How to Recognize a Legitimate Intel Box Processor Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so I was doing some shopping online and I came across a thread where people seem
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to be a little bit confused about what an Intel Core i7 uh Demo Box should look
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like so here's here's the thread on overclockers decom you can see that he
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received an i 7920 and that there appears to be a fan
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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
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processor you can see that the box is covered in spelling mistakes right here
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use in a desktop etc etc hyperthreading is not is not
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spelled properly as per the Intel uh trademark okay we keep going okay so why
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don't we why don't we diverge here and we'll show you what an Intel demo
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processor box looks like this is an Intel Core i 3530 please note the lack
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of any spelling mistakes whatsoever there's all the proper information about
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the CPU inside all right you can see a CPU through the window please note that
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it is not made of paper it is a CPU with a metal heat spreader on the top and
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then through the window you can see that there is a fan and heat sink made of
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metal and plastic not made of some kind of a uh plaster of Paris and a sticker
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okay also please note that unlike the picture here where you can see Factory
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sealed is actually printed on the box Factory sealed is actually printed we've
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already broken this seal but you can see it's printed on the sticker itself and
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it comes away in a checker pattern because it's an actual proper security
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tape okay so why don't we go a little bit further on our on our thread here
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and see what's going on okay inside this is what it appears to have come with so
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why don't we open up our demo processor and see what we find inside so we have
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uh as far as the heat sink is concerned okay first we've got a processor we'll
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get to that one a little bit after and we've got a heat sink so our heat sink
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has um an aluminum base and aluminum fins it's got four push pins okay it has
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a four pin fan connector and some uh some spinning blades okay and the one
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that you could apparently potentially have ended up with looks like this it
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looks like a big chunk of beige junk and
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there's a sticker on the top that looks like an Intel fan okay that's pretty
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good and then the CPU okay please note that in a proper Intel demo package
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there should be a real CPU looking about something like this not a sticker of a
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CPU on top of Actually I don't even know what this is this is is like some random
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thing so just for all the customers out
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there if you want to recognize if you have a real Intel processor it should
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come with one of these or one of these all right it should come with a retail
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box heat sink that looks something like this this or this and it should not come
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with anything in the box that looks like that thank you for watching Linus Tech
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