OEM

qqg3 · 12 Feb 2008 at 11:55

I'm aware that OEM is just the basic package, no extras.

I was wondering, if you bought an OEM hard drive would you need to buy a power and SATA cable seperately?

(Does buying wires seperately apply to all OEM products?)

Thanks

semi-pro waster · 12 Feb 2008 at 11:59

OEM usually just means the bare product and in some cases it can have a shorter warranty. You might miss out on some of the packaged software but the drivers are almost always freely downloadable from the manufacturers website though.

With hard/optical drives you should find the necessary SATA/IDE cables came with the motherboard and the power cables will have come with the PSU.

qqg3 · 12 Feb 2008 at 12:01

Ok thanks, that helps a bunch.

Cheers

MumboJumbo · 12 Feb 2008 at 18:43

If you buy a new motherboard in your build it will come with all the cables you need.