Intel 386 fake?

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:56 am    Post subject: Intel 386 fake? Reply with quote

Hi,

yesterday I removed a part of the coating of a obviously i386 processor. The cpu felt very smooth and see what happend after tons of acetone:



Do you think it's a fake or smth. Intel made itself?

Frank
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Intel 386 fake? Reply with quote

fRaSsL wrote:
Do you think it's a fake or smth. Intel made itself?


I'd say it's a fake. If you can remove more paint from the chip it'd be easier to tell.

Genna
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fRaSsL



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is a fake... tons of Acetone later... there came the double-sigma visible...





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