Need Help, Checking ''new''' i7 860

[chepu]

Hi everybody, this is my first post in this Huge community, I'd like to introduce myself.

Im chepu, Im 18 Years old and im from Venezuela

So, lets get started, I have a quite old Dell Dimension 9200 which I bought at Beginning of '07, its now turning 4 years old and I cant complain about it, always been an quite good performer for its price and the only thing is I added it a GeForce 8800 GT from Xfx in '08, but since like 6 months ago it started making some noises, and in two occasions it didnt want to boot up. but besides that it has been such a wonderful pc.

Now im starting to buy pieces for the new Rig im assembling, at the moment I have a cooler master Tx3 and a gigabyte p55a on my way.

and In my hands i have a ''new'' i7 860 I managed to get at a reasonable price (read, not expensive, but also not cheap nor economic) because here everything is pricier and bla bla.

The thing is, the guy I bought it from has a PC store and he import stuff from the US, he brought this i7 and he told me he tested it to see if it was good. Im trying to be positively minded about this because if hes selling something he has to check if its good because its imported from the outside. Even though Im really suspicious about everything so im quite Scared of it being a Scam.

Now, the guy gave me a 6-month guarantee for the CPU, its just that like I said I tend to be really suspicious, so I took some pics of it with my crappy Nokia to show you peeps the CPU so you can check it and tell me if theres something suspicious/wrong about it.

Resuming Everything: Bought an i7 860 from a guy who imports em, he says he tried it to check if it was good and he gave me a 6 month Guarantee on the CPU.

I want you to help me and check if theres something suspicious/wrong or maybe burnt about it.

here are the pics, and I retouched them a bit with Photoshop to make them more clear.

rest of pics here due to big size.

http://i.imgur.com/Y9T0x.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NAbNJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lgEmL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/a7CbA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AmPsg.jpg

Thanks in advance! :thumbsup:

BTW, Im so suspicious just because I dont have the money to buy another processor and stuff because im on a really tight budget and stuff here becomes pricier every month. (See: Venezuelan Inflation)

 

[Numenorean]

Well it's been used but other than that I don't really see anything odd.

 

[chepu]

Well it's been used but other than that I don't really see anything odd.

Yep, well the guy told me he tested it, so I guess thats why it looks Used, even tho im just too scared because I spent hard earned cash on that cpu hehehe.

Anyway, thanks for the comment :thumbsup:

 

[Numenorean]

Doesn't mean there isn't something wrong though.

Just looking at it won't tell you much.

 

[chepu]

Doesn't mean there isn't something wrong though.

Just looking at it won't tell you much.

Yes, I know, its just I wont be able to know until My new Mobo Arrives :'(

The only reason I showed this was because I dont know how these CPU's should look so my first thought was to show it to people who knows beforehand how it should look at least.

Everything else its just Try, try and try.

Anyways, thanks for the comment :thumbsup: