This is not the first time that we have news of them deceit it is made up of processors. In fact, it is a more common or common problem in some online stores, where they do not properly evaluate the goods being returned to them. In this case, the customer buys a processor model, upon which he or she replaces it with a frail and / or old model and returns it to the store. Finally, you get a free processor, where the store refunds the original purchase.
This case is different. These processors are sold as OEM models. These types of processors are often sold to equipment integrators. And, usually, they are sold without the original heatsink. Only processor sold in box. They are usually much cheaper than the retail units that consumers usually buy. Because integrators usually buy in tires a hundred or more units at a time. Since processors are sold as such, the user is not surprised that their price is cheaper than units in the retail market.
AMD fake processors IHS highlighted
According to information revealed by the media, the managers in question were placed selling at auction. And users think they are buying an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X processor. However, what they found was actually an entirely different AMD processor than the one purchased.
As you can see, the first letters of the number model. Also included are some numbers, which are very poorly recorded, that match the number of processors that were sold. That is, the offender performs a clear corporate function, by any standard. And, of course, any customer who has received a processor model should start to suspect that they have been suffering from a hoax from the first minute.
The alleged abuser opened a web page where he had put up a sale fake AMD processors.
The "funniest" thing about all this scam is that if the selected user has an AMD X570 chipset, they couldn't use the processor available when the first-generation AMD Ryzen model was listed in the previous image. Since those motherboards do not support older AMD processors. So, unless there was a basic clamp with an old chipset, that would be it BIOS update, I could not even use the "new" processor.
From these stories we can learn a very important lesson: we should never buy processors much sought after at a much lower price than ordinary sales.