I Ordered a FAKE Ryzen 5 3600 from Best Buy
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I work at Amazon and last week they had me grading customer returns on their condition to be resold as used and I had a Ryzen 3500 with a return reason being "no longer wanted". It was obvious it was used because it had thermal paste all over it but I flipped it over and see that at least 30 pins in one of the corners were bent flat. Yeah, I bet you didn't want it anymore.
what does amazon do in those situations?
I'll take it, it's easy enough to fix the pins
Is Amazon actually that bad?
Polynuclear read it again
@@polynuclear2970 its people that are actually that bad lol
There is a special place in hell for these scammers, sadly they manage to evade it.
Those two CPUs side by side really shows the extra number of pins needed to get the speeds out of the processor that they're getting.
That's China for you...
They cant evade karma
@@nightruler666 Karma doesn't exist or at least I don't think it does. If someone does something bad and then something bad happens to them, who is to say that bad thing wasn't going to happen whether or not they did something bad in the first place. I think if anything it helps people get over whatever bad things happen to them, so they can take solace in the fact that the wrong doers will get what's coming, karma.
@@nemesiswes426 You don't need karma. Purely logical and rational consequences can follow bad actions. Like bad marriage, lack of love, destroyed connection with your children, lack of true friends, stress, loss of dignity, lack of peace if you have enemies or doing something illegal, drugs, sexually transmitted diseases and so on. While I think there are many happy bad people out there I still don't wish them anything from above.
I'm actually impressed that somebody delidded an AM3 CPU without bricking it.
As I recall, that generation of chips didn't have a lid.
@@geonerd AM3 CPUs definitely had lids(IHS). You have to go further back to find a desktop CPU without a IHS.
@@mandmwaddle Can confirm, still got my Phenom II x4 955 lying around my house and it does have IHS.
Pentium MMX 200 MHZ had lid
@geonerd even the very first Pentium 4's on socket 423 had an IHS, I do have an Athlon XP that doesn't have an iHS though so that's the age you're looking at
That's really cool of you to have bought the CPU for that much from them. I'm sure they found themselves a nice new one
Where did you even find the amount they bought it for? I looked through the communications shown and couldn't find anything.
@@nikkiofthevalley 16:13
@@nikkiofthevalley probably messaged them
pretty cool ur gay too n ya cool they bouht it but think bout all dem other 4chaners out there that get rekt every day boy niggas die everyday, All over bullshit, dope money, dice game, ordinary hood shit
Could this be 'cause of hip hop music? For red or for blue or for blow, I guess
From Bankhead up to yo projects all the way down from the top o' the cage down thru the announcers table when the undertaker threw mankind off of hell in a cell back in 1964
Best Buy employee here! Naturally I can't speak on behalf of the company, but in my time working sales on the PC floor I've definitely seen this happen a few times in my store. Unfortunately, Linus' initial description of how this happens is completely correct.
The one about a rogue employee? Or a customer return?
@@Patrity both cases tbh.
Best Buy employee also here! For serious? Like, FF ryzen boxstock had a fake processor in it? That's insane. My first thought was this was a marketplace scam.
@@Patrity Customer return. They'll do it with all manner of different product. I've seen consumers return incorrect Bluetooth speakers, headphones, game controllers, one gentleman tried to return a gaming PC after swapping out the SSDs (at the beginning of quarantine, before the GPU shortage). This isn't even the first time I've seen a processor swap.
The problem is that I know my PC components. My customer service advisors don't, nor do I think they should really be expected to. We had department specialization before, and that was out biggest strength.
@@ATShields935 ouch
I’m so happy you acknowledged the possible scenarios at the end. I appreciate keeping a skeptical eye while not being vindictive about it.
Agreed. It's very important to weigh up all options and very careful not to jump to any without strong evidence.
Accusing peeople of things they quite likely didn't do, isn't good for angwayone.
Plot twist: the actual scammer was the buyer! Swapping his old chip (fake) with the new (real), and tried to return it; coming up on a $5 Ryzen! Posting it online creating a facade. And Lynus just bought it for content lol.
Either that, or these chips are being made in Chin a, and somewhere down the road somebodies trying to make a quick buck.
@@hapwn yeah but like Linus said if he was doing that why go through the trouble of shipping it to Sri Lanka when his brother could have just done all that himself?
All in all this video would overly compensate that $200 while scamming is still continuing atleast its being addressed and no harm was done in this video.
@@cozmicking7275 maybe he doesn't have the tools, or maybe bro was just networking, expanding his new business venture, helping out fam at the same time, showing him the ways, maybe there's no Best Buys in his area, or maybe the stores in his area caught on idk could be a lot of things lol!
I fell victim to CPU swapping back in 2011... I ordered an 8130 and the box had an 8150 in there, worked out in my favour I guess
you aren't a victim..........
I feel like that's just a mess up at the warehouse 😂
they had one job
you fell victim to a CPU scam by buying an FX :)
@@martinus_mars Very good... I did indeed... I have a Ryzen 9 5950X now though so its all ok, to give that FX8150 credit it could still play many games, including call of duty coldwar at a solid 60fps, halo and bf2042 were too much for the old girl though, max I could get was 45fps, which is still better than the cut down next gen consoles
Here is what I think happened.
