so gigabyte throws an OC contest?

[fire400]

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[AmberClad]

It's apparently all the rage with the motherboard manufacturers these days ...

GIGABYTE
Foxconn

Maybe others?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: fire400
promotion of frying processors?

Does Gigabyte make the processors? (answer = no, they don't)

Does Gigabyte have to eat the fraud warranty claims created by overclocked and subsequently fried processors? (answer = no, they don't)

Where's the negative? (for Gigabyte?)

 

[AmberClad]

Conversely - remember when Intel was sampling the QX9770s? And how those chips weren't supported by any board at the time without OCing the FSB?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: AmberClad
Conversely - remember when Intel was sampling the QX9770s? And how those chips weren't supported by any board at the time without OCing the FSB?

So true! Ah so now the i680/i780 incompatibility genius at Nvidia becomes so obviously, erm, patently genius

Maybe that is why Tom's was having a hard time finding AM2 boards that are Phenom compatible...the mobo makers are safeguarding their RMA centers from the would-be overclocking AMD zealots with their bugged BE phenoms

(Joking here, hopefully obviously)