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OEM vs Retail

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Dethman

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Its about $20 cheaper on newegg to get the OEM, is there a diffrence? I know im not going to get the box for the chip but is that it? im wanting to overclock the chip to around 2.8 - 3
 
There are a couple of key differences namely the warrany and the heatsink..

OEM from NewEgg is only one year I believe and you must contact NewEgg regarding the processor.

Retail is a 3 - year warranty from Intel.

The retail comes with the stock heatsink, and the OEM is the processor only.

Warranty Information:
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-020033.htm
 
Retail cpu's come with a longer waranty 3 years normally and an hsf. That's the difference. Me I almost always buy retail cpu's. They have a higher resale value, and if the chip goes down most of the time your able to RMA it back. My mom's 2 year old AMD 64 3000+ winchester went down on me sent it to AMD and got a brand new venice core cpu back from them. So retail is sometimes worth it.
 
I'm susprised that the difference in price is that high. Most of the time in my experience it is less. Hell I've bought the retail chips for less then the OEM a few times before(like my barton 2500 a while ago). Pretty much retail seems to be the way to go unless you happen to get a real good deal on the oem version.
 
so for me its a $20 extened warrenty really, considering im not using the stock hsf, but if im overclocking it, will intel say that voids the warrenty? im sure they can tell
 
Back in the day Retail CPU's used to overclock somewhat better... now it's not the story...

I never seen a CPU die on me unless of course back in the day of Athlon sockets the cores didn't have a protective layer and used to get crushed when you scrape the CPU with the heatsink...

If you're buying a better heatsink fan there's really no point to buy retail CPU but if it's only $5 more why not?
 
you also get the 'core 2 duo' case sticker if you go retail ;)
 
ha! that's true. that sticker makes all the difference.

"the right [sticker] in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world." (in the half life 2 bad guy voice)

cheap, but im stuck at school doing diff equations, so why not? :p
 
I just called intel, here are the steps to get your case sticker:

Send a written letter with receipt to:

Intel Corporation
Intel Inside Program Office
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
Attn: Nasrin Naaseh
MS # RN5-106

Letter needs proof of purchase and should say, please send me a sticker.

Steelgrave said:
Yeah, and how does one obtain a sticker if they bought OEM? hehehe
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kenham40 said:
I just called intel, here are the steps to get your case sticker:

Send a written letter with receipt to:

Intel Corporation
Intel Inside Program Office
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
Attn: Nasrin Naaseh
MS # RN5-106

Letter needs proof of purchase and should say, please send me a sticker.
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hahahahahaha sweet, I actually try it.
 
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