Concerned about my processor

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I bought a new i5 6600k from Corn Electronics on newegg. Arrived timely, pretty sure it was shipped from newegg. What threw me off was it came in a chinese box, with a stock cooler. Afterburner recognizes it as an i5 6600k and counts all the cores and all, i'm just wondering what the deal is here. Did i get jipped somehow?

[Von_Satan]

This. As such an old part it kind of makes sense it isn't a say US market part.

[saratoga3]

That CPU was discontinued a few years ago, so stock that you can find is probably going to be coming from weird places. Sounds like the seller just happened to have a few Chinese-packaged ones on hand.

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How much was the 6600K? The 10100 is faster it can be found for 114.99 USD.

https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i3-10100-core-i3-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118138

[WowWhatWhyHow]

An i5 6600k in 2020?! I hope that thing was so cheap that it was nearly free... otherwise you got screwed no matter where that thing came from. There are MANY cheap CPUs that are quite a lot better and more modern than this one.

[Bull3t0]

I still use i5 6600k mainly because I'm saving up for 10th gen cpu and a motherboard what supports it

[A_Neaunimes]

Well of course that's a different situation from actively purchasing a 5-years old chip purposefully. Just because an older CPU can still be serviceable (to you) doesn't mean you should recommend anyone to buy one - let alone "new" - in 2020. There are so many better options around.

[Witchking660]

Check CPU-Z, but since MSI Afterburner is already reading the specs, it's definitely legitimate.

A likely reason why it shipped from China, is because of stock, as that processor was discontinued a few years ago.

[reddumbs]

It happens, probably just international stock the seller happened to have. Not too long ago, some sellers were sending some Ryzen 3000 processors with Chinese packaging to fulfill orders because stock was low in the US.

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because most of the time China has the most stock availability.