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Originally Posted by michaels39  You're not the first one they've done this to.I've seen at least two complaints from customers who found that engineering sample CPU's had been put in their systems.Like your 7950,these are pre-sale samples,not finished consumer models,given to dealers for evaluation and are not meant for sale to the public.Either they saw a way to make a quick profit by passing off these samples as consumer models,or they are in as much trouble with their suppliers as they are with customers and can't get parts. |
A bit of both, but it probably points to the latter. They can't get parts from suppliers, and are reduced to putting pre-production hardware in machines. That's scummy.