A customer (scammer bought a Ryzen 5 3600, swapped the unit and then returned it as an "unwanted" item.
BestBuy would have no reason to return this item to AMD for inspection as there is no fault, so no suspicions are raised and the customer (scammer) innocently walks away.
BestBuy re-list this item as it was just an unwanted item.
Legitimate customer buys this item, unknowing that it was tampered with.
depends! had a guy return an UNUSED, dustless MSI 4090 in store couple weeks ago that he paid 1.7k for, and we had to send it back to NVIDIA. most components like raw PC parts are PRC (goes back to manufacturer). it was in excellent condition and even the PCI protective caps were still on. crazy to look at tho.
@summer ive never seen computer components go open box
@@Zyosinc probably for this reason, among others ofc.
He really made the sticker say "DeTECHtive". Linus Dad Tips coming up
LOL
yeah, check out LTT stories and you'd have seen the sticker, if you're interested
More like CSWait
I would sub to that
#freepalastine
This, this is why I hate legitimate online stores turning into online marketplaces. So many scammers and scalpers
Same! I cannot count how many times I had to explain to friends and family that they're looking at SCALPER prices from third party sellers on the big retailer websites.
This happens in physical stores also. Buy the product. Swap the one in the package for a older/fake one. Return it to the store
@@m10rober2011 yeah but atleast with physical stores you knew you were buying from the store you were in. It's not like some random dude named Mike could sell you a shitty mislabeled cpu within a physical best buy location, but he could as a 3rd party seller on amazon or something.
Agree. I steer clear of 3rd party sellers on Amazon, Newegg, and others. I wonder how many imposter RTX 3000 series video cards are floating around out there right now?
Exactly, I don't know how many times I have to explain "3rd party sellers" to people around me.
The 'reseating couple of times' troubleshooting tip helped me fix my old lappy. Thanks Linus.
My wife too
@@Nebnub bruh
1:20
You can tell the seal was tampered with because of how it was lifting at the bottom and was slightly wrinkled.
BB will open and check a package if you tell them that the product was opened/defective, but if you don't, it wouldn't be hard to get away with swapping a product and returning it if the seal is in tact.
There's nothing quite like seeing Linus getting all romantic and excited.
@@eugenesmemes well first stop making spam and maybe you wouldn't get reported and blocked
@@eugenesmemes What
good content ?😂😂 dude you are playing Fortnite and max 16sec each video 😂😂.
@@Tomytoka go first learn mathematics then you will know. First solve one problem then the second problem will be solved magically
@@eugenesmemes helped you
@YoJo Gaming People don’t give you a chance, because you’re spamming comment sections, and uploading Fortnite.
God I wish I had a couple of their older "test rigs", they are like high end for me.
And most of the general population....
That test rig is similar to what I have. At least the same mobo
@@dustinandtarynwolfe5540 mine is the same..color.
I have the same Amd atlohn2
Dude. $500 and you'll have a much better PC than their shitty test bench.
the creativity going into sponsors is gonna blow my mind one day. i literally never see it coming unlike literally every other youtube channel...i love u guys
This reminds me of what happened around the time Zen 3 launched. There was a couple guy down here that had gotten there hands on like 3 or 4 CASES of old ass Zen 1 Athlon processors, & we're gradually buying Zen 3 processors, delidding both the old Athlons, and Zen 3's, doing a switcheroo like in this vid. They got arrested thankfully, but not sure how much time they got. What's worse, the platform for both was the same (AM4) so it was hard as hell to catch
This PC: Takes 3 seconds to open a folder
My laptop laptop: "Woah dude you fast"
Same. At first I thought, "that looked fine to me."
Then I remembered that folder opening is one of those things that an SSD upgrade will immensely help. It's awesome that they're getting cheaper and cheaper.
If the IHS had been installed properly it would have worked MUCH better, it was probably thermal throttling on boot....
me and my hard drive were offended when he said that :(
.... mine takes 3 minutes to open a windows explorer window.
i used to have a 11 year old hard drive from a 14 year old damaged system and i can say that most ssd's are worth it
Me: "oh this computer isn't that bad"
Linus: "disgusting"
Me: "disgusting"
tbh for a 5-10$ cpu thats what i thought, i mean it runs, what more do you expect from an 11 year old cpu? damn i got surprised when it ran csgo tho
My PC hates you :D
For a short time circa 2010, I actually had a PC running an Athlon II X2 245, which I suppose is very close in performance to the B22 in the video. It was actually better than I had expected and ran all the essentials I needed at acceptable speeds. Emphasis on "needed", not "wanted".
It was a stopgap PC, because I was short of cash at the time, but needed a new PC urgently for work. I chose an AMD processor because I wanted to easily upgrade it later, which was a no-brainer with AMD's single AM3 socket of the time, but impossible with Intel, which had *three* different sockets for its Core 2s of the time (yes, of the *same generation* -- Intel was once even worse with its socket folly than today!). So, I stretched my limited budget to get the best mainboard I could. That meant one with the 970 chipset, AMD's second-best at the time, so it was a completely disproportionate configuration -- sort of running a current Athlon 200GE on a shiny B550. But it made sense because of the planned upgrade. And it served its purpose of being an interim solution that allowed me to do my work.
