff for two cents (and not Jay's! lol)
Every PC part I've ever bought, outside of storage, has been open box from Micro Center. Maybe my locations in Chicago are just super thorough with testing post-return, but I've never had an issue with anything except one kit of memory that they were very quick and happy to swap out with a brand new kit for the same price. Can't swear by MC's Open-Box program enough
LMAO not the weezer rif at 20:40
Dude I LOVE the open box steals at MC. I got 8 Lian Li Uni fans for $1.96 a piece!!!!! Also an ASUS motherboard for a spare build. I always check the open box section now, its such a fun experience perusing the area.
I am reminded when getting into pc's back in the early 2000's. People threw away pc's they thought were broken. Barely anything was wrong with them. One case I found had a ATI Radeon X600 XT card in a msi board with a Athlon XP 1500+ cpu.
I went into Micro Center back during the Pandemic when prices were HIGH. I got a openbox GPU that was not even opened that had to mark it down since the cx took it out the store and opened the box up but never installed.
These are the my favorite videos to watch. Really been enjoying the content!
Had to replace my old 2011 Mac laptop and went with a PC setup. We don't have Micro Centers in the PNW, but managed to get a high-end Lenovo laptop at Best Buy normally priced at $650, for more than $300 off due to it being a return.
Only thing wrong with it was a cosmetic nick on one corner. Otherwise, it's been excellent.
Thanks for putting videos like this together, because there are definite deals to be found, but it's key to know what to look for and look out for.
The funny part is this same store a few weeks told me to never buy open box by multiple employees because you never know what is worng or who took the return back and the Knowledge they have on said product.
Keep in mind the sale people at micro center are commission. They don't make much on open box so I personally feel that was a misleading comment by the sales person.
I have been shopping open box form micro center for decades without an issue
As someone with a 4070 ti gaming x slim, I can confirm it still sags, the bracket is needed lol
I got my last case from MicroCenter, a lancool 216, open box and I love it. The store rep told me that people return them because they want different colors or the rgb variant.
I live in Charlotte which just opened a MicroCenter and I met the manager. He said Jay will be visiting the store later this year. I'll get to see him in person! Thanks for the Open Box vid. It gave me several good ideas.
In my experience with the Microcenter I shop at, the associates have always offered to open the box up and look at it together before purchase. They also test every item that is returned before they let it be sold. They are very open about missing items and any issues with open-box items as well.
I always go open box. Got a 75" Hisense Qled as open box and an MSI 4060 13750h 1440p laptop. Both saved me £100 each and were as new.
bought an open box 3 pack of lian li SL 120 V2 fans open box complete for 22$ from micro-center down from 89$ and they work perfectly. I have no issue going open box
I bought my current AMD RX 6750XT as an open box and got it from the Denver Tech Center MicroCenter.
Got it about 8 months ago for $325,
Works just fine when AMD can get their drivers to work.
But that's another story.
The card was at the time priced at $425.
So a win win
Absolutely worth it. What I personally do when it’s time to upgrade is buy used last gen GPUs on eBay that were used for like test benches or something like that. For example, I bought a 3070 right before the 4070 cards came out. It was way cheaper and it still runs amazing a year and a half later
Here in Germany we almost have absolute nothing like a fully computer dedicated Store. I mean i can go to Caseking, but only when i make a free day, because like i have on weekend free, they have to. The Mediamarket store around the corner is just for normal consumer. I cant even get a Powersupply there. Iam happy when i can get a good ssd there.
So enjoy your Micro Centers!
I wish we had a Micro Center in the UK.
Most folk own Sharpies, coloUr them.
That's what I did with one adapter, took a couple of 'coats' but it's working just fine
I've bought a lot of open box items form MicroCenter, that's the first place I go to when I go to the one here is the clearance and open box stuff. But sometimes the mark down price isn't much better than new, they have had this 1050watt inland PSU missing all the cables for only 20 bucks cheaper than the same PSU new, its been on that shelf for the last 3 months.
Do a full build of top tier open box parts and see if you can have savings enough to build that PC you just did
Watching your Micro Center videos make me miss having a Fry's Electronics only a few hours away.
I sort of do this. Corsair, logitech and Razer have a really good RMA. I bought a A50 From cex and raised a ticket with logitech saying the head foam is not comfortable and they sent me a whole new A50. I also bought a faulty Razer black widow v3 keyboard and raised a ticket with Razer and they sent me a new one. No questions asked
I buy open box from Micro center all the time , I have had only one issue with a motherboard not posting.
