News Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China — product suffered from serious silicon deficiency

[Admin]

One of the world’s leading overclockers has fallen victim to a Chinese CPU scammer. They bought a non-retail packaged Intel Core i9-14900K which was stone dead and felt compelled to investigate further. Delidding the CPU revealed it had no die.

Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China — product suffered from serious silicon deficiency : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

China? No way...

 

[Murissokah]

Best efficiency curve ever

 

[TerryLaze]

Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China —​

Did he buy or sell the CPU in question?!
You are saying both.

 

[PEnns]

There were so many red flags the highly acclaimed overclocker failed to notice!

Here is a nugget: "the CPU arrived in a blister pack with a sticker signaling that the warranty would be void if the pack were opened". ....I guess the CPU was meant to be kept in said sad packaging and admired from a distance...!!

PS: I didn't realize there is a ranking for the top (or lowest) overclocker on this planet!

 

[35below0]

Did he buy or sell the CPU in question?!
You are saying both.

No, seriously. I read it as if someone in China was sold a chip from an overclocker.

I know it's fashionable to hate on click-bait headlines from TH, but this one deserves a roasting.

 

[Li Ken-un]

Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China —​

Did he buy or sell the CPU in question?!
You are saying both.

Obviously ambiguous to stymie the development of our future AI overlards, which are training on freely readable content like TH at this very moment

 

[punkncat]

I have seen and am aware of 'display only' type packaging but have never specifically seen it with CPU's. Quite common with phones and other small electronics that are meant to be the pick it up and touch it type where theft is highly possible.

 

[FunSurfer]

The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:
Rule #1: Once you have their money, never give it back!

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

That seller is probably reading this article thinking: “HAHA GOT ‘EM!”

 

[waltc3]

Several decades back, when Intel was the main force in the CPU markets and AMD had yet to begin to hit its stride, Intel began clock-locking its CPUs. The reason was widespread bootlegging in China and elsewhere, where the bootleggers would take low-cost Intel CPUs, silkscreening them to deceptively show that they were more costly Intel CPUs when the fact was that the low-end CPUs were being overclocked and overvolted by the resellers. In reaction, Intel put out software to detect the fake CPUs and began locking CPU clocks and selling tiers with expense predicated on MHz.

I remember it so well, and it seems so comical to me now, because I was teed off at Intel for doing this because I liked to overclock my x86 CPUs & Celerons 100%, like you could easily do with those CPUs back then (16MHz & 32MHz, etc) and I saw it as a cash-grab from Intel. How dare Intel mess up my OC'ing party? The nerve! People were supposed to be able to massively overclock their CPUs effortlessly, and so on. But since then, the magnitude of the CPU bootlegging problems have grown exponentially, along with the general CPU markets. I am somewhat surprised to see it still going on today! Selling dud CPUs is even worse.

 

[MatheusNRei]

Several decades back, when Intel was the main force in the CPU markets and AMD had yet to begin to hit its stride, Intel began clock-locking its CPUs. The reason was widespread bootlegging in China and elsewhere, where the bootleggers would take low-cost Intel CPUs, silkscreening them to deceptively show that they were more costly Intel CPUs when the fact was that the low-end CPUs were being overclocked and overvolted by the resellers. In reaction, Intel put out software to detect the fake CPUs and began locking CPU clocks and selling tiers with expense predicated on MHz.

I remember it so well, and it seems so comical to me now, because I was teed off at Intel for doing this because I liked to overclock my x86 CPUs & Celerons 100%, like you could easily do with those CPUs back then (16MHz & 32MHz, etc) and I saw it as a cash-grab from Intel. How dare Intel mess up my OC'ing party? The nerve! People were supposed to be able to massively overclock their CPUs effortlessly, and so on. But since then, the magnitude of the CPU bootlegging problems have grown exponentially, along with the general CPU markets. I am somewhat surprised to see it still going on today! Selling dud CPUs is even worse.

It's just business really.
The more popular a product is, the more fakes and scams there are.