When my finances improved a couple of months later, I got a Phenom II X6 1090T, which was AMD's top of the line at the time, and swapped it without a glitch, to a dramatic increase in performance. The X6 was so good that it was my loyal companion for *10 years,* and it could have been in use even longer if I weren't wary of a major hardware failure without compatible replacement parts readily available in the market. Now I have a Ryzen 5 3600X running on a nice Asus X570 and that promises to be my companion for many years as well.
@@johnnysilverhand1069 csgo is one of the easiest games to run these days, considering it's an fps
My PC doesnt exist
It's interesting to see how the returns of electronics have evolved to protect against this sort of behavior. I remember returning electronics in the old days, and nobody even looked at the stuff you were returning. Was something vaguely electronic-looking in the box you brought back to the store? Good enough!
That changed - at places like Best Buy, they'll actually bring over the Geek Squad employees to examine the merch and make sure it is exactly what you originally bought. Obviously this process isn't fool-proof, but I have to think it catches a lot of the scams.
People would quite often switch out printers to return to Staples. The first one I had to accept I didn't really think about it, and sure enough, my supervisor found it had different serial numbers inside and outside That was low effort, though. I learned my lesson the first time and it happened way more than expected.
As an employee of BB I can tell you the QA is barely there. I didn’t even bat an eye at the fact that he bought this from one of our stores.
Yep I know as one of the geek squad members eventually manager that inspected the returns in some case took over customer service so they can go on break. Yes nowadays unfortunately more common for return fraud then it was back then. I seen wood to mirrors and boxes resealed to appear as unopened. Some more sophisticated scammer would actually swap out item with exact item but broken and change serial, we can tell as pry marks if external drives or item clear been used but yet box was sealed? Some scammers would run out door, some more professional ones would try to explain it. We usually didn’t call the cops and just embarrassed them and not except any returns from them. Now if they were caught multiple times then LP would get cops involved and they get charged with theft by deception.
It one of the reason some items on eBay broken go for as near as working on hotter items. Scammers by blacklisted phone and swap boards, or internals on other item to do return fraud or exchange for brand-new item as go for double when new sealed.
Now a reseller and see it on return pallets I buy from Amazon and other sources. So is a huge problem online as well. It is to the point I inspect every item and test even if appear to be brand new still sealed before reselling or bring to friend warehouse as we sell to public on weekends to give general public deals.
One particular item was a delonghi espresso machine on pallet. Someone bought a cheaper version on Amazon obviously did return fraud and returned a more expensive broken one as was broken due to brewer was jammed and was pretty clean shape. I ended up repairing and keeping it as was a Dinamica Plus that pretty good once I repaired it.
Did have one case that a legitimate customer returned AirPods due to fakes were in box and was due to customer service didn’t inspect box when it was returned first time around as was sealed and consider low value where a manager or Geek squad agent doesn’t step in. Knew he was legit as he was arguing and legitimately piss to the point he was wanted to fight the lady. So pulled him aside to calm him down explaining not worth it and only help him once he calm down and then once he started cooling down and was respectful again had him explain in detail and took over and look back at history of item and saw it was returned before.
So honor it and gave him additional gift card for the hassle he also apologize to the lady for obscene language as part of the deal and had customer service have everyone of those inspected and I pulled others out of stock that were returned before and sure enough found a few were swapped with fakes. Ended up catching the people as they tried again and play it off like they getting refunded but didn’t have enough cash in register to buy time as course they paid cash and had LP pull video of them returning AirPods before and LP took over and had them arrested and prosecuted. Normally don’t go that far as just banned them but they did it to many times and then the upset customer had to refund and give extra gift card to.
Yeah, when I was young and poor, I found a better router with the same housing as mine and just swapped the internals.
I knew a guy who would take the internals out and just fill the housing with crushed cans.
I literally love the way you segway to talking about sponsors, every video you somehow make me excited for the sponsor
This was much more complex and thought out than I expected at the end, I am pleasantly surprised
I remember when I worked at future shop as a merchandiser, we got a few skids of fake Apple products one of ipods and the other was ipads. We opened a few and they seemed pretty legit until we turned them on and android system boot logo came on.
I once had a really convincing iPhone 6S Plus come in at work. Case felt a bit off but I thought that maybe it had been replaced. OS felt a bit off and when I went into the keyboard settings, it said "AOSP Keyboard" 🤣
Also had someone try to sell sealed Airpods Pros - box didn't look right at all and the serial number on it was legit, but an old one that was way out of warranty already.
so it was an improvement
@@cleanycloth in person ? did you grab the prick ? citizens arrest ? get the cops ? I would have...
@@psycronizer No point. I told them both they were fakes and that we wouldn't buy them in, and that was that.
@@cleanycloth damn....
The way he viscerally reacts to windows search bar lag and slow folder opening is so funny to me bc ive been dealing with that shit for years and ive gone numb to the pain
i love the tonal cut from “new age havin fun linus” to “back in the day trying to be professional linus”
About 20 years ago, I knew a guy who used to brag that he would go to Walmart, buy a new component; memory sticks, video card, whatever. He would swap it out in his computer, package the old one back up, and return it to Walmart for a refund. Voila' ! Free upgrade. It made me so mad. Eventually, he shoplifted a CD and got caught. He spent the night in jail and it scared him straight.
