Here’s the wildest fake CPU I’ve ever seen — and it was sold on Amazon
Would you be fooled by a 14-year-old processor in a new box? Scammers are getting more brazen with their fake CPU deceptions.
Someone built a system with Intel’s first CPU that’s half a century old, and it can boot Linux – if you have a spare week to wait
You may be aware that this isn’t just any old processor, but Intel’s very first chip, and indeed the first commercially ...
Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU
We've been reporting stories about Amazon customers receiving fake processors since 2017. It still occasionally happens, as discovered by Aris from Hardware Busters. He bought a ...
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What was the first consumer desktop CPU to achieve 4GHz out of the box?
The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture, but this milestone wasn't achieved out of the box.