OEM vs RETAIL?

[xclusivex]

What are the main differences between OEM and RETAIL besides about 60 bux. I know OEM doesnt come with games, but i dont play the games they package anyway. Is there a difference in performance at all?

 

[knowan]

For videocards, there is no difference with the exception of the Radeon 8500.

Oem's have no box and usually come with just the drivers on a CD. Most of the time they'll have all the cables, dongles, included, but sometimes these are missing as well.

The OEM Radeon 8500 is clocked lower than the retail version.

I've also heard rumors of OEM cards using slower RAM, but this is mostly limited to the Radeon 8500 LE.

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[Crashman]

Sometimes they don't include handy things like a DVI to VGA adapter, allong with the stuff the last guy said.

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[leeanator]

I also believe that the ammount of warenty that you get is limited. I know with the New AMD processors that if you buy OEM it is a 30 Day warenty and if you buy retail it is 3 years.

I believe it is also like this for most other stuff too

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[jankphil]

i believe it's a 1 year warrenty on OEM chips, and 3 years on the boxed, at least that's what i was told when i returned my athlon 700 to amd....

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