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According to the affidavit, investigators found that thirty-nine computers had their processors replaced, six machines with memory modules swapped, and eight had hard drive changes. The original systems used Raptor Lake Refresh chips but were later discovered to have older hardware, sometimes downgraded to Pentium chips. Beyond the processor swap, other computers had less memory and storage capacity than their original configurations.
I didn't know Pentium shared the same socket.
Twenty-seven years later, and it is still all about the Pentiums.
Now Wierd Al is stuck in my head. A genuine thanks!
Few things are worse than Weird Al songs stuck in your head. He's great and I actually listen to the words of his song. Don't a lot of the time just hear the melody but Al is funny. Just recently watched the Simpsons with him singing, was an amusing random watch. He helped me understand satire better, though always a fan of cheesy satire from Mel Brooks, National Lampoons and of course UHF. For movies I'll also add, Spaceballs (Men in Tights, but never fully watched Blazing Saddles outside of bits which is by all accounts awesome), loaded weapon one and well Mr Als UHF in case people wanted something less than serious to watch sometime. In the vein of 'cant rain all the time'(Original Crow movie), can't always be serious and just need a funny one. Though I do know the humour isn't for all.
Blazing Saddles is a hilarious satire on racism. You should absolutely watch it.
A friend recently went to a Weird Al concert and said he was very energetic the entire time. I'm jealous... I didn't even know he was touring.
That dude is basically always touring. He’s incredibly hard working
27? First Pentium came out in 1993…
Yikes, that was around the time I knew the Amiga was a dead end and reluctantly bought a 100MHz Pentium outfit. The speed, memory, and resolution was far above anything I did with my Amiga 3000 but it wasn't as much fun. Wow that was a long time ago.
I still remember being soooooo fucking excited to see the next big step from a 486. I think we had a 486SX back when Pentium was current. I vaguely recall the Pentium chip being almost more like a cartridge in it's form-factor but i could be way off. Old school computing days were the best 💖
Pentium II introduced the cartridge, then for the P2 celerons they went back to socket 370. P3 offered both slot and socket CPUs.
And if you had a CPU for a socket but a board with a slot, you used a slocket adapter!
The song reference was 99 though. If you'll excuse me I need to get back to waxin' my modem, tryin to make it go faster.
My brain refuses to recognize that Running With Scissors is 27 years old!
The Pentium became Intel's budget processor when the Core architecture came out. When the i7s, i5s, and i3s are tested and binned, the dies that are still fully functional but didn't quite muster i3 levels (only 1 or 2 cores work, some of the cache is defective, only works at lower power levels/clock speeds, etc) are binned as Pentiums.
The leftovers that aren't completely scrap are stamped as Celerons and Atoms.
I've grossly oversimplified it, but that's the general idea.
They have to be talking about the Pentium Gold line, G7400 and such. It does sound silly though.
my guess is that he used heat gun, thermal pastes, and cleanly succeasfully swapped 40 PCs with matching parts without damaging any. This guy is a repair technician not customs supervisor
They've always been the same socket/silicon for the past 15-20 years. Just far FAR inferiorsince they're clocked down and don't have the full cache.
socket 1700 supports both alder lake (12th gen) and raptor lake (13th, refresh 14th gen) intel processors.
12th gen had low-end processors branded 'pentium', all three gens had the usual i3/i5/i7 (it was the next gen after this that rebranded intel's cpu lineup). the 14th gen low-end chip was rebranded without the 'pentium' trademark.
the same chipset and firmware quite often supported all three generations of cpu, enabling the easy cpu swap from 14th gen core i7 to 12th gen pentium.
They replaced the stolen parts with inferior hardware and exchanged the stolen equipment through Newegg’s trade-in program for store credit.
Actually a decent way to move the loot.
So if you buy a used i7 processor from Newegg, there's a non-zero chance that who knows what went through it
Over $100,000, so 3 maybe 4 computers?
Just 1, but it has 128 GB of RAM
So the USA is becoming the USSR
Collapsing empires express a lot of similar symptoms
Yeah a lot of us noticed when we were in Afghanistan
More and more it feels like the USA didn’t win the Cold War, the USSR just lost first
105k? I hope they recovered both the CPUs...
Only one CPU, but 64gb of ram, so a win overall.
I got some nicotine pouches that was supposed to come in from Sweden and it's been stuck in customs in Newark for over a month and a half now.
I had since made another order of the same stuff from the same vendor, it came in through a different port, and was delivered 2 days later.
I dunno what's going on in Newark but I suspect it's not going to be "destroyed", at least not in the means they expect.
This implies that there are many more people doing the same with better ability to not get caught (yet).
Restoring the stolen hardware could cost about $20,460, while fully replacing all 46 compromised computers with equivalent hardware would cost an estimated $105,800. However, additional labor to configure each system for government use will drive the bill even higher.
I like how this dude basically did the inverse of pc servicing during his night shift, but it's somehow gonna cost more than $100k to do the exact same thing to swap the correct components. Classic government math lol
???? The amount is gonna be 100k because they have to buy the components and see if the damage has been compromised for the software. That shit adds up expeditiously.
Pre-builts are cheaper than single components but they only had the contact for the computers and technically they still have the cases, maybe motherboards too, so they'd be over strength if they bought more prebuilts. So now they have to go off economy if they want to get those computers working again or deal with the hassle of turning in the old equipment, waiting for it to fall off the books and then ordering "new" equipment but during that time people wouldn't be working so you might spend 80k to avoid spending 1M in salaries to avoid waiting to spend 20k.
Have you seen the cost of computer components recently?
He was doing the work “for free” because he was gonna get paid by selling the stolen parts (or else he was double dipping). Point is, the government has to pay someone else to fix em
$20k worth of hardware last month would cost around $100k this month
Hidden surveillance cameras captured Liu opening government computers and swapping hardware during the midnight shift.
46 times? What were they waiting for?!
Their cut.
Holy based
trump would be proud. If you arnt stealing or grifting, you arnt in his inner circle.
Yeah but you gotta pay kick a percentage up to the boss. This guy got busted, so I guess he didn't do that.
This is basically what the GOP is doing to the federal government.
Those are rookie numbers (c)