I believe they are refurbished products from users sending them in and back to Evga standards of working condition. Hence no accessories come with the bstock and limited 3 month warranty.

Yea they should be recertified products. I'm sure someone can confirm my sayings are correct. Pretty sure there's other threads with the same ish question.

Everything I've purchased from b-stock has worked fantastically. Also, they carry a 30-day warranty.

90 days warranty = no peace of mind
 
A brand new GTX 480 costs $209.99 with a 3 year warranty at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130759
 
use coupon code: 
EVGA48315 $40 off  

They can be a product sent in for RMA that passed testing, a product sent in for Step-Up, or a card that had a component replaced. It is essentially from the same stock that would be used for warranty replacement, which continue the warranties of the original product but these come with 90 day warranties and are sold at a discount.

Yeaaaa.... I figured it was going to be outrageous lols

I wait for kepler. Maybe some of the midrange kepler cards has same performance as the 480 but with lower power consumption.

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I believe they are refurbished products from users sending them in and back to Evga standards of working condition. Hence no accessories come with the bstock and limited 3 month warranty.

yes, that pretty much sums it up. alot of them are perfectly good cards that were traded up for the step-up program. there are others that are rma returns but they are repaired and go through evga testing to make sure their working correctly. your friend has nothing to worry about when selecting a evga b stock card, but if he is that doubtful just tell him to save his pennies and buy new. 

Ahh many thanks for this reply he made up his mind and yes he is going for that B-Stock GTX 480, it's also for an old Core i7 setup not core 2 Quad rofl, I'm  Dual Opteron nerd how could I know right hahaha 
 
So yeah for that system, a GTX 480 is a very sweet upgrade, anything is better than that ATi HD 5770 which he really wants to step away from
 
He also plans to become a member of this forum as Hawkins I believe and he will surely make a post of his tuned up rig, anyways he thanks everyone for helping him out via me in this topic
Hereby I also thank everyone for posting so quickly!

Hello from me too. :) I am the friend Gold Leader is talking about. Well, my original concern was that the 480 is totally vanished from the greek market, and then I come to the source here on EVGA, only to see that in Europe the product is no longer available, other than B-stock. I would go for the new one priced at €229 but, poof. Not there. Hence my original concern about B-stock. However if B-stock hardware is sought to working condition then I guess I have nothing to worry about. It is cheaper too.
 
GL, you have confused my systems again m8, it's a core i7 setup on which I wish to replace the HD5770. My Core 2 Quad setup has an HD4870 and is all good.
 
EDIT: as for going for a new 580, besides being off-budget by too much, the i7 system I got is about a year old, and wish to use contemporary hardware for it. The 480 suits me because at the same time it's top of the line for it's time.

There are new ones in stock in Europe at the lower price. It may take a bit longer to show up in Greece but they have been available in the bigger EU markets for 1-2 weeks now.

Hey Gold Leader, thanx! Happy to be here. You too Demonink. :)
That's splendid news NickM, that means I will wait for it abit. Also forgot to thank you all for your quick replies. :)

I can see that!

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