Insane posts the latests on the saga of the tampered Athlons - due somewhat to AMD being unable to fill orders...
The fact of the matter is that RTV Computers Pty
Ltd purchased their Athlons along with many other resellers from Western
Australia's biggest distro who purchased them from Australia's Official
Authentic AMD Reseller. RTV is in no way responsible for this and I can assure
you that a purchase from RTV is a worthwhile purchase but somehow all of this
has slipped from under our noses. The story is that
due to the mass shortage some weeks back, this official distro sourced the CPUs
from locations other than AMD (like Hong Kong for example) and ended up with
what now seems to be hundreds of modified 500 and 550 parts. The following has
occured:
550MHz
Athlons with 600 and 650 cores with 3.6ns cache modded to 600MHz and
650MHz
650MHz
Athlons with 650 and 700 cores with 3.6ns cache modded to 700Mhz and
750MHz
Resistors
moved and replaced to change multiplyer lock
Fake Serial
numbers on case and on PCB
Top of SECC
Case repainted and engraved with new markings
PCB
modified
Thermal Goop
on Cache all messed up (A GOOD SIGN TO LOOK FOR) Shows the heatplate has been
removed before (for soldering).
Damn good
cover-up!!!
FULL STORY @ EMAIL (http://www.insanehardware.com)
