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Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the recognize-boo-yaka-shah dept.

SkinnyGuy writes "The only thing more remarkable than NewEgg shipping fake Core i7 CPUs to customers is getting your hands on one and checking it out. Apparently there are only a couple hundred of these things in existence and Gearlog somehow managed to get and unbox one. The images are fascinating."

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  1. The irony here is... by Elbowgeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That the fakes could become more valuable eventually than the real item, simply by dint of their fame and rarity.

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    1. Re:The irony here is... by pesho · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Don't count on this. I am sure somebody in China keeps on cranking thousands of those as we speak. They already have gone through the trouble of making molds for the fake fan and CPU. Why stop now when with all this publicity there will be a market for the fakes as collectibles?

  2. No need to defend NewEgg by spun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This story is not "OMG! NewEgg is so bad!! They shipped fake CPUs!" okay? No one is bashing NewEgg, you can relax, your job there is probably safe.

    The story is "Wow! Look at these hunks of lead and plastic blocks with stickers that look like fans on them!" I mean, someone went to a lot of trouble to make these things. It's an interesting story.

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    1. Re:No need to defend NewEgg by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I feel bad for the distributer. NewEgg is probably a huge customer of theirs and I doubt they did this. If these had been mislabeled or relabeled chips I could say some company trying to pull it off. But this is a sure fail so no company would do this knowingly.
      Odds are somebody in some warehouse got a pallet of expensive CPUs for a good price when they "fell off the back of a truck".
      I am more interested in where in the supply chain this happened.
      Does the distributer buy straight from Intel? If so maybe the shipping company they used? or the Shipping company that was used between the distributer and NewEgg?
      Just wonder where the switch happened.

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  3. Re:No way was this an accident by rednip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone who wanted to pull a couple of hundred processors out of the supply chain. By making fake boxes and shipping them they might be able to hide at what point they were stolen.

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