My experience was a lot worse. Dated back in the mid 90s I believe. In a shop I was working with, came a lot of incredibly cheap PC mainboards where the CPU (38

My experience was a lot worse. Dated back in the mid 90s I believe. In a shop I was working with, came a lot of incredibly cheap PC mainboards where the CPU (386SX, IIRC) had been relabeled to 386DX, the static RAM cache chips on the mainboard were just no-die pieces of plastic with pins, absolutely identical to real chips but 100% empty, and of course soldered, then finally the BIOS EPROM was hacked to show a cache was present and other bogus values, but the chip was soldered so one couldn't easily reprogram it with a legit BIOS that would have revealed the scam. We later realized that the manufacturer was smart enough to use on the boards box and manuals the term "virtual cache", so noone could complain. Those boards indeed worked, although of course they were slow as dead sloths.