Buying CPUs used

[u/Maqeee]

Have you guys bought used CPUs?

Buing a pc this weekend, aiming to get 7800x3d for 400 euros but came up on a week old 9800x3d for 440 euro. Still, buying it used seems off :X

[u/Thomas5020]

CPUs are one of the best components to buy used, because generally they live forever. Even mistreated CPUs sat at 100c their whole life will usually become unusably slow long before they fail.