Are refurbished computers just as good as new? Just new parts ( some old I'm sure) in an older shell? Just wondering because I found one for what seems to be an incredibly good price. Any opinions? This is a CompUsa btw.....



eMachines EL1352-23e Refurbished Desktop PC
eMachines EL1352-23e Refurbished Desktop PC - AMD Athlon II X2 255 3.1GHz, 4GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVDROM, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Only $259.99

Yeah that's a pretty decent price - just have to be careful with refurbished because you can never really know if it has problems until you get it and look for yourself - but even if there is, usually getting parts on Newegg is very cheap for good deals.

For 260$ the Processor + OS alone is worth almost that.

Amazing deal minus the fact its emachines.

depends of what you wanna do , if you want to get something way better i would suggest you to save a little bit more money and you can get a computer probably better if you assemble it



not really true the processor is like 50$ or something

This post was edited by charlyak on Aug 27 2011 07:44pm

The 2.8 is 50$

3.1 is 75 + win7 home prem is like 92$ + shipping = like 200


Summed up they sell computers pretty cheap now a days not really worth building unless your putting over 1.5k into it.

Paid 500 for my rig quad core 3.2 ghz 8 gbs of ram and upping my GFX card for only like 100$ more.

This post was edited by Dj16921 on Aug 27 2011 07:53pm

i bought very similar 2 years ago, amd athlon II x2 250 3.0ghz , 2gb ddr2, 500gb hd, dvdrom, windows xp for 210$. using it now, works great.


make sure you look know what Motherboard, also the #watts psu if you want to install a cheap ghx card