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I9 9900k OEM v Retail
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People have overly optimistic expectations of what these chips will do....
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5Ghz all cores at a reasonable voltage (loose wording is 1.3 and are stated as 127w TDP part.)
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This^
Having just built a 9900K rig for myself, I have to admit I was pretty impressed with the crazy retail packaging.
Always going to look better on a listing at a later date when you come to sell a few years down the line.To the OP: I used the Noctua NH-U12A for cooling. I've been mighty impressed with it at both at stock and OC'd CPU speeds.
I believe OCUK will not pre-test any OEM CPU. However, personally, I would never buy OEM generally as there is nothing stopping this from happening at other vendors with the good chips being syphoned off as pre-binned .. Retail this cannot happen as they are sealed. Plus the minimal extra cost is easily worth it for the Intel warranty alone.
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Oem is basically returned chips or chips that were part of the ocuk binning process that aren’t good Overclockers.
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OEM chips aren't that at all. If they were second hand, or had been pre-binned by OCUK, they would be advertised as binned or A/B grade used.
OEM chips are nothing new, you can get OEM drives, software - the idea is that they are sold to system integrators or sold alongside other hardware. In the case of OEM CPUs, I expect OCUK are buying 'trays' of CPUs direct, with the reason that they use them in PC builds.
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I always get retail. My 4770K was a good clocker and now so is my 3600. Probably the best clocking 3600 on this forum by the looks of it.