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warrenty / overclocking question

jonwhite

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just brought one of these with the intention to overclock it sometime what speed can it overclock to?, will overclocking it invalidate the warranty? also got a retail box so 3 year warranty without a receipt, how do i go about registering the warranty?
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz Haswell

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If you bought it from OCuk, it will be registered already i think. They will have everything you bought on record.

As far as if it will void warranty, how will they know?

Also, i find a CPU either works or it doesn't at all. If it breaks after the first couple of months, more often than not, it is something the user does to cause the break.
 
I didn't know CPU warranty's were transferable. I thought warranty becomes void after a private seller sells it second hand.

Its cool that you can cover an overclock with that intel service thing, but how do they know if it has ever been overclocked anyway?
 
I understand that, but it is not like the clock settings are saved on the CPU, so if you overclock a CPU then a few months later run into problems, i am pretty sure they have no way of telling that it was previously overclocked.

From what i have read, most warranty on CPUs from intel are not transferable from owner to owner
 
i suppose its possible they have some mechanism in the cpu that tells them if it was running oc when it died; would help id problems if a batch was reported bad.
 
My 2600k just went after 2 and a half years, intel replaced it with no issues. I checked the warranty on the new cpu and I have another 3 years. Intel are awesome.

I find it hard to believe they would not honor a warranty because you over clocked. The only reason I can think of is if you went over the recommended voltage.

Also just before my cpu went it started overvolting itself to 1.5v, I had no control over it.
 
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hi frenzy, the thing is its brand new and i havnt got a recept, ive been all over their website to see what i can do and havnt found a thing is there something i can do like registering the cpu?
 
This has been covered before and unless something has changes CPU manufacturers cover the warranties (or they should) unless you exceed a "red line" if you will on the voltage you put through it. Last time I checked it may have been 1.35w for certain Intel CPU's but I cant remember exactly.
 
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