Crying thinking of the poor walmart shareholders who had to suffer this loss. The impoverished Waltons can't live on like this, they'll be on the streets any day 😢
@@squelchedotter While it's really not exactly crying a river for fucking WalMart of all places, who really get fucked in this case is the customers, albeit they can always return it once they realize, so...
@@Shyvorix Yeah that's a good point. Usually the company loses, but people don't always realize.
@@Shyvorix IF they realize it. If we are talking something like a HDD if it is the wrong size the end costumer may not be savvy enough to notice the issue (it's really not hard to install an HDD, anyone can do it), and even if it ends up working for said customer for a while, paying a new price for an HDD that had a couple years of wear on it...
Somethings, like the CPU in this video, can be obvious they are wrong, for other components it may not be so clear.
@@Shyvorix Thats right, if a customer has a good reason to return something, it will be a lot of bureocracy and the customer will lose time and money.
It happens to me, I has to wait like months for a third party to check the faulty component before I was able to get a refund.
I used to be a font end manager for Walmart. A customer got scammed when he bought a copy of Star Wars Battlefront. Someone carefully swapped out the game with an actual mixtape. People can be pretty damn sneeky.
LMFAOOOO
@TheOriginalCheating FagootNEW
Nah, maybe some mumble rappers like Lil Pump or Soulja Boy
In the spirit of James Vietch; What kind of font ends did you manage?
In all seriousness, Retail, For all of it's security is surprisingly lax. I have worked at Micro Center Wall Mart and Best Buy. Walmart was absolutely the worst, With the other two about tied. it's a shame people feel a need to do this kind of thing and not honest work.
@@beezanteeum Soulja boy literally fathered most of these other artists.
I worked at a Hollywood Video store back in the day, and one summer we had a thief that would come in, slice the spine of the locked DVD/Game cases, pocket the discs, and place the empty cases throughout the store. I called my local GameStop, have them a title list, and found matches on several days of trade-ins they received. The problem was we never caught him in the act. After losing literally hundreds of games over a few months, I thought "he must know where the cameras are pointed, and avoids them." So, I reaimed the cameras. Caught em red handed. The cops were only able to charge him for the ones he had on him when they came to his house, not the couple hundred hed already sold, but he had 57 discs, all AAA titles, so easily fell inside grand theft charges. I was ecstatic.
Hi Linus, Just started to following your TH-cam channel last week. This video is very interesting regarding fake CPU. I have been in this industry in Victoria, BC since Aug-1994, now I think what I am about to tell you happened over 20 yrs ago , so it should be di-classfied, and I can tell you without worrying to get in trouble. Back in Intel 486 DX2-66 Days, one of major distribution companies in Canada with office in Richmond, Toronto, and Calgary if I remembered correctly, this company's name starts with a nubmer, and a letter so likes XX Micro Computer distribution Inc. Anyway, they have factory in China, so what they would do is for example order 10,000 pieces of 486DX 33 in OEM Tray version, and same quantity of 486DX2-66 in Retail packaging with Intel HSF, then they would sand of the marking on the 486DX33, and remark them with 486DX2-66. Put the remarked 486DX-33 in DX2-66 Retail packaging, and resale as retail in distribution channel. And the retail 486DX2-66 would get sold as OEM cpu, OR they would order another batch of 486DX4-100, and proceed with the same scam.... pretty brilliant right?! LOL (BTW, if you compare a real DX2-66 to the remarked DX33, you can see about 0.5mm thinner on DX33, because original layer with Intel marking was sanded off...)
This type of stuff happens A LOT, but it is essentially a drop in the bucket for these giant corporations. Linus referenced a "warehouse worker" facilitating the return, but most likely it is an 18y/o who isn't paying too close attention at the customer service counter. Working at BBY for 8 years, I have seen a lot of this. Years ago we had a guy who would buy all the new movie releases, open them, steal the digital code, re-shrinkwrap them, and return them. PS5 removed from box and replaced with heavy stuff, seen that too. Just the other month, we had some crackhead come in, take a Dyson vacuum off the shelf and try to return it for cash without a receipt. Literally just the other day, we had a geek squad employee from another store return a graphics card to us. Upon closer inspection later that day, we realized he swapped out a cheap graphics card in the more expensive housing of a 3080 (or something else expensive). We re-watched the security footage, looked up the transaction, and called the other best buy and let management know. Not sure if he got fired or not.
Removing the CPU while it is running, that's why I am here
I wondered what would happen if he just put it back in. I assume nothing. as in the whole systems stays frozen until a hard reset. But i would have loved if Linus just tried that for the lolz.
Could've caused a resonance cascade
Slapping it with a bat while it’s running. That’s why I’m here.
@@Vexcenot IT'S NOT SHUTTING DOWN! AAAAAAAAAARGGH!
I've actually done that with a flaky AM2 CPU before. Somewhat surprisingly it didn't seem to cause any more damage.
Did linus just pull the CPU out while the system was on? ( 8:45 )
Edit: Yes, yes he did.
To be fair, that CPU was a lie.
yep I thought so too.
Ah, yes. The old hot-pluggable Athlons. Those were the days.
