What does a boxed processor mean?

Question

And what is the difference between a boxed and not a boxed processor?

What is the difference between a boxed and not a boxed processor?

Can you buy as easily a non boxed processor and put it in your computer, or do you then need to buy extra stuff?

Answer 1

Boxed processors are processors sold unbatched, and come in pretty boxes and consumer packaging for customer sale. These come paired with accredited heatsinks, and install instructions - along with thermal paste.

Unboxed or OEM (original equipment manufacture) is sold in batches to companies, or resalers in batches for mass production. You can purchase Unboxed OEM parts from retailers like Newegg; however, you will not get anything other than the processor itself. For die-hard modders this is great, as the purchaser can choose their heatsink and thermal paste without wasting money on the additional costs of a boxed cpu. If however, you are new to PC building stick to the boxed version until you become better versed in the subject.

Answer 2

Processor Meaning

Answer 3

Boxed processor not only means that it is in effect BOXED. There's also a few points that should be taken into account. First they are more expensive than OEM (i.e non boxed) versions. They do have accessories like brackets and heatsink fans with them. They also, very often, comes with a full warranty - typically 1 year as compared to the OEM's 30 days. Even more important is the fact that Boxed CPU are explicitly destined at the retail sector (for sale for upgraders and end users for eg), while OEM CPU's are first and foremost for guys like Mr Dell and Mrs Lenovo (system assemblers).

Because demand and supply fluctuate so much, some system assemblers find it easier to use what is called the Grey market to sell their surplus OEM CPU (when demand is weak for eg), which explains why you can find more or less OEM on the retail market.

Answer 4

Boxed means that it's packaged for individual retail sale by the manufacturer.

Processors are sold individually boxed and bulk packaged. System builders buy bulk packaged CPUs as it's cheaper. Some resellers buy in bulk and repackage for individual sale. Usually these are advertised as "white box" packaged though some do use the term "unboxed". Unboxed CPUs are usually a bit cheaper.

There is NO technical difference between the two, aside from the packaging. And as CPUs are not pirated due to the cost of production you are assured that they are the genuine article regardless of the packaging.

The warranty terms may differ, however. Boxed CPUs are usually warranted directly to the end user by the manufacturer. Un-boxed are usually warranted by the seller who in turn is covered by the manufacturer. This usually doesn't mean much as long as the seller is still around to cover the warranty. That said, CPU failures are pretty rare.

As long as the reseller adequately repackages the CPU, there is no risk in buying unboxed CPUs. I do it all the time and have never had a problem.

Answer 5

When looking at the amd processors the slowest is the athlon and sempron even when it comes to gaming the best are the amd fx 6100 or 6300 the amd fx 8150 or the 8350 [ the fastest amd processor and a 8 core good for gaming and multitasking } looking at mid range amd processor is the amd phenom ll x4 965 Black edition a popular one for gaming and yes x4 means quad and x2 means dual core , a lot of people say amd processors overheat i ran my amd processor for 24 hours with a stock fan and heat shrink didn't notice any overheating even in some gaming with a good graphic card you are really getting more bang for your bucks when you buy amd , sorry to say this from rumors the athlon and phenom series will be discontiued seems like they are pushing these slower amd apu which on benchmarks are very low ratings , good luck on choosing a good amd processor to upgrade your pentium 4 processor still the phenom ll x4 and the later amd fx series are the best from amd

Answer 6

A boxed processor means it's a retail version, not an OEM version. (i.e., it comes in a retail box, where OEM stuff usually comes in a plastic bag or a plain white box) OEM versions of computer parts are meant for system builders. They usually don't have the same warranty and support as retail versions - they're meant to be warrantied and supported by the system builders, not the manufacturer. OEM parts can be cheaper, but you may have trouble getting warranty service or support on them.

Answer 7

Boxed processor means that it's genuine, never used before.
and because it comes in it's box. not installed on the mother board they call it boxed processor

Answer 8

I think you meant the processor and its cooling fan with its aluminum radiator :) And all that's in a box :)

Answer 9

Boxed is a package wich contain processor unit and cooler unit.

Of course, manuals guarantees, stickers... are included also...

Answer 10

Combined Processor and CPU :)