NewEgg, a large reseller of computer components online in North America, sold $ 300 Core i7-920 completely false and useless. He blames its supplier, which denies any responsibility. Intel is leading the investigation.

A CPU without a heat sink and die in plastic
Rarely has something so strange. The box contains a plastic square like a processor. Only the packaging, but no die inside. There are also inside a plastic cylinder with a picture of an Intel heat sink and a notebook containing only empty pages and similar to those that Intel uses for its user manuals.

What is even more upsetting is the fact that the box containing the whole has a sticker meant originally certified processor and a label very persuasive. Intel has already said he had studied the wrong processors and it does not come from its business divisions. So it is not his best marketing. Someone others seem to have deliberately made these fake products to sell at prices that even real.

Many unanswered questions
NewEgg, the equivalent of Rue du Commerce in France, announced it was replacing the goods in dispute, but say it is actually box demonstration.What is strange is that Intel itself rejects this explanation. Con sote, D & H, the supplier who sent these 300 models NewEgg when ordering 2 containing 000 processors, does not like being associated with this case and sent a letter to our colleagues in asking that his HardOCP name be removed from the site under penalty of prosecution, despite the fact there is evidence that false processors come good in him.

The question is how D & H, a respected distributor, was found with 300 processors completely false, which were then resold on a reference site that continues to claim he is examplaires trade, despite the fact Intel itself denies this hypothesis.