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DFI Warns Customers on Counterfeit Motherboards

Written by IT News on 9:08 AM

By: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor

Motherboard manufacturer DFI has just issued a consumer warning about some counterfeit motherboard models, which are widely as the production company. However, despite the fact that counterfeit pieces similar to DFI in the model simulation are stamped as UFR MCP78V and MCP68PV, two models which are not represented in the company's portfolio.

In particular counterfeit unit in the Indonesian market, and UFR investigations, which unveiled that counterfeit motherboards distributed at the local computer, called TIGA. Moreover, through imitation UFR branding appears to be prepared to board a Chinese manufacturer J and B.

"We appealed to the alleged cease and desist party to the act. DFI will not allow and permit any illegal use and introduced in the legal department to take action to stop the unauthorized conduct. Meanwhile, we would like to draw the attention of the general public to the potential loss of some consumer rights when buying counterfeit UFR motherboards ", said the company's warning.

In fake motherboards erroneously identified as DFI products can cause a lot of trouble for users. Counterfeit products are usually built with poor quality products and manufactured without respect to the chipset and processor manufacturer’s instructions and safety requirements.

The most important problems that might arise in the use of counterfeit motherboards are relevant to the VRM modules, which could lead to limited CPU support (sub-100 W), because they are built with low-quality capacitors, as well as the loss of customer guarantees or other privileges.

DFI is not the only goal for the hardware market. Network specialist Cisco face the same challenges in the beginning of March, when the U.S. and Canada Customs authorities confiscated 78 million U.S. USA in the amount of counterfeit brand network gear as Cisco Systems.

However, the vast majority of counterfeit goods target mobile phones, especially iPhone clones manufactured in China. The German authorities triggered an investigation, at CeBIT, and seized thousands of counterfeit products, which were demonstrated during the event.

Intel X48 Nail to Launch on March

Written by IT News on 4:19 AM

Intel successor to the very popular X38 chipset will be on the market within a month. The new chipset has been postponed for some time now for reasons of different reasons. Rumor has it that . The chip has been sidelined because of the motherboard manufacturers that have put pressure on Intel to give them time to get rid of stock X38. However, it appears that some problems with the FSB support for the next four QX9770 processor cores.

Intel issued a note to all its technology partners who officially confirmed the mid-March launch date. The specifications of the chipset are not new, since the high-level motherboard manufacturers, such as Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), have already detailed their products, and, by implication, the capabilities of the new chipset.

The X48 is a smart incremental update to the previous X38, and therefore, it will only make incremental progress on the latter. In addition, recently fled benchmarking results show that the two chipsets are fairly similar in terms of performance. The only value, citing more is the fact that the chipset now fully supports the 1600MHz FSB speed for the next Penryn quad-core processors.

The launch date has been set for the month of March, and that date has not been chosen at random by Intel. It coincides with another important event, the launch of the AMD repaired and refurbished Phenom quad-core processors. Before jumping on the fact that the chipset can not compete with a processor, let me tell you that the X48 will be joined by Intel's 45-nanometer Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU, which makes all the difference.

The launch will steal all Phenom glory and the alleged desire to minimize its importance in the marketplace. At the same time, it will allow motherboard manufacturers release their new offerings based on X48 that must have piled up in their warehouses. Although they were prepared for a long time, motherboards are not allowed to be shipped prior to the official launch of the chipset they are based on.