Originally posted by: Zap
I don't know about Outpost, but Fry's (who owns Outpost) gives you basically a 14 day return period on the CPU and motherboard with no warranty after that. If you want more of a warranty beyond 14 days you'll have to buy extended warranty.
AMD's warranty on retail box CPUs is 3 years for end user. OEM CPUs are 1 year
for customers buying them directly from AMD in bulk. That means if Fry's is getting these OEM chips directly from AMD, Fry's has a 1 year warranty from when they bought them. You don't have any warranty through AMD.
The motherboard is at the discretion of the manufacturer. Some brands are good with end users. I've heard Asus is one such brand. Other brands do not want to deal with end users. Unless they've changed, ECS is such a brand. ECS gives customers buying directly from them (such as Fry's) a 1 year warranty. If you ask them for warranty support, they'll tell you to bring it back to where you bought it. If you press them, they'll say "okay, we can process it but there's a $25 handling fee." That's what happened to me early last year when I tried getting warranty.
Paris does not have SSE3. Palermo D0 cores do not have SSE3 but E3 and E6 do (typically the ones "advertised" on the retail box as 64 bit have SSE3, though I could be wrong). No matter the stepping of Palermo or if it's a Paris, the same "rating" CPU (ie 3100+) will be the same true MHz and cache amount, and same bus speeds.
ECS Motherboard RETURN (RMA) POLICY
ECS Warranty is offered to direct customers with valid ECS invoice only.
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