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Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920
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."
to have added a third g to their name.
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That the fakes could become more valuable eventually than the real item, simply by dint of their fame and rarity.
Who is this delectable creature with an insatiable love of the dead?
They are saying the processor is actually made of lead, so the overclocking potential is dismal.
That combined with the underpowered foam cooler relegates this processor to HTPC uses only.
My friend once bought an Alpine stereo from someone. When we looked closer at the box it was actually "Alphine" with an h. Okay so typical story. The funny part was the box. It had a picture of a Lamborghini on it. But the one they took a picture of was actually a toy. You could see this when you looked close. They didn't even bother to use a real Lamborghini picture! Even that was a fake! We couldn't stop laughing for at least an hour. The lengths some people will go to dupe people, if they spent that energy on creating something with actual worth..
The cpu "cooler." The misspellings on the box. This was fraud.
Are you sure?
Wah Sig!
Wow, you think? That's some fine detective work. Tell me, was it the lead "processor" or the solid plastic "fan" that gave it away?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Dude, I bought a fake i7 on eBay, but it turned out to be real! What a ripoff!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
That's some darn good police work there, Lou.
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.
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
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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"Hmm. Mis-spellings on the box. A sticker of a fan. A solid block of metal for the CPU.
I'd say the buyers were
<removes sunglasses>
mis-lead."
YEEAAAAAAAAH!
www.eFax.com are spammers
That depends on if you're using an Intel Magritte or not.
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