Yes, but why didn't he drop it immediatly? Shouldn't it be like 80-90°C?
when i noticed i went straight to the comments. And linus probably doesnt give a fuck about that cpu
Thank you for the tutorial, I'll be sure to try it out with my local best buy stock
_Wobbles Heatsink_ "yahhh, it's...it's mounted on there.." LOL definitely mounted for sure, Linus Certified ✅ 🤣
This is a story told to me by my coworkers at Saturn
One time a customer bought an av receiver, opened it took out the inside and filled it with stones. He returned it to the store claiming it wouldn't work right. After we returned it and sent it to the manufacturer without double-checking everything we got a verry weird call from their service department.
Not to be harsh, but that's next level of complacency right there. You don't need to double check but at least open and check what's inside the box.
Doubt this case will even hold up in court. Now they'll need to prove that stones didn't appear in the box, after the box was already returned. Feelsbad.
@@brandulak the weight was right and he really used dummy ports of another device to make it appear real - he really put some effort into the whole thing.
And since you couldn't really proof that the actual device wasnt returned he got away with it.
There was electrical item returned to Argos UK filled with plasticine to make weight correct it went back to manufactures got opened up and thought at first was plastic explosive . Argos were well known for accepting anything back so if part was needed to repair something just get it from Argos take parts out then return for refund
@@brandulak I've bought a external drive from target that didn't have any markings indicating it was a return... was packaged in the correct wrapping and etc felt like the correct weight, the internals had been replaced with floor tiles. It'd made it's away all the way back to the factory, been repackaged and put back into the store as if it was just a good product because they never opened or even tested it due to the customer not stating it was damaged when returning it.
When i was working at an auto parts store we had one instance of a customer bringing back two brake discs. They were packaged correctly, and the customer has only opened one of the two boxes and there was no sign of tampering on the other. In this case both boxes had old rusty discs, yet that is how they came from the warehouse. What probably happened is that a previous buyer replaced the discs on the car, then returned the old ones to get their money back, and the clerk accepting them did not check the content.
"there's a vise there.."
*Linus reluctantly walks over to $600 milling Vise conveniently on the table*
Yeah I was suprised they had a kurt lol
Weird, eh
its a "vice" bro
@@tejaspadhye nope, "vise" is correct here
@@DonnieX6 damn I just googled and found out that my college workshop manual was wrong. 💀
Customers in a busy Christmas store could pull similar scams. I once bought an empty box at Best Buy.
6:46 For some perspective a 2009 MacBook Pro has a cinebench score of like 86 it has an Intel Core 2 Duo
He got so shocked when the windows search took a second, my old pc literally took 10.
Lol I suffered the same thing for years until I finally switched to ssd. Never going back to hdd
obviously unless i become an editor or something, then i will obviously need hdd's for larger and cheaper storage
Dude my unhealthy HDD takes like 1min to show result
@@nobody7817 Network rarely means anything when dealing with local storage…
@@nobody7817 K sheeeesh my bad, I was uneducated with such. Thanks for informing me c:
“Shame on your for selling fake CPU’s but now I will show you how to make a fake CPU.”
cheena.
@@rohitgoyal7297 SHEYENUH
Wannabe criminals can always get this kind of information, whereas the general public benefits from a better understanding of how scams work, being able to better protect themselves.
@Notabotatall _ 27 Nah Just the difference in some PC components, How to build a PC is pretty simple if you look at compatible parts, However what's to say that 2 of the same component is different (Of Course its not that would be stupid) But to a new builder it could be the thought. If you get sent the right things and ordered the correct things your fine and likely won't ever think about deliding the CPU, its not worth it for pretty much everyone.
@Notabotatall _ 27 woa smart
Watching this from Sri Lanka!!! Thanks for helping the guy who got scammed out.
Keep it up, nice video clip, thank you for sharing the information :)
He just really needed to wear that "DeTECHtive Linus" sticker for the whole video!
Well how else would you know he's the detective?
My mom occasionally says: "Half of the world spends their time conning the other half" (something like that).
It's a sad world we live in.
lol, that number jumps to one hundred percent if you are from China....
Money is power, status, luxury - and it's not easy to get enough to have any of those things.
@@psycronizer really?I've always heard good things about China..Maybe it's cuz they were tourist or only lived there a few years
@@SpaceRanger187 I take it you are joking...if not..do a little research...you will change your mind..COVID ring any bells, for example ? Wuhan Lab ? no ? organ harvesting ? govt sanctioned murder ? religious persecution ? need I go on ?
@@psycronizer what does conning people and covid and all that have to do with the Chinese people.I know your not about to tell me they are all bad
Thanks for the Tips, I got TONS of old parts.. Best Buy Employment here I come!!!!
man glasswire has sponsored you for so long. how awesome they are.
I used to work at frys way before it shut down and I remember a customer trying to return a chip like this. When I went to compare our chips the dude just walked out the building without the chip so it was clear he tried to scam us.
D I D Y O U S E E K I N G L I A N G T H E R E ?
but u won’t be able to tell the difference if he try to replace it to a cpu having the same socket…
When I worked at bestbuy we had someone try to return an unopened MacBook pro but my manager decided to open it anyway and sure enough it was a peice of wood in the box 🤦♂️🤦♂️ the customer just left
@@ocroyal6688 Was his face not recorded in any camera footage? Did he face any consequences?
