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It is very unusual that someone would go to this much effort instead of using a real dead CPU or re-lasering a lower spec one.

• Animats 2y ago
  Yes. Repeat business will be zero. The seller can't sell very many before they have to shut down and go into hiding. Yet it takes a lot of cost and effort to set this up. As a scam business plan, it's not a good one.
  • imglorp 2y ago
    That's exactly the Amazon scammer business model. They can have a new store with a new name in seconds and be back in business with none of that pesky customer service and other accountability.
  • bangaladore 2y ago
    With a chinese manufacturer, I think you could probably make about 100 of these for less than a few thousand bucks easily. With all the cost in the cnc'd heat spreaders. Maybe 100 for < 1k.
• userbinator 2y ago
  Indeed, remarked CPUs have been a known scam for decades by now. At least those will somewhat work and delay the arousal of suspicion, while this is an instant fail. Perhaps this was made for warranty fraud?
• magicalhippo 2y ago
  Recently saw some interesting AMD Ryzen motherboards with integrated Zen4 laptop CPU on AliExpress. Then I saw one of the sellers had a note that the processor would not show model number, so you had to look up the serial number to determine model, and it'd benchmark 10% slower. Totally not rejects...