NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s

adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot. The retailer said that it has already contacted affected customers and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. We discussed the fake Core i7s over the weekend."

Caveat Emptor

[Nefarious Wheel]

"But... if you can't trust the Government, who can you trust?"

- Yahoo Serious, Young Einstein

Glad Newegg confirmed they're fake!

[Dragoniz3r]

It was a little up in the air there for awhile!

Re:Caveat Emptor

[Etrias]

I'm not sure quoting Yahoo Serious will get you +5 Funny. Maybe +5 What the Hell?

Re:Glad

[Spewns]

Welcome to the entitlement mindset.

And rightfully so.

New 'bad analogy guy'

[Anonymous Coward]

You bought at NewEgg for price. You want to continue buying at NewEgg for price. To continue that relationship with customers they're going to replace the bum parts, and they are not going to send you a visit from the magical blowjob pony. The economics of computer retail are nothing at all like restaurants.

Re:Glad

[noidentity]

Maybe as compensation they can send a T-shirt that says "NewEgg sent me a counterfeit Intel processor and all I got was this stupid T-shirt".

Re:Caveat Emptor

[spun]

"But... if you can't trust the Governments of the world, who can you trust?"

FIFY

YEAH! I know it by heart! You got a problem with that?

No sir! Anyone who will admit to knowing Yahoo Serious by heart is a tougher hombre than I.

Re:Counterfits are everywhere

[Ihmhi]

Trivially easy to find. Took me all of five seconds to find this item [ebay.com], and it's by a good quality company like Nikon!

Re:Glad Newegg confirmed they're fake!

[Nefarious Wheel]

"We don't know why you wanted 1% defective chips" said our Japanese supplier, "But here they are; we packaged them separately".

Re:Counterfits are everywhere

[Ecuador]

Oh, man... you will love this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100308/tc_pcworld/fourreasonstobewarefakeintelcpus [yahoo.com]

Authentic Intel Core i7 processors contain a number of innovative technologies to improve performance. Core i7 chips have an integrated triple-channel memory controller. They also replace the archaic front-side bus architecture with Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect system, and use hyperthreading to turn the Core i7's four physical processor cores into eight virtual cores.

A fake processor would most likely not have these cutting edge advantages, resulting in inferior performance compared with the authentic Intel processor.

Apparently for some people the difference between an i7 and a piece of scrap metal is some innovative technologies that improve performance!