@@diogoribeiro477 the managers just showed everyone his pictures and told us not to accept any returns from him lol and I don’t believe he ever got in trouble
Linus: "And now we're going to show you how this scam works"
*BREAKING NEWS: CPU SCAM RATES HAVE GONE UP 500%*
Handsome Squidward
Edit: he changed his pfp 😳
LOL
Scalpers be
HA
Good. The more that there are, the more attention, the more reason to hunt them down.
4:43 "I pulled a classic troubleshooting step" first time this sentence has ever been used
we can always count on linus for a funny transition to the sponsor
Glad I bought my 5950 from back-alley craigslist guy 😂
Best buy now a sketchy website
Still got the guys number? I need one😂
Bought my 5600x same way about 2 months ago but haven't tested still, sitting in suspense still lol
Seems legit
Plot-Twist: They just wanted to sell the delidded IHS from the Ryzen CPUs and gifted you a free Athlon II X2
xD
Why do I always see you comments on random channels that im subbed to lol freaking me out man
im now terrified why are you everywhere
What’s up, checkmark?
Ray mak 2.0
@@Sayykrid I don't actually think that's true, plus I'm not even subbed to Lonely Sandwich.
8:45 Nobody noticed how Linus was about to remove the CPU from a running computer? 😂
What do you mean was about to? The man outright did it 😂😂
@@3.14guy lol i did delet the comment after i saw what happend, but idk i didnt delet then 😄
I instantly recognised that it was an Athlon, I’m proud of myself. (Back in the day I had an Athlon64, like over 10 years ago, but I still recognise the pin arrangement!)
Linus is like a brother, if you beg him enough, he will do what you say
as a brother of someone i can say that your analogy is correct
isn't it the other way around...??
that noone wanted but needed?
@@michaeljackson8390 @#$% off spammer.
@@panzerofthelake4460 Bestow upon me your wisdom.
@@michaeljackson8390 while TH-cam often gives strikes to ppl for BS reasons due to politics, some they get right. You fall into the latter category.
I use to work as a retail manager and saw customers swap things around for returns or purchases all the time. If you catch the switch, you have to assume the customer is innocent, it is possible they didn't know. That said, they almost always try to make a scene and try to pressure you, accuse you of wrongdoing or threaten you.
Depending on the culture of the neighborhood is your store, being manager could it be very stressing. Is there a bonus if you work in a "bad neighborhood"? (I'm not saying only violence, but places that there are more deceptive customers for example)
People absolutely do things like this for all sorts of products. I work in a automotive parts retail store and people try to return there old parts claiming that's what was in the box.. But we open every box and show them the part is in good shape and new when they buy it so it usually doesn't work. But if they call corporate and lie to them about it, corporate will tell us to just return it.. Even though they know they're being scammed because "it's about customer loyalty"....... 😐😐😐😐 Yeah.. Like those types of people are going to be good loyal customers..
Yup, put anyone in customer service for a month doing returns and they'll lose all faith in humanity when they realize how many scum are out there.
@@cup_and_cone yup, it did it for me. I never thought people would try such obviously bs scam.. But they do..
@@neildoe1617 Sadly they do it because they can get away with it. They do it once and get away with it, they're going to keep doing it until they are caught or move onto other crime.
Large corporations are scared of legal action by challenging customers, upsetting even honest customers with revised returns policy, and can't train their staff to lookout for all forms of scams. In the end we all just end up paying more because that loss gets factored into pricing of general merchandise.
I actually bought a Geek Squad Certified Samsung Q600 Soundbar from Best Buy and when I got it, it came in the correct packaging with all the correct stickers and model numbers etc. etc. but it was an A series SoundBar. Luckily Best Buy just swapped it out for a new one off the floor, but if you weren't 100% sure what you were trying to buy, you would never have known that the soundbar you revieved wasn't the one you paid for.
"You know what else is possible?, telling you about our sponsor"
A-roll shot at 24fps on this one? O_o
Thought the same thing
Thanks, now i know i'm not the only one.
I thought my device was lagging
motion blur usually takes care of it but i dont think they had it on for this render
Shutter speed too fast maybe? Not 180° shutter angle / 1/60th second it should be for 30 fps?
Seeing the pins on the old AMD cpu compared to the new one, is like looking at Lego and Megablocks.
I'm still rocking a ryzen 7 first gen like you pointed out in the cinebench score and it holds up pretty well still!
I used to work at a Best Buy, long ago. Man, there were so many sketch employees and managers there it was unbelievable.
And then they question why no one is buying hardware anymore in best buy, but go rather somewhere else.
@@strohhuttv8848 Except that there is nowhere else for many people to go these days... BestBuy is often the only place many people have locally where they can walk in and buy PC components. Local independent PC shops don't carry inventory and focus on repairs.
Since the closure of places like CompUSA, Circuit City, etc, Best Buy has basically become the national PC parts chain. And stores like Office Depot or Staples have stopped stocking PC inventory. Heck, 25 years ago Costco used to be a mecca for PC nerds and stocked PC hardware and software.
@@cup_and_cone People rarely even buy any hardware locally. I agree best buy is one of the few left who sell them locally atleast in America. I live in EU and where I live there are more local hardware shops but even here most people still buy hardware online. Online shopping got more popular and the "current global situation" made online shopping even more popular.
@@cup_and_cone And Fry's.
