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How damaged is this chip

WJA96 said:
It'll be an insurance scammer that's bought it. You stick it in a motherboard, and drop it down a flight of stairs. Oopsie! :eek:
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**** Why did I not think of that :p

Wish who ever got it the best of luck.

How to be honest, if you ****ed up a £400 chip, you would try every motherboard under the sun. Then you would be on the phone to intel for the next 2 weeks :D

I was tempted to bid, but that logic got a hold of me. That dude has probably tried everything already.


Would have paid £50 for it though :rolleyes:
 
WJA96 said:
It'll be an insurance scammer that's bought it. You stick it in a motherboard, and drop it down a flight of stairs. Oopsie! :eek:
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You reckon, seems hardly worth the hassle in the first place to be honest. For example I work in the IT industry and I can get any faulty hard drive replaced at work but don't bother as I just can 't be arsed.
 
IAmATeaf said:
You reckon, seems hardly worth the hassle in the first place to be honest. For example I work in the IT industry and I can get any faulty hard drive replaced at work but don't bother as I just can 't be arsed.
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Yes, but you probably get them cheap too?

That's a £500 CPU. You buy a new rig with one of those in it (say £2500 worth) and copy the receipt. You then take the original PC back to where you bought it (or even better, send it back under DSR). Then you build something carp up and put the damaged CPU in it and drop it or torch it. As the CPU is the highest value item in the machine the insurance assessor will most likely accept that as proof the machine was damaged and pay out. It happens all the time. Net profit £2388. Allegedly.
 
WJA96 said:
Yes, but you probably get them cheap too?

That's a £500 CPU. You buy a new rig with one of those in it (say £2500 worth) and copy the receipt. You then take the original PC back to where you bought it (or even better, send it back under DSR). Then you build something carp up and put the damaged CPU in it and drop it or torch it. As the CPU is the highest value item in the machine the insurance assessor will most likely accept that as proof the machine was damaged and pay out. It happens all the time. Net profit £2388. Allegedly.
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I like the way you mind works :)

And there I was hoping to get my 3rd free with More Than :D
 
IAmATeaf said:
I like the way you mind works :)

And there I was hoping to get my 3rd free with More Than :D
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Oh - I'm sure there are better ones. I had a sales rep who worked for me once. Everyone at his level had 3-series BMW's and they could spec. them as they liked. At the first service he presented his expenses request with the service charges and it was £480 more than anyone elses had been at the first service. I queried it with him and it turned out he'd got them to stick a CD changer and car phone kit in the car. Now, had he asked for those items to be fitted when he ordered the car he would have had to pay income tax at 40% of 22% of £480 (under £4 per month on his tax bill) but he decided he would have them fitted after the car was delivered and put them through as a service charge, where he wouldn't pay the tax on it. Darn clever.

If only he'd cleared it with someone first :rolleyes: Then he wouldn't have found himself in a disciplinary hearing for Gross Misconduct ;)
 
WJA96 said:
Oh - I'm sure there are better ones. I had a sales rep who worked for me once. Everyone at his level had 3-series BMW's and they could spec. them as they liked. At the first service he presented his expenses request with the service charges and it was £480 more than anyone elses had been at the first service. I queried it with him and it turned out he'd got them to stick a CD changer and car phone kit in the car. Now, had he asked for those items to be fitted when he ordered the car he would have had to pay income tax at 40% of 22% of £480 (under £4 per month on his tax bill) but he decided he would have them fitted after the car was delivered and put them through as a service charge, where he wouldn't pay the tax on it. Darn clever.

If only he'd cleared it with someone first :rolleyes: Then he wouldn't have found himself in a disciplinary hearing for Gross Misconduct ;)
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LOL, think you missed out on a bargain there, 480 for an auto-changer and phone kit at a BMW dealer is well cheap :)
 
IAmATeaf said:
LOL, think you missed out on a bargain there, 480 for an auto-changer and phone kit at a BMW dealer is well cheap :)
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Oh, we let him keep them (and his job). As I say, it wasn't the cost, it was the fact he didn't clear it first. Actually, their parts are quite reasonable - it's the labour charges that are mental!
 
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