A Riot ban followed a used Ryzen CPU to its new owner, but something is not adding up
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What we know so far: Riot Games has long been notorious for its controversially strict anti-cheat policies. Although the League of Legends and Valorant maker loosened its rules slightly earlier this year, hardware ID-based bans can still have unintended consequences for the secondhand hardware market, as one user claims to have discovered.
A redditor recently claimed they were banned from Valorant immediately after starting a match following the installation of a recently purchased AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. According to the user, Riot said the CPU's serial number was already on the company's anti-cheat blacklist, although Riot says it cannot find the related support ticket.
Assuming the redditor's story is accurate, one possibility is that the CPU's previous owner sold it after being caught cheating. Riot can re-evaluate hardware ID (HWID) bans through its...
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