I gotta kick my self for not checking but when I got home I opened up the new 4770k I got and noticed something strange.. a finger print dead center of it. I was thinking.. did this happen at the factory? I kinda shrugged it off and then noticed bits of thermal paste.. I flip over the box and sure enough the other side of the box was already open. I think I am going to return it. I went a head and installed it just to verify its not a good overclocker.. my guess is someone already checked that. So keep an eye on your boxes when you get your CPU's!
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Used CPU from Microcenter!
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Microcenter just recently started taking 15 day returns on CPU's. Before you could only get a replacement only if defective. I bet alot of people now return them and it's made me wonder if they will show back up as 'open box' or perhaps in your case mistaken for new.
I too have gotten two clearly used, opened CPU's selling as new. Lucky it was easy to see when I went to pick them up. The manager passed it off as an 'honest mistake', I wonder !
I too have gotten two clearly used, opened CPU's selling as new. Lucky it was easy to see when I went to pick them up. The manager passed it off as an 'honest mistake', I wonder !
Yeah, they had no problem returning it.. and get this.. the new one I got overclocks WAY better.. its from a different batch.. im at 1.25V 4.6ghz right now with no problems.. my last one would not even make it into windows at 4.5ghz 1.25v.
EvilViking
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Is there a way someone could "re seal" a processor box? So it looks un opened? I just want to know what to look out for when I buy a processor there or craigslist.
majinbatusaix
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IIRC, the box is just sealed by a sticker. If so one could easily blow dry/warm the sticker for a lil bit and peel it off and preserve the sticker on a non-stick sheet to reapply at a later time.