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Valorant Player Banned Due To Previous CPU Owner’s Cheating Ways - Kotaku
Publisher description: In a wild coincidence a German player was penalized over the playing habits of their Ryzen 7's previous owner, claiming that nothing short of replacing the entire PC will overcome Riot's infamous anti-cheat detection
NewsAPI | Oct 3, 2026 | Zack Kotzer
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There can be secrets dwelling in our computer parts. Rarely paranormal spirits, but sometimes a previous life will linger. But the previous owner of their used CPU was. “I launched Valorant and was immediately kicked out,” posted Reddit user After-Cartoonist-196. “I found this strange because the game ran fine with my previous CPU.
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