After talking to several sources on this, it seems that Newegg was in fact selling counterfeit Intel processors.
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After talking to several sources on this, it seems that Newegg was in fact selling counterfeit Intel processors.
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they weren't counterfeit apparently they were demo boxes (according to newegg), but still embarrassing that they got shipped to the customer even if they were demo boxes!
Barring further evidence, I believe Newegg's explanation (at least that they didn't know they weren't actually CPUs). Sucks for the people who got them though.