Fake Athlons On Sale !!

Cowboy X

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• Sep 3, 2003

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According to this link : http://forums.over-clock.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=3;t=479

Some people are trying to sell some bogus athlon processors . Unfortunately the site is being hammered . Here are some snips from [H] :

" 1.) The L11 bridge is poorly cut. If you compare the original straight laser cut on the upper most bridge with the larger round cut in lower bridge you can tell the CPU has been altered. 2.) In the second picture the CPU on the left is the fake. The fake label has been placed over the original, the lettering is much higher on the black background on the fake and the lettering is an off yellowish brown color. 3.) L3 bridges poorly cut, traces being connected or pins being connected / severed on the back of the CPU is also a dead giveaway. "

It is currently a news item on [h]'s front page :
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA2MjUxNjI3MEVkaERyS0tjR2VfMV8xX2wuanBn
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA2MjUxNjI3MEVkaERyS0tjR2VfMV8yX2wuanBn
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA2MjUxNjI3MEVkaERyS0tjR2VfMV8zX2wuanBn

 

Tyranos

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• Sep 3, 2003

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Thats pretty lame. Too bad scuz balls will never be filtered off the world.

 

OC Detective

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• Sep 3, 2003

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Not so much that they are fake rather they are lower speed Tbreds (prob XP1700's) which have had the bridges on the L3 and L11 cut to make them appear to be of a faster default.

 

funnyperson1

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• Sep 3, 2003

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Yeah, this was the main reason intel internally locked multipliers, hopefully AMD won't want to do the same thing.

 

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• Sep 3, 2003

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AMD just needs to have more laser etching and leave the stickers for the box . Soon theses guys may have to put a hologram on the chips .

 

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• Sep 3, 2003

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lol, all things considered, they did a pretty good job on the lettering. for the untrained eye, they wouldnt notice that. I mean, when I buy a new cpu, I do not look at that all that much. I write down the code, and stick it in the socket...I do not examine it. (I only buy from newegg though )

 

7keys

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• Sep 3, 2003

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I guess it is better to have AMD remark them than someone else.

 

dippy_skoodlez

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• Sep 3, 2003

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7keys said:

I guess it is better to have AMD remark them than someone else.

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lol I prefer it when AMD does.. we get things like the athlon 1700+

 

fsarfino

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• Sep 3, 2003

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Hopefully someone does something to stop others from being ripped off.

 

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Cowboy X

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More info , this time from AMD : http://www.over-clock.com/fakecpu.shtml

 

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cherryp00t

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• Sep 19, 2003

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quite low =| ol wellz ppl are greedy what you gonna do =\

 

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• Sep 19, 2003

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7keys said:

I guess it is better to have AMD remark them than someone else.

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I'd rather AMD be doing it, and them getting the profits, than some jew-beat cracka ripping off the jock-overclocka...

-Frank

 

FunkDaMonkMan

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• Sep 19, 2003

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I can't see how they'd make that much money doing this. Think of the time and effort put into making the labels and atually doing the mods. Then testing them to make sure they work...

 

Deathknight

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• Sep 19, 2003

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Heh sometimes it scares me how successful some crooks could be if they had legit jobs. The amount of effort that goes into some schemes is way more work than most normal jobs entail. If you put that amount of effort into starting your own business imagine what you could do? Some people would prefer to make a 50 cents by ripping someone off than have a real job and make a buck though.

 

amdperson

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• Sep 19, 2003

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maybe crooks do these types of schemes coz they dont think of it as work.

 

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cherryp00t

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• Sep 19, 2003

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prob dont take that long to print it out and change the bridges.. at most 30 mins a cpu

 

AllenSmoker

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• Sep 20, 2003

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They do it because making labels is cheap. They prolly use one of the advanced p-touch labelers, so it's about 5 cents for each label. then all they have to do is cut a couple of bridges, and once you get into a routine of doing it over and over it prolly only takes a minute or two. It sucks, but thats reality.

The ones that seamed really dumb were the old slot athlon counterfits, because they made new shells for them (but they were really cheap plastic that broke easy)