do ocuk test all rma cpu's?

nightmare99 · 19 Jan 2009 at 10:30

and can't be the motherboard because my old 9850 works perfectly

That does not mean it can't be the main board it is after all a different model CPU, you on the latest BIOS etc?

gareth170 · 19 Jan 2009 at 11:29

nightmare99 said:
That does not mean it can't be the main board it is after all a different model CPU, you on the latest BIOS etc?

yes. also updated again today to the latest bios which was added to dfi site today. i'd admit the post takes so long is fixed but all the other problems are still happening.

also drunkenmaster and NightmareXX has the same board & cpu, they not getting theses problems..

ITR · 19 Jan 2009 at 20:24

And this is just plain illigal, you should be ashamed!

At the very least broadcasting this in open forum (& admiting it) you should be banned for coaxing people into illigal activities, you have no morals.......

LOL thats the funniest thing ive heard in a long while... If you dont think that things like this go on, your a mug m8.

gareth170 · 19 Jan 2009 at 20:29

anyway i'm contacting amd tomorrow to get this sorted...

WJA96 · 19 Jan 2009 at 20:49

ITR said:
LOL thats the funniest thing ive heard in a long while... If you dont think that things like this go on, your a mug m8.

I e-mailed one of my former business partners who is ex-Intel and he reckons that any Extreme CPU returned under warranty would have been tested and they would have known that you abused it. ie. he says you're making it up.

Show us an RMA number to check and I might believe you, otherwise, I think you're a spoofer.

gareth170 · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:09

im not sure about intel as i haven't had a intel cpu, but i know amd don't test all rma cpu's. when i sent my 9850 back to amd in 2008 they just checked the cpu for marks/missing pins then they sent a replacemeant. not sure if they've changed the way they do the rma's now.

sepulchre · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:09

ITR said:
LOL thats the funniest thing ive heard in a long while... If you dont think that things like this go on, your a mug m8.

I'd have to agree with t1cybernetic, as for your point there are many things that go on in this world which are illegal, it doesn't make any of them right though.

/me Makes mental note to never sell anythng to this guy when he gets access to the MM.

ITR · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:19

e-mailed one of my former business partners who is ex-Intel and he reckons that any Extreme CPU returned under warranty would have been tested and they would have known that you abused it. ie. he says you're making it up.

Show us an RMA number to check and I might believe you, otherwise, I think you're a spoofer.

I dont have to prove anything. I dont really care tbh.

WJA96 · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:30

gareth170 said:
im not sure about intel as i haven't had a intel cpu, but i know amd don't test all rma cpu's. when i sent my 9850 back to amd in 2008 they just checked the cpu for marks/missing pins then they sent a replacemeant. not sure if they've changed the way they do the rma's now.

I hear what you're saying, but this is a near top of the range CPU that's designed to be played with - they have unlocked multipliers and they cost in excess of £650, so you bet they would test it. They would want to know what had happened, just in case it was the first of many, and they're not idiots - they know when a CPU has been over-volted.

And the other thing is that they probably only ever sold a couple of hundred of these in the UK, and of those, how many would you think would be RMA'd directly back to Intel? You can probably count them on your fingers.

Sorry, but I simply don't believe it.

gareth170 · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:37

WJA96 said:
I hear what you're saying, but this is a near top of the range CPU that's designed to be played with - they have unlocked multipliers and they cost in excess of £650, so you bet they would test it. They would want to know what had happened, just in case it was the first of many, and they're not idiots - they know when a CPU has been over-volted.

And the other thing is that they probably only ever sold a couple of hundred of these in the UK, and of those, how many would you think would be RMA'd directly back to Intel? You can probably count them on your fingers.

Sorry, but I simply don't believe it.

i understand mate.

as i said i haven't had a intel cpu, so i don't know. i've always had amd cpu's. amd fanboy hehe

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WJA96 · 19 Jan 2009 at 21:51

ITR said:
I dont have to prove anything. I dont really care tbh.

Well, you see - here's the thing...

I might be more inclined to believe you if you hadn't claimed to have run an E8600ES chip at 5GHz, but when challenged you couldn't produce a screenshot or a CPUz certificate. I'm darn sure if I was running a 5GHz CPU, I'd be posting screenies of it all over the shop. Heck, I'll post any kind of overclock or SuperPi result.

