Valid reason for a return?

snowcold65

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Hello,
I have a Toshiba Laptop and I play some games on it and it handles them surprisingly well. I canplay BF3 at ~35fps etc... however this is with turboost off which when on causes CPU temps to soar and the machine shutsdown within minutes. It's got an i5 2430m 2.4ghz CPU (3ghz with turboboost). I have ten months left of a two year warranty with John Lewis who from experience are tremendously generous with their returns policy. Considering the time I've owned the laptop and the issue I'm experiencing (it's not designed for gaming) would I be able to get a full refund on it? If I could then I'd consider it. Do I have a case to argue?
 

knuckleonAMD

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You could argue that it is overheating, but they might just say no cause it only does it while overclocked (turboboost). AMD and Intel don't cover things when it comes to overclocks. Cause you are technically running the machine out of it's standard.