Intel Says Yes to Overclocking, but No to Warranty of Overclocked Death Chips

thoughtdisorder · Jun 4, 2008

All in all I think it's a good thing. Out of fairness just like any other business out there they are trying to make a profit. They are basically saying "you can do this if you choose, but here's the risk involved." Seems fair to me.

v-zero · Jun 4, 2008

The no warranty thing is a non-issue. To kill a CPU you'd either have to be an idiot, or almost trying to kill it - normal overclocking doesn't kill CPUs...

vega22 · Jun 4, 2008

its about time you had some luck tho init damulta :toast:

cant belive they did that tho

they are talking about unlocking the fsb walls on the mobo here guys not unlocking the cpu :slap:

HousERaT · Jun 4, 2008

Can someone explain what a "warranty" is? I looked it up in the overclockers handbook and the word wasn't there. :laugh:

DaMulta · Jun 4, 2008

marsey99 said:
its about time you had some luck tho init damulta cant belive they did that tho

they are talking about unlocking the fsb walls on the mobo here guys not unlocking the cpu

I wiped it off it wasn't caked. You could see it on the cihps tho, and feel it on the pins. I bet they just pop them in test them and go.

I remember some store that told me(years ago) AMD could tell if it was overclocked for so many boots. Like if you had it oced and the put it back to stock and booted 6 times or so it would not remember being overclocked aymore.

WarEagleAU · Jun 5, 2008

Sounds pretty fair. At least its a full blown support with the chips designed for overclocking, but they offer that with a caveat. Not a big deal to me really. AMD semi does this with their Black Editions, knowing full well they will be oc'd.

hat · Jun 5, 2008

As long as they let us overclock I could care less about the warranty... I've never heard of a processor that is covered by warranty before. I *think* the extreme chips are, but I don't know.

As long as they don't lock us out of overclocking, or put up some kind of barrier where it just WILL NOT work past a specific set speed, I am happy.

Wile E · Jun 5, 2008

I think Intel is purposely lenient on QX RMAs. That's why they unlocked them, AND charge $1000+ for them.

sethk · Jun 7, 2008

I seriously doubt that they will remove the upward multiplier locks on the non-extreme CPUs - that would detract from sales of the > $1000 Extreme CPUs.

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