FEAR and Quake 4 kills my rig

[akshayt]

I don't have money for buying anything else, can i use warranty by reducing the cpu and ram back to stock speed?
My psu: Antec SP500, can it handle the oc?

 

[Effect]

Originally posted by: akshayt
I don't have money for buying anything else, can i use warranty by reducing the cpu and ram back to stock speed?
My psu: Antec SP500, can it handle the oc?

As people have said, if you overclock and kill your CPU, it'd be YOUR fault, not AMD's. Trying to rip them off like that is fraud. Anyway, chances are if you sent them the dead chip, they'd send it back, and you wouldn't be very popular around here. If you overclock, you void your warranty forever.

That said, the chances of you killing your cpu through overclocking alone (stock volts) are extremely slim IF you're careful. If it's your first time overclocking, read and reread multiple guides before overclocking, and then take it slow.

Your PSU should be fine for your rig.

 

[akshayt]

I will use 2gb ram.
Also, can you please tell me your experience with quake 4 at stock?

 

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: akshayt
Please, I am not willing to take the risk, who will pay if warranty goes bad?
also, my friend with amd 64 bit 3200 with 7600gt runs FEAR ok at 1024*768 maxed, softshadows off

According to the benchmarks, I have seen, it doesn't matter whether the cpu is intel 840 or amd fx 57 for FEAR.

Visit these links
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=523
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/15/...rd_buyers_guide_2006_part3/page45.html
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/cpu-games2_4.html

Don't you think that it would be stupidity to overclock for a cpu and void warranty for smoething that doesn't need that extra power or doesn't use it?

AMD will have *NO* idea you overclocked, there is no way to tell. You have nothing to worry about voiding your warranty...and even if you do overclock, it's not like anything will happen to your chip if you go too far. The only concern is leaving it overclocked too high over an extended time period (such as a year)...

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: ntdz

Originally posted by: akshayt
Please, I am not willing to take the risk, who will pay if warranty goes bad?
also, my friend with amd 64 bit 3200 with 7600gt runs FEAR ok at 1024*768 maxed, softshadows off

According to the benchmarks, I have seen, it doesn't matter whether the cpu is intel 840 or amd fx 57 for FEAR.

Visit these links
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=523
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/15/...rd_buyers_guide_2006_part3/page45.html
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/cpu-games2_4.html

Don't you think that it would be stupidity to overclock for a cpu and void warranty for smoething that doesn't need that extra power or doesn't use it?

AMD will have *NO* idea you overclocked, there is no way to tell. You have nothing to worry about voiding your warranty...and even if you do overclock, it's not like anything will happen to your chip if you go too far. The only concern is leaving it overclocked too high over an extended time period (such as a year)...

its called fraud. not acceptable on AT forums.