If i use my own fan/arctic 5

[cyberfuzz]

im gunna buy the a64 939, i can get the retail for like 10 bux more, so im like eh why not, a 3 year warranty 10 bux , but im gunna oc, so i bought some arctic silver 5, and plan on a new heatsink/fan. if you dont use retail or oc does it void your warranty? and is it really possible to kill your processor?

 

[Rapsven]

Little hint:

They can't really tell if you've OCed it or not, it's pretty unenforceable.

And no, processers don't really die out. They're built to last for 10 years, OCing takes away 3 max. Not to mention that if it starts to overheat, it immediately shuts off.

So no, OCing your CPU is practically risk free.

 

[JBT]

Yes OCing voids your warrenty, and it is possible to kill a CPU by Ocing. You just need to be very careful. If you are new don't use anything other than stock voltage and watch your tempuratures. Use Prime95 torture test to check your stabilty. Let it run atleast 12 hours with out erroring out.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Rapsven
Little hint:

They can't really tell if you've OCed it or not, it's pretty unenforceable.

And no, processers don't really die out. They're built to last for 10 years, OCing takes away 3 max. Not to mention that if it starts to overheat, it immediately shuts off.

So no, OCing your CPU is practically risk free.

Little hint:

Using anything other than the stock heatsink and thermal pad voids the warranty. If it works for about a month or so, then you can pretty much bet that it'll work forever so using a different heatsink is pretty safe from that point on.

 

[Rapsven]

MDE, there's no way they can tell you used a custom heatsink and thermal pad. You don't really void any warranty.

 

[Thermalrock]

how could they not tell if he removes the original heatsink and installs a lets say silencer 4 on his x800xt? i would think its pretty easy for the company to tell he did even if he takes the silencer off his card and re-installs the stock hsf.

 

[MDE]

I never said that they couldn't tell. I'm just regurgitating the info from AMD's warranty. Overclocking and using aftermarket cooling DO void the warranty, but it's up to you as to whether or not to admit what you do.

 

[Gamingphreek]

We are not here to preach morals however i would advise running after market cooling as it will be much better in all aspects than stock. If your chip dies as a result i wold confess. Using after market cooling is not looked down upon as is OCing by manf. It should be safe to say that you can send it back as long as you didn't but the HSF on like backwards and fry your chip or something.

-Kevin

 

[Thermalrock]

amd sells chips without hsf as well as boxed ones. assuming amd doesnt think the ones that come without hsf are used by the buyer without a hsf how can this void the warranty? this is confusing. amd replaced me one of the chips that i bought without hsf too so they had to know that i did not use a hsf they sold me.

 

[cyberfuzz]

basically what im trying to get at is, is there a point in buying the retail version if im going to use my own hsf/paste. Is there a chance that the chip may die?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Yes because you will still get the expanded warranty. Generall speaking Retail chips are better Silicon than OEM chips so they OC farther and all that... but it is debatable.

-Kevin

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Thermalrock
amd sells chips without hsf as well as boxed ones. assuming amd doesnt think the ones that come without hsf are used by the buyer without a hsf how can this void the warranty?

Only the retail boxed cpus are warrantied by AMD.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Proce.../0,,30_182_867,00.html

AMD's Limited Processor Warranty does not cover non-boxed products purchased from resellers.

AMD only provides a warranty on its line of boxed processors.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Yes because you will still get the expanded warranty. Generall speaking Retail chips are better Silicon than OEM chips so they OC farther and all that... but it is debatable.

-Kevin

i've never heard that ever in my life. but yeah, if you want the longer warranty and it's only 10 bucks it'd probably be well worth it.

 

[Gamingphreek]

It is definately debatable as i said. Well at least it used to be. A better part of the huge wafer that the chips are produced on not like a higher quallity element or anything.

-Kevin

 

[cyberfuzz]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Yes because you will still get the expanded warranty. Generall speaking Retail chips are better Silicon than OEM chips so they OC farther and all that... but it is debatable.

-Kevin

i've never heard that ever in my life. but yeah, if you want the longer warranty and it's only 10 bucks it'd probably be well worth it.

longer warranty? i thought oem didnt have warranty?

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Yes because you will still get the expanded warranty. Generall speaking Retail chips are better Silicon than OEM chips so they OC farther and all that... but it is debatable.

-Kevin

I've heard the opposite... Mostly because OEM chips move faster than retail chips. Meaning they would be newer chips and would have a later date which would probably be more mature.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Not sure then... i guess it could go either way... i have never thought of it that way though. Maybe we should downgrade my saying to old extinct rule of thumb or something

-Kevin

 

[Thermalrock]

where did you get that better part of the waffer information? the oems moving faster makes more sense to me. why would they wanna handpick chips add a hsf add warranty and then sell em for 10 bucks more? the chips have to work either way and as i said i did get my oem chip replaced within 4 days no questions asked. happend within the first week tho so i cant be positive they have a long warranty on the oem cpus.