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I am going to buy a new cpu. Probably a XP1700 again. Maybe tonight or tommorrow night!

An oem CPU is about $80 but only has a 30 day waurranty unless I buy a heatsink fan on same order, then has 1yr. Cost about $15 for a cheapy sink/fan.

Retail Cpu comes with sink fan and has a 3 year waurranty, about $101

Is the wauraunty worth the $20? Never had a cpu go bad yet, but I don't want a factory second reject sent to me just becuase I buy an oem and I don't have the warraunty!

I've got a sink and fan extra already I can use. Bought it for the 1700xp I have now, before buying an AX7.

The main concern is the quality of an oem CPU I geuss. This is for my kids system I a building her and don't want it to fry in 45 days!

I don't plan to over clock it, so am I worried over nothing and better to pocket the extra $20? That's about a quarter the cost of the oem cpu! Course I could probly e-bay the new one for a few bucks back!

I trust the dealer,
I plan to buy it from TCWO, Bought there before (several times) and been happy and the kid likes the life savers! Right now best price I can find on it also.

They don't have the M/B I want so it will come from Newegg I think.
Still trying to decide between the shuttle AK35R and an IWILL XP333 R. Was going to buy about a month ago, got busy, had problems, and the other parts are still in the box collecting dust!

Canton_kid

who keeps a cpu that long anyways? as long as you are careful you got nothign to worry about. if you are ordering from tcwo you are getting a Quality cpu. if not, order from them. Just call them up and say its 81 shipped on pricewatch. I just ordered one from there.

Greg

"who keeps a cpu that long anyways? "

Guess what I have???

I have much newer systems of course, but yes I am also still running an old AMD 486 DX4 100 with Win 98 Se! Cost me about $1,000 to build that system with 8mgs ram and 1 gig drive originally, not about to throw it away Course now it has 64mgs and 2 gig drive Had to upgrade and stay modern!

Also I have a (YUK) Pent 133 running 98SE. Only Intel I owned since the 486 days!

Always had the idea myself any system that still works is good for what it was originally built to do!
Why buy a word proccesser or type writer (do they still make those?) when you have an AT clone sitting there unused

Actually, if the floppies still work I am thinking about putting Win 3.11 back on the DX4 100! I have a video capture card that worked great I paid over $300 for it and a scaner that was working perfect I paid over $300 for and niether will work in Win 98! Always says the driver file has no info about the hardware, and they did not make new drivers! The scanner was better than any of this new junk I bought recently (durring the last few years). If I installed win 3.11 then upgrade to 95 or 98 they worked, but what a pain and alot of stuff doesn't work right in an upgrade install of 98!

Figure if the stuff works might as well use it, why buy new to get the same results! Already have new, and with the old can scan and print many things at once! Plus guests don't get access to my private files, and we can all play Warcraft across the network!

I have some software I like to use alot that I don't need a big system for! Then again, since I am in a rural area all I have is a phone modem conection to the net! Who needs a 1700XP with 512mgs ram and 60 gig drive to surf the net at 38k with a 56k modem! Know what I mean! Just gunking up my good systems with trash like the trojan I just deleted about an hour ago!

I have the full monty modern stuff, but why install EVERYTHING on one system and get all the conflicts, So I just install everything I need all the time on every system and pick and choose on which to install less used stuff, then network then together to share the files!

Kinda figure I'll end up diong that again when the new generation of M/B Cpu's come out too. I'll biuld one evetually but keep the working old stuff usable, or give it away to someone who needs just anything and can't afford anything at all.

I don't mind buying new stuff and having new computers, but I never throw out an old working one! If it works it has some life left and some use for something! Gave an OLD IBM PS2 (about the same as an orignial AT) to a friend once, about 3 years ago. He wrote a novel on it! Don't know if he will ever get it published, but my junk was worth something to him and that was all he needed one for! That one sure weren't anything to me cept a museum piece


Just my thoughts about the old stuff, most people don't seem to think that way about things though.

Like a friend of mine once found a large air compresser out for the garbage man durring one of those large comunnity trash days. Figured he could use the tank so he got it. Turned out the plug was fried and after putting a new one on it worked fine! Like new air compresser thrown away because the plug went bad. They probly pluged it in with it turned on and the plug burned, it happens! So the people bought a new one instead of replacing a $10 plug!

Thanks for the reply, I think I'll buy the oem cpu asap
Was my thought, just wanted a second opinion agreeing.

canton_kid