Overclocking Alienware GPU's

Does anyone know if overclocking voids the warranty? I don't want to overclock and have them notice I did it if it voids my 2 year warranty.

And is the GT555m overclock friendly? I know from overclocking my last desktop gaming rig, that some CPU's and GPU's are overclock friendly and have features built in for ease-of-use.

Again though, don't really want to get in trouble with warranty.

I also overclocked too much on my last gaming rig and got alot of corrupt OS's so I had to reformat and clear the CMOS alot. Hopefully the Alienware laptop is more stable?

 

Overclocking will void your warranty, unless you push the overclock and burn out your card. You can use MSI afterburner to overclock, and be sure to monitor your temps (when you start getting to 90c+ you should be careful and maybe even scale back the overclock). Be sure to find a stable overclock before using the settings you've changed to. Also, every card has a different level it will overclock to. Some you can overclock a lot more than other, just the luck of the draw.

 

Alienware is known for it allowance to overclock without void the warranty unless you damage the card that that will void the warranty. And I've confirm that with a tech support in time I call them to replace my hard drive. You can use either EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner, however I prefer the EVGA Precision because of two reasons:

1) It has 5 more savable profile than the MSI.
2) I use a custom unlocked VBIOS, and MSI Afterburner only allow me to OC up to 800/1600, while the EVGA allow me to OC up to 945/1890.

But if you use the custom/modded VBIOS and if something wrong happen, then that will void the warranty because you use a modified VBIOS. My stable OC setting using the unlocked VBIOS is 850/1700/1080, any higher will either crash the games or the heat will go beyond 85C, Oh and the heat too, you must not allow it to go beyond 85C, or 89C is the maximum, because it would be too risky if you allow it to go up to 90C since the GT555M is soldered on the motherboard so if it get overheat, I afraid that it would melt on the board, and that would mean a new motherboard replacement or a M14x for you, lol. However if you still unsure, you can also call Dell to confirm about it.

 

The GT 555M is pretty overclock friendly. I think the common safe overclock used on the M14x forum here is 700/1400/1000.

 

For questions regarding warranty matters, including this one, please continue the discussion in the *Alienware/Dell - Warranty Discussion Thread (Questions Only)*

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