[geeks] Refurbished PC Components

[Dan Sikorski]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Jon Gilbert wrote:
>   
>> My boss is having me put together some mobo/CPU combos for upgrading  
>> some photo kiosks. He wants me to use refurbished components from  
>> Evertek.com. Given that these machines see extremely heavy usage and  
>> the reliability of them is fairly critical, is it really a good idea  
>> to go with 90-day-warranty refurbs? I don't even understand how a CPU  
>> can be refurbed. This just seems like a good way to make crash-prone,  
>> unreliable computers. Am I just being paranoid?
>>     
>
> You're not, IMHO, being paranoid.  I cannot understand what makes people
> think it's a good idea to intentionally put refurbished hardware into
> customer-facing production in a corporate environment unless you just
> don't care if it fails.  You have good confidence that it's already
> failed AT LEAST once, and you don't know whether the root cause of the
> failure, or all the damage it did, was properly repaired or even identified.
>
>
>   
Furthermore, if you're talking PC hardware, are you really saving any 
money over buying new, but slightly slower hardware?  You can buy new 
atom based boards for so cheap, i can't imagine that the refurb would 
really save you any money.

    -Dan Sikorski