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Newegg Ships Counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 CPUs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 6, 2010

“In an almost surreal tale of events, USA electronics retailer
Newegg has discovered a reported 300 counterfeit Intel Core i7 920
CPU’s in its inventory, some of which were inadvertently shipped
out to buyers!

“Initial reports of the fakes began yesterday when at least 3* 5
separate incidents totaling 7* 9 counterfeit processors cropped up
on Youtube, HardOCP and the Overclockers.com forums. The recipients
of the fakes had all purchased the CPU’s from Newegg.com within the
past few days.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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