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More Fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs Spotted And They Look Convincing
Scammers are taking advantage of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's popularity and AMD's inability to supply enough chips to meet demand.
It sports AMD's uniquely-shaped integrated heatspreader (IHS) with grooves exposing the PCB on all four sides, it's labeled as a Ryzen 7 9800X3D chip, and it's the correct size. We saw this almost immediately after launch when fake listings appeared on Amazon, and now a post on the Chiphell forum is highlighting what the counterfeit chips look like in the flesh. Humorously enough, an AMD executive candidly blamed Intel's "horrible" Arrow Lake CPU launch for the "unprecedented" demand and subsequent shortage of Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors.
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