what is oem?

[johnhacker]

i was on pricewatch.com and looking at amd chips, Athlon (Tbird) 1GHz Socket A, (200Mhz FSB) - OEM, what's the oem? is it some kind of ram, and also 200mhz fsb?

 

[Biggs]

Original Equipment Manufacturer

 

[johnhacker]

ATX -AMD Athlon Slot A Motherboard, 550-1ghz, is this compatible to the chip listed above?

 

[stultus]

OEM, i.e., what big companies would buy to make systems to sell to you. Also called "white box", you don't get the retail box. In some cases (video cards) OEM cards are made with sub-standard parts. In the case of CPUs, they are exactly the same chip, but you don't get a 3-year warranty, the retail box, or the fan/heatsink. All you get is the chip and a 10-30 day warranty (depending on the seller).

That said, I always buy OEM because it's cheaper, I don't care about the box, I usually use a better HSF for overclocking anyhow, and the "extended" warranty is useless to me - if it works when I pop it in my system, I'm happy. These chips don't just die at random.

 

[JayPatel]

its basically components that are sold out of the retail channel so that way manufacturers save money by not having to deal with fancy packaging and frills that normal retail boxed products would include.

 

[stultus]

No, you cannot put a socket A chip in a slot A motherboard. You will want to buy a socket A motherboard.

 

[johnhacker]

where can u buy heat-sink fans?

 

[johnhacker]

<< No, you cannot put a socket A chip in a slot A motherboard. You will want to buy a socket A motherboard. >>



oops! i guessed i missed that, thanx

 

[jhu]

omega epsilon mu

 

[drkclw]

I'd go with Socket A just because its newer and you can't mix Socket A with Slot A.
FSB is front side bus
I'd get 266 FSB (its faster)and get the 266MHZ ram for it a.k.a pc2100 ram
some good mother boards that utilize the newer pc2100 ram are:
MSI K7 Master
Asus A7M266
Iwill KA266/R (some have an R which stands for Raid which is cool but you need an extra hard drive, it pretty much makes the HD go faster by using the capacity of one but the speed of both)

 

[drkclw]

newegg.com

 

[johnhacker]

this any good?

 

[drkclw]

Check this out

 

[johnhacker]

what's an ali chipset?

 

[CurtisBilly]

To add to what stultus said about chips not dying at random:

I agree...but if you're talking OEM/retail hard drives...and the warranty is different....it might be worth getting the retail drive....hard drives are much more prone to dying (in the 1-3 years of use range especially!)

 

[crazychicken]

OEM will save you a few bucks if you dont care if you get cables and support and waranties

definitly just get retail