Overclocking a graphics card and warrenty

[Jordaneer]

I've wondered If I overclock a graphics card that is still under warrenty, that technically voids the warrenty, but how can someone like XFX or EVGA, MSI, etc. tell that you've OC'd your graphics card as long as your not flashing the bios to something different and not pumping a ton of voltage through the chip either? can they tell easy? is there something in the BIOS that records if the clocks go above stock?

[Praesi]

I dont think they would know or even care. As long you dont change the Bios, warranty will not be an issue.

[SirPatrickStewart]

Hi,

 

You are of course able to overclock your GPU due to most being advertised for overclocking purposes. As said by others previously, make sure you do a software OC only and do not physically modify your GPU. Your warranty will not be void.

[Lays]

Just now, Praesi said:

I dont think they would know or even care. As long you dont change the Bios, warranty will not be an issue.

Even if you do, if you just put the original BIOS back on before RMA, it's all good

[byalexandr]

3 minutes ago, Jordaneer said:

I've wondered If I overclock a graphics card that is still under warrenty, that technically voids the warrenty, but how can someone like XFX or EVGA, MSI, etc. tell that you've OC'd your graphics card as long as your not flashing the bios to something different and not pumping a ton of voltage through the chip either? can they tell easy? is there something in the BIOS that records if the clocks go above stock?

OC as much as your heart desires, just don't kill the card. Manufacturers don't really care as long as you don't flash the BIOS or remove the stock cooler (some allow this but you must replace it before sending it).

[Badazzz]

Your warrenty will be fine, but your warranty won't be.

 

Just kidding, but I'm not quite sure how they could tell (if they can). I always thought they would be like "does you overcl0ckz?" and you say no and they would replace it. But I guess if you were really worried then you could short out the BIOS chip and they will have no way of knowing.

[Jordaneer]

Just now, Praesi said:

I dont think they would know or even care. As long you dont change the Bios, warranty will not be an issue.

I've always wondered this, can they really tell if you OC it anyway,

I've already OC'd my R9 290 and plan to keep it there, I got something like a 23% boost in score on unigine Valley benchmark

[Lays]

Just now, Jordaneer said:

I've always wondered this, can they really tell if you OC it anyway,

I've already OC'd my R9 290 and plan to keep it there, I got something like a 23% boost in score on unigine Valley benchmark

 

Even if they could tell, overclocking voiding warranty hasn't been a thing in ages.

 

They plaster "OVERCLOCKING" and "MORE FPS FOR GAMES" all over hardware nowadays, it's literally part of their marketing scheme on how well their stuff can OC.  They even implement overclock profiles on loads of hardware as well.

[Praesi]

Just now, Jordaneer said:

I've always wondered this, can they really tell if you OC it anyway,

I've already OC'd my R9 290 and plan to keep it there, I got something like a 23% boost in score on unigine Valley benchmark

Technical it would be possible. But i doubt they do it. They dont care if you OC or not as long you dont kill the Card. And kill a Card without custom Bios is almost impossible.

[Jordaneer]

2 minutes ago, Praesi said:

Technical it would be possible. But i doubt they do it. They dont care if you OC or not as long you dont kill the Card. And kill a Card without custom Bios is almost impossible.

im not that performance oriented to go flashing a new BIOS, Im even a bit too paranoid to go unlock voltage control in afterburner and pump more voltage into the GPU, I think I would probably be more liable to brick a card flashing a bios and somehow screwing it up (especially because mine only has 1 bios in the first place so I couldn't go use the second bios to uncorrupt the first one).

[Jordaneer]

post is being stupid