- Apr 10, 2013
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Hi everyone,
Long Story Short, I am very lucky to be in the position of awaiting all the shipments for a new build! You could call it a Performance Rig, if you like, as I am basically building a semi-hi-performance/Gaming computer but I don't game... so I can't really say I am building a gaming computer, but I believe many gamers would be very happy to have this build so anyway-
I had to order basically EVERYTHING, plus a few things. I had like 25+ items in my cart plus a few multiples etc. So it got broken up into MANY sub-shipments and I didn't even realize quite how many, no less than 10 separate shipment/packages. It just so happens the 2 most expensive items came together along with two other items.
So I open this package (one of 3 I received today) and it's got both my CPU - Intel Core i7-4790K and GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G ... also my HyperX SSD and TP-Link wireless adapter. Easily the most expensive box I will have coming to me... Here is my problems-
The GPU, wireless adapter, and SSD were all in pretty much perfect boxes and nicely wrapped in tight shrink-wrap. Unless some hardcore bamboozling is going on, they all look factory-fresh and brand new. THE CPU, HOWEVER, is in a quite-dented up and corner-crushed box, without any wrapping, and sort of looks like it could be used and/or abused. Also, I note on the physical CPU through the open-window of the box it is made in Vietnam .... I thought that they were made in Malaysia, as all the ones i've seen online say MALAY on them.
Am I totally off base here? Should I be worried? Does Intel wrap their CPUs and are they very fragile? Because I certainly don't want to take a used or abused chip from them. I am perhaps being overly sensitive but I haven't ordered an actual CPU since 2009 (An Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 to replace the stock CPU in my ASUS G50VT-X5) and it was in a OEM tray type package, flawless though. Any info or advice here would be nice... Thanks!
Long Story Short, I am very lucky to be in the position of awaiting all the shipments for a new build! You could call it a Performance Rig, if you like, as I am basically building a semi-hi-performance/Gaming computer but I don't game... so I can't really say I am building a gaming computer, but I believe many gamers would be very happy to have this build so anyway-
I had to order basically EVERYTHING, plus a few things. I had like 25+ items in my cart plus a few multiples etc. So it got broken up into MANY sub-shipments and I didn't even realize quite how many, no less than 10 separate shipment/packages. It just so happens the 2 most expensive items came together along with two other items.
So I open this package (one of 3 I received today) and it's got both my CPU - Intel Core i7-4790K and GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G ... also my HyperX SSD and TP-Link wireless adapter. Easily the most expensive box I will have coming to me... Here is my problems-
The GPU, wireless adapter, and SSD were all in pretty much perfect boxes and nicely wrapped in tight shrink-wrap. Unless some hardcore bamboozling is going on, they all look factory-fresh and brand new. THE CPU, HOWEVER, is in a quite-dented up and corner-crushed box, without any wrapping, and sort of looks like it could be used and/or abused. Also, I note on the physical CPU through the open-window of the box it is made in Vietnam .... I thought that they were made in Malaysia, as all the ones i've seen online say MALAY on them.
Am I totally off base here? Should I be worried? Does Intel wrap their CPUs and are they very fragile? Because I certainly don't want to take a used or abused chip from them. I am perhaps being overly sensitive but I haven't ordered an actual CPU since 2009 (An Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 to replace the stock CPU in my ASUS G50VT-X5) and it was in a OEM tray type package, flawless though. Any info or advice here would be nice... Thanks!
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