Fake Pentium 90

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gshv



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:11 am    Post subject: Fake Pentium 90 Reply with quote

I posted pictures of fake processors before (http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245). This time I found fake a few Pentium 90 processors:



Cleaning the processor with alcohol didn't work, so I tried to use acetone. That worked great - as usually, maybe even too greater than usually:



Acetone not only removed traces of thermal grease, but also removed "Intel Pentium" logo. More scrubbing followed, and finally:



It wasn't difficult to guess what is the speed of original processor. Here is a picture of markings in greater details:



Removing paint with acetone from the back of the processor wasn't difficult too:



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice work, the pictorial makes it even better, I need to find some of these fakes, for old times sake if anything.
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x86sniper



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CPUShack wrote:
Nice work, the pictorial makes it even better, I need to find some of these fakes, for old times sake if anything.


If I'm correct I've came across a goldtop P90(P75 fake) and a PPro 200(P180 fake) a few weeks ago.......

There is also a remarked IBM blue lightning dx2-66 as well (remarked to cyrix dx2-66)
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

x86sniper wrote:
If I'm correct I've came across a goldtop P90(P75 fake) and a PPro 200(P180 fake) a few weeks ago.......


Would be interesting to see those.

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