Wrong! If you want to Waste your time and energy buy an open box to save a few dollars, but just know it’s an absolute coin toss! I have got lucky 50% of the time but it doesn’t make up for gas and time wasted. They don’t even check to make sure everything has been returned with the item and still put a “complete/tested good” sticker on the item leading you to believe it tested good and has all the parts with it. Microcenter does not check returned products what so ever. don’t even know how that’s possible but either way it was done, thus killing my new 5600x in the process because there’s no way anyone is getting conductive grease out of amd’s pins on the cpu, nor out of the socket package. After a little more digging into the issue, the person has got thermal paste inside some of the holes I the cpu socket.

Prime example I just picked up a gigabyte Aorus b550 yesterday and even though I went through the box to make sure all components where there, I was foolish enough not to look at the board itself, Not noticing the person who returned it decided to not return it with the cpu bottom plate bracket! Not only that but 2 of the ram slots were not working.

I have purchased hundreds of open box motherboards over the years through microcenter, I can tell you point blank Go through the box with a fine tooth comb. It’s 50/50 if you’ll get a working motherboard.

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