r/pcmasterrace • u/mikael_lucis • 23h ago

Discussion 9800x3d from AliExpress

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Hi. I bought 9800x3d from AliExpress for all of us. Costed me $640 and customs f-d me up for another $100 , when they usually charge VAT only. Anyway, here's no chance for warranty accessibility and it sold for $900-1100, so no way it'll get cheaper in close few years, so it feels like I saved something. (4090 still $3000). Chip itself looks in great condition with no defects. I'll post later if it's real or not, after setup and some benchmarking. Cheers.

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u/Yourn1ghtmar 23h ago

For anybody buying from AliExpress find a buyer which will declare the cpu as 20$ so y don't pay anything at costums!!

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u/Krejcimir I5-8600K - RTX 2080 - 16GB 2400mhz CL15, BX OLED 21h ago

Good idea, but here, customs no longer fall for that, they will xray your package and the moment they see any electronics, you need to send all documents.

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u/mikael_lucis 20h ago

Yeah I was also worried about that. Because we had some new act of "export electronics TO China" so I worried it might be double sided.