Even for clients (get permission from them first) I buy open box and was able to (for one client who does photo editing) 2x ram capacity and higher speed, 2x m.2 capacity, better cpu, and ti over none gpu for $50 more total.
Bought a used pc off Amazon for about 600, came with the 3060ti bouncing around in the case with nothing protecting, fortunately it worked out for me and minus a couple scratches and case damage it was great! Probably won’t buy a whole unit like that again but sometimes you gotta test your luck.
If it's an open item, don't you risk losing out on any manufacturers warranty? I thought once you're a 2nd-hand buyer you can only get whatever coverage the seller offers and the manufacturers warranty is void?
I bought an open-box Lian Li case and it didn't have any of the mounting hardware included the tag didn't mention anything about it missing the parts.
I didn't realize that until I got home and was over 3 hours away from the nearest store to take it back, so we had to plan another trip to return.
Not sure but I think that once a returned item sits on a shelf with no buyers for so long, the distributor/store either sends the item back and gets a credit on a future order, and then the item gets donated to a charity organization and it gets written off for tax purposes. This is what I remember many years ago managing a national auto repair shop.
Going to Microcenter Friday - looking for a new monitor - tired of buying all this stuff online. Thanks Jay!
I see you read my email 😆Hey, this was a good video. I had no idea Micro Center had these kinda deals. That's crazy. Anything less than $100 for solid PSU that is AT LEAST 80+ Gold, 850w. That's pretty straight.
What blew me away was the double mark down deals. The motherboard deal was the best one.
Its been a hot minute since i got back into pc building, but i bought a open box gigbyte 4070ti super from best buy.
The price was initially brand new at 799.99 the open box was 746 plus the tax.
Im slowly gonna buy piece by piece of this pc build honestly as long as it can do better then my current laptop set up I'll die happy xD.
I've used neo force in the past several times with no issues. I kind of wish you had used the neo force and stepped outside of your comfort zone to give a lesser known name a try. Maybe you should use all off-brand names for a build, benchmark it and put it through the wringer. See how it compares to the brand name products
I bought my motherboard as an open box from Micro Center. Worked perfectly.
Yes dude. I'm on the 3rd iteration of my PC, and it's 90% open box from microcenter. Literally only ever had 1 item out of dozens that didn't work, RAM, and that return was no problem! Great deals!!!
My experience isn't brick and mortar per se, but my current pc was a pre-built full MSI build (MSI case, gpu, mobo, AIO, psu) 14700KF + RTX 4070 + 32 GB DDR5 RAM from MSI's Amazon store that was returned that I got in mid January for $1,500 that was $300-500 cheaper than brand new (depending where you bought it at the time) and I've had zero issues with it.
Also, another reason people return stuff is because they've found a better deal elsewhere or decided they wanted a more powerful system.
was about to begrudgely pull the trigger on an open box rog 4080 strix white at micro center. it sold before i could get it, and i ended up finding an apparently open box barely used PNY 4090 verto for only 1200 on offer up and im so happy i went with that instead. dont be scared of offer up and fb market place !
Most of my newest PC was open box and it was so worth it. I saved SO MUCH money
I built an open box PC: an open case with no sides. Great airflow.
This was very useful. Now I just have to wait until they open a Micro Center in BFE. But seriously, it really was useful to see all the stuff that comes with each given component, as well as hear you talk about what should be there and what wasn't. Thanks Jay.
I live 5 miles from a Micro Center and all i buy is open box since it opened in 1999. I have only had 2 bad items 1 was a video card the other was a motherboard out of 10 computers i have built since 99. The other thing Micro center will price match new items from newegg if sold and shipped by them
I got an open box monitor from microcenter. It was in perfect condition, even had the peels
Nice build Jay. The red connector ends and the white GPU don't bother me. I'd just want a rig that would hopefully last for along time. No need to constantly upgrade the PC. Use it until it dies.
NGL When my pc died. I bult a new to me pc but all open box referb items works fine, had to exchange a aio but other then that , saved a ton of money gave some used stuff a second life . Win win. I love getting great deals.
My buddy I was building for bailed on me and didn’t want it any more so I returned a 7800x3d, x670 itx mb, trident neo, hyte torrent, a lian li sfx 850w, and a 4070 ti super. It’s still all probably still at the Tustin micro center if anyone wants a sweet deal like this
Lmao 22:08 when the editor speaks over the original video 😂
Jay I would absolutely be ecstatic if you started doing more 3D printer videos....Maybe a micro center trip on what to buy???
