939 AMD64's available at new egg!!

[Bling]

Originally posted by: Solema
If I was gonna spend in the neighborhood of $500 for a CPU, I think I'd pop for the extra $15 and get a warrantied CPU. 😀 What are the tangible performance benefits of the 939-pin form factor?

Why would the OEM version not have a warranty?

 

[jhbball]

oem cpu's come with a 30 day warranty, retail come with 3-year.

 

[FunkierThanU]

Originally posted by: jhbball
oem cpu's come with a 30 day warranty, retail come with 3-year.

True, but on the flipside, the fine print on the retail AMD 64's say the warranty is voided if you don't use the stock heatsink.

D'oh!

 

[FunkierThanU]

Originally posted by: cringe
Still confused over the whole 64 thing. Can you still run all your apps and games? sorry for the newb question.

Yes. And run them a lot faster too!



I have yet to find anything that won't.

(I would imagine it depends more on you OS than the 64 vs. 32-bit hardware difference. Both XP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 for AMD64 seem to rock on the new machine, although I'm the newb on the Linux. With XP, at least, you can always emulate older versions of Windows for really old apps that wouldn't normally run on XP.)

 

[Bling]

Originally posted by: jhbball
oem cpu's come with a 30 day warranty, retail come with 3-year.

Do you mean they only have a 30 day warranty from retailer? You should always be able to RMA one back to Manufacturer.

 

[dirtrat]

No, the OEM CPU's only have a 30 day warranty from the Manufacturer (AMD). This is nothing new and its always been this way!

Originally posted by: Bling

Originally posted by: jhbball
oem cpu's come with a 30 day warranty, retail come with 3-year.

Do you mean they only have a 30 day warranty from retailer? You should always be able to RMA one back to Manufacturer.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
If I was going to spend 500 I'd go all the way and spend a couple hundredm ore to get an FX-53 or P4EE.

It'd be more like 1100 for the EE

 

[Tab]

Actually the EE has gone down in price, however there is no way I am buying this that offers 10% more performence over a $150 processor.