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Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s

Posted by Zonk on from the interesting-marketing dept.

Lam1969 writes "Sumner Lemon reports that a Chinese company, Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics Co., is remarking Celeron chips as Pentium 4s and supplying software to mask the chips' real pedigree from operating systems. From the article : 'The remarked processors Chuanghui sells are actually 1.7-GHz Celeron chips and are currently available for $78 each, including a motherboard, in quantities of 100 or more, said James Zhan, a company representative named online as a contact for potential buyers. By comparison, Intel sells the real thing for $401 in 1,000-unit quantities without a motherboard, according to the company's most recent price list.'"

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  1. Bizarre quote... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    By comparison, Intel sells the real thing for $401 in 1,000-unit quantities without a motherboard, according to the company's most recent price list.

    Er yes.. but of course the difference is you're actually getting a genuine Intel chip running at 3.4GHz.. and not a chip with a sticker on it that says its a 3.4GHz when in fact its only a 1.7GHz!

    1. Re:Bizarre quote... by broggyr · · Score: 5, Funny
      you're Chinese Off-shorers are loosing their credibility!
      You are Chineese Off-shorers are loosing their credibility! What you say?

      I didn't know it needed to be tightened anyway

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    2. Re:Bizarre quote... by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Funny

      i have an athlon XP running at 1.3 ghz and it spanks my brother's 2.6 ghz celery any day. i would presume that pentium would be similar in performance relative to the celeron

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    3. Re:Bizarre quote... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 2, Funny

      Can we say, "P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pentium!!!" anybody?

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  2. The real question by rajeshgoli · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can the fakes be told from the real thing?

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    1. Re:The real question by Scruffeh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, they are bloody slow!

  3. AMD Power! by Zebadias · · Score: 5, Funny

    No wonder those AMD64's are wipping the P4's!!

    Zeb

  4. Re:What about CPUID? by D-Cypell · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would love to see how they can change the internals of a Celeron 1.7GHz to make the CPUID instruction return the ID of a Pentium 4 at 3.6GHz...

    I would love to see them change it to "This is a fake CPU and you paid over the odds for it you complete and utter mug!!"... and see how many of their customers noticed!

  5. Let's not be too hard on them. by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps it was just because they find it easier to say 'Pentium' than 'Cereron'.

  6. Silly Asians by carguy84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next thing you know the Chinese are going to be making knock-off designer labels and cheap knock off electronics...oh wait.

  7. Re:Great stuff! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why don't you just see what hardware Microsoft has to offer you for your evangelical services?

    IBM dual 2.0GHz Xeon workstation w/ HW SCSI RAID 0/1/5 for sale

    Is that a link to an example, or just an unfortunate coincidence?

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  8. Re:No attempt to hide ? by thparker · · Score: 4, Funny
    IANAL but facilitating a crime (very obviously here), is itself a crime in most of the countries, AFAIK.

    Is anything a crime in China? I mean, apart from free speech?

  9. Re:not a surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    why are we even dealing with a country that has no respect for free expression or human rights?

    Because you're a consumer whore?

  10. P4s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This just in.. eBay flooded with brand new P4 desktops...

  11. Piece of Cake by iamlucky13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Smash it open and count the transistors

    1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - ... - 2,367,194,217 - 2,367,194,218. Whew!br />
    2,367,194,218? Wait a second, this is an AMD chip!