Warranty

[xtreme26]

Now-a-days, does the warranties matter anything to anyone? I'm talking in particular about AMD's warranty. A lot of people use different thermal gels, and hsfs. What if something goes wrong with ur cpu? I'm just curious because I would think many people would be cautious about their cpu (except oc'ers of course). Am I missing something here

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: xtreme26
Now-a-days, does the warranties matter anything to anyone? I'm talking in particular about AMD's warranty. A lot of people use different thermal gels, and hsfs. What if something goes wrong with ur cpu? I'm just curious because I would think many people would be cautious about their cpu (except oc'ers of course). Am I missing something here

AMD can't prove you used another thermal paste, another heatsink, or if you OCed the CPU.

 

[TrevorRC]

But RMAing a chip after you did so would be a bit dishonest.

If you can't afford to lose your hardware, don't screw with it.

 

[buzzsaw13]

Originally posted by: TrevorRC
But RMAing a chip after you did so would be a bit dishonest.

If you can't afford to lose your hardware, don't screw with it.

QFT

But theres always those bastards who RMA their chips with full knowledge that they voided the warranty.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Vegitto

Originally posted by: xtreme26
Now-a-days, does the warranties matter anything to anyone? I'm talking in particular about AMD's warranty. A lot of people use different thermal gels, and hsfs. What if something goes wrong with ur cpu? I'm just curious because I would think many people would be cautious about their cpu (except oc'ers of course). Am I missing something here

AMD can't prove you used another thermal paste, another heatsink, or if you OCed the CPU.

They sure can. A company like AMD and Intel do EXTENSIVE R&D... part of that requires finding which parts of a CPU in testing failed, and why. If you honestly believe they can't find out whether it was fried due to overvoltage... or died due to electron migration from being run at increase temperatures, speeds, and voltage for long periods of time... or died due to heat because of an improperly installed heatsink... or that the nail polish remover and alcohol got the CPU's IHS so clean that there's no trace of the toothpaste some moron used as a thermal compound... you're sadly mistaken.

The question is will they... and the answer is no, unless they get a large batch of returns that they can trace back to a reseller who's remarking them and selling them as something they're not.

 

[SparkyJJO]

They can trace OC'ing easily (and thermal goop too but they never said you can't use other thermal goop, just not another HSF), but I don't see them tracing different HSF because it is entirely possible for a CPU to overheat using the stock cooler, like if the stock cooler's fan dies for instance. But yeah still if that is their policy then you do void warranty by using another HSF or OC'ing - but frankly once I know the CPU works fine those things don't really just die randomly usually (I still had old P1's that worked flawlessly, even one that had been run without any cooling for a couple minutes at at time ) so once I know it is not defective I'll go ahead and use non-stock and void warranty. Never had any trouble with my CPU's either, and I've been through a lot of them.