I totally relate to this video. I visit Micro Center almost every other day for tracking clearance items and separating the wheat from the chaff. Open box items can offer great deals, but the biggest caveat is that you should test thoroughly and carefully, and not everyone has the resources or know-how to do so themselves.
I recently picked up a Gigabyte AERO RTX 4080 Super that has exchanged more owners than it was tested by the service department, and it even had a description saying "INCOMPLETE: GPU ONLY - BURNT SMELL FROM GPU". It was an electrical fire waiting to happen, and I'm kinda proud that I kept this from falling in the hands of another customer. I tried testing the graphics card at home and thanks to a CyberPower UPS and a Seasonic PSU, I only experienced short power surges each time I pressed the power button on my test system. I brought it to the service department the next day. Guess what happened: it popped on their test bench and orange flames spewed out the side of the graphics card. I am so glad that I didn't have to deal with the smoke and the burnt electronics aroma at home.
I always go to Microcenter and buy Open boxed GPU's over new ones. Awesome you made a video about building a whole system. Keep up these interesting videos Team Jay!
I can’t speak for MicroCenter, but I’ve bought a decent number of manufacturer refurbished items without issues, and a lot of times those items include a warranty.
I finally got to go to Micro Center. Loved it there. Best electronics store ever.
I wish there was a Microcenter in Central Iowa
LOVE the red power supply plugs
Buying stuff open box has become this strange fun to search for deals that pop in and out. Most of my purchases on Amazon are nowadays open box deals if I can't find a good deal on something. You can save some crazy money sometimes.
Dang Jay you got me wanting to go to micro center and ramble thru returned stock.
I'd definitely trust open box from Microcenter way more than just buying from some marketplace. At least you have the warranty and return policy if it's not working.
I'm building a shop computer for my CNCs, going MC open box all the way.
I agree totally with the crucial statement. I honestly only recommend crucial SSDs to anyone who asks because the only people i wouldnt recommend crucial to are super high end builds, and i dont see that all to often. Personally i have only Crucial SSDs in my build exept for that 1 old HDD which i cant remember the brand of.
I love this video idea! Just clicked, but I absolutely love bargain hunting with pc parts! Imo that was ones of the biggest draws to scrapyard wars for me, aside from luke and linus being as entertaining as they are. Thank you for getting this info out in the open!
(Dont be mad, please)
Many ooen box deals can be found at their online site also including the at times penny deals. Jay told about how over time the price gets reduced further. It sometimes stops at a penny and i have bought a few usb ports, a shield case, bluetooth speaker/powerpack and various other items fir that penny each. Im also between stores in the NYC area so you have to check at each to see whats happening.
@Jayztwocents I got my 5900X as open box for $219 in the Indy store. Saw a 7700X for $189 open box today
I have been buying open box from MC for about 10 years. Unfortunately my local store does not update prices like they used to. I could walk in and go through 10-15 TV's that would be 40-60% off. Now most open box is just like 10% off. The one thing I will not buy open box from MC is motherboards, had far too much trouble in the past with them... the majority have had something wrong with them.
14:05 Damn, haven't seen one of those in a hot minute. I didn't know Molex connectors still existed, lmao.
This was fun. I wish I had a Microcenter near me.
LOVE YOU JAY keep killing it on the vids man.
"Ow I have a thigh cramp" is the new standard in merchandise promotion.
I love open box and used components, really.
Will never do a used or open box motherboard again. Burned 2 times, and only got my money back 1 of them. Also typically avoid power supplies unless it’s a stupid good deal. Other than that, I am pretty adventurous :)
I wish we had these types of stores in the UK 😢
Around $1500 budget. open box. that would be an interesting one. Seeing how good of a system you can get for around $1500 or 16 whatever somewhere on there. Open box. Maybe amd and an Nvidia. But could be not too cheap, so I might be asking too much. I'm probably asking too much, but either way, that would be cool to see.
Honestly the doing a video on second hand ebay or otherwise parts would be very down to earth. I build many pcs on a budget that way. My parents have two pcs one of them on an ancient amd fx apu with a xfx 270x that is all second hand except for the psu and its till runing strong over 10 years later. My current system has evay evga 3090 hybrid and my wive’s is a evga 3080ti hybrid and we have had no issues and i got them way below msrp. I even built a htpc my mother killed by dropping it that ran on the last generation of FX amd apus and had a 6gb evga 1060 mini all second hand built.
