Retail vs. OEM

[BassDominator]

How easy is it to remove the stock hsf from a retail t-bird? In my experience with p3/celeron, the stock hsf has usually been pretty well attached and I've never attempted to remove it. Should I go with an OEM bird instead?

 

[osage]

Well the OEM will be cheaper, I take it you have a GOOD cooler you want to use rather than the stock unit.
It's pretty easy to remove the stock HSF from the socket A cpus, you should have no problem with it.

 

[bacillus]

if you're planning to change the hsf in any case then, IMO, OEM should be the way to go! cheaper as well.

 

[BassDominator]

Thanks, folks. I was planning on buying a motherboard/CPU combo from mwave and then going with the Alpha PAL6035 or Taisol CGK. Sorry if this is OT, but anyone know a cheaper place than mwave to buy a combo?

 

[Urinal Mint]

Try www.allstarshop.com

 

[ChiefWiggum]

I opted for an OEM 1GHz T-Bird.

A friend of mine went to compuplus.com to get the same. They delayed his order so bad, they sent him a Retail AMD T-Bird. The retail is cool. The stock hs/f combo is a Taisol.

Hardly, just "stock" performance. Though, you could get an OEM and a Taisol for cheaper w/no 3yr retail warranty.

 

[kylebisme]

personaly i prefer retail because it comes in a shrink-wraped box and not just the bare processor that someone may have tested and found that it didnt overclock good at all.

 

[bacillus]

<< personaly i prefer retail because it comes in a shrink-wraped box and not just the bare processor that someone may have tested and found that it didnt overclock good at all. >>


while I'll agree with that if it was an intel cpu, the AMDs bar the 1.2GHz thunderbird come with the multiplier locked so much more difficult to o/clock test &amp; not leave tell tale traces on the cpu!