mpjesse
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Wow. You have a lot of time on your hands. And all for naught.
Isn't that a little hippocritical when in the same post you said this:
Do you know my background? I don't question your background, I question your reasoning and intepretations.
And nothing in your lengthly post specifically says "using 3rd party thermal paste voids the warranty." And yes, you're right, AMD could refuse to the honor the warranty if they think you're actions were reckless. However, in my 15+ combined years of dealing with both AMD and Intel, they have never refused to replace any of my CPU's based on the fact that I had 3rd party thermal paste (always arctic silver) on the damaged CPU. I've replaced 2 processors in the past 5 years. One was intel and one was AMD. I never bothered to try and cover up or remove the fact that I was using Acrtic Silver. And guess what? They still replaced my CPU's. Previous to that I was a tech at a large computer chain based in Seattle. We bought all our CPU's in OEM trays direct from Intel and used our own cheap thermal paste. Intel never had a problem replacing our CPU's if they were bad or went bad.
And I never said AMD would replace anyone's CPU if they're overclocking. However, while we're on the topic, proving that someone was overclocking is extremely hard unless the chip is literally fried- which very rarely happens (i.e., the capacitors on the bottom of the CPU are BLACK or the die is brown). For all they know there was a power surge or the PSU flipped out. I doubt AMD has the time or patience to sit there and frigin run tests on the returned CPU. I've never personally fried a CPU from overclocking, but I've had plenty of friends that have and they had ZERO problems getting it replaced.
So chill out. Using Arctic Silver won't void the damned warranty no matter how much you say so or want to believe.
This is frigin enthusiast site. People around here don't care if they void the warranty. So take your AMD warranty interpretations and scream them in the AMD forums.
-mpjesse
Believe me that I do have a lot more practical experience in dealing with those issues than you!
Isn't that a little hippocritical when in the same post you said this:
And as far as you do have an extensive knowledge it doesn't mean that my knowledge is lesser than yours, in deed I might know a little more than you think.
You DO NOT know my background, so be very carefull when you adress me.
Do you know my background? I don't question your background, I question your reasoning and intepretations.
And nothing in your lengthly post specifically says "using 3rd party thermal paste voids the warranty." And yes, you're right, AMD could refuse to the honor the warranty if they think you're actions were reckless. However, in my 15+ combined years of dealing with both AMD and Intel, they have never refused to replace any of my CPU's based on the fact that I had 3rd party thermal paste (always arctic silver) on the damaged CPU. I've replaced 2 processors in the past 5 years. One was intel and one was AMD. I never bothered to try and cover up or remove the fact that I was using Acrtic Silver. And guess what? They still replaced my CPU's. Previous to that I was a tech at a large computer chain based in Seattle. We bought all our CPU's in OEM trays direct from Intel and used our own cheap thermal paste. Intel never had a problem replacing our CPU's if they were bad or went bad.
And I never said AMD would replace anyone's CPU if they're overclocking. However, while we're on the topic, proving that someone was overclocking is extremely hard unless the chip is literally fried- which very rarely happens (i.e., the capacitors on the bottom of the CPU are BLACK or the die is brown). For all they know there was a power surge or the PSU flipped out. I doubt AMD has the time or patience to sit there and frigin run tests on the returned CPU. I've never personally fried a CPU from overclocking, but I've had plenty of friends that have and they had ZERO problems getting it replaced.
So chill out. Using Arctic Silver won't void the damned warranty no matter how much you say so or want to believe.
This is frigin enthusiast site. People around here don't care if they void the warranty. So take your AMD warranty interpretations and scream them in the AMD forums.
-mpjesse