Amazon Is Selling Fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs, It’s Claimed: “My Processor’s Package Was Sealed!”

[Tsing]

Amazon.com, a company that recently boasted of yearly sales revenues as high as $638 billion and operating incomes as high as $68.9 billion, has been shipping fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors to unsuspecting customers, according to a new report written by a hardware enthusiast who claims to have received a "made in China" version of the CPU, one that came with not only a square-shaped IHS, but also a completely different pin configuration than what AM5 users are accustomed to.

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[Brian_B]

Not the only counterfeit thing you have to watch out for on Amazon.

Every online retailer that allows third party resellers turns immediately into a cesspool

 

[DrezKill]

I don't even see the 3rd-party sellers, they are invisible to me. If I don't see "shipped from and sold by" on Amazon then I don't buy. Sometimes I'll buy if from a known reputable company selling their own products through Amazon.

 

[Shotglass01]

I feel like we're been here before....? Yea, yea, sure we're seen this!