This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it
Closer inspection (and a bit of fingernail prying) revealed that underneath the sticker lay an AMD FX 4100, a 14-year-old ...
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CPU-Z now alerts you about missing ROPs in RTX 50-series cards
Enter an email address (a fake one is fine) and click Submit, which will send a configuration file for your hardware to CPU-Z’s validation server and open a web page in your browser with the results.
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Here’s the wildest fake CPU I’ve ever seen — and it was sold on Amazon
But if you need a quick summary, the scammer printed a fake 9800X3D label sticker and slapped it onto another CPU. And not just another AM5 CPU, as we’ve seen with some scammers swapping CPU lids.
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Another fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D was sold on Amazon — this is a reminder to check your hardware
The fake says it was made in China and has a 2020 date on it, but a sticker was peeled away by Mptizipoulos to reveal an AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011. Talk about a Scooby-Doo moment.
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Amazon fake CPU warning: user orders AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, receives old-school FX-4100 instead
TL;DR: A user ordered an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor from Amazon but received a fake AMD ... for my CPU test-system. Since my other one is permanently installed in my GPU test system, I ordered ...
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Check your chips — another fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D was spotted An AMD ... Here's what you should know about CPU, GPU, and APU.