A TechTuber and hardware reviewer has shared images of a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and its packaging - bought new and ...

We've been reporting stories about Amazon customers receiving fake processors since 2017. It still occasionally happens, as discovered by Aris from Hardware Busters. He bought a ...

Buying from Amazon is generally considered to be safe, but this hardware reviewer accidentally bought a fake AMD Ryzen 7 ...

User buys an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor from Amazon, but after receiving it, peels off the film from the CPU heatspreader... reveals it's an FX-4100.

This fake AMD Ryzen gaming CPU was reportedly shipped from Amazon directly in a legitimate box, hiding an old counterfeit ...

The case of the misrepresented processor is a useful lesson for hardware gurus in verifying online purchases. A processor ...

He needed an extra Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU for testing purposes ... it also had a different heatspreader and entirely different pins. The text on the heatspreader turned out to be a sticker.

PC hardware shortages don't make for a good buying experience, and it gets worse when scammers attempt to make money off of ...

Yesterday, on the PCMR subreddit, u/t0pli posted a photograph of a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, one of the best CPUs, with visibly damaged pin contacts and a motherboard socket scuffed in the same place.