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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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  2. 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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  3. 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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