How will they know i have overclocked?

[Ned_Flanders]

Hehe, so do I :redface:

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[WingDing]

...*enters, stinking cock attracting local dogs*...

😱 I'm the good time that was had by all 😱

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Wooo!!! Look at the little doggies

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[liquidpaper007]

PIII's are still good. espcially if you stick with old games like starcraft.

heck pI's are still good. all you need is about 64meg ram and you can surf the net

 

[liquidpaper007]

PIII's have thermal protection. just watch the THG_video_1
i think the PII celeron(socket370) have thermal protection too.

 

[endyen]

The first test they do is a continuity test. If the chip is shorted, you are SOL. That is the only manditory test they do, so if you haven't fried it by overclocking, you may be able to cheat them, and make everyone else's chip cost more.

 

[mozzartusm]

Well said!

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[Vapor]

You can always talk your way out of that if necessary...I would recommend against it, though (keep the damn prices lower for me). Anyway, you're completely right about what they do for the test, and it's something that pretty much only overvolting does, not necessarily overclocking.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[endyen]

Why has no-one mentioned the added engineering costs? When Amd gets rmas, they want to look at ways around the failure. When the rma is caused by miss-use, they blow a lot of man hours on a solution that doesn't address the problem. Again we end up paying for this, but it also creams Amd's bottom line.