AMD Ryzen limited warranty

[Kabob71]

Limited warranties seem to be a big joke. How is AMD going to know I didnt use their included heat sink and  why does it matter if i use a different one. 

[HelplmChoking]

7 minutes ago, Kabob71 said:

Limited warranties seem to be a big joke. How is AMD going to know I didnt use their included heat sink and  why does it matter if i use a different one. 

 

They won't know, so don't worry about it. I imagine it's to protect them in case it's damaged by running too hot thanks to a weak cooler.

As an aside, at least in my country, warranties can't reduce your rights as a consumer, and if you bought a proper CPU cooler to go with it, they would still be forced to cover you anyway, regardless of what their warranty says.

[Kabob71]

3 minutes ago, Rangaman42 said:

They won't know, so don't worry about it. I imagine it's to protect them in case it's damaged by running too hot thanks to a weak cooler.

As an aside, at least in my country, warranties can't reduce your rights as a consumer, and if you bought a proper CPU cooler to go with it, they would still be forced to cover you anyway, regardless of what their warranty says.

I figured as much, it just seems a little ridiculous to have to put that in the warranty. 

[HelplmChoking]

Just now, Kabob71 said:

I figured as much, it just seems a little ridiculous to have to put that in the warranty. 

It'll be to protect them from something weird, companies do that a lot. Warranties are often ridiculous, I tend to ignore them and I'll never buy an extended one.

[ARikozuM]

You can probably fight this under Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. 

 

I would advise against it since AMD might go bankrupt if you do.

[MimigaKing]

well okay then AMD, since you didn't provide me any heatsink/fan with my 1700x, does it mean if I put one I purchased you'll cancel my warranty? 

 

OKAY THEN, i'll run it without any! Don't complain when I RMA in 2 minutes.

[DocSwag]

11 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

You can probably fight this under Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. 

 

I would advise against it since AMD might go bankrupt if you do.

Use the money you get from the lawsuit to then sue a ton of other tech companies, and then use that money to buy AMD and then staff them with amazing people.

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

and then use that money to buy AMD

With all that money he should actually already buy nVidia or Intel already so he gets actual good hardware for once

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Use the money you get from the lawsuit to then sue a ton of other tech companies, and then use that money to buy AMD and then staff them with amazing people.

I'd rather ATI come back. #nostalgiagoggles

[Simon771]

Well they are not providing any heatsink/cooler with Ryzen 7 1700X, so I guess we can run those CPUs without any cooling.

It's the same with Intel saying that if we overclock, we will void warranty. Well good luck trying to prove that I OCed my chip. Sure they might know I did it, but it's uterly hard to proove it.

 

So I would say that you shouldn't stress about it, and if anything acctually happens to your CPU, you shouldn't have any problems getting new one.