so I was doing some shopping online and I came across a thread where people seem
to be a little bit confused about what an Intel Core i7 uh Demo Box should look
like so here's here's the thread on overclockers decom you can see that he
received an i 7920 and that there appears to be a fan
inside so don't worry there's going to be more to this we're going to show you how to recognize a proper Intel
processor you can see that the box is covered in spelling mistakes right here
use in a desktop etc etc hyperthreading is not is not
spelled properly as per the Intel uh trademark okay we keep going okay so why
don't we why don't we diverge here and we'll show you what an Intel demo
processor box looks like this is an Intel Core i 3530 please note the lack
of any spelling mistakes whatsoever there's all the proper information about
the CPU inside all right you can see a CPU through the window please note that
it is not made of paper it is a CPU with a metal heat spreader on the top and
then through the window you can see that there is a fan and heat sink made of
metal and plastic not made of some kind of a uh plaster of Paris and a sticker
okay also please note that unlike the picture here where you can see Factory
sealed is actually printed on the box Factory sealed is actually printed we've
already broken this seal but you can see it's printed on the sticker itself and
it comes away in a checker pattern because it's an actual proper security
tape okay so why don't we go a little bit further on our on our thread here
and see what's going on okay inside this is what it appears to have come with so
why don't we open up our demo processor and see what we find inside so we have
uh as far as the heat sink is concerned okay first we've got a processor we'll
get to that one a little bit after and we've got a heat sink so our heat sink
has um an aluminum base and aluminum fins it's got four push pins okay it has
a four pin fan connector and some uh some spinning blades okay and the one
that you could apparently potentially have ended up with looks like this it
looks like a big chunk of beige junk and
there's a sticker on the top that looks like an Intel fan okay that's pretty
good and then the CPU okay please note that in a proper Intel demo package
there should be a real CPU looking about something like this not a sticker of a
CPU on top of Actually I don't even know what this is this is is like some random
thing so just for all the customers out
there if you want to recognize if you have a real Intel processor it should
come with one of these or one of these all right it should come with a retail
box heat sink that looks something like this this or this and it should not come
with anything in the box that looks like that thank you for watching Linus Tech
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