Refurb vs new parts for customer machines. Which do you stand by?

Been running my shop for about 4 years now. Had two jobs last month that split me right down the middle. First one, lady needed a cheap desktop for her kid. Stuck a refurbished Dell Optiplex in there with a used SSD. Works great, $150 total. Second one, same week, business client paid me to fix his accounting PC. Put in a brand new motherboard and PSU. Cost him $400. First job still running fine. Second job had a DOA power supply out of the box. Makes me wonder if refurb parts are actually more reliable sometimes. What do you guys pick for your builds?

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terry_hayes183d ago

New parts don't guarantee squat anymore. It's the luck of the draw either way.

noah_black3d ago

Blew my mind when a brand new GPU fried itself but my 10 year old salvage card still runs daily.