Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU

WTF?! It appears that Amazon still sells the occasional CPU that turns out to be a fake. The latest incident involved a Ryzen 7 9800X3D ordered by a reviewer for a test system that was actually an AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011. 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 Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which has an MSRP of $480 in the US, for a test system. The box in which the processor arrived was sealed. However, looking through the package's display window set off alarm bells, revealing some very poor-quality printing on the CPU. Opening up the box confirmed that the item was about as far from a Ryzen 7 9800X3D as you could get. For a start, the heatspreader is completely different. Also, the CPU in question uses a PGA (Pin Grid Array) design, meaning it has pins on the bottom, whereas the Ryzen 7 9800X3D uses the LGA (Land Grid Array) socket design – the pins are l ... Read full article.