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Amazon plagued with counterfeit Ryzens

I have been stung for an i5 and when I opened the box it was an Celeron inside. would have been less insulting if it was an i3.
 
gavinh87 said:
What? Have you been under a rock the past 6 months?



Not sure if sarcasm....
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Ryzen is a minor blip in a long and boring saga, if that's what you're on about. Though i guess the mining profits for AMD might keep them afloat and perhaps force Intel to do something other than be a very nice 23k golden snail.
 
StriderX said:
Ryzen is a minor blip in a long and boring saga, if that's what you're on about. Though i guess the mining profits for AMD might keep them afloat and perhaps force Intel to do something other than be a very nice 23k golden snail.
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What are you expecting from CPU's?
We have a company giving higher clock speeds than been available for years.
We have another bringing more cores to the mainstream.

This has been the best CPU battles we have had in a long long time..
 
I buy quite a lot on Amazon but fortunately have never been a victim of this.

I do return things though and they refund me instantly, as soon as the post office scans the return label, I get a refund. This is great for me but obviously people are taking the mick.

I guess even though this happens, it's still not worth their time investigating and they just take the hit.

I must admit though, core things like CPU, GFX I always buy from OCUK or their main competitor depending on price. I like OCUK but sometimes, their prices are just stupid. My loyalty is to my money!
 
I had to wait quite a while, about 5 days (ok not long but by today's standards, quite a while) for Amazon to refund me from a faulty warehouse deal 1070, presumably they checked it properly because it was returned to them via their locker so it was scanned straight away as being returned.

I think any potential scammers are taking a decent risk, unless they don't actually live at the delivery address.
 
AiiR said:
Thought it was only AMD that glued their chips together? :p
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Some old Xeons and stuff were even classier...

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(Unless this is a cunning photoshop, but I'm 90% sure I remember a dubious flirtation with double pentium4 chips on a single package... It didn't end well. Nor did this guy's delid :D )
 
eddiew said:
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(Unless this is a cunning photoshop, but I'm 90% sure I remember a dubious flirtation with double pentium4 chips on a single package... It didn't end well. Nor did this guy's delid :D )
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The Pentium D was basically two downclocked Pentium 4 dies on the same chip, they had nothing to compete with the Athlon 64 X2 so had to resort to putting out chicken **** and trying to blag/trick everyone into believing it was chicken salad until the Core Duo was ready.
 
eddiew said:
Some old Xeons and stuff were even classier...

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(Unless this is a cunning photoshop, but I'm 90% sure I remember a dubious flirtation with double pentium4 chips on a single package... It didn't end well. Nor did this guy's delid :D )
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Pretty sure the Core 2 Quads was like as well. See, Intel has been using glue well before AMD!

EDIT: And it seems to be pretty bad glue from the looks of it: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/9...entsfield_arrives_with_four_cores/index2.html

Seriously though, luckily these fakes don't have pins so it shouldn't damage the socket unless a lot of force was used...
 
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I bought an i3-4160 once 2nd hand and a crappy Core 2 Pentium arrived instead in the i3 box with cooler. Think it was something like an E5200 or something.

Thankfully getting a refund wasn't an issue but you do get a bit worried, wondering if they'll think you yourself are in fact trying to pull some sort of scam....
 
i THINK IF THE lettering is too crisp and nice then its a fake .. even on the new chips from intel the lettering is quite faint. I am worried now tho that I bought a s/h i5 4590t for silly money and it may not even BE an i5..I havent had time/oppo to test it yet ...
 
haha thats good ... but its sitting in a small plastic bag inside a small plastic box which is inside a large plastic box, which has about twenty sata cables and twenty power leads ...and ten network cables, plus I always dock my bar on the top of the screen (23%+ productivity )
NB it was a CEX crime ..
 
ubersonic said:
The Pentium D was basically two downclocked Pentium 4 dies on the same chip, they had nothing to compete with the Athlon 64 X2 so had to resort to putting out chicken **** and trying to blag/trick everyone into believing it was chicken salad until the Core Duo was ready.
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The Pentium D were an abomination - funny thing was some of them overclocked like absolute crazy but still couldn't touch the Athlon X2, etc. or the Core CPUs that came after it. The Core 2 Quads for all their on paper "gluing together" worked pretty well in reality and in modern multi-core tests don't show any penalties versus more modern approaches (obviously slower CPUs as an overall package).
 
eddiew said:
I'm quite sure that Amazon know exactly who the previous buyer/returner was and will pursue the ones where the product value is high. Problem is poor sods who DO get a 1050 instead of a 1080 and don't know the difference so just fit it and run it...

These people will exist, and sometimes the fraudster will get away with it :/
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To be honest if someone can buy a £6-700 graphics card and they don't have the knowledge to check that its the correct one then maybe they shouldn't buy one. :rolleyes:
 
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