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    Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 2:34am
Z690 Steel Legend - New motherboard with "Intel I9-12900K" CPU installed - BIOS/UEFI and WIN10 reporting the wrong CPU.

Reporting CPU as "Celeron(r) G6900." BIOS/UEFI flashed ok to Z690 Steel Legend 4.01 - system operating but... what going on here?
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I would immediately return that CPU. It's a fairly common return scam, people buy
both a high end and a budget CPU of the same socket type then delid them both and
return the cheap one with the heat-spreader (and all the screen printed info) of
the expensive one. It isn't as easy to trick boards into thinking one CPU is a
different one these days, not since the CPU's themselves began shipping with thier
own locked firmware identifiers.

Odds are, if it's reporting as a Celeron, it's a Celeron disguised as an i9.

Good luck.
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Thanks for confirming my thoughts - Major US vendor. Rats this upgrade has been painful.
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Turns out that the cpu was incorrect - somebody did a return product scam and swapped the CPU and repackaged. I did not verify when I popped it into the board (my error). Lesson learned.

All is good now I9-12900 performing as expected. Thank you.


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Sorry to hear you ran afoul of a scam artist. It happens all too often I'm afraid.
At least you didn't have any issue with the return, I have often seen retailers
refuse a return claiming consumer fraud on the part of the victim. It's why I
video unpacking new stuff these days, just in case such a thing happens to me.

Enjoy the new system
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