Why does Athlon64 3000 OEM cost more than Retail?

[Jerry Natowitz]

I've been watching and waiting for prices to change at Newegg. For the
past few weeks the Retail Boxed Athlon 64 3000+ Venice is $146, while the
OEM is $149. The specs are slightly different, the retail has a voltage of
1.35/1.4, the OEM is 1.5

I checked on AMD's website, and the voltage is "variable". Is the OEM a
better (i.e more overclockable) chip?

 

[Lord Gazwad of Grantham]

Jerry Natowitz, <root@j2>, the suboceanic, fading pumpion, and person who
stands at traffic lights scrubbing car windows without asking then demands
money with menaces, expanded:

I've been watching and waiting for prices to change at Newegg. For
the past few weeks the Retail Boxed Athlon 64 3000+ Venice is $146,
while the OEM is $149. The specs are slightly different, the retail
has a voltage of
1.35/1.4, the OEM is 1.5

I checked on AMD's website, and the voltage is "variable". Is the
OEM a better (i.e more overclockable) chip?

Why do you keep posting the same ****ing question?

--
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impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

 

[John Doe]

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From: Lord Gazwad of Grantham <gazwad my-shit-dont-stink.com>
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Subject: Re: Why does Athlon64 3000 OEM cost more than Retail?
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Jerry Natowitz, <root j2>, the suboceanic, fading pumpion, and person who
stands at traffic lights scrubbing car windows without asking then demands
money with menaces, expanded:

I've been watching and waiting for prices to change at Newegg. For
the past few weeks the Retail Boxed Athlon 64 3000+ Venice is $146,
while the OEM is $149. The specs are slightly different, the retail
has a voltage of
1.35/1.4, the OEM is 1.5

I checked on AMD's website, and the voltage is "variable". Is the
OEM a better (i.e more overclockable) chip?

Why do you keep posting the same ****ing question?

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

 

[Lord Gazwad of Grantham]

Psychopath

You really are mentally deranged, perhaps you'd like to see a shrink?

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

 

[sbb78247]

You really are mentally deranged, perhaps you'd like to see a shrink?

it has been suggested in the past, but the ****er will not listen. for some
reason he thinks these poasts with the headers will do some good.

 

[pcbutts1]

Could be Spyware trying to hijack you. Download, install, update and run all
of the following.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it, save
a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so that
it can be analyzed.

HijackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


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it has been suggested in the past, but the ****er will not listen.
for some reason he thinks these poasts with the headers will do some
good.

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