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    Does using rivatuner to lock the ati 4670 hd card at stock frequency void our warranties?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rahuldutt, Mar 16, 2010.

  1. rahuldutt

    rahuldutt Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does using rivatuner to lock the ati 4670 hd card at stock frequency void our warranties?
     
    rahuldutt, Mar 16, 2010
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    Yup, but you wanna' know the wonderful part about it? They can't tell, just go in and revert the settings to the stock configuration and it's good as new.
     
    BLiT, Mar 16, 2010
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    http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/overdrive.html

    does'nt the last questions on the faq suggest its safe to over clock by tools such as riva tuner ??

    i guess u void ur warranty if u manually flash the bios or do some tweaking thats permanently written to the hardware....
    cause even after OC ppl hv posted tht the cpu shutsdown on reaching 90c which is ati thermal safe limit..
    so its not like u can burn ur gpu by high temp..
    u damage ur gpu only if u damage the hardware manually...
    which is how the dell warranty also works...(dell/bill replying to thermal paste application by users)
     
    rahuldutt, Mar 16, 2010
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    wht if my cpu goes unusable while OC, can ppl tell tht it was OCed.. and withraw warranty
     
    rahuldutt, Mar 16, 2010
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    If your processor is unstable then you clock it lower, simple as. If you boot in safe mode then the clocking program won't be run (that is if you even set it to run on startup). From there you can tell windows not to run it when you boot.
     
    funky monk, Mar 16, 2010
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