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Retail vs OEM

OEM has less warranty (1 year) and does not include a heatsink
Retail includes a heatsink (which you would replace anyway.) and 3 years warranty as opposed to 1 year. (I have never witnessed a CPU fail.)
 
Such a small price difference be better to go with the retail version, + you get an extra 2years warranty with it. But you will have to get a heat sink aswell, but i spose most get a new heat sink sooner or later anyway.
 
and with oem you don't get teh box you only get a small box with the cpu inside thats it lol
 
i remember when i bought my current cpu and wonderd why my cpu was in a retail box, I'am sure i asked for a OEM
 
I also read that some OEM i7's have the locked multis. Perhaps it was only early C0/C1 batches but for the sake of a few pounds and a 3 year warranty I placed safe and bought a Retail chip. What happened to the days when OEM processors were noticeably cheaper than Retail?
 
They found somewhere to get cheap rubbish coolers mass produced for pennies ......... about the same time everything in the world started being manufactured in china :)
 
Big.Wayne said:
I wonder if the OEM chips get tested by OcUK staff, the good ones get bundled into a prebuiilt or a 4GHz barebones bundle and the not so good ones get sold to the punter! :p
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Dont think so im sure i read somewhere that a user got there 4.0 oc bundle running at 3.8...personaly kinda defeats the point of seling a 4ghz oc lol
 
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