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Q6600 Warranty

WJA96 said:
Do be warned though that many retailers are very aware of people bringing back broken components on someone elses receipt and they often put little stickers or marks on the components to identify them as coming from a particular shop. At least 3 of OcUK biggest competitors do this - one even sticks a sticker across middle of the bottom of the CPU with their name and tracking number on! if you do take the CPU back on someone elses receipt it could be construed as fraud, so just be aware...
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Is that just in the case of OEM cpu's?
 
No, I had a huge row with a big retailer who was opening retail packages and stickering the cpus then taping the boxes shut.
 
I was thinking about the retails when you mentioned CPU’s being marked by a supplier. I would simply send it back if my retail box arrived with a broken seal. Intel even state if seal is broke it must be sent back to the place of purchase.
 
Exactly - but the price was right, they had stock and I needed 10 of them, so....
 
WJA96 - out of curiosity how on earth did they mark the CPU? Its not like you can stick a sticker on a Q6600 and not have some heat issues.
 
In the centre of the bottom of the CPU is a square with surface mount micro-components on it. They put a small, square sticker over that so it doesn't interfere with the pin spots. I don't think it gives any heat issues as most of the heat is going away and up into the cooler hopefully.
 
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