Fake 68060 71e41J cpu's on ebay

[ShapeShifter]

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:

Yikes!! I was bidding on those same auctions.  I considered the possibility they were duds, which is why I refused to rise over 1.5 times the value of a '060 (there were 10 in the auction.) I noticed the final selling price was much higher, so I can understand your anger at the misdescription.

I see now he is not marking them as 68060 CPUs, so it's possible the guy just doesn't understand this particular brand of CPU and the original misdescription was an error on his part.  I'm glad he agreed to refund you, in any case; the original auction stated "no refunds." (Did he put up a fight after you pointed out the description in the auction was incorrect, or agree it was his mistake?) For what its worth, he told me they "looked brand new" but wouldn't say whether he thought they were working or not, or how he came into possession of them.

Finally, are these LC060's of any value to Amiga users or does AmigaOS expect and require an FPU in an 68060 in order to function? Did you get around to testing to see if they would work or were you more understandably interested in getting a refund and didn't want to risk bending/damaging the CPUs?

[ShapeShifter]

It's also possible they're for gold recovery as someone already mentioned, in which case the type of CPU isn't relevant, only the amount of gold.

The new auction doesn't include it, but the original auction (the one mechy and myself saw) was very specific about the CPU model, giving detailed processor information within the title and auction description.



Ah, here it is:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280795073645

I should also mention that when I queried the auction with the seller, he said the 68060's "looked brand new" and said they "were not pulls" (i.e. they hadn't been pulled out of a CPU socket of a computer system).  He wouldn't outright say they were working, however, or give me any information as to how he got ahold of them.   The seller may or may not have had honest intentions, but since the description was off, the winner was entitled to a refund.  I am curious, however, as to whether the seller tried to put up a fight or whether he apologised for the error and accepted the returns.

[ShapeShifter]

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.

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?