GPU WARRANTY VOID

[Cazan]

hey forum ! I have a Sapphire nitro Rx480 4gb for a year now and i've been mining the last couple months. i quit mining and now play some games casually and i noticed my gpu is getting higher temps than before i was mining. i wanna know if removing the heatsink and apply some new thermal paste will void my gpu warranty.

 

thanks !

[Br3tt96]

6 minutes ago, Cazan said:

hey forum ! I have a Sapphire nitro Rx480 4gb for a year now and i've been mining the last couple months. i quit mining and now play some games casually and i noticed my gpu is getting higher temps than before i was mining. i wanna know if removing the heatsink and apply some new thermal paste will void my gpu warranty.

 

thanks !

I know evga is cool with most thermal paste re-applications. Simple google search... 

 

Source: https://www.sapphiretech.com/support.asp?lang=eng

1. The limited warranty does not cover products that the user has disassembled. GPU or ASIC devices (VGA) are sensitive to thermal (heat) issues. The heat sink has been designed to meet the requirements to ensure reliability of the product. Any warranty is rendered invalid if the product has been dismantled or the heat sink has been removed as this may cause damage to the GPU or ASIC device. Non-compliance will cause the warranty of the product to be void and repair will be at the users cost.

[Sakkura]

It might affect Sapphire's warranty, but the mandatory EU warranty cannot be voided that way (unless you actually cause damage while changing the thermal paste).

[Teddy07]

nobody company cares because they can not prove it

[O9B0666]

40 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

nobody company cares because they can not prove it

Yes they can theirs stickers over some of the screws. 

[Cazan]

1 hour ago, Br3tt96 said:

I know evga is cool with most thermal paste re-applications. Simple google search... 

 

Source: https://www.sapphiretech.com/support.asp?lang=eng

1. The limited warranty does not cover products that the user has disassembled. GPU or ASIC devices (VGA) are sensitive to thermal (heat) issues. The heat sink has been designed to meet the requirements to ensure reliability of the product. Any warranty is rendered invalid if the product has been dismantled or the heat sink has been removed as this may cause damage to the GPU or ASIC device. Non-compliance will cause the warranty of the product to be void and repair will be at the users cost.

i know that too  but i have a sapphire card.

[Cazan]

1 hour ago, Sakkura said:

It might affect Sapphire's warranty, but the mandatory EU warranty cannot be voided that way (unless you actually cause damage while changing the thermal paste).

 

1 hour ago, Sakkura said:

It might affect Sapphire's warranty, but the mandatory EU warranty cannot be voided that way (unless you actually cause damage while changing the thermal paste).

 

1 hour ago, Teddy07 said:

nobody company cares because they can not prove it

 

 

soooooo .... mixed answers lol. i will probably will not damage it (99% sure) cause i've done this many times to other graphics cards

[Daniel644]

odds are you just need to clear the dust out of the heatsink of the card, start there before you jump into the whole take the card apart and repaste level.

[Teddy07]

11 hours ago, O9B0666 said:

Yes they can theirs stickers over some of the screws. 

It is possible to remove stickers safely without destroying them. There are videos of it on youtube

[JabroniBaloney]

15 hours ago, O9B0666 said:

Yes they can theirs stickers over some of the screws. 

Pretty sure the "void if removed" stickers are now meaningless in the US, if OP is located there, thanks to a recent law being passed. 

[Mick Naughty]

Just do it anyway. Who cares about warranty?

[Sakkura]

11 hours ago, JabroniBaloney said:

Pretty sure the "void if removed" stickers are now meaningless in the US, if OP is located there, thanks to a recent law being passed. 

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act was passed in 1975.

 

OP appears to be from the EU, but there are similar laws here anyway.

[Cazan]

On 02/08/2018 at 4:38 AM, Daniel644 said:

odds are you just need to clear the dust out of the heatsink of the card, start there before you jump into the whole take the card apart and repaste level.

Its clean , i clean my pc every month ?

 

23 hours ago, Sakkura said:

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act was passed in 1975.

 

OP appears to be from the EU, but there are similar laws here anyway.

Ye i'm from the EU .. and where i live companies care a lot about warranty ... they even "deep search" the product and examine it before they start fixing it so...

[Speed Weed]

On ‎8‎/‎1‎/‎2018 at 3:29 PM, Br3tt96 said:

I know evga is cool with most thermal paste re-applications. Simple google search... 

 

Source: https://www.sapphiretech.com/support.asp?lang=eng

1. The limited warranty does not cover products that the user has disassembled. GPU or ASIC devices (VGA) are sensitive to thermal (heat) issues. The heat sink has been designed to meet the requirements to ensure reliability of the product. Any warranty is rendered invalid if the product has been dismantled or the heat sink has been removed as this may cause damage to the GPU or ASIC device. Non-compliance will cause the warranty of the product to be void and repair will be at the users cost.

This warranty is so bs.