According to user forum posts, fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips are circulating in China. Japan's Uniko's Hardware found these ChipHell-sourced tales and highlighted what appears to be an MSI China social media post warning about AMD CPU shenanigans and outlining anti-counterfeit measures users can take. Sadly, we couldn't track down the MSI China notice, which has been screen-captured for ChipHell, to verify it (even after looking through all its Weibo posts from January, December, and November).
A machine translation of the MSI China notice reads: "Recently, there have been many cases of AMD CPUs being opened and replaced by customers. Dealers, please pay attention. In case of returns or malfunctions, the CPU must carefully check whether there are any abnormalities between the cover and the PCB, and report to the police in time to avoid losses!"
