Intel Introduces CPU Replacement Plan Targeting Overclockers

Drone · Jan 20, 2012

Gimmick just like everything else.

Imsochobo · Jan 20, 2012

Never ever killed a cpu.
burned up motherboards, videocards, memory, psu's. I have full dead burned up systems on my walls.

but cpu, unfortunately, I havent...2.1 V on Athlon 64 x2, no problem! 190 C on phenom 1 when Gigabyte stupid crappy voltage modules goes crazy (burned up in a matter of seconds. pc stopped reading at 190C after 2 seconds.)

thats some of the examples, never killed a cpu somehow...

Grings · Jan 20, 2012

My concern is having a chip die without overly stressing it, and Intel denying me a replacement because i didnt pay them this fee.

EarthDog · Jan 20, 2012

Drone said:
Gimmick just like everything else.

Explain why please...

Tatty_Two · Jan 20, 2012

Grings said:
My concern is having a chip die without overly stressing it, and Intel denying me a replacement because i didnt pay them this fee.

Thats where the 3 year warranty comes in as specified in their T&C's, or less if it's OEM of course. Thing is, as I mentioned before, the exceptions clearly say that they will not replace if the product has been operated not in accordance with the product instructions.... not sure what that means really.

EarthDog · Jan 20, 2012

Tatty_One said:
Thats where the 3 year warranty comes in as specified in their T&C's, or less if it's OEM of course. Thing is, as I mentioned before, the exceptions clearly say that they will not replace if the product has been operated not in accordance with the product instructions.... not sure what that means really.

Meaning dont use it as tire chains in the winter and you will be ok. :slap:

I cant imagine that verbiage is to prevent overclocking considering the fact that this was put in place to cover overclocking.

Drone · Jan 20, 2012

EarthDog said:
Explain why please...

It's Intel playing nice guys here. It looks like a money making strategy and nothing more.

EarthDog · Jan 20, 2012

Ok.. Gotcha. So, when you signup (pay) for this program and kill your processor from overclocking, tell them it was from that, and they send you a brand new one, that is a Gimmick. I understand.

Having heard that, I will not participate and lie to them to get a new CPU, even though I willingly killed it running it outside of spec and through no fault of the CPU, causing inflated pricing from shady people that participate in that practice.

Gimmick.

n-ster · Jan 20, 2012

Yea we know most of you didn't kill a CPU and that it is not mean for careful but serious OCers... It is best used for Extreme OCers that frequently blow chips until they find a golden one, or for people who want to try and suicide run for the cheap... At least they give a legitimate way of returning a CPU blown up by OCing, which is nice when you thin about it.

Hayder_Master · Jan 21, 2012

We kill intel cpu's with cool blood, i think we deserve this

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OneCool · Jan 21, 2012

Always heard there was some little black box on chip that would tell what state the chip was in before it popped.

Dont see why Intel engineers cant have that these days

qubit · Jan 21, 2012

OneCool said:
Always heard there was some little black box on chip that would tell what state the chip was in before it popped.

Dont see why Intel engineers cant have that these days

I think this is an urban myth, but don't quote me on it.

Think about it, for Intel to deny someone warranty due to an overclock/overvolt/overwhatever, they would have to reveal this and as far as I know, they haven't.

Wile E · Jan 21, 2012

EarthDog said:
Ok.. Gotcha. So, when you signup (pay) for this program and kill your processor from overclocking, tell them it was from that, and they send you a brand new one, that is a Gimmick. I understand.

Having heard that, I will not participate and lie to them to get a new CPU, even though I willingly killed it running it outside of spec and through no fault of the CPU, causing inflated pricing from shady people that participate in that practice.

Gimmick.

That doesn't hold water as an argument. Even with this program the prices are still inflated. The low number of chips they get back that died due to OCing is not enough to justify the price hikes. The fact that people will pay those prices (myself included) is what drives them to raise prices, not a handful of of chip returns.

Replacement for OCed death should be covered on all K and X series chips, as they are marketed in that segment.

ensabrenoir · Jan 22, 2012

Wow..2 points for intel.

qubit · Jan 22, 2012

Wile E said:
The fact that people will pay those prices (myself included) is what drives them to raise prices, not a handful of of chip returns.

Indeed, it's a classic case of charging "what the market will bear" and is very common in all areas.

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Intel Introduces CPU Replacement Plan Targeting Overclockers

Intel's Performance Tuning Protection Plan is

A good idea (Burn little chip, burn!)

Just another money-making gimmick

Something that should be standard on K/X processors

Useless, I'll just say it blew up while browsing

Whatever, I roll with the AMD crew

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