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 Post subject: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:59 pm 
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whoever supplied newegg with those got some serious balls.

http://techfreqnews.com/newegg-identifi ... plier/0347

also, IPEX's website is unreachable. www.ipexinfo.com

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:00 pm 
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whoever supplied newegg with those got some serious balls.


And a lot of Newegg's money

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:01 am 
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[H] has a running emo drama of the whole shebang. I would have posted here sooner but it's a non-event, from a supplier if you mention on a post will be swooshed away into the rubbish bin.

So we're allowed to talk about newegg now on the forums?

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:22 am 
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Found a youtube video last night of an unboxing where the customer was oblivious to the contents of the box. Needless to say, his reaction was priceless.

"What...The....Hell....Is....This!!!!!!"

Also had one where the kid actually installs the cpu and is like wtf?

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:28 am 
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From what I've read the Ipex that sells Intel components is actually a "wholly owned subsidiary" of an actual genuine Intel reseller.

They were apparently are a "grey" market vendor. A grey market is the trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer.

Though I guess now they are a "black" market.

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:00 pm 
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lol one of those metal slugs of a fake CPU would be coll as a key-chain tho. id offer a few $$ to someone for one after they receiver there real chips

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:11 pm 
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The plastic heatsink would make a good beer holder too!

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:13 pm 
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Phonix wrote:
The plastic heatsink would make a good beer holder too!

lol never thought of that, looks like its poly resin so it would probably hold its cold

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:58 pm 
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Phonix wrote:
Also had one where the kid actually installs the cpu and is like wtf?

How did he manage that? Hot glue?


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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:02 pm 
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Idk, but I'm sure it would have shorted his board out....

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:38 pm 
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Lead is a fairly poor conductor of electricity.

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Lead is a fairly poor conductor of electricity.


A billion car batteries can't be wrong.


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When compared to stuff like copper and gold and whatnot. It's what I read on the interwibbles. I don't make stuff up, just my research may be suspect.

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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
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Sampson_X_Y wrote:
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Lead is a fairly poor conductor of electricity.


A billion car batteries can't be wrong.


Lead is, in fact, a poor conductor of electricity. The reason that lead-acid batteries are so common is because, compared to other materials, Lead, Lead Dioxide and Sulfuric Acid are dirt-cheap. Their power-weight ratios suck, and if somebody discovered a desert of Lithium salts, we'd probably never see Lead-Acids again.


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 Post subject: Re: Counterfeit Intel CPU's
PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:19 pm 
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It's probably not lead, more likely it's 63% Tin and 37% Lead, which was the common makeup of solder prior to RoHS. Or it could be 96.5% Tin with the rest made up of copper and silver which is the lead free solder makeup.

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