And you can bet that people are scrabbling through any reference to you on the internetz right now trying to catch you out.

Anyway - if my Intel contacts can find a QX9650 that was RMA'd to the Tamworth area sometime in February or March 2008 then I might think about believing you (and I'll publically apologise) but until then....

T1Cybernetic · 19 Jan 2009 at 22:20

ITR said:
LOL thats the funniest thing ive heard in a long while... If you dont think that things like this go on, your a mug m8.

Just because bad things go on in the world it does not make it right

and i am very well aware of what happens day to day in the world

you should see where i live...

ITR · 19 Jan 2009 at 22:46

I might be more inclined to believe you if you hadn't claimed to have run an E8600ES chip at 5GHz, but when challenged you couldn't produce a screenshot or a CPUz certificate. I'm darn sure if I was running a 5GHz CPU, I'd be posting screenies of it all over the shop. Heck, I'll post any kind of overclock or SuperPi result.

Yeah mate, sorry you got me there. It wasn't 5Ghz, it was 5.9ghz sorry.

gareth170 · 20 Jan 2009 at 11:35

well i've just contacted amd and they said to send it back to them and they'll just replace it.

Methanoid · 10 Mar 2009 at 14:25

ChrisLX200 said:
If it were my company, and I sold it to you, I would check and if it worked at stock send it back to you if it was OK. You've opened it, used it, probably abused it, now you're not happy? DSR cover you for unused goods which you bought in error/haste that are untouched (including the packaging) and can be sent back and sold on. How do you think the company would survive if all it's customers did what you are proposing - even once? Who takes the loss? OcUK would be stupid to take this back.

But the Distance Selling Regs allow you to open and use an item don't they? I could find no mention that an opened item could not be returned

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/after_you_buy/buying_at_home/returning-cancelling/

So, whether or not the retailer LIKES it, it seems that they have little choice. I'm happy for someone to find some evidence that opened items cannot be returned... :confused:

gareth170 · 10 Mar 2009 at 14:38

Methanoid said:
But the Distance Selling Regs allow you to open and use an item don't they? I could find no mention that an opened item could not be returned

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/after_you_buy/buying_at_home/returning-cancelling/

So, whether or not the retailer LIKES it, it seems that they have little choice. I'm happy for someone to find some evidence that opened items cannot be returned...

it's what i was saying theres no mention that an opened item could not be returned...

Energize · 10 Mar 2009 at 14:59

Corasik said:
No doubt the people who drew up the DSR never even thought about people abusing the law to get "pixel perfect" flat panel screens,

That's not abuse, that's a faulty product, the distance selling regulations aren't really relevant to dead pixels because it could be returned under the sale of goods act as not fit for purpose.

The OP has no right to return an overclocked cpu to the retailer under the SOG act as he has voided the warranty, the SOG act is meant to allow the customer the same rights as he would have in a shop, a shop would not allow you to put a cpu into your pc to test it out for any purpose, a cpu is not like a monitor for example, it has a specified performance level, it's not subjective so you don't really have any right to return it under the SOG act after using it.

sastusbulbas · 10 Mar 2009 at 15:35

Not quite related but,

I bought an E7400 from elsewhere some time back (

Sorry OC), to go with a Mobo I got here, unaware the bios had to be a specific type.

I ended up returning the E7400 unused, and unopened, I have to wait ten days for my refund, and I am still waiting. I bought an E5200 from that same store thinking my return would cover this before finding out it was a ten day wait.
Of course, in that time I found out my mobo would have booted up with that processor, and I have since updated my bios so could have used the E7400. Don't I feel like I have wasted my own time and that stores.

Still, at the time it felt like a geuine RMA, though due to me being naive.

As for opening it and OC'ing it, then not being happy with the results? That is questionable.
I OC'd my E5200 to just 3Ghz, but if it fails or performs less I would feel a little cheeky trying to return it.

linktoinsanity · 10 Mar 2009 at 16:50

If there's problems at stock then send it back to ocuk, otherwise I reckon it's immoral to send it back under dsr.