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Q6600 - Retail or OEM?

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NCguy

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Clubit G0 Q6600

Will be using a Tuniq Tower120 so don't need Intel HSF

See Retail has 3yr warranty versus OEM 90 day.
Are people really able to claim warranty? How do they know you didn't fry it
on an OC gone bad?
 
Unless the price diff is significant, I always buy retail. Well, unless I plan to lap the proc, than probably OEM. Nice to have a spare, if cheap, HSF on hand too.
 
wrong section I think.

it really depends on your conscious on claiming warranties on your cpu (even though its pretty doubtful you'll break it). I say if the price is within a few dollars just get the retail
 
The warranty is only good if you mount the stock HSF on it and have it clocked stock. Intel can actually tell from the HSF how long it was on the processor
 
[BRO]Alaskan;1031747510 said:
The warranty is only good if you mount the stock HSF on it and have it clocked stock. Intel can actually tell from the HSF how long it was on the processor
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He speaks truth. Warranties on processors are useless if you plan on having any sort of fun with them. OEM ftw unless you don't have an extra HS&F laying around. Always good to have one. :)
 
Thnx folks, now I know that the stock fan that comes with the processor is called HSF :D
btw, retail dude retail (unless the pric difference is huge)
 
Buying a boxed CPU guarantees the seller hasn't already test driven the CPU and passed on a known poor overclocker to you, like they could do with an OEM CPU. OCing is always a crap shoot, but you want to remove as many negatively influencing variables as you can from the equation.
 
NerdAlert said:
Buying a boxed CPU guarantees the seller hasn't already test driven the CPU and passed on a known poor overclocker to you, like they could do with an OEM CPU. OCing is always a crap shoot, but you want to remove as many negatively influencing variables as you can from the equation.
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LOL i highly doubt newegg or any other big online stores sit there and test o/c ability of oem cpu's.
 
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