intel's warranty

WhiteFireDragon

WhiteFireDragon

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intel has a warranty on all its processors for 3 years and it states it does not cover it if the CPU is damaged due to "usage not in accordance with product instructions." so if i pump lots of voltage through it to achieve high clocks and it dies, how would intel know i OC'ed and fried it? so this means i can still send it back and said it just died right?
 
I'm pretty sure any manufacture can dig deep enough to discover "OC damage", (say electromigrational stress and damage caused by increased current and thermal fatigue) But there are too many variables to keep them from doing it. As it stands manufactures may suspect OC damage, but will rarely go against your word as long as you deny, deny, deny.

You're good.
 
then how hard is it to totally fry a chip? i want to try to push my e2180 to 4ghz on without LN2. i dont want it just damaged but not completely dead because then i'd have to keep the degraded CPU and cant RMA it. it needs to be totally fried lol. yeah this sounds like a shady thing to do but i'm sure this wont make intel corp go bankrupt
 
I dont think you can get that chip to 4 GHz without some sort of sub zero cooling, my e2160 wont go over 3.618 GHz and thats with 1.7 V, you cant be thinking of putting much more than 1.7 V through it??
 
How hot does it get at 3.6? And can you just keep on upping the voltage until the heat is too much, or is there some other barrier preventing high voltage?
 
you would need liquid cooling if you wanna push it that hard, it also depends on your chip, and if you do manage to get it that high on air, you could scorch the bottem of the chip, which is a dead give away to going to far for an overclock
 
just a noob said:
you would need liquid cooling if you wanna push it that hard, it also depends on your chip, and if you do manage to get it that high on air, you could scorch the bottem of the chip, which is a dead give away to going to far for an overclock
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Maybe to you, but to me, a burn can be indication of a circuit protector ignoring a short, a load building up, and sending a nasty bit of current to the cpu, physically damaging it. Unlikely situation, but no more rare than OC damage. ;)

My point is, even with physical damage the manufacture can't be certain as to the cause of it.
 
WhiteFireDragon said:
then how hard is it to totally fry a chip? i want to try to push my e2180 to 4ghz on without LN2. i dont want it just damaged but not completely dead because then i'd have to keep the degraded CPU and cant RMA it. it needs to be totally fried lol. yeah this sounds like a shady thing to do but i'm sure this wont make intel corp go bankrupt
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wow man you have really a evil mind.......hehehe :D
 
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