ASRock says it was able to completely restore functionality of a seemingly damaged X870E motherboard that burned several ...

Asrock tested a motherboard in which a Ryzen 7 9800X3D suffered heat damage. Meanwhile, a new MSI case emerged two weeks ago.

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

Would you be fooled by a 14-year-old processor in a new box? Scammers are getting more brazen with their fake CPU deceptions.

TL;DR: A user ordered an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor from Amazon but received a fake AMD FX-4100 instead. The fake CPU had pins, unlike genuine AM5 processors. A user has ordered AMD's new Ryzen ...

meaning it has pins on the bottom, whereas the Ryzen 7 9800X3D uses the LGA (Land Grid Array) socket design – the pins are located on the motherboard socket rather than the CPU. Then there's the ...

Well-known hardware reviewers aren't immune to tech retail fakers, and to demonstrate this, Hardware Busters has shared images of a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and its packaging. Dealing with ...

This fake 9800X3D was reported by Aris Mpitziopoulos ... with a completely different heatspreader, pin layout, and poor-quality branding on top. In fact, the branding turned out to be a sticker ...

ASRock cleaned up and removed debris from a customer's failed ASRock AM5 motherboard. Despite clear signs of socket damage, ...

He needed an extra Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU for testing purposes ... it also had a different heatspreader and entirely different pins. The text on the heatspreader turned out to be a sticker.

A processor sold as the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D arrived in a sealed box that ... The fake processor had a different physical layout, with pins instead of the pads that are standard on modern CPUs.