Whats the difference between an Intel boxed processor and an OEM version?
• The Intel boxed Pentium processor comes with the Intel Inside® sticker, certificate of authenticity, product registration card, and a three year warranty from Intel. Some of the chips also come with an integrated heatsink/fan/fan cable, but some do not. All boxed Pentium-II processors come with an attached fan/heatsink. Check the Intel sSpec Guide for which models (S-Specs) have the integrated heatsink and which do not. The boxed processors come in their own sealed box and are generally more expensive and often more difficult to find than ‘tray’ processors. The boxes these chips come in are shrink wrapped in a special cellophane that has ‘Intel Corporation’ written on it in white lettering. If it has no Intel writing on the cellophane enclosing the box, it may have been tampered with. A boxed processor will have the letters BP as the first two letters in its identification string. Such as: BP80503200. • Tray processors (often called ‘OEM’ processors) are loose units that only come wi
The Intel boxed Pentium processor comes with the Intel Inside® sticker, certificate of authenticity, product registration card, and a three year warranty from Intel. Some of the chips also come with an integrated heatsink/fan/fan cable, but some do not. The boxed processors come in their own sealed box and are generally more expensive than ‘tray’ processors. The boxes these chips come in are shrink wrapped in a special cellophane that has ‘Intel Corporation’ written on it in white lettering. If it has no Intel writing on the cellophane enclosing the box, it may have been tampered with. A boxed processor will have the letters BP as the first two letters in its identification string. Such as: BP80503200. Tray processors (often called ‘OEM’ processors) are loose units that only come with a heatsink and fan if the third party distributor bundles them with it (usually they don’t). These processor actually come on a tray, and are not packaged individually like the Boxed processors. The only
