By Darren Allan
Scammers are cashing in on the popularity of AMD’s new Ryzen processors, with reports of fake CPUs being sold on Amazon.
There’s nothing new here in actual fact – there’s been a long and unfortunate history of selling cheap processors in the packaging of more expensive models – and in this case, as PC Gamer reports, there have been several incidents where customers have ordered a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU on Amazon and have received an Intel Celeron chip instead.
The fake Intel CPU comes in AMD’s correct packaging and has the Ryzen logo on it, but a closer inspection of the product reveals that logo is just a sticker. There are other clear clues that this is a fake, including the fact that there are no pins on the bottom of the chip, and the wrong heatsink is bundled with the processor, plus the package the chip came in has obviously been tampered with.
Such fakes – which have also been reported elsewhere on the net – may have been purchased from third-party sellers on Amazon Marketplace, or may have been bought directly from Amazon itself. Not that the retail giant is trying to scam folks, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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