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Sarge2255 said:
No it doesn't as far as I'm aware, on most cards. Aorus , they advertise how they have bigger capacitors for overclocking and their software allows overclocking although it is restricted to a certain limit, stay in those limits and your fine. Look at motherboards, some are built for the overclock with preset OC settings in the bios.

With GPUs, most AIB cards come factory OC.

  • Msi
  • Aorus
  • Zotac
All encouraged OC and have the software on their sites.
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Yea and you have seen the messages that pop up when you go into the overclocking menu on an MSI board right? Clearly states you do so at own risk blah blah.
And a factory OC is different to you OCing it. If the card comes pre-overclocked, of course running it at those clocks is covered.

The manufactures have no easy reliable way of telling if you OC'ed the card. So just like the pads, if you don't mention it, Im pretty sure you wont have a problem.

I was only bringing up Overclocking to highlight your conflicting points of argument anyway.
But, im fairly sure if you contact any of those AIBs for an RMA and say "Hi I overclocked my card and now it wont boot send me a new one" they will all tell you its not covered.
While if you simply stated "my card wont boot", the RMA will proceed as normal.
 
xPETEZx said:
Yea and you have seen the messages that pop up when you go into the overclocking menu on an MSI board right? Clearly states you do so at own risk blah blah.
And a factory OC is different to you OCing it. If the card comes pre-overclocked, of course running it at those clocks is covered.

The manufactures have no easy reliable way of telling if you OC'ed the card. So just like the pads, if you don't mention it, Im pretty sure you wont have a problem.

I was only bringing up Overclocking to highlight your conflicting points of argument anyway.
But, im fairly sure if you contact any of those AIBs for an RMA and say "Hi I overclocked my card and now it wont boot send me a new one" they will all tell you its not covered.
While if you simply stated "my card wont boot", the RMA will proceed as normal.
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On my MSI MAG , I didn't see any message when I used their cpu overclock profile. But I get it, so let's say you burn the cpu chip out, they can refuse it due to an OC.

Interesting, that these main companies are making and promoting overclocking yet it voids their warranty! Not that I overclock GPUs, as there is no real gains these days.

Could someone say if this is the case, that Overclocks void warranty, even though the AIBs include the software with no warning on some?

Also I was not aware that an underclock could brick a card.
 
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