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Following up on Newegg’s official press statement yesterday, IPEX Infotech has released a statement of their own regarding details of this fiasco.

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Newegg has released a statement that sheds some light on the fake processor story we have been following since Friday.

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Well then, this juicy story just keeps getting better and better. This morning we’ve learned, courtesy of Hot Hardware and TechEYE.net that the distribution company that reportedly supplied these fake/counterfeit/demo sample (whichever you choose to believe) CPUs to Newegg has begun threatening legal action against at least two web sites that published their involvement.

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[H]ard|OCP is reporting that Intel commented on the fake processors distributed by Newegg late last week.

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A few forum members are reporting they received fake processors from Newegg.

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There has been a lot of discussion lately across many sites regarding Socket 1156 burning up and charring to the socket and pin area. The rare problems we have seen are on the Foxconn made socket and tend to only occur when using extreme voltages, clock speeds, and extreme cooling. Recently there has been one publicly posted occurrence of the Lotes socket showing the same failure, under the same extreme circumstances. While this is an obvious issue for extreme benchers, a valid question was raised regarding moderate overclocks on air or water, and whether this problem could happen to them.

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Still one of the most popluar chips on the market today.

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AMD’s Athlon II X2 240 CPU looks like a price/performance winner.

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Netbooks continue to defy economic gravity to Intel’s benefit.

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Lots of Lynnfield Love

Intel officially launches the new “Lynnfield” CPU series and the results look like a love-fest.

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