I remember a few years ago I bought a 2080 ti that was water blocked. Then I realized the fluid gaming case I bought was one of those EK aluminum setups. I took the GPU back I never even opened it they opened it and marked it as open box. So I can attest to a lot of the open box items are brand new someone just returned it.
Even a quick Phil montage of a build would've been nice to see even if the video is a little longer. I enjoy watching the actual build 😂
Mad jealous of that microcenter, mine had like 5 used boards total lol
ive bought many open box stuff from my micro center
in my current system my gpu motherboard and cooler are all open box and i bought an open box HP system for my grandparents awhile back that was pretty sick deal that was totally brand new factory sealed with a pretty nice open box dell monitor
when I built my first rig this is how I bought my first ever Mechanical keyboard. I searched for one I liked at the time (because in shooter games with membrane I was so bad) and I saw one from Razer, and the open box one was half the price because the box was damaged, then as a slimy MoFo, I checked the recent negative reviews and guess what, there was one a week old review saying: "it is too loud, my parents always wake up when I game at night". I laughed my ass off and ordered it. 8 years later it's still working, and guess what! nobody is woken up by it. partly because I live alone.
2:26 We're looking at you! 🤣😂🤣😅😆😅🤣
microcenter's return policy is awesome for a legit consumer.
I don't know how it's looking in the States, but in Canada I managed to find a used 3070 gaming x trio that was basically brand new, from a marketplace custom builder, for 350$ CAD (255$ US). Because of the economic squeeze, the guy told me he's struggling to sell the builds he did last Xmas, and so he's selling parts individually. I bought all new otherwise: 12700k, z790, 2x32gb ddr5, 500gb crucial p3+, 750 watts gold modular, peerless assassin 120 se, dumped all that into a good old Cougar mx330, and added 3 fans. No glass panel, no RGB (even turned off the GPU), just a solid bang for the loonie workstation with some headroom. Total cost with taxes was below 1500$ CAD, so about 1100$ USD. Saving big on the GPU goes a long way!
If the red connectors are the only thing: you can take a sharpie and color them black, or save up a bit and buy replacement cables some day ;)
I buy so much stuff open box from microcenter it's crazy. I almost never buy anything that isn't discounted. It's great if you aren't in a hurry and can wait for someone to return the exact thing you want. I will say though. Whatever microcenter you went to it is WAY more stocked on open box that the one near me. I was there yesterday browsing the open box and they had only 15-20 motherboards. The place you were at looked like it had more open box that my store has new. That was crazy
Microcenter: Man, we've got a lot of open box motherboards to get rid of.
Jay: Hey, MC, got any video ideas?
MC: 😁
😉
Wish the nearest micro center wasn't 9 hours away they seriously need one in Arkansas
With the money you've saved you can buy a sharpie and sort out those red plugs :)
Also I returned a BeQuiet Air cooler once myself, because there wasn't enough ram clearance for the ram I had, so I switched to Water Cooling and never looked back. But there was nothing wrong with the Air Cooler, so someone would have got a bargain here in the UK :)
woulda been awesome to see you try out that other brand of ram
I wish for a microcenter here in the UK
should buy that neo just too see what it is and the performance and bechmarks they could be a sleeper in DDR
Before I watch the video I say yes! Absolutely! I got a Z690 Edge wifi for $80 usd regular like $260? All it was missing was the wifi antenna!
Edit: I went in for a new NVME drive and saw that deal and bundled a 12900k with it and also got an AIO and new PSU! Almost walked out with a new pc just looking for a drive!
I have also bought returned items from Amazon
I picked up an open box 5500XT 8GB in May 2021. I had gone in for a 5900X and left with a GPU also. I had everyone in line asking me where I found it.
That said, it was brokenish. It would display but used the default Windows driver. Wouldn't load the AMD driver. ASUS replaced it with a working card.
I just upgraded my PC to the AM5 platform, and half of it uses open box items; $160 Aorus Elite AX Ice motherboard, $160 6400 CL32 Corsair RGB 64GB DDR5, $100 1000w Corsair SFX PSU, $60 Gen 4 1TB NVMe. Paired it with a new $280 7900X3D. I've had good luck with the Amazon Warehouse deals; just try to go with the best condition one with original packaging, if there's multiple options.
Wow, DDR5 has really dropped in price. I paid more than double that when I built my 7950X rig upon release.
I'm curious what you do with all the random systems you build, do you sell them, donate them, etc?