Article Date: 26th June 2002 Written By: Clinton "SileNceR" Warburton

Further Information

More information regarding the differences between the retail and OEM (tray) processors can be found here.

Warranty information on AMD Retail and OEM processors can be found here.

One hardware retailer sent in this - "It's being done for a simple reason - there is a significant grey market in AMD CPUs from places such as APD International - the "official" AMD sanctioned distributors (Legend, Digiland, Avnet) are only being supplied with retail box CPUs to try and make this grey market go away."

*Picture taken from AusPc Market Information for the AthlonXP can be found at AMD's AthlonXP page.

Note: Some of the content of this article is based purely on speculation. Not all points stated are confirmed true.

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