With the retail version, you are almost alway responsible for contacting the manufacturer to get your exchange, where as the OEM you would contact that store. So, could be good or not. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <jurupari at geocities.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] New system recommendations > On 27 Jun 01, at 11:01, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > Athlon might crap out on you in 1 week, or 10 minutes. Overheating problem, > > yada yada yada. Well, you can just drive down to GNS or TM and get it > > replaced. Good luck doing that online, and chances are, the price you are > > given is OEM and you only have 30 days on it anyway. > > I see that if you purchase an AMD CPU from Multiwave you get a one year > warranty (not 30 days) on the OEM version, and a three year warranty on the > retail product. There is $26 difference in price between the two on the > 1200MHz CPU, but the retail version comes with an AMD approved > fan/heatsink where the OEM does not. > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >