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I9 9900k OEM v Retail

clone said:
Buy the retail if you can as you get longer warranty and will get a better price should you sell it.
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This^

Having just built a 9900K rig for myself, I have to admit I was pretty impressed with the crazy retail packaging. :) Always going to look better on a listing at a later date when you come to sell a few years down the line.

To the OP: I used the Noctua NH-U12A for cooling. I've been mighty impressed with it at both at stock and OC'd CPU speeds.
 
I believe OCUK will not pre-test any OEM CPU. However, personally, I would never buy OEM generally as there is nothing stopping this from happening at other vendors with the good chips being syphoned off as pre-binned .. Retail this cannot happen as they are sealed. Plus the minimal extra cost is easily worth it for the Intel warranty alone.
 
RyzenJunkie said:
Oem is basically returned chips or chips that were part of the ocuk binning process that aren’t good Overclockers.
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OEM chips aren't that at all. If they were second hand, or had been pre-binned by OCUK, they would be advertised as binned or A/B grade used.

OEM chips are nothing new, you can get OEM drives, software - the idea is that they are sold to system integrators or sold alongside other hardware. In the case of OEM CPUs, I expect OCUK are buying 'trays' of CPUs direct, with the reason that they use them in PC builds.
 
I always get retail. My 4770K was a good clocker and now so is my 3600. Probably the best clocking 3600 on this forum by the looks of it.
 
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