A German gamer bought a secondhand AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and was banned from Valorant because Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat had blacklisted the chip's hardware ID in August 2026 over a prior owner's cheating. Riot support told the buyer the ban couldn't be reversed, though Riot anti-cheat specialist Phillip Koskinas later clarified on X that such hardware bans are game-specific and last a maximum of four months, and that only the flagged component—not the whole PC—gets denylisted.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-03
A Reddit user says Valorant banned him immediately after installing a used AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU, claiming Riot found the chip's serial number already blacklisted and that the motherboard and storage drive were also flagged. Riot's Phillip Koskinas disputes several details, saying Vanguard does not blacklist an entire system over one flagged part and that bans are game-specific rather than applying across all Riot titles.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-03
A Reddit user reported being banned from Valorant and other Riot Games titles after installing a secondhand AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor. Riot support confirmed the chip was blacklisted because its previous owner had cheated, and said such entries are not removed manually, meaning the ban carried over to the new buyer.
hardware.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-02
A comparison of AMD's Ryzen 7 X3D processors from 2022 to 2024 (5800X3D, 7800X3D and 9800X3D) shows Geekbench 6 scores rising roughly 47% on single-core and 58% on multi-core tasks. Clock speed increases were modest, from 4.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz max boost, while transistor counts grew about 50%, from roughly 11 billion to 16 billion, mostly added to the processor core rather than cache.
lemire.me
· 2026-09-18
Star Wars Zero Company has earned strong reviews and an 85 Metacritic score for its X-COM-style tactics gameplay and story, but many players report severe technical problems including traversal stutter, input lag, crashes, and a bug that forced a mission restart. Nearly 9,000 Steam reviews rate it 'mostly positive' overall, yet a large share of them describe frequent crashes and performance issues, with complaints also surfacing from console players and even high-end PC owners.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-02
After AMD held all ten spots on Amazon's best-selling CPU list, two Intel chips have broken through: the newly released Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at #6 ($290) and the older Core i7-14700K at #9 ($312). The 270K Plus offers strong multi-core and single-core performance, trailing only AMD's $569 Ryzen 9 9950X3D among the top 10, while the 14700K remains popular for its compatibility with both older LGA 1700 boards and DDR4 memory.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-24
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