Should I buy a refurbished PC?

[xeonboy]

Has anyone bought one before? Would like to hear some thoughts on this.

 

[zacky1223]

From carousel ma?

 

[Koenig168]

Depends on the price, though I have not seen a refurbished PC worth buying.

 

[Trans-Am]

Imo, not worth it.

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[Ark Law]

If it's a refurbed workstation, then maybe can consider

 

[xeonboy]

From carousel ma?

Yup.

Btw, between Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.1Ghz vs Intel 3rd Generation Intel® Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610QM (2.3GHz - 3.3GHz), which one would perform faster?

One is i5 for desktop PC at higher Ghz and the other is i7 for laptop and slower Ghz.

 

[FlipGor]

Yup.

Btw, between Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.1Ghz vs Intel 3rd Generation Intel® Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610QM (2.3GHz - 3.3GHz), which one would perform faster?

One is i5 for desktop PC at higher Ghz and the other is i7 for laptop and slower Ghz.

Both would perform similarly at low-intensity tasks. But the desktop should be able to maintain the higher clocks during high-intensity tasks due to desktops being generally better at thermals.

However, with the release of ryzen apus like the 2200g, theres really no compelling reasons to take these old sandy or ivy bridge unless pricing is really really low.

 

[xeonboy]

Both would perform similarly at low-intensity tasks. But the desktop should be able to maintain the higher clocks during high-intensity tasks due to desktops being generally better at thermals.

However, with the release of ryzen apus like the 2200g, theres really no compelling reasons to take these old sandy or ivy bridge unless pricing is really really low.

Thanks. If I use mainly Photoshop for large document canvas with many layers, is a separate GPU needed or will the onboard graphics card do? Will there be a big difference?

 

[FlipGor]

Thanks. If I use mainly Photoshop for large document canvas with many layers, is a separate GPU needed or will the onboard graphics card do? Will there be a big difference?

Im not sure about photoshop as i don't use it, but from my experience with adobe illustrator, GPU doesn't really matter unless you are running some GPU-acceleration features. Whats more important is more cpu processing cores and ram, which amd ryzens would be great at, eg. r5 2600 at 6 cores 12 threads.

 

[poooooo]

Thanks. If I use mainly Photoshop for large document canvas with many layers, is a separate GPU needed or will the onboard graphics card do? Will there be a big difference?

What you want is fast cpu not multi core, a lot of ram 32gb to 64gb for large format and any basic low end gpu will do for gpu related filter, it doesn't really has many gpu accelerated function, a good i7 or i5 igpu will most likely be enough.

For your reference, i've tried 16gb for wall poster of 5m x 8m, is super slow, but its a side project and i rarely do big format. Its more than enough for my usage of normal a4 to a3 presentation.

Adobe bottleneck is adobe itself :/ even with good hardware it cant run fast.

Imo a competent ps system could be a recent i5 like 8600 + 16gb ram. Use oc i7 + 32gb ram if you wants more raw power.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

For your task best is to get current gen system so it can last u for quite a long while. If u get such refurbished system, there is no guarantee that it will last a uear or so. (But ofc depends on how long hours and days for your usage.)