I just wanted to give users a heads up on our relatively high fraud rate on i9 CPUs from Amazon.
We recently received an i9-7900x box that was opened and missing the CPU, and yesterday we received a fake i9-7940x CPU that fell apart when removing the CPU for troubleshooting (both sold by amazon not a reseller).
Amazon originally refused to do anything about the open / missing i9 incident, we had to throw a fit with support and argue to even get a credit. I think a smaller customer would have been told to pound sand.
They didn't give us any trouble about the fake 7940x so I'm wondering if this is not uncommon for them. We had to go buy the CPU locally as they already delayed the shipment of the CPU several days and they had no more in stock.
We have ordered 4 i9s in the last several months. Not exactly a huge sample size, but we are considering purchasing from other sources moving forward.
Fake \ falling apart CPU Image-
That white mess was covered by the heatspreader originally. The copper plate was under it where the die would be.
I wasn't really sure where to post this but since the Newegg is dead to me thread is here I figured this was reasonable
We recently received an i9-7900x box that was opened and missing the CPU, and yesterday we received a fake i9-7940x CPU that fell apart when removing the CPU for troubleshooting (both sold by amazon not a reseller).
Amazon originally refused to do anything about the open / missing i9 incident, we had to throw a fit with support and argue to even get a credit. I think a smaller customer would have been told to pound sand.
They didn't give us any trouble about the fake 7940x so I'm wondering if this is not uncommon for them. We had to go buy the CPU locally as they already delayed the shipment of the CPU several days and they had no more in stock.
We have ordered 4 i9s in the last several months. Not exactly a huge sample size, but we are considering purchasing from other sources moving forward.
Fake \ falling apart CPU Image-
That white mess was covered by the heatspreader originally. The copper plate was under it where the die would be.
I wasn't really sure where to post this but since the Newegg is dead to me thread is here I figured this was reasonable
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