@@strohhuttv8848 Yes, but a lot of people don't realize BestBuy will price match Amazon and Newegg. A lot of people overlook the convenience of that for even basic items like keyboards.
Random person: I was scammed on eBay and Best Buy!
Linus: hold my beer
Canadian best buy scam, like that never happens ""LOL"" like that Christmas "iPad" which was clay
@@michaeljackson8390
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six."
Insert iron maiden riff...
Comment of the year
More like "hold my water bottle, LTTstoreDOTcom".
@@Azarilh LOL
you can totally tell when Linus is just playing the fail and when he really messes up :D
I used to handle testing returns for a company that made drones, and we'd often get returns in our Best Buy (and other B2B) pallets where their customer would gut the electronics and return an empty shell, or return a cheaper drone, etc. to get a refund while keeping all of the expensive parts to sell. Not surprising people are doing this with computer hardware, especially since the retail employees often don't do a thorough check (or check at all sometimes).
Linus be like: "And now I'll show you how to do it yourself!"
When he searched cine bench and started laughing that it was slow it reminded me of my pc and I feel offended now
FR i didnt know things could open faster than that LMAOO
Just had a similar experience with an SSD from Amazon, sold as a 1TB unit was actually a 500GB unit, used with a windows installation on it.
There's a similar problem with auto parts.
My uncle runs a shop and he's had multiple experiences where he bought supposedly "oem quality" hydraulic lifters that were "brand new" and turned out to be poorly made chinese counterfeit knockoffs that had been substituted for the product he actually bought.
Linus: Whoever you are, swapping CPUs stop it....stop doing that.
Also Linus: Let me show you how to do it.
tbf, it takes 5 minutes to find out how to do it
If they were gonna do it they were going to find out anyway.
sealed by AMD. opened 5 different 5800x in two different bestbuy stores all Fake
@@kevinkott9853 why do u have 5?!?! 5800x's.
not like its a secret by any means lol
Linus, the post office in Sri Lanka could be the culprit. Here in Argentina it's not uncommon for mail to be stolen, lost, swapped out for a brick, etc etc etc
yeah that package changed a lot of hands between maryland and srilanka. any one of those hands could have been in on it
Hi im from sri lanka, i dont think post men in sri lanka did this ,as far as i know sri lankan post men dont swap things to fake ones they just steal it😒😫 and dont bother anymore . Its happens all the time in our country we never post valuble things via post . 😔😔
Prove beyond a doubt that people are being chiped, and that those chips are ferromagnetic. You make the claim it is your responsibility to prove it. That is how science works. I can provide possible explanations as to the magnet stunt. The magnets have an adhesive that allows them to stick to skin. Also microchips are silicon and thus non ferromagnetic.
@@nicholasneyhart396 dude, ignore him. Not worth your time or effort.
Sri Lankan here. I'm pretty sure no one in the Sri Lankan customs or outside is skilled enough to de-lid a CPU.
17:42 _"if you ship the wrong thing, instead of just a brick"_ 80's hdd company miniscribe (in)famously shipped bricks.
I once owned a PC with an athlon II x2 255, absolute beast, it pulled above its weight regularly actually
I actually saw this happen in a tech Discord server I'm in - a guy went and bought a Ryzen CPU directly from a BestBuy store *in-person* then asked later in the server why it wouldn't fit when he started building. The IHS had been swapped with another old AMD CPU exactly like this.
scam as old as returned purchases.
Is this recent?
@@nit-Inundate Nope, 7 months ago
@@Jackonian I wish there aren't anything recent. Pc parts are already ot of stock here, hearing that just adds to my anxiety.
5:30
Linus: Wow, did you see that?
Me: I see that everyday:)
Me: I've seen worse
Mine just crashes the entire explorer.exe
I had an Intel i5 7200U. Before this, I was pretty sure it was my 1TB HDD causing slower searches. Now I'm questioning that judgement.
@@michaeljackson8390 ???????????????????????
@@michaeljackson8390 what are you saying??? U a bot??
i dont know how things are going in the U.S. or Canada, but here in Europe many stuff that trucks hauling are literaly open for everyone, no locks on the doors, the side of the trailers are made of a kind of sheet so you can easily cut it, or just open the door while the driver is sleeping, sometimes when you haul very expensive stuffs like UHD TV-s they seal the trailer and trucks have to stop in secure parking places, but sometimes cargo goes missing too :D And many times the drivers who steal the stuff, I heard that a couple romanian drivers were hauling car engines and they disassembled the engine and stole parts out then re-assembled, and if you did it in a common parking place no videos at all, and you can say that you picked up like this when loaded.
There's just bad people everywhere. Had a friend who's package was stolen, they just left the empty bag taped in front of the door to add insult to injury. Hope these people and scammers burn in hell, people working hard for this BS to happen.
In 2014, one guy bought LGA1150 CPUs on JD, swapped the IHS with 775 CPUs and returned it being a meme on Chinese Internet
Wait, so he returned the wrong batch? As in, he kept the cheap CPUs with expensive lids, and returned the actual expensive CPUs, just made them look cheap?
@@andymac6207 No. He kept the expensive CPUs, and returned the cheap ones.
@@andymac6207 And he got about 69,185 CNY (about 11,146 USD) refund from JD.
