Can manufacturers tell if you overclocked your GPU/CPU?

[Nickel020]

Can manufacturers tell if you overclocked your GPU/CPU? I don't want to lose the warranty on my graphics card or CPU, just in case there is something else wrong with them. I know they will be able to tell if I burn the chip, but will they be able to tell modest overclocks (like the VGA BIOS records if the GPU clcok was higher than stock)?

Thanks

 

[McArra]

You already have no warranty in your 9800pro, VGA silencer avoids it.

 

[Nickel020]

Yes, but I still have the undamaged stock cooler and if they don't do a chemical analysis of the thermal compound they will never be able to tell that I had a VGA silencer on my card.
That's why I am asking, I don't want them to know that I did anything to void my warranty. I don't want to try to get my graphics card replaced if I overheat my graphics card, I just want to be able to get it replaced if something else is wrong with it.

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Nickel020
Yes, but I still have the undamaged stock cooler and if they don't do a chemical analysis of the thermal compound they will never be able to tell that I had a VGA silencer on my card.
That's why I am asking, I don't want them to know that I did anything to void my warranty. I don't want to try to get my graphics card replaced if I overheat my graphics card, I just want to be able to get it replaced if something else is wrong with it.

i dunno if they can tell or not..

but i had a 9700 pro die on me and i had it cooled with a mcw50t and they let me RMA it.

it was modestly overclocked... woke up one morning and my screen was all blocky...

funny thing is, the new card i got still does the same thing... weird...

 

[VIAN]

Don't send the card back if you broke it. It hurts us all in the end.

 

[kylebisme]

i had a vga silencer on my 9700pro when it died so i took it off and put the stock cooler back on before rmaing it, ati didn't complain at all.

 

[SickBeast]

I really don't see how they could tell, unless of course your CPU was dead because of too much voltage/heat. Or if you physically modded it, of course.

 

[exar333]

if you OC a component and it breaks, its your fault...if it is running within specified perameters and it breaks, then RMA it...its that simple

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: exar333
if you OC a component and it breaks, its your fault...if it is running within specified perameters and it breaks, then RMA it...its that simple

yup

 

[Nickel020]

I won't try tor RMA an overheated CPU, but if the Video- Out chip on my graphics card breaks for some reason that's got nothing to do with me overclocking the GPU and I don't see why I shouldn't RMA it. I won't try to RMA an overheated GPU and I am sure that short of the heatsink just falling off or fan failing completely, it will never overheat; I know enough of overclocking to watch my temps.

 

[SneakyStuff]

What's the difference? It's the same card.............