AMD Parallel boxed CPU identification method

All along, the CPU as a computer accessories to the production of technical requirements of the highest parts, but it has been a variety of counterfeit, grinding, overclocking, engineering samples and other informal products, especially in the grinding, imitation of the number of boxed processors more. In fact, in addition to the familiar conventional means of fraud, the market also lurks a more difficult to prevent the killer-parallel boxed processors.

Speaking of parallel processors, let us first introduce the origins of this processor:

First of all, parallel processors are also divided into two types, boxed and bulk products. Boxed product packaging and domestic formal products are exactly the same, consumers can not distinguish; Bulk processors are also AMD original products, but in the smuggling in order to facilitate, abandoned the original packaging, only the small size of the CPU alone to take out the transport. When delivery to the destination in the box for sale.

Second, because AMD in the world has a large number of regional distributors, some of these total agents not only operating a country's distribution, and different countries or regions of different levels of consumption, so the same processor in different countries selling prices are not necessarily the same. According to AMD, processors in different countries are not able to circulate with each other. But when the different regions of the product difference is too large, or a serious shortage of the region, individual agent may use the hands of the supply, the cross-border circulation of products, in order to obtain high profits.

Third, parallel imports of the CPU on the physical is almost the same as the original authentic, and the sale of parallel processors upstream businesses are generally AMD's international large total agents. Consumers buy this kind of processor, in the product authenticity query will also get "belong to AMD Original products" reply. However, once the product quality problems, the total agent is likely to "products do not belong to the mainland China" as the basis, refused to product warranty. Only then did consumers know that the products they had purchased were parallel boxed processors. Spent with the regular boxed the same price, and eventually not be due after-sales service, parallel boxed processors are really consumers potential enemies!

After introducing the origins of parallel imports of boxed processors, we will briefly introduce some of the other informal processors in the market in order to improve consumers ' purchasing awareness.

Introduction to parallel imports of bulk processors:

In the bulk processor market, parallel imports are not as blatant as the mobile phone, after all, the choice of parallel CPU consumers are very few. By the end of last year, there had been a lot of parallel K8 processors in the market. The bulk of these parallel imports are from Hong Kong. CPU from the United States to Hong Kong, the U.S. dollar transactions, each CPU can be more than the price of the domestic formal licensed price of nearly hundred yuan. In principle, the quality of these products is still possible, but because AMD does not pay for these bulk parallel imports, so the after-sales service also can not talk about. In addition, because the parallel imports through various channels to the mainland smuggling, because there is no packaging box protection, in the process may be affected by a variety of damage, affect the use of the CPU and life.

ES version (engineering sample) Processor introduction:

Engineering Sample CPU Appearance

At the beginning of the year, a group of computer city appeared a batch of 3200+ to be sold, the price is nearly half as cheap as the regular product, these so-called ES Edition is the project sample that the merchant said. These CPUs all do not lock the frequency multiplication, the multiplication frequency may from 4-25 arbitrarily adjust, the user may arbitrarily to it to carry on the overclocking, at first glance, thought is the new 3200+ of AMD. In fact, these engineering models are always existing in China's DIY market of gray goods. Some domestic manufacturers from AMD and Intel to eat a large number of CPUs will be part of the CPU secretly to the retail market resell, because the machine manufacturers bulk procurement, can get a lot cheaper than the market price, even if the low price changed hands, the profits of these products are still very considerable. AMD has built up a set of effective measures to combat these practices and protect its retail products in the course of dealing with Chinese manufacturers over the years. But AMD has not done enough in this respect, which is the main reason why a large number of ES version 3200 appear in the market. From the point of view of the application, these products and regular retail products are not different, but these CPUs generally can not be normal motherboard after the boot, need to refresh the BIOS to use, but this is not a big problem, users can easily get these bios from the Internet. The fatal thing is, these products are not formal retail products, CPU manufacturers will not provide after-sales service for these products, in this view, the ES version of the CPU and parallel to the nature is the same.

These are some of the most common types of informal processors in the market today. Although the emergence of the informal processor is illegal traders are driven by the profit, but the underlying reasons, or consumers lack the corresponding purchase of common sense or by the greed of petty psychology.

Finally, small series to remind consumers in order to ensure that their consumer rights are not compromised, please be sure to buy AMD boxed genuine CPU, do not be bulk processor low price temptation. In addition, in order to prevent the potential hidden dangers of parallel to the CPU, please be sure to buy a good reputation of the regular general agent sales of products, such as digital China and so on.