My brother worked at sams club. He tells of a door checker that would have his friends come in and grab laptops. He would then check them and let them walk out the door. They caught him when one of his friends tried to return a computer for cash that was still in the system
Who the hell would attempt to return a laptop they stole from the same store? Sell it online ffs.
what we need to do is stop stealing otherwise we will have crappy products at same 200usd price of from the factory.
to cover the losses from these.
What a DAss!
@@noodled6145 if they were smart they probably would've not stolen it in the first place :P
@@Commander_ZiN Sorry to be tht guy but it's "would have" I tolerate most grammatical errors but not tht one lol.
Just waking up watching on my new Surface Pro 8, love getting new tech. Upgraded from Surface Pro 2 lol
The minute you showed the pins I knew it was an FX. I have one of those bad boys on my keychain.
Linus: Don't do this
Also linus: *shows exactly how to do it*
you can de-lid a CPU and replace the TIM for slightly better performance. I think that is what he was referring to.
@@josephfrick6743 woosh
Alternate Title:- This CPU is so good it even works when its not in the socket
Thumbnail:- Shocked Linus
Happened to me with Skate or Die on the NES back in the 80's. I got home excited to play only to have two "sealed" plastic Atari 2600 cartridges where the NES cartridge should have been.
I've heard from friends who worked there that stealing and replacing merchandise is not exactly unheard of. It's so easy to do and it could net you so much money, with very low risks, so of course people do it.
I really respect the journalistic integrity Linus showed by calling out the possibility that it could have even been the person who brought them the story, or someone in their family. He could have easily avoided offending anyone, but he made sure to cover all the possible scenarios and that's commendable
Yup, it's possible the victim was actually the scammer.
Linus: Please stop swapping CPU’s
Also Linus: Now we will tell you exACTLY how to perform this scam!
Warehouse workers gather here
Lmao
If there isn't awareness brought into these scams and methods we'll never be able to see a change. Making the general public know about these scams is a good way to push or almost force retail stores like walmart find solutions to prevent these scams in the future.
#freepalastine
What else should he do?
Not inform how the scam works? Great idea, cause scammers already know how it works, but if the victims don't, then they can't protect against that scam!
Buying a used CPU is like buying a used condom, or COVID mask, or surgical gloves. You always run the risk of catching an illness more times than not
i bought an "open box" imac years ago from future shop that someone had returned. took me months to realize they had swapped out the RAM for something cheaper and crappier than what it had shipped with. lesson learned, always check your specs really carefully after you bring something home, these kind of swap-out returns are really common
yeah. this video makes me never want to buy “open box” when previously I thought “who cares about the box/100% newness”
“DeTECHtive”
I died inside.
F
You’re not the only one
9:09 POG LINUS FOUND OUT HOW TO PAUSE AN ONLINE GAME
With my pc I constantly pause online games
@@nolanarch9987 ever heard of a joke?
@@Faris727 he’s saying his pc is so bad that his game keeps freezing he knows its a joke
@@Faris727 you understand a joke?
@@Faris727 don’t you understand his joke?
Fake products is a very serious issues, so is returns.
Returns are the new pain for customers, as retailers are constantly selling returned goods as new.
I remember once buying a motherboard from bestbuy and someone put an older motherboard in the box which I noticed when the CPU wouldn't fit
I got here as early as I could. That relaxing music at the start kinda threw me off, I thought it was a YT ad. LOL
@@michaeljackson8390 o h n o t h a t ' s t e r r i b l e
@@mongarcia9151 That's a spam bot , just report it...
@@michaeljackson8390 damn that’s crazy
This is probably the most informing and well presented video from Linus I have ever seen. Really good job.
To check if intel mb pins are matching. Look for the holes in the pr and the mb. If they match, put your pr in the mb and if it fits without any effort, then close the mb lock and boot your mb.(with ram, gr, and other accessories.) if it work, its ligit if not return immediately. Do this while recording a video.
Pr=processor
Mb = motherboard
Gr= graphics card
Bro how much you smoke before doing this vid lol. Love the content
The tone of this video was really on point. Well done LMG. 👏
*My day is brightened and my satisfaction is immeasurable.*
@@eugenesmemes u play Fortnite thats the Problem
If it had been measureable it would be *click click* on point
My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.
@@surajhebbal3232 *My day is dead and my satisfaction is measurable.*
@@eugenesmemes because you advertise in comments
for examples on doing de-lid-ing on real good CPUs you should go for Roman Bauer's vids. he especially hints for specific temperatures these weak solders will need to see easy separation.
in this case the quick overheating and throttling gave strong indication that something under the lid was not well in state.
the assumption that something is already wrong and the pre-determined present days low value of the real semiconductor allowed the brute force variant of lid removal.
(and its definitely not meant to be applied on a high priced current CPU design that you want to stay operable beyond the removal step.)
In the late 90's a computer store in Newcastle NSW Australia were selling systems where they rewrote the BIOS to display a faster chip than what was installed, got busted and fined.
Great video LTT. But I think I noticed low framerate on your main camera. All the other close-up footage or else seems normal.
I think it's frame doubling every 4th or 5th frame. Guessing it was filmed at 24fps but the project was rendered at 30fps. Thought something was wrong with my new GPU momentarily!
@@nicholaskroeker3052 u think u got a fake lol