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buddry   03-20-2002 at 09:02:37 PM

I have read that some people say that retail processors are better than OEMs. Is the only difference that the retail comes with factory heatsink or am I missing something. I wouldn't think that the retail processors would be any better. Are they the same other then the heatsink?

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dancen   03-20-2002 at 09:08:07 PM
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There is no differance in preformance between OEM and retail cpus. OEM CPUs are usually chip only and come with 30-90 warranty. Retail has heatsink + fan and has 3 year or more warrnty

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bront   03-20-2002 at 09:17:29 PM
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Retail CPUs come with a 3 year waranty and a stock Heatsink. The waranty is void if you don't use the stock heatsink.

The OEM vs Retail difference in performance is a GPU issue at times, not a CPU issue.

I do not like it Tom you see,
I do not like green PCB.

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eden   03-20-2002 at 10:45:19 PM
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The only difference with OEM is warranty, and no Heatsink, therefore you choose which, a good choice if you want to overclock.
DO NOT use the Athlon Retail HSFs to overclock, you will regret it.

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