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How do you even find motherboards on AliExpress properly? Do you have a methodology to split the chaff from the wheat?
by cobertos 7mo ago
How do you even find motherboards on AliExpress properly? Do you have a methodology to split the chaff from the wheat?
- segmondy 7mo agowhat chaff? Just search, find what you want and buy. It's like ebay.
- Aurornis 7mo agoBeing like eBay is why it's full of chaff. There's a lot of really bad hardware on Aliexpress. You either take a gamble on something and hope it's good, or try to buy the same thing that someone else bought and reviewed.
- timschmidt 7mo agoI always figured that was the trade-off for paying 1/3 the price. Having to buy 3x as many to find a good one. :P
- dessimus 7mo ago"Another Slot A motherboard :(, maybe the 4th one I buy from AliExpress will finally be that X870 motherboard I want!"
- timschmidt 7mo agoI've never received something other than what I've ordered. At worst the documentation is scant or missing entirely. Specifically with respect to motherboards, most of the aliexpress specials I've interacted with have had completely unlocked BIOSes. Which are easy to get yourself into trouble with, but kind of nice to have when you need them.
- kube-system 7mo agoI think most of them just don't customize their bios and use the default fully-wide-open implementations from the upstream bios vendor.
- killingtime74 7mo agoHave you heard of paying with PayPal/credit card?
- genewitch 7mo agowhile possibly too sneery for this site, paypal and a real credit card will have buyer protections. Debit cards, and basically anything else will not.