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April 14th, 2013 08:00
Does Overclocking Void Warranty?
Hi people,
I have been thinking about overclocking my Alienware M17x R4, if anything would to happen to my GTX 675m when I'm overclocking(Burned or spoil) will the warranty covers it? I have the 'COMPLETECOVER COVERAGE PROGRAMME' under my Warranty. Anyone that can help me out? :)
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mir77
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April 14th, 2013 09:00
How they will know?
DELL-Kiran K
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April 14th, 2013 09:00
Hi AlienFanBoy,
Dell doesn’t recommend overclocking of computers. If the overclocking is done then the warranty will be voided.
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April 15th, 2013 09:00
Hi mir77,
During the service it will be checked either by the depot team or the onsite technician and if it is found that there are any changes made then it will not be entitled for free hardware service during warranty.
mir77
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April 15th, 2013 10:00
OK, so, I'm note an expert but I have some experience with overclocking from my desktop computer, and if I leave out changing the multiplikator or FSB in BIOS which If I'm right is not possible in your locked BIOSes, you can only make some software adjustments to GPU and graphic memory frequencies or maybe FSB.
In case of FSB I personaly see no point. Actual CPUs are pretty powerfull even without O/C. In case of GPU there may be real performance increasement but problem will be always cooling. So, no extreme O/C is possible.
So, if there is no extreme O/C and no smoke from chipset like on old Athlons to Socket A I think there is virtualy no way of knowing if the components were overclocked.
I understand you can't say it right, because it would encourage people to do so, but reality is clear in this case.
Even though I don't wont to encourage anyone to do this. It's entirely on everyone's skills and responsibility. I've been just curious about your answer :)