Buying from Amazon is generally considered to be safe, but this hardware reviewer accidentally bought a fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

The retail box that the fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D was shipped in was a decent ... amazing IHS sticker peel image (top) under the sticker was an AMD FX-4100, a 32nm quad-core Bulldozer architecture ...

There have been reports of people buying AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D on Amazon only to find it was a fake with a sticker on top. The fake was shrink-wrapped in a box, making it look like it was brand new.

A processor sold as the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D arrived in a sealed box that looked completely legitimate. However, when it was unwrapped, it was clear that something was off. Instead of the modern ...

Yet another fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU has been spotted ... In fact, the branding turned out to be a sticker, covering a much older AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011. What’s disappointing ...

A hardware reviewer just bought an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU on Amazon only to find ... The text on the heatspreader turned out to be a sticker. When the sticker was peeled off, the CPU turned ...

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 ... This was, of course, a sticker used to try to obscure the ...

The $479 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, however ... much cheaper processor back to Amazon—with a sticker on top. Returned electronic ...

The $479 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, however, is an eight-core 16-thread, 3D V-Cache-imbued powerhouse of a gaming CPU on the AM5 socket with support for DDR5 memory, and a 5.2 GHz max boost clock. You ...

I paid less than 800 EUR for a modern and highly-capable AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS configuration ... branding that just says Acer in a couple of places and the multitude of ugly stickers plastered all over ...

Newegg is known for throwing in freebies, and now gamers can get a free Western Digital drive when they upgrade their ...