Refurbed PCs from Takealot -- anyone tried one?

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Refurb or the stuff one persons buys then returns back? Those box opened stuff sold at discounted rates?
 
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Refurbed is basically secondhand. I'd rather get something off Carbonite/Gumtree/BidOrBuy and it will more than likely be cheaper.
 
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Bought a refurbed Dell desktop for my wife's Aunt, besides the screen being a classic econco workstation item, the PC has been flawless since January. Can't say there are any complaints.
 
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The_Ogre said:
It's a 9 year old CPU, so you'd hardly see any performance improvements over what you currently have. Well, unless you currently have a very high end CPU from that era.

On that, what are the specs of your current machine?
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Cool, noted... my machine is a i7-2600 CPU. 8 GBs RAM. Beyond that I can't recall. It was a custom build by a company that no longer exists. Now over 10 years old, and sometimes struggles to fire up in the morning (much like me heh heh) hence I am thinking of a replacement.
 
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RocketsRRed said:
Cool, noted... my machine is a i7-2600 CPU. 8 GBs RAM. Beyond that I can't recall. It was a custom build by a company that no longer exists. Now over 10 years old, and sometimes struggles to fire up in the morning (much like me heh heh) hence I am thinking of a replacement.
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That pc is more than fine for office work, internet, movies etc. You can even do gaming on it with the right gpu.

Plonk an SSD in there with a fresh win10 install and you'll notice a huge performance boost. I'm assuming you don't have an ssd currently.

What do you use the pc for?
 
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RocketsRRed said:
Cool, noted... my machine is a i7-2600 CPU. 8 GBs RAM. Beyond that I can't recall. It was a custom build by a company that no longer exists. Now over 10 years old, and sometimes struggles to fire up in the morning (much like me heh heh) hence I am thinking of a replacement.
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My specs are the exact same.
Bought a great GPU from an awesome forumite. Slapped in a new 1TB hdd (just find a 10K rpm one, I forgot to double check before I ordered).
Startup is a bit laggy. The rest is awesome.
Runs NFS Heat perfectly.
 
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ponder said:
That pc is more than fine for office work, internet, movies etc. You can even do gaming on it with the right gpu.

Plonk an SSD in there with a fresh win10 install and you'll notice a huge performance boost. I'm assuming you don't have an ssd currently.

What do you use the pc for?
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What ponder said,

That refurb will be faster than your system but just because it has a SSD in. You can buy a 1TB SSD for like R2500 (or a smaller one for much less) and with a fresh Windows install it will have the same performance as that refurb for less cost.
 
RocketsRRed

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It does fine once it starts up... but right now its paying the bills after I got retrenched in April so it needs to be reliable.

Thanks for the SSD tip, that's a good thought. New stacks (i3 or i5)) are going for around R8K and there aren't many to choose from.

ponder said:
That pc is more than fine for office work, internet, movies etc. You can even do gaming on it with the right gpu.

Plonk an SSD in there with a fresh win10 install and you'll notice a huge performance boost. I'm assuming you don't have an ssd currently.

What do you use the pc for?
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You can get a 500GB SSD for R1400 from Takealot. And see if your motherboard can take another 8GB stick of RAM. You'll be amazed at the difference. There's really no reason to fork out a couple of grand on an average refurb PC.
 
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