Fake 68060 71e41J cpu's on ebay

[Darrin]

Anyone considering buying the 68060 chips from seller I.V.TAN on ebay dont bother. I won all of them originally and they are fake. I sent the info back to him with the chips and got a refund. He aparently does not deem it necessary to tell people they are fakes..:furious:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1lb-0-4oz-Gold-Recovery-CPUS-Processors-10PCS-/280803982233?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item416138bb99

These are china remark fake 68lc060's rev 4 remarked to the 71e41J mask.
they are missing the fpu. they are NOT revision 6 chips as marked

Mech

Would these 68LC060s be OK for the FPGA Arcade's daughter board?  If so, I might snag them and then pass them on to Jakub for the boards or sell them at cost to other FPGA Arcade customers.

[Darrin]

My original intention was to do something similar.  I thought if I got them cheap I could sell them onto Mike/Jakub at a reduced price and this would bring down the cost of the 68060 accelerator for the Replay.

I think if anyone here is interested in bidding on these chips here at Amiga.org, then it would be a good idea to declare that interest here so that we don't end up with a few people from AO all bidding against each other and driving up the price by 300% unnecessarily.  If a few folks are interested, perhaps one can bid and then share some of the proceeds with the others?

I agree.

Do you have a bid in at the moment?

I would like to have some sort of response from MikeJ or Jakub on whether these CPUs are suitable.  If that's the case then I'm more than happy to provide the winning bid myself.  Any idea what a fair price for 10 of these things is?  Assuming they are suitable then I don't see a problem distributing them.  If we take one each then that leaves 8 and at the current bid I don't see a problem offloading them at around $10 each.

Edit:  Oh bugger!  It has ended.  

[Darrin]

Any idea how much gold there actually is in such a CPU?
I think that the gold value may be less that the CPU value in case of the 68060.

I suspect a hell of a lot less.  I hope these CPUs don't end up in the hands of someone who will try and melt the gold plating off them.

[Darrin]

They are listed again (assuming these are the same processors)...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1lb-0-4oz-Gold-Recovery-CPUS-Processors-10PCS-/260936891502?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc10cfc6e#ht_500wt_1180

AH thanks for that.

I hope this is another batch of 10 and that he isn't trying to sell the same chips to multiple people.

[Darrin]

Don't bother with them. Get the real thing.

Cheers.  Thanks for the heads up.

Do you know if Mike managed to source any to sell with any production run?  These things on their own seem to be like hen's teeth.