How can I tell the difference between an oem and a retail flipchip copermine?

[zogg]

The title says it, I just bought a retail 700 from a show. It came in the box , but how does someone tell if its retail or oem since the heatsink anf fan arent connected when its new.
the reason why I ask is because I was looking at oems a vendor had in a box....he had phillipines and malaysia in there with these numbers:sl45xx I think.
My retail has Sl45Y on it philipines. Im going to put it in ,y p3v4x now and see what it can do

 

[zogg]

Is there some kind of mark or different stamp on the retails as opposed to the oems?

 

[Nick Stone]

Well, for one thing the box should be factory sealed if it's retail. If it's not sealed then I suspect that the CPU has been tested /traded. You'd have to be pretty sneaky to wrap boxes so that they looked like a factory seal.

 

[Hyperchronismos]

Pentium III S-Specs

 

[compuwiz1]

The number on your chip is a retail version. (PIII 700E FC-PGA cB0)

 

[zogg]

thanks