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Hi. Can anyone tell me how to spot a fake cpu. They are doing the rounds on ebay and a few other sites at very low prices.

I know that some hard drive manufacturers let you check the serial number and can tell you how much is left on the warranty

so some sort of checking is available, i was wondering if that applied to cpus.

I recently purchased a flash memory stick and it read 16Gb, but actually only held 1Gb, so these things can be hacked into.

Can the same be done to cpus.

Thanks!!

you could probably find the numbers on the manufacturers website, intel has a spec finder page;

http://processorfinder.intel.com/Help.aspx

When buying anything (particularly on e-bay) follow the old axiom, "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is."