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.
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Amazon fake CPU warning: user orders AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, receives old-school FX-4100 instead
User buys an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor from Amazon, but after receiving it, peels off the film from the CPU heatspreader... reveals it's an FX-4100.
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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.