On 27 Jun 01, at 11:01, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Athlon might crap out on you in 1 week, or 10 minutes. Overheating problem, > yada yada yada. Well, you can just drive down to GNS or TM and get it > replaced. Good luck doing that online, and chances are, the price you are > given is OEM and you only have 30 days on it anyway. I see that if you purchase an AMD CPU from Multiwave you get a one year warranty (not 30 days) on the OEM version, and a three year warranty on the retail product. There is $26 difference in price between the two on the 1200MHz CPU, but the retail version comes with an AMD approved fan/heatsink where the OEM does not.