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Buying a 939 cpu from compUSA

Originally posted by: theman
look on the top of the cpu, and post all the numbers you see there.
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I am talking about before I buy it, and I certainly dont think that i can open it first.
 
The box displays the cpu thru clear plastic. Also, why are you buying a cpu from compusa? You can be assured and cheaper online.
 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
The box displays the cpu thru clear plastic. Also, why are you buying a cpu from compusa? You can be assured and cheaper online.
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Originally posted by: Lithan
Compusa charges like two times what a cpu is worth.
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The 3000+ is $179.99, and im buying it from there because its the last thing I need. And patience is a virtue that I am lacking🙂
 
buy it from newegg or zipzoomfly, they are usually there within 48 hours, and it's around $145 for a venice currently, plus no sales tax. Anyway, there really isn't a way to tell if it's a winchester or venice from a boxed processor, but I'll bet you 10 to 1 it's a winchester. Retail stores always have dated technology - after all, customers of these places usually don't know that different cores exist, or why they should care, so they figure they might as well unload the old cores. In fact, it's really hard to even get socket 939 chips at a lot of retailers, particularly for 3200+ and 3000+ models. Trust me, though - get your chip from somewhere you KNOW sells venice chips - the waiting time might be 2 days longer than retail, but if you buy the chip from CompUSA and its a winchester, you're gonna be pissed off for a lot longer than 2 days, especially when you want to add more RAM and find out that winnies can only handle DDR333 with 4 sticks.
 
Originally posted by: gobucks
buy it from newegg or zipzoomfly, they are usually there within 48 hours, and it's around $145 for a venice currently, plus no sales tax. Anyway, there really isn't a way to tell if it's a winchester or venice from a boxed processor, but I'll bet you 10 to 1 it's a winchester. Retail stores always have dated technology - after all, customers of these places usually don't know that different cores exist, or why they should care, so they figure they might as well unload the old cores. In fact, it's really hard to even get socket 939 chips at a lot of retailers, particularly for 3200+ and 3000+ models. Trust me, though - get your chip from somewhere you KNOW sells venice chips - the waiting time might be 2 days longer than retail, but if you buy the chip from CompUSA and its a winchester, you're gonna be pissed off for a lot longer than 2 days, especially when you want to add more RAM and find out that winnies can only handle DDR333 with 4 sticks.
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Good call, as I do have 4 sticks that I will be using in the meantime.
 
Only $179, that isn't too bad. I remember when 2400+ were selling for maybe $65-75 on newegg and Compusa wanted 199$ for one.

Look at the TOP line printed on the cpu.

If it ends with BI it's a Winchester.
If it ends with BP it's a Venice.
 
Originally posted by: gobucks
buy it from newegg or zipzoomfly, they are usually there within 48 hours, and it's around $145 for a venice currently, plus no sales tax. Anyway, there really isn't a way to tell if it's a winchester or venice from a boxed processor, but I'll bet you 10 to 1 it's a winchester. Retail stores always have dated technology - after all, customers of these places usually don't know that different cores exist, or why they should care, so they figure they might as well unload the old cores. In fact, it's really hard to even get socket 939 chips at a lot of retailers, particularly for 3200+ and 3000+ models. Trust me, though - get your chip from somewhere you KNOW sells venice chips - the waiting time might be 2 days longer than retail, but if you buy the chip from CompUSA and its a winchester, you're gonna be pissed off for a lot longer than 2 days, especially when you want to add more RAM and find out that winnies can only handle DDR333 with 4 sticks.
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Tax if you live in CA or NJ 🙁
 
Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
True. Newegg has an excellent return policy imho.
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Excellent return policy? It seems the same as most other retailers out there. You pay shipping back and a 15% restocking fee. I had to do that for a power supply because they don't have a good way to distinguish ATX 1.3 vs 2.0 (I got one that said it was ATX 2.03 whatever that means...). It cost me $13 to ship back and about $8 on the restocking fee for a $50 item... So I ended up paying 40% of the items price when returning it. All in all, a bad experience, new egg REALLY needs to distinguish the new vs the old power supplies.
 
Nice thing about CompUSA now, is they've changed their return policy. 21 days, no restocking fee even on items that you've used. I wonder if it would work on a cpu that didn't oc well.

edit: Just looking at their policy, they don't list any exclusions.
 
Originally posted by: ShmooDude
Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
True. Newegg has an excellent return policy imho.
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Excellent return policy? It seems the same as most other retailers out there. You pay shipping back and a 15% restocking fee. I had to do that for a power supply because they don't have a good way to distinguish ATX 1.3 vs 2.0 (I got one that said it was ATX 2.03 whatever that means...). It cost me $13 to ship back and about $8 on the restocking fee for a $50 item... So I ended up paying 40% of the items price when returning it. All in all, a bad experience, new egg REALLY needs to distinguish the new vs the old power supplies.
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Totally agree with you there, as I was just recently shopping for a 24pin psu and NewEgg was of no help for that.

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Nice thing about CompUSA now, is they've changed their return policy. 30 days, no restocking fee even on items that you've used. I wonder if it would work on a cpu that didn't oc well.
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Hmm that would be nice...But im sure after a couple times, they would wonder what the hell is going on.
 
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