Impressive. Wonder who will end up eating the costs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tDqM5-6RUEdit:
Intel has their security folks hard at work on it. Intel has very... proactive anti-counterfeiting folks. No, I'm not kidding. They don't off the counterfeiting folks, but they'll do a lot more than most corporate security drones.
300 units were allegedly faked.
DBA Public Relations issued the following statement:
"Newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units. Our customer service team has already begun proactively reaching out to the affected customers. In line with our commitment to ensure total customer satisfaction, we are doing everything in our power to resolve the issue as soon as possible and with the least amount of inconvenience to our customers."
Worst coverup story I've heard to date.