Newegg appears to have been duped by one of its suppliers and shipped hundreds of counterfeit i7 processors. It appears Newegg did a good job of shipping legitimate processors to affected customers and dropped the supplier (who apparently claimed they had accidentally shipped demo processors, which wasn't true).
It's not clear to me if the counterfeit processors worked at all. A little hard to believe that someone can copy Intel's top of the line processor unless they are leaking out of Intel's own factories.
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posted: Mar. 9, 2010 @ 9:45a
krnpimpsta
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posted: Mar. 9, 2010 @ 11:15a
Dunno if you read the article, but these are not just counterfeit processors. They're actually "demo units." As in, they're not even processors. They're aluminum processor-looking things that don't even have the pin-outs.. probably won't even fit in a CPU socket.
And the fans are foam molds with a picture of a fan pasted on them, not actual CPU fans.
On some other sources, you can see pictures of the product. They have misspellings and typos, which are inconsistent with the claim that it was an "accident" and that they are "official Intel demo units." They are clearly crafted just intracately enough to fool the average box-packer.
Well, they are not "demo units", but you are right, they were just non-working aluminum plugs and a plastic "thing" designed to look like a fan. I found some pictures here: Pics
Read into the article.. they are NOT demo units. This is definitely fraud. Look at those ridiculous things. Blank pages stapled together as the manual? lol
For a second I wondered if the counterfeiters had advanced their techniques to the point at which they were actually able to make working fake Intel processors...
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