What the hell is the difference between CP1-DUO and CP2-DUO?

Question

I don't know why this question was removed but am asking it again anyways ... you find on newegg and tigerdirect and many other places where you can buy cpu retails 2 types of the same model .. cp1 duo and cp2 duo .. may someone please tellme the difference or is this like a plot where no one should know
If you don't know what i'm talking about you can go check it search for a q6600 u'll find 2 types one worth 500 bucks and the other one like 280 and the q700 has only one model which is like 550 bucks , but its cp1 .. following the 500 bucks cp1 q6600 .... which is why alota ppl get mixed up and confuse that the q6700 is much more expensive than the q6600 cp2 even though tis only an easily overclockable 266 mhz

As a reply to answer 1
Wow , it's gotten cheaper now it's like 300 , a few weeks ago it was almost 500 while the cp2 was the same price
.. i'd still like to know the difference cause there clearly is one its no serial number

Answer 1

Had to do a little research to figure out what you were talking about, but I figured it out, the CP1 and CP2 are contained in the Item number. Those aren't really industry wide numbers, I think just something Tiger Direct came up with. Regardless, the difference is that the CP1 is the retail version, while the CP2 is the OEM version, as you can see from the description. OEM comes with no heatsink/fan, retail does. Also different packaging.

Answer 2

I just looked on Tiger Direct and there weren't two different versions. There was the Quad core chip for like $280 and the kit with motherboard for like $500. So maybe that's what you're looking at. The qxxxx designation is for Quad Core processors, so they'll never say duo.

Answer 3

Yup, upper post is RIGHT on the dot. CP1 is Retail PIB, CP2 is OEM Tray (no HSF) as far as TigerDirect is concerned.