One of the world’s leading overclockers has fallen victim to a Chinese CPU scammer. Hong Kong’s HKEPC shares the sorry tale of overclocker Safedisk, who bought a non-retail packaged Intel Core i9-14900K, which was stone dead. To investigate the issue with the chip, the South Korean OC champion - ranked third worldwide - delidded the CPU to find it was seriously silicon deficient. There was just an empty space under the IHS where the CPU die was supposed to be.
According to HKEPC’s retelling of the Safedisk 14900K swindle, The Korean overclocker acquired a ‘loose chip’ or ‘bulk pack’ Intel Core i9-14900K from a mainland China dealer. We are sure Safedisk isn’t short of CPU samples, but perhaps his curiosity was aroused by the pricing, packaging, or product description.
