Wednesday, June 4th 2008

Intel Says Yes to Overclocking, but No to Warranty of Overclocked Death Chips

During Computex 2008, Intel said that they'll change their strategy when it comes to overclocking and allowing users to squeeze extra performance from their systems. Overclocking capabilities will be the main feature of Intel's 4 series chipsets, said Eric Mentzer, Intel's vice president and general manager of the Graphics Development Group, in an interview at the Computex exhibition in Taipei. "We spend a lot of time working with our motherboard partners to figure out all the hidden bits inside, helping them figure out how to bring the best out of these platforms," Mentzer said. In the past and sometimes even today Intel used to lock down its chips to prevent them from overclocking, and that's exactly the time when terms like "FSB wall" started to mean something. Now the company is focusing to eliminate all the overclocking obstacles for us, but that will come with the cost of the warranty which won't cover death chips that were overclocked. Now comes the perfect time to ask, how is Intel going to know if my motherboard or CPU were overclocked?
Source: InfoWorld
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33 Comments on Intel Says Yes to Overclocking, but No to Warranty of Overclocked Death Chips

#26
Unregistered
The no warranty thing is a non-issue. To kill a CPU you'd either have to be an idiot, or almost trying to kill it - normal overclocking doesn't kill CPUs...
#27
vega22
its about time you had some luck tho init damulta :toast: cant belive they did that tho :D


they are talking about unlocking the fsb walls on the mobo here guys not unlocking the cpu :slap:
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#28
HousERaT
Can someone explain what a "warranty" is? I looked it up in the overclockers handbook and the word wasn't there. :laugh:
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#29
DaMulta
My stars went supernova
marsey99its about time you had some luck tho init damulta :toast: cant belive they did that tho :D


they are talking about unlocking the fsb walls on the mobo here guys not unlocking the cpu :slap:
I wiped it off it wasn't caked. You could see it on the cihps tho, and feel it on the pins. I bet they just pop them in test them and go.


I remember some store that told me(years ago) AMD could tell if it was overclocked for so many boots. Like if you had it oced and the put it back to stock and booted 6 times or so it would not remember being overclocked aymore.
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#30
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Sounds pretty fair. At least its a full blown support with the chips designed for overclocking, but they offer that with a caveat. Not a big deal to me really. AMD semi does this with their Black Editions, knowing full well they will be oc'd.
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#31
hat
Enthusiast
As long as they let us overclock I could care less about the warranty... I've never heard of a processor that is covered by warranty before. I *think* the extreme chips are, but I don't know.

As long as they don't lock us out of overclocking, or put up some kind of barrier where it just WILL NOT work past a specific set speed, I am happy.
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#32
Wile E
Power User
I think Intel is purposely lenient on QX RMAs. That's why they unlocked them, AND charge $1000+ for them.
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#33
sethk
I seriously doubt that they will remove the upward multiplier locks on the non-extreme CPUs - that would detract from sales of the > $1000 Extreme CPUs.
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