Biostar Unveils Its LGA1150 Motherboards

[ubercake]

[citation][nom]ubercake[/nom]The warranty is voided with any OC. Since the warranty is voided after an overclock, the fact that they produce processors allowing overclocking saves the manufacturer any warranty costs. You OC at your own risk whether K, X or any other edition of the processor. Outside of system RAM, I am not aware of any products that are warranted after they are overclocked or overvolted?[/citation]
Unless enabling overclocking on your motherboard/CPU requires blowing fuse bits to enable it, overclocking leaves no traces behind unless you overdo it in a way that does end up generating telltale physical evidence. In that case, unless you give them verbal evidence, the warranty is void on paper only since the companies have no physical evidence to dispute your warranty claim with.

As for companies having a warranty for overclocking, Intel does sell an aftermarket overclocking insurance for $20-35 depending on CPU model, valid for one no-questions-asked replacement.

That's good to know. I'm guessing most overclockers don't take out an overclocking insurance policy though. I would also guess the overclock insurance doesn't cover overvolting (otherwise you just overvolt the crap out of the processor to push clocks, make an overclockers insurance claim, get a new processor, rinse and repeat)? I wonder if they're baking some kind of detection mechanism into the integrated VRM on Haswell?

Has anyone out there used this overclocking insurance and filed a claim?

 

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[citation][nom]ubercake[/nom]I would also guess the overclock insurance doesn't cover overvolting (otherwise you just overvolt the crap out of the processor to push clocks, make an overclockers insurance claim, get a new processor, rinse and repeat)?[/citation]
There is no 'rinse and repeat'. Intel's overclocking insurance is a non-renewable, non-transferable no-question-asked replacement only for original boxed CPU. In other words, the insurance does not get transferred/extended to replacement parts and cannot be re-purchased and re-applied to said replacements.

Once you use it up by frying your original boxed CPU by whatever method of your choosing or 'accidentally' dropping a 20lbs sledge hammer on it and get your insurance replacement, your overclock insurance is gone and you are on your own next time your CPU has an 'accident'.

 

[blazorthon]

I've known some video cards to have warranties that include overclocking and even aftermarket cooler installation. IDK for sure about overvolting, but I bet that at least some companies have a model or two with that covered too.

Good to know. Are there any current examples?

This thread has some answers that may interest you:
http://www.overclock.net/t/786600/questions-about-graphics-card-warranties

It's from 2010, so probably not current like you asked for, but I'm willing to bet that the policies haven't changed.