What to get?

[debovenk2002]

What to get? Athlon XP 1700+ Retail Box or OEM Athlon XP 1800+. Same price. I am also getting the Alpha 8045

MY COMPUTER
POWER SUPPLY: 300 Watts
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS A7V266-E w/ Ipannel
CPU: AMD Athlon 1133MHz
CPU COOLER: Volcano 6cu+ W/ 80mm 59.9CFM Fan
MEMORY: 256MB PC2100 DDR Registered ECC
VIDEO CARD 1: eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 200MX 32MB
VIDEO CARD 2: Diamond Stealth64 PCI 2MB
HARDDRIVE 1: 30.7GB IBM 75GXP
HARDDRIVE 2: 30.0 Western Digital 7200RPM
DVD-ROM: Pioneer 116 16x
CD-RW: HP 9100 8x4x32
SOUND CARD: Creative labs SB Live!
NIC: Netgear FA-310TX
OS: Windows XP Professional

[AntiHeiss]

Well if you are going to go ahead and order a separate heatsink and fan then I say get the OEM 1800+. The only difference between the two is that one comes with a fan and heatsink and a case badge I believe (1700+). The other is just the processor itself (1800+).