i9 Six-core Gulftown Recently Sold on Ebay for $1200

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Idontcare

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A listing on Ebay described the product as a "Intel 6-Core Xeon Westmere Gulftown 2.4GHZ LGA1366 ES Processor" and qualified itself as tested and working sold at a final price of $1,200.
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The buyer would no doubt be AMD ;)

The chip was pictured in the listing without any of it identification marks blurred, meaning that Intel will be able to track which one of its chips ended up on Ebay.
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If I had to guess I'd say it was stolen, fenced, resold a few times, and ultimately the seller has no cause for concern if Intel goes back to the last listed owner and beats them up a little for letting their chip get stolen.

That or Aigo is now $1200 richer! :p
 
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Idontcare said:
The buyer would no doubt be AMD ;)



If I had to guess I'd say it was stolen, fenced, resold a few times, and ultimately the seller has no cause for concern if Intel goes back to the last listed owner and beats them up a little for letting their chip get stolen.

That or Aigo is now $1200 richer! :p
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Most likely Intel bought it back and is tracing the source. There was a wave of this happening recently.
 
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ExarKun333 said:
This puts Intel in a bind, they now have a $1200 ceiling for selling these chips when they are released. How could you sell a legitimate processor for LESS than what it was selling for prior to release? :D
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probably because whoever got it, got it for free....so they didnt really care if they only got 1200 bones it for.
 
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bigriggg said:
probably because whoever got it, got it for free....so they didnt really care if they only got 1200 bones it for.
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exactly, plus there will NOT be a "$1200 ceiling" as the supply of these illegally sold chips is not NEAR the volume one would need to supply a full retail channel.
 
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Gillbot said:
exactly, plus there will NOT be a "$1200 ceiling" as the supply of these illegally sold chips is not NEAR the volume one would need to supply a full retail channel.
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Are they really sold illegally?

Or is more that they are sold legally but in doing so a legal contract has been broken which then entitles the offended party (Intel) to seek damages for the contract being broken?

Breaking contracts is not an illegal activity, but it does carry the ramifications of financial penalty applied by a court of law.

And we have the fact that this sale is being transacted in Taiwan, not the USA, so there is another question of jurisdiction and application of the contract in those nations.

I really have to wonder though if Intel would really spend tens of thousands of dollars in salary expenses that will accumulate in the prevailing weeks it will take to track down the offender here. What is there to gain?

They will probably just look at the ebay photo which has all the chip identification info on it (the seller didn't blur anything) and blacklist whatever business they had sent that chip to unless they (the blacklisted company) can prove (on their own dime of course) that they did their best to keep the chip in-house.
 
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I'm buying all of them to add to my collection!

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Yes it is but I cannot take credit for it!

I do have lots of cpus in storage for such an endeavor down the road. Mostly exotic ones too.

Someone suggested to make a toilet seat and lid from Pentium 4s. Now I could not think of a funnier thing - except the flush button labeled "FLUSH NETBURST CACHE HERE". :D
 
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jvroig said:
Because they make a buck and no one (Intel) has complained to them yet, perhaps?
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Intel doesn't push it with ebay because it's easier for them to trace the source after buying the chip. Plus it gives them evidence to pursue action agains the source and seller.
 
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Idontcare said:
I really have to wonder though if Intel would really spend tens of thousands of dollars in salary expenses that will accumulate in the prevailing weeks it will take to track down the offender here. What is there to gain?
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Information Security? If they're willing to leak out chips to sell, who knows what else they're willing to do.
 
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Sexy Chip!

Aigo I will bail you out when the black party van comes to arrest you.
 
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Idontcare said:
That or Aigo is now $1200 richer! :p
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I love and respect my sponsor too much, that i would NEVER sell anything that was on loan to me.

psst...

A0 -> B0

You didnt hear that from me.

I should be getting a B0 in about 3 weeks.
So yes, i'll have 2 to play with.

Idontcare said:
Why does ebay allow the sale then?
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IDC intel will pull the listing.
They did it on the W3580's when they were floating around.

i am about 90% sure a guy at intel security bought it to trace the leak.
So the guy who sold it on ebay, just screwed his internal distributor.

Ive seen a few distributors get busted this year, a gulftown leak, would constitute intel to trace the leak.

Especially when they dont want an A0 shown because a B0 is soon to be released.

Theres 2 rules when you play with ES.
1. Never sale on the public.
2. Never tell who you got the ES from.

That dude now broke both rules, because he sold the ES, and now intel will trace it to find out where he got it from.

Oh i just heard from my vendor pal, he got a few chips in.
Q3QT .. guys it shows up as a westmere-EP.. has 12meg cache... but guess what... its a 32nm QUAD CORE.

YES LGA1366 finally has a 32nm quadcore in a code Q3QT with 12Meg cache. and not 8 meg cache.
 
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You still dickering around with Gulftown steppings Aigo? I figured you'd have moved on to an A0 Interlagos or A0 Sandy Bridge by now :p What's the slow-up about? You're losing your edge man, falling behind the 1337 crowd I see ;)
 
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