Newegg selling fake i7 920's

[Mr_Grim]

Just found this over at overclockers and it scared the hell outa me has i recently received my i7 860

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6422425

 

[steadfast1984]

the processor will have what it is laser etched into it for verification. you will be able to tell if its been tampered with.

 

[rodney_ws]

If NewEgg wrote "i7-920" on a steaming pile of poop and sent it to me I would believe that I had a working CPU. That's how much faith I have in them. I have a hard time believing a company with a reputation like NewEgg would risk it by doing something so foolish. If something like this really did happen, it would almost certainly be isolated instead of systematic.

 

[Mr_Grim]

just double checked it to make sure its legit (my processor) lol, oh here's a vid view

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/05/newegg_selling_fake_intel_cpus

 

[Raidur]

😵 Very interesting. I wonder how many have been sent out.

Someones going to get in trouble.... but who? :/

Good luck with that one newegg, and same to the customers effected.

Anyone here on THG get so lucky?

 

[Raidur]

Yeah I laughed pretty hard when I saw the heatsink.

 

[werxen]

I want that heatsink :O

 

[lostandwandering]

Read the forum posts linked in the [H] article. It was something that was going on at the company that distributes the products to newegg, so it wasn't really newegg's fault: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1035414758&postcount=67

 

[Raidur]

Yeah I figured it wasn't newegg's fault. They were saying the cut-outs in the box showed what looked like the right components. Newegg was getting jipped. 🙁

 

[aford10]

Here's the Tom's article on the matter.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/NewEgg-Fake-Corei7-D-H-Distributing,9814.html