Some techy questions

[Guest]

What the hell is OEM? Please give an explanation and an example.

What the difference between socket A and slot A?

What the difference for between box and tray in CPU? For example P III 800 Mhz box and P III 800 Mhz tray.

My friend has a slot 1 motherboard and the manual says it can support up to P III 500 Mhz. Will it be possible to use higher clock P III's?

Tell me the best 10/100 Mbps NIC!

Thank you!


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[Guest]

Here is my take on your questions - hope it helps

1. OEM is an abbreviation for Other Equipment Manufacturer
it means (in the case of processors) a company which buys
processors in bulk and manufactures PCs (Dell,
Gateway,etc). It has come to imply a processor sold
without Heatsink, user help details, or Manufacturers
guarantee to an end user. Because of this corner cutting
costs are less and therefore the price to the buyer is
reduced. My understanding is that a "tray" processor is
just another term for OEM. A box processor is supplied in
a retail package(box) usually with a fan & heatsink and
possibly with a guarantee of up to 3 years.

One of the guys in this forum has strongly expressed the
opinion that OEM processors are inferior, I have used
both OEM and boxed and have had no trouble with either.

Slot A is where the processor is mounted on a card (along
with it's Level 2 cache), and this card is inserted into
a processor slot similar to a PCI or ISA slot. Slot A
refers only to AMD Athlon classic processors (before
t'bird).. yes I know a few t'birds were mounted on Slot A
cards but not many have surfaced.

Socket A refers to a processor socket on the motherboard
which accepts AMD Duron and T'bird processors. The point
is that you actually insert the processor directly onto
the motherboard.

Your friend has a Slot 1 mobo ... Slot A is the AMD
equivalent of Intels Slot 1.
Sorry cannot answer your PIII question .. hope someone
else does.

I use 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) both at home and at work and they work fine with Win 95SE Win98
Win NT4 Win2K and Linux, I am sure you will get other good recommendations also.

Apologies for the long post regards
Fred

 

[toonces]

regarding your pentium question. if you check the motherboard's website they may have a bios update that will allow your motherboard to support higher clock frequencies. otherwise your stuck

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[khha4113]

I thought <b>OEM</b> stands for <b>Original Equipment Manufacturer</b>(?)

 

[Guest]

khha4113 is correct. It stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer. I am one (technically). Meaning that you manufacture products from other components, but brand the new item your own.

A "tray cpu" is called such because they come in large trays to the distributor as oppossed to coming in a retail box with a fan included. Generally there is no difference between a box or a tray cpu, however there have been known to be batches or either that are particularly good or bad.

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[Guest]

You are right guys .. guess my mind was wandering - but I think the rest of the post was correct.
Apologies Original Equipment Manufacturer it is