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'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated – buyers beware
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Any warm glow of satisfaction from grabbing a bargain will have rapidly dissipated after receiving the chip and plugging the CPU into the motherboard for its first boot. Secondly, on a genuine AMD X3D chip, capacitors which you see between the ‘octopus’ legs are covered in a protective resin, while the fake had shiny uniform blocks. The maker of this faux-X3D created a rectangular bump on the underside of the IHS to mimic the CCD and I/O die, so before delid it looked like a chip was present in the gap.
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