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anything wrong with oem drives


Hey guys....I was looking why are oem drives so much cheaper than going with retail packs......and to be honest? are they worth the S***?

    
Bigshow1030

it depends on what you buying. In my opioun it ok to buy oem in just about anything except I would not buy a oem motherboard.

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mgoldb2


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I would not buy a oem motherboard

Why not? It's not like you really need that driver CD or the IDE cables or anything ...

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Praetor

so in all reality you would buy a oem harddrive? SO the only difference between those and the retail ones are that they don't come with driver cd's and such?

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Bigshow1030

LOL yes.

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Praetor

God, every component of my, pc is oem, including windows XP. the only retail kit in it is the memory, but the saving wasn't worth the money at the time.

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john1979

I bought a oem HD three days ago

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ethernet

i have always heard to stay away from them

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Bigshow1030


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i have always heard to stay away from them

I'd stay away from refurbished stuff, but an OEM in a sealed static bag and with warranty is just the same as retail (minus the drivers, cables, packaging of course)

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Yeti

Just out of pure curiosity what makes it OEM I mean I know it doesn't come with drivers and such but How did it become "OEM" in the first place?

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