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Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there's no way to check for violations before purchase

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A gamer from Germany bought a used AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and got slapped with a Valorant ban. u/After-Cartoonist-196 shared the problem on the r/PCBauder subreddit [machine translated]; although the…

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