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To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10149)	2/2/2000 12:14:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Can anyone shed some light on whether the OEM version plus an off the shelf fan will give me the same reliability/performance as the boxed version? In general I will go along with what Retire Soon said about reliability. Maybe it is no longer a problem but in the past there was been problems with vendors relabeling OEM Intel CPUs. They would take a 300 MHz CPU relabel it and sell it as a 400 MHz CPU. I bring this up because I have heard that some vendors are having a hard time getting all of the 733 MHz Intel CPUs they want. I also remember reading in the past that Intel has some software you can run that verifies whether a CPU is a 733 MHz CPU or a relabeled 600 MHz CPU. Perhaps I am paranoid but my suggestion is go with the 733 MHz OEM Intel CPU only if you can get a copy of Intel's CPU verification software, run the software on the CPU and I or another reader of this thread can tell you where to get a copy of the software. But if you have been dealing with your computer supplier for a long time and you trust him go with the OEM Intel CPU.

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