An engineering sample of Intel’s monster Core i9 processor ended up on eBay. It is not long after the pictures of an alleged Radeon HD 5670 motherboard somehow found their way to the Internet, Intel’s monster Core i9 processor seems to have suffered a similar fate. Neither of the two products has been officially launched, although Intel’s Xeon Westmere Gulftown did more than just be pictured on the net, namely it was auctioned and supposedly already sold.
A listing on Ebay described the product as a “Intel 6-Core Xeon Westmere Gulftown 2.4GHZ LGA1366 ES Processor” and qualified itself as tested and working sold at a final price of $1,200.Given that the pictures don’t blur the ID numbers, meaning that Intel will be able to track which one of its chips ended up on Ebay.
