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Intel wants you to overclock

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sorry if this has already been posted, good news :D

http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/BsiFaq.aspx


Intel announced a new program yesterday designed to give overclockers an extra feeling of safety if they choose to push their processors beyond recommended specs. The Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP) is available on select K- and X-model CPUs and allows customers “a single processor replacement, hassle-free, from our customer support. This is in addition to your standard 3 year warranty.”

If your chip randomly dies, it’s replaced under the standard warranty. If it dies because you ran 1.75v through it and forgot to refill your dry ice pot, you get a free replacement. The plan’s price varies depending on your CPU: i5-2500K protection is $20, the i7-2600K/2700K is $25, and the i7-3930/3970X series is $35. The plans will be available from resellers or can be purchased directly from Intel; customers must choose to buy the plan within one year of the original CPU purchase.

Intel’s FAQ (click above link) states that the PTPP was developed to address the needs of the overclocking enthusiast community. The company received feedback from a number of customers “who desire to implement overclocking…[but] because of the lack of any replacement coverage… the risk of overclocking is too great.”
 
Or it's perhaps just a small way of helping remove some overhead from chips that randomly die during OC. If the overclockers buy the "extra protection" it will likely offset some of the price of replacing the chips that are RMA'd.
 
Just curious, with the "cover" do you have to send your old cpu away as proove? (I assume you would buy didnt find it on the page lol )
 
Provided you don't put 1.5V through the chip and don't use extreme cooling there's absolutely no sense in paying for a warranty IMO.

Good for the obsessive benchmarkers though!
 
Terms say no warranty on external power issues, so if your psu or motherboard screw up on power delivery then no cover, although how theyd tell it was external rather than internal to the cpu...
sounds like a good get out clause on their part
 
What made me laugh when I read it was that Intel say "usage not in accordance with product instructions" is not covered. As overclocking outside the recommended use (ie product instructions), it seems a bit of a contradiction to have that as an exclusion to an overclocking warranty. As I said in an article elsewhere, I guess they are covering themselves against someone coming home drunk and try to cool their system with beer :)

There is no way they can tell what caused a chip to die, whether it was overclocking or a power surge, or even just a poor connection somewhere on the die. Variations between different die on a wafer can cause different things to happen at higher voltages (including the temperatures variations most of us are aware of).
 
if you buy your hardware from ocuk, they allow you to OC and if it dies they accept rma's.
Gibbo said:
These are just guidelines we recommend you follow, if you want to push more voltage through your CPU's then just be aware they could die on you. Your warranty is un-affected and we will honor any CPU's that die, we just won't ask questions as to how you killed them. ;)
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same with gpu's..

Gibbo said:
No it won't void your warranty. :)

We allow our customers to overclock their cards as much as they wish, we are overclockers UK afterall.

The only way you will void your warranty is if you start removing the cooler or modifying the card in someway like soldering different resistors on it etc.
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hence why the shop is called overclockers uk
 
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