To answer your question, OEM chips overclock just as well as retail chips, and sometimes even better. Most of the time it's better. So go buy that AMD proc, and overclock it, because there isn't one difference. :)
I have a Pentium3 1 GHZ, and I overclocked it to 1.13 GHZ using the default 1.75 volts! Pretty cool. I benchmarked it with SiSoftSandra2001, and it beat every single test bed in the list, including the Pentium4 1.5 GHZ! I was like "whoa". My mobo is a Soyo SY-6ICA w/ the i820 chipset...
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