- Nov 11, 2004
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Fake Intel Core2Duo?
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its oem for 220 plus ship.
E3110 Xeon (e8400 in business casual) is 187.00 - 7.99 w/ Google checkout @ Tankguys.com
E3110 Xeon (e8400 in business casual) is 187.00 - 7.99 w/ Google checkout @ Tankguys.com
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After a little google searching, I found a tomshardware thread. It's a tiger direct OEM repackage.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/217350-28-dollar
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/217350-28-dollar
nitromullet
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- Jan 7, 2004
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From TigerDirect's site:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/app...DUO-Q9300#content_1600
They are a big enough company to where they would get sued to hell and back if they had a disclaimer like that and sold returns as new.
Zap
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- Oct 13, 1999
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Cheaper at Newegg
$199.99 with free shipping
Don't let yourself get gouged by Fleabay vendors trying to turn a profit on hot ticket items.
$199.99 with free shipping
Don't let yourself get gouged by Fleabay vendors trying to turn a profit on hot ticket items.
PUH-LEEZE! That comment just has to be one of the stupidest ones I've heard on this board in quite a while....and that's going pretty far. TD is no shadier than any other online etailer.....maybe more honest in some ways, compared to one in particular.
True, TD had their rebate fiasco a couple of years ago and got it taken to them over it, and rightly so. But these days, TD's rebate process is one of the quickest around...probably stemming from their fiasco....
Outside of the rebate crap, TD is no better or worse than 'Egg, ZZF, or anyone else. I'd almost say TD's pricing, while sometimes not the cheapest, is at least consistent, something Newegg cannot claim with a straight face.
We're all quite familiar with NE's "dynamic pricing" software and model......yet we seem to completely forgive NE for jacking up prices, sometimes minute by minute, on highly popular items.....while other sellers keep a consistent price day-to-day.
NE's prices remind me of gas prices.....popular item has price increases quickly and dramatically.....yet are painfully slow to drop when the sales drop.
Of course, you can also contrast NE's and TD's business models....NE is online and warehouse only while TD actually has retail stores in addition to its online presence. Yep..pretty shady to me....having real stores.
As for the packaging in the ebay ad....it's an OEM product w/TD's antistatic packaging. I've purchased several OEM things from TD over the years.....and they all come in that sort of packaging. RAM, cpus, etc. What would you expect the damned tray cpu to come in......a padded envelope? Tray cpus don't have "Intel packaging" to come out of, outside of the tray itself, so TD has to pack it in something. Sounds like none of you have ever bought an OEM cpu from anyone at all.......
On, and thanks Zap.....hadn't realized Newegg had finally matched prices on Q6600 cpus with Microcenter, which has had that price now for over 2 months.......
We Should have no Dillusions/Illusions Here !!!
Statistically NewEgg gets the job done like no other....98.6% CSR is hard to beat
Tiger is Improving, but still has major issues.
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- Sep 28, 2005
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You guys are funny.
1. There cant be fake cpu's. Intel isnt like Nvidia that goes to other fabs. Basically what im trying to say is there isnt a company out there with the fab process as detailed as intel to make a 45nm cpu. Fake CPU would mean an Engineering Sample or a Stolen Batch.
2. If your chip wont die on you in the first 30 days, i have yet to see one die if used properly for many many years. I dont understand the fear of OEM's. The only chips ive had failed on me either died within the first week, came DOA, or died after many many many months of simulated torture. Think of the Termininator when you think of 65nm chips expecially. They take a beating and keep on ticking.
3. 45nm they will die if you feed it too much voltage. I have a heartache thats ihsless sitting in my desk as a reminder not to kill my yorkie.
jaqie
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Not entirely accurate, though it is much harder to do now then in the old days. it is possible (but has been made more cost then profit can be made) to sell slower processors reclocked and re-etched as newer ones, this is what the OP meant as fake, I think.
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Well if you think of it in that perspective then yeah.
But anyone who did that would get a major smackdown.
Theres a difference in making something yourself and then labeling as someone elses vs taking someone else's and changing to entirely.
If you think about it, jaqie, there both intel fake or not, so its not really a fake intel. :T
So why is it repackaged? Why would a company open a new cpu and simply stick it in their own packaging?
I knew someone who purchased a celeron/mobo combo from td and the cpu came in that same package and the heatspreader was covered in scratches. New my ass.
Zap
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"remarked"
That's what we used to call them. This actually used to be a real problem, but isn't one these days now that CPUs have microcode on them that reports what they are to the BIOS and any software utility that can read it. Otherwise people can just do BSEL mods and sell as faster chips. Actually people can still do that, as long as they don't misrepresent the chips as really being the faster model and instead sell it as "pretested overclocked" chips.
OEM CPUs are AKA "tray" CPUs. They never had individual packaging to begin with.
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