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Retail Xeon versions

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DonPMitchell

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I'm about to buy two 3.4 GHz Xeons, and I've read that there are three versions of the retail boxed product. One has a copper heatsink with fan, which is what I want. But two other versions have passive heatsinks for rack mounted systems.

Has anyone run into a problem with that? Should I buy oem version and install a 3rd party heatsink? I've heard the intel coolers are good though, I just don't want to accidently get the wrong kind.
 
Maybe everyone but me knew this, but web pages selling processors didn't explain it. Here's what I found:

BX80546KG3600EA - 3.6 GHz, Active Heatsink
BX80546KG3600EP - 3.6 GHz, Passive Heatsink
BX80546KG3600EU - 3.6 GHz, 1U
RK80546KG1041M - 3.6 GHz, OEM

So for a workstation, you want the EA, the model that comes with the copper heatsink and fan.
 
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