What's An 'AMD Eng Sample' Motherboard?

[isolatedartist]

I was given (bought) a gaming PC with basically every problem in the book thrown at me. Ignoring that, I'm having my Radeon Settings test compatibility with games, because, well, I'm having issues gaming.
I've done a bit of poking around and some people say it's an 'Engineering Sample' that people aren't allowed to sell or whatever? IDK.
Here's the info.

AMD Eng Sample: ZD376091I4468_40/37/18/07_130F

What exactly does that mean?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, engineering sample. Not to be resold.
Probably remains the actual property of AMD.

May include many, many operational issues. As you're seeing.

 

[isolatedartist]

Yes, engineering sample. Not to be resold.
Probably remains the actual property of AMD.

May include many, many operational issues. As you're seeing.

Thank you.
What would you recommend someone do in this scenario, then?
Should I seek getting the motherboard / CPU replaced?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, engineering sample. Not to be resold.
Probably remains the actual property of AMD.

May include many, many operational issues. As you're seeing.

Thank you.
What would you recommend someone do in this scenario, then?
Should I seek getting the motherboard / CPU replaced?

You bought stuff that absolutely does not work.

Whoever sold it to you almost certainly knew what he was selling.
You can try, but would you trust them to give you a valid one?

And if you contact AMD, they'd probably be interested in knowing where you got it.

 

[isolatedartist]

Yes, engineering sample. Not to be resold.
Probably remains the actual property of AMD.

May include many, many operational issues. As you're seeing.

Thank you.
What would you recommend someone do in this scenario, then?
Should I seek getting the motherboard / CPU replaced?

You bought stuff that absolutely does not work.

Whoever sold it to you almost certainly knew what he was selling.
You can try, but would you trust them to give you a valid one?

And if you contact AMD, they'd probably be interested in knowing where you got it.

I absolutely do not wish to do dealings with that seller ever again.
I'd rather get a new motherboard, probably out of own pocket. Something that's probably a functional 'upgrade' to whatever this was. What's the next highest than A8/A10 in the AMD series?

Will I get in trouble with AMD?

 

[USAFRet]

I absolutely do not wish to do dealings with that seller ever again.
I'd rather get a new motherboard, probably out of own pocket. Something that's probably a functional 'upgrade' to whatever this was. What's the next highest than A8/A10 in the AMD series?

Will I get in trouble with AMD?

Will YOU get in trouble with AMD? Probably not. You didn't know what you were buying.
He, on the other hand, knew exactly what he was selling. And AMD probably wants to know.

As far as replacement parts?
What do you have now, and what do you need, and what's your budget?
Buying anything 'new' in the A8/A10 line is pretty much a waste of money.

You need to be looking at a new Ryzen system.

 

[isolatedartist]

I will be honest, I'm probably the most 'normie' or noobish out there, so I apologize ahead of time if I'm giving wrong stats.
But. I don't know a lot about PC's yet and all I have is Speccy to feed me what I have (well, and Radeon Settings, but. That's whatever)

I have 16 GB of PNY Ram
My MB is, well. That.
My graphics is Radeon R7 Integrated Graphics. (I believe I have APU or whatever it's called. )
I have 1 TB of HDD (Hitachi?)
i'll just drop a speccy. ignore the temps, it's both an old reading and wildly inaccurate. (i check my temps on a much more accurate program)

I'm open to anything under $500 for both a new mb and a graphics card. if replacements include more than that, then let's put that in the budget as well.

I'll also be open with everyone on the fact I mainly want this PC to handle Overwatch, which is the most tasking game I play, and I'm not interested in max settings or anything nuts. so if anything falls under that $500 threshold that's good. I'm not looking to max out / go up to $500 unless strictly necessary.