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Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Grey market chips usually include chips that failed quality assurance to prop up numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Most CPUs I've found in these Chinese sites claim they're used parts, probably from old servers from Chinese companies, which explains the amount of Xeons being offered. But if the part comes in the original box, why would Intel/AMD create an official package for these failed QA parts?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Counterfeit packaging seems easy enough to produce.

[–] merc 2 points 4 months ago

Especially if the original CPUs are being packaged up in China. The people selling used / counterfeit processors could just go to the same source and get the same boxes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

If they're swiping failed QA chips, it's easy to swipe a couple boxes at the same time.