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  • Company threatens journalists over fake Intel CPU reports (Cease and desist from reporting. Now)

    03/08/2010 2:37:51 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 23 replies · 160+ views
    Techeye.net ^ | 07 Mar 2010 17:03 | Sylvie Barak
    On Friday, two sites reported that online e-tailer Newegg seemed to be inadvertently shipping out counterfeit Intel CPUs to punters. A storm of letters from my learned fiends has ensued.HardOCP reported that one of its forum members, a Vincent Waller from Oregon, had had the misfortune of unboxing his Core i7-920 only to discover it was a rather horrid fake. Waller took pictures and posted them on the forum. HardOCP reposted the photos in an article. From the outside, the box looked completely legitimate, it was only when Waller got to the inside that, he said,  things started to look...