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'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated - buyers
beware
Author : doener
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-09-01 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
| alecsm wrote:
| I expected a real working clone of the Ryzen chip. Calling it
| mindblowing is a bit exaggerate since it's basically a piece of
| metal/plastic with no electronics in it.
| fluoridation wrote:
| It is very unusual that someone would go to this much effort
| instead of using a real dead CPU or re-lasering a lower spec
| one.
| Animats wrote:
| Yes. Repeat business will be zero. The seller can't sell very
| many before they have to shut down and go into hiding. Yet it
| takes a lot of cost and effort to set this up. As a scam
| business plan, it's not a good one.
| bangaladore wrote:
| With a chinese manufacturer, I think you could probably
| make about 100 of these for less than a few thousand bucks
| easily. With all the cost in the cnc'd heat spreaders.
| Maybe 100 for < 1k.
| userbinator wrote:
| Indeed, remarked CPUs have been a known scam for decades by
| now. At least those will somewhat work and delay the arousal
| of suspicion, while this is an instant fail.
|
| Perhaps this was made for warranty fraud?
| transcriptase wrote:
| Same. Was immediately worried since I bought a 7800x3d for a
| "too good to be true" price off Aliexpress earlier in the year
| that works flawlessly and appears to be the real deal.
| NotACop182 wrote:
| Did you benchmark it? Could be an old chip relasered to fool
| consumer
| ClassyJacket wrote:
| I was going to say - I didn't think it was plausible that
| anyone had the capability to manufacture competitive chips,
| without the world knowing their foundry exists.
|
| Would have been funny if it was real, but was actually a 486,
| or something. Probably not possible due to motherboard
| compatibility\pin configurations or something, but still.
| shantara wrote:
| Bought on OLX, which is an Eastern/Central European version of
| Craigslist. Not a place that you should be buying expensive
| electronics without considering a possibility that you're being
| scammed
| minkles wrote:
| That's quite a bit of effort gone into a plausible looking fake.
| As always buy from a reputable seller. There are few real
| bargains out there.
|
| It's usually less interesting on the EE side where you'll get
| something that looks like an expensive opamp but turns out to be
| an LM358. It might even partially work in circuit!
| userbinator wrote:
| They certainly have been getting more convincing. I still
| remember this crude attempt 14 years ago:
| https://www.overclockers.com/forums/threads/reported-fake-in...
| scrlk wrote:
| Not a CPU, but I remember Nvidia being the source of many jokes
| back in the day for their Fermi mock up using wood screws:
| https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/graphics/fermi-card-on-stage-...
| echoangle wrote:
| Why would you go that far to make a fake? If the buyer can't do a
| chargeback, you can just ship a rock, and if they can, how does
| shipping something that's obviously broken help you prevent a
| chargeback? I don't get it.
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