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According to Tom Merrit of CNET & Buzz out Loud, the complete package was fake - foam fan, plastic heatsink, plastic processor, misspelled packaging, etc... It seems like a case or two (nearly 300 processors) of i7 processors were switched for fakes somewhere down the line, before making it to Newegg. EDIT - Apparently, the processors were pieces of scrap metal.
How on earth do you counterfeit a CPU of that grade without a trail a mile wide ? I'm sure plenty of consumers would never notice if you swapped an i5 for an i7 but to counterfeit an entire CPU is next to unbelievable. My guess is that if they follow these to the source they'll end up at an intel fab where they were discarded as rejects for some reason or other.
The "counterfeits" don't work at all; the "processor" is just a piece of metal and the "heatsink" is made of plastic.
the news is that newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units.
How on earth do you counterfeit a CPU of that grade without a trail a mile wide ? I'm sure plenty of consumers would never notice if you swapped an i5 for an i7 but to counterfeit an entire CPU is next to unbelievable. My guess is that if they follow these to the source they'll end up at an intel fab where they were discarded as rejects for some reason or other.
From the reports I've seen, the CPU was entirely fake -- it was an inert chunk of molded metal.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "counterfeits" don't work at all; the "processor" is just a piece of metal and the "heatsink" is made of plastic.
That makes more sense, if they actually managed to counterfeit a CPU they ought to be given a medal or something ;)
the news is that newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units.
Edit: Sigh, I'm pretty sure this is a bot account.
the news is that newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units.
Demo boxes? That would explain a lot
http://hardocp.com/news/2010/03/07/intel_comment_on_fake_cpu...
That makes the newegg spin definitely less believable.
More (full-res) pictures: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1035412736&postc...
the news is that newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units.
Demo boxes? That would explain a lot