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nicolasgervaison Newegg sold counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

I was thinking the same thing. The poor English, and the even worse translations, seem like a dead giveaway that these are definitely the worst of the worst: FAKE DEMO UNITS! The world will implode in 5.4.3.2.1...

nicolasgervaison Newegg sold counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

Video of a pseudo unboxing of the fake i7 box / demo unit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tDqM5-6RU

...and a little bit of commentary from another customer who received a fake/demo i7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEgSg9m89U

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nicolasgervaison Newegg sold counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

Do these photos support the claim that the boxes were just demos shipped mistakenly, or that they were indeed counterfeits that were inserted into the supply chain? Thoughts?

nicolasgervaison Newegg sold counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

Demo boxes? That would explain a lot

nicolasgervaison Newegg sold counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

According to Tom Merrit of CNET & Buzz out Loud, the complete package was fake - foam fan, plastic heatsink, plastic processor, misspelled packaging, etc... It seems like a case or two (nearly 300 processors) of i7 processors were switched for fakes somewhere down the line, before making it to Newegg.

EDIT - Apparently, the processors were pieces of scrap metal.