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When your i9-9900K is actually a Core 2 Duo.
Read more about Fake Intel i9-9900K processors being in circulation.
Read more about Fake Intel i9-9900K processors being in circulation.
Fake Intel CPUs are in circulation - Buyer Beware
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Happened to a client, sent in a 7940x to delid, popped the top to reveal this 3rd party amazon CPU was delidded already and the die was too small to be a 7940x, at best a 7900x.
Moral of the story, do not buy from open box Amazon CPU's. What seemed to happen was the 3rd party seller purchased from Amazon a bulk amount of returned items and he was reselling them, he had no idea and probably was the looser in this case as he took the CPU back.
Moral of the story, do not buy from open box Amazon CPU's. What seemed to happen was the 3rd party seller purchased from Amazon a bulk amount of returned items and he was reselling them, he had no idea and probably was the looser in this case as he took the CPU back.
So what happens when you reply with your findings? Do they sometimes accuse you of making the swap?
Always wondered this when something is sent into a local specialist to resolve.
Doesn't have to be just Amazon. Fake CPUs can come from a multiple of sources. Im talking if you are running an SMB, and a customer comes to you paying for a delidding service.
You delid and see the the CPU is not what the customer thought. Out of honesty you reply to the customer with your findings, but suddenly, they then accuse you of making the swap. Wonder what happens next.
Or worse case scenario is the service technician is in an autonomous mind set and does the delid without thinking, (especially if you have 100s to do) but the customer returns a few days later with the accusation that they sent a 9900k in for delid, but got a duo core back with a 9900k IHS.
