Hands On: Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920

By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan.

The labels look very good; notice the embossed fake hologram in the left corner. But you can also see that that the word "socket " is spelled wrong. "Sochet"?

When we opened the box, we discovered that what we thought was a CPU fan was actually a sticker on a piece of molded plastic.