Last week, a pretty special result showed up in a widely accessible benchmarking website. It seemingly suggested a new AMD Ryzen 7 9700X3D was on the way. If that sounds too good to be true, it's because it was. Instead, it was a product of some techies "playing around with Linux." Turns out they "accidentally submitted" the scores, and the rest is CPU history.
User A_Canadian_boi took to Reddit to explain how they and their friends managed to fool many tech outlets and many more users in the process. They declare, "This is how we did it, and why you can't trust online bench databases." Effectively, with the right software, you can change what your CPU displays in your settings, and the group of friends grabbed an overclocked Ryzen 7 9700X CPU, swapped its ID to "9700X3D" and ran Passmark, a CPU testing software.
