4770k OC and intel processor replacement

[bryanW1995]

All of the suggested fraud in this thread blows me away. Intel or any other company for that matter do NOT make any promise of any overclock results, only that they will not lock them. Sending a CPU back because it doesnt do as well as you want makes return processes harder for the rest of us and cause the prices to go up as well.

Be an adult, take what you get and be glad that you got anything above stock.

This was my thought upon reading the thread as well. Having said that, stuff like this is the whole reason that intel set up their "no questions asked" replacement warranty plan. If the OP can't get newegg to do an exchange for him, he can just buy the intel warranty and send in the crappy chip for a new one.

Sounds like the first 3570K I had. I couldn't get it past 4.2 either. Be careful about telling some people on this forum if you are going to exchange it. They get all churchy on you...

Are you saying that when you told people that you wanted to defraud a corporation, thus driving up costs for the rest of us, their comments were along the lines of "WWJD"? Or are you, instead, saying that it's completely ok to steal from a company if they are big enough? You've been a member here for 12 years, it seems like you would have known what to expect...

 

[khg5293]

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[Idontcare]

Are you saying that when you told people that you wanted to defraud a corporation, thus driving up costs for the rest of us, their comments were along the lines of "WWJD"? Or are you, instead, saying that it's completely ok to steal from a company if they are big enough? You've been a member here for 12 years, it seems like you would have known what to expect...

Well said.

Fraud is fraud and about the only time I see people trying to make it a gray area with fuzzy boundaries is when they want to personally justify their own fraudulent activities while still carrying on with a façade that they are not immoral individuals who would ever stoop to that kind of thing.

Rationalize your own personal "taking creative liberties with a return policy" all you want, at the end of the day it still is what it is otherwise you wouldn't find it necessary to do all that rationalizing in the first place.

That said, Intel's current performance tuning warranty plan does clearly allow the owner to have their CPU replaced once regardless the reason for requesting the replacement (doesn't OC high enough is a good enough reason)...so there is no rationalizing to be done if one has paid for the privileges afforded by the performance tuning plan.

 

[Cardio]

All of the suggested fraud in this thread blows me away. Intel or any other company for that matter do NOT make any promise of any overclock results, only that they will not lock them. Sending a CPU back because it doesnt do as well as you want makes return processes harder for the rest of us and cause the prices to go up as well.

Be an adult, take what you get and be glad that you got anything above stock.

My thoughts exactly! You cannot say a chip is "incredibly bad" when it performs at the specs the maker claims. You pay for a chip that will perform at its rated speed. It does that and then some. If the "Average" chip will do a 4.5 overclock, that means that a lot of them won't. That is what average means. Did you notice on the box anything about the chip being above average? You cost everyone money with your antics. If it doesn't suit you - buy another. It's like gambling, you don't win every time. If you don't, you don't blame the dealer. Or steal his money either.