YouTube channel Hardware Busters claims it purchased what looked like an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU ... the supposedly ...

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 ... the amazing IHS sticker peel image ...

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

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 ...

One, it wasn't the correct socket and heatspreader design for an AM5 chip, and two, an eagle-eyed viewer noticed that the supposedly silkscreened logo on top appeared to be a sticker.