misguided, yes.
as stated, he was looking for assistance. he can always save a profile into his bios for testing.
i am confused why everyone thinks that tinkering with the bios voids your warranty.
as long as you dont delete the OcUK profile then its all fine, its something to revert back to if you mess it up [and many do but we
still help them regardless of what it says on the website]
if the computer is your properly, you can do what you want with it. the point of the product description stating not to update the bios is because many dotn realise that it wipes the bios entirely.
if a system/bundle owner wants to try and push their hardware further then let them.
the customer support forum is full of posts from people who own bundles and systems who want to take it further and in every instance i help them. as long as they accept that we cannot guarantee the overclock past what they paid then they are happy to get the extra 200mhz or whatever.
on the high end bundles i tend to put three profiles on for customers.
say a 4.2ghz bundle for example may ship with a set of profiles for 4.2/4.0/3.8
there are many users who have purchased overclcoked bundles and actually used the settings as a template to learn to overclock from.
bulldog147 is a great example, sure his posts are a bit uneducated sometimes but he is learning at a quick rate and has produced some really good testing and reviews since becoming enthusiastic for tweaking hardware.
i understand that it should be stable, but its computer hardware, there could be a million reasons why its doing what its doing.
the op has been given links to every OcUK support channel, as well as the direct email address for me.
what he hasnt been offered is
any form of constructive advice and that is what my post above is pointing out.
OC is a business that takes the fastest cutting edge technology then they make it faster still.
That comes with risk like any other business. For every 1 pc that people moan about.. 40 will be ok. Just thought I would post the flipside that people seem to forget... and no I am not on the payroll
To the OP, get some communications going with them via webnote/phone. They have always sorted out any issues I have had with OC'd bundles over the years.
this is about the only constructive post i have seen, obviously rush_syndrome lives in the real world and understands that people go to hardware forums to post about problems.
the forums would be a little pointless if people were to make posts such as
"hey guys, i just went and spent £400 on a
sleek kit of Corsair Dominator GT overclocking memory, and guess what!? it totally works and i am having no problems with it at all"
because it would be met with 'cool story bro'
