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OEM and Retail Price difference on TBird is $39 Why?

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TungFree

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OEM and Retail Price is $235 on T-Bird 1000 and $196 on OEM that is $39 difference Why? What am I getting for it is it worth it to get the retail? and shipping is $13 2nd day for the T-Bird since I am purchasing a case there as well will the shipping be discounted in your experience? should I purchase the Tbird 1000 elswhere? I am also purchasing a ASUS K7V-RM VIA KX133 mobo and want to be sure that all is working order on arival.
I definately want the case and motherboard there, but the T-bird is optional justas long as I can get all my products to Hawaii and check them. Any suggestions?

 
The extra cost usually comes from the inclusion of a warranty for X months and the cooling (HS/fan) that comes with the CPU.
 
Is a cooling fan and warantee worth $39, seems horibly high...? any suggestions if I should try elsewhwere? and re shipping several Items do they just add the shipping of each single item or do they combine and discount?
 
I believe the retail warranty is 3 years, an OEM chip is totally up to the place you purchased from sometimes less than a year but usually one year I believe. You have to buy a hs and fan so if you can find a good combo for less it's no big deal.
 
I've purchased 4 CPUs (2 Xeon IIs, a P3 600, & a Duron 700) all OEM, and have put my own cooling solutions on them (which were usually less than $25). It's up to you if you want to pay the "premium" for peace of mind... 🙂

And all of the places I've ordered parts from (if I bought multiple items from the same place), combined them (if possible) and charged one shipping price.
 
don't forget that if you don't know for a fact that this store doesn't do this, they may be testing all of the OEM chips for the best overclockable ones and keep them for themselves/sell them for a higher price, and then sell the ones which wouldn't OC as OEM t'birds.
 
if you arn't overclocking the retail heatsink will do just fine. so if you arn't going to over clock much and want some garuntee i would go retail. I have never bought a retail cpu but sometimes i worry about breaking them and it would give me some peace of mind to have that three year warrenty. most oems in my experience are 30 day warrenty. one time i bought an oem and it cam with an intel 3 year warrenty and the site said it would only have a 30 day, so i guess it was some type of fluke. well anyways back to the point.

want peace of mind = retail


don't care and not overclocking = retail


don't care and overclocking = oem


peace of mind and overclocking = retail
 
Thanks for the help I am now informed fillu u each answered and amplified till u cracked the misunderstandings to zerro 🙂
 
Just curious, you mentioned you were getting a KX133 mobo, the K7V-RM. The TBirds are socket "A", and they run on the KT133 based mobos. The K7V is a slot "A" board for use with "classic" Athlons....
 
$39 difference is pretty high-I usually see about $25 difference if you shop carefully. OEM comes with ten day warranty, I'm pretty sure-but maybe as much as 30. Retail comes with three year warranty, reasonable set of installation instructions & a little AMD sticker for your case. The instructions can be helpful if you never used that type of processor before-I know they helped me when I built my first slot A Athlon last spring.

I've mostly bought retail, for peace of mind and to avoid the cherry-picking rejects syndrome that another poster mentioned (the vendor sorts out the overclockable CPUs) and always had good luck. For my most recent slot A class Athlons, I thought the cpu fan was kinda noisy, and replaced it (simple unscrewing job, leave the heatsink on).

I've seen the T-Bird 1000 retail recently at Computer Builders Warehouse (forgot the url, think its www.cbw.com)for $185 (plus s/h) versus the OEM for $175 (plus s/h). Don't know anything about this vendor but its resellerratings.com rating is respectible. I do note in the fine print on their webpage that they don't take returns of CPUs-what's with that??

Personally I'm probably going to hold off for a few weeks more as new CPUs and motherboard chipsets are right around the corner.
 
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