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dennisgray41dennisgray41 Posts: 803
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I am in the market for a new computer. I am wondering if anyone has had experience with Ebay, for new, refurbished or used products. 

I am interested in intel i7 and nvidia 3060 or better. 

For hobby work.

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,754

    Personally, I would never trust a computer I bought used, much less on Ebay

    What is your budget?

  • dennisgray41dennisgray41 Posts: 803

    FSMCDesigns said:

    Personally, I would never trust a computer I bought used, much less on Ebay

    What is your budget?

    As little as possible but under $2000

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,238

    I've never had a bad experience with eBay, but I've never bought used computer equipment from them. My biggest purchases were probably my desktop webcam (new) and some band instruments (some new, some used).

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,754
    edited June 3

    dennisgray41 said:

    FSMCDesigns said:

    Personally, I would never trust a computer I bought used, much less on Ebay

    What is your budget?

    As little as possible but under $2000

    You can easily get a new system with an i7 and 3060 for under $2000

    Even better system https://www.ibuypower.com/store/intel-14th-gen-level-up-pc-daily-deal

     

    Post edited by FSMCDesigns on
  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,689

    FSMCDesigns said:

    dennisgray41 said:

    FSMCDesigns said:

    Personally, I would never trust a computer I bought used, much less on Ebay

    What is your budget?

    As little as possible but under $2000

    You can easily get a new system with an i7 and 3060 for under $2000

    Even better system https://www.ibuypower.com/store/intel-14th-gen-level-up-pc-daily-deal

     

    Ebay?????? Where do you send it for repairs. Yep new PC's can break or be lemons out of the gate. I've used ipower and Falcon and paid 10K for a piece of junk. Back in 2019 after 5 repairs withing a year, I sent it back, got a full refund and gave the money to a local guy to make me something reliable for 3D rendering with  RipJaws 128K Ram, Dual SSD 2 TB Evos, Dual Nvidea Cards, water coolers, a lightning fast chip with a die for motherboard, and he did. It was a much better investment. A much better PC. 'Custom machines' are not custom unless you can control every single part. iPower and Falcon gave me limited choises from their cookie-cutter specs. Buy from a place that you can throw it in your car, or on a bus seat, and carry it back to whoever, if the system fails. Sitting for weeks, twiddling your thumbs, waiting for the resurrection or funeral for you pc, is never fun, especially when it gets dropped ship back only to be sent away again.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,754

    ArtAngel said:

    FSMCDesigns said:

    dennisgray41 said:

    FSMCDesigns said:

    Personally, I would never trust a computer I bought used, much less on Ebay

    What is your budget?

    As little as possible but under $2000

    You can easily get a new system with an i7 and 3060 for under $2000

    Even better system https://www.ibuypower.com/store/intel-14th-gen-level-up-pc-daily-deal

     

    Ebay?????? Where do you send it for repairs. Yep new PC's can break or be lemons out of the gate. I've used ipower and Falcon and paid 10K for a piece of junk. Back in 2019 after 5 repairs withing a year, I sent it back, got a full refund and gave the money to a local guy to make me something reliable for 3D rendering with  RipJaws 128K Ram, Dual SSD 2 TB Evos, Dual Nvidea Cards, water coolers, a lightning fast chip with a die for motherboard, and he did. It was a much better investment. A much better PC. 'Custom machines' are not custom unless you can control every single part. iPower and Falcon gave me limited choises from their cookie-cutter specs. Buy from a place that you can throw it in your car, or on a bus seat, and carry it back to whoever, if the system fails. Sitting for weeks, twiddling your thumbs, waiting for the resurrection or funeral for you pc, is never fun, especially when it gets dropped ship back only to be sent away again.

    true, my new rig came from ibuypower (3rd one from them) and it was dead on arrival, sent it back and they upgraded the GPU and DDR for free, so I got a 4080, i9 system for $1800. I live in Dallas and there are not many places you can go to to build a custom system that I have found. The mass production places have a track record of building multiple PCs,many because that is all they do, so I trust them more than some guy in a local shop I have no clue on..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 4

    ...I increased the memory to 64 GB and added a WD Black 6GB HDD for the Daz Content Library deive and it comes to 1,970 USD.  32GB is cutting it close as I have 24 on my old system and it gets a workout.when rendering and is in danger of going into swap mode.(virtual mempory)  which really slows things down.

    I'm also still not sold on DDR5 as being necessary for a Daz machine.  With DDR4 you probably can get more "zing" for your Zloty.   I'd also consider a Ryzen 7 CPU which has all dual threaded cores (Intel splits the threading between faster Dual and slower single thread cores which only makes sense for a portable system to save battery charge). If Daz 5 goes multi thread, the more  threads the better.

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,051

    I've been buying and selling things off eBay basically from the beginning, even before PayPal, where you would have to mail a check to the seller. Even I would be hesitant about buying a used computer there.

  • Blando CalrissianBlando Calrissian Posts: 546

    I sold all of my old computer items on Craigslist a few years back. It did have the advantage of allowing prospective buyers to at least physically inspect the items before they handed over the cash, but these being PC parts it wasn't like they or I had an open case there in the parking lot ready to test out the component for them. So still some risk, for sure.

     

    The venerable PC Part Picker can help you to guesstimate how much the computer you're looking to buy/build might cost.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 4

    ...I did pick up a nice little notebook with W7Pro, a 1TB SSD, two new batteries, and 32 GB memory on eBay for 200$.  Turned out the seller was in the same city where I live so he personally delivered it to me so I saved shipping charges and worries.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940

    kyoto kid said:

    ...I increased the memory to 64 GB and added a WD Black 6GB HDD for the Daz Content Library deive and it comes to 1,970 USD.  32GB is cutting it close as I have 24 on my old system and it gets a workout.when rendering and is in danger of going into swap mode.(virtual mempory)  which really slows things down.

    Add a small SSD for the swap file, that will speed things up a lot if it starts swapping. 

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