PC hardware shortages don't make for a good buying experience, and it gets worse when scammers attempt to make money off of ...

The retail box that the fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D was shipped in was a decent enough copy to pass inspection (the packaging might even have been genuine). Aris Mpitziopoulos, the head honcho at ...

Credit: Hardware Busters YouTube channel Hardware Busters claims it purchased what looked like an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU from Amazon for processor testing purposes. Good for them! Upon opening ...

This fake AMD Ryzen gaming CPU was reportedly shipped from Amazon directly in a legitimate box, hiding an old counterfeit ...

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 ...

The quad-core, four-thread FX 4100 is a socket AM3+ chip with a 3.8 GHz boost clock and support for DDR3 memory. The $479 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, however, is an eight-core 16-thread, 3D V-Cache ...