Overclocking violates warranty, how they know?

Well, this is a quite stupid question, just wondering..

If a person overclocked his laptop/desktop, for example GPU

if a person he did overclock the GPU, indeed he violates the warranty,

but how do Dell know if he really did it ?

Check or do something on the GPU chip to confirm? or check the system information in the laptop or desktop?

If in a case like this,

A person he got a computer from dell with 2 year warranty, and he did overclock the GPU before the warranty ends, then maybe he restore it or maybe he got format his computer reinstall a new fresh windows,

But one day, his computer is dead without the overclocking, send it back to Dell,

So Dell can find out he did something changes to the GPU by checking on the chip? (i think it should be)..

 

There's no magic way for them to know. Of course, if you send a dead system in for repair, and you have RivaTuner installed with overclocked settings, they'll know.

 

I dnt think there is a way to find it out.

 

They wont son!

 

lol..

Do you guys mean if the person realize something wrong with his GPU , it's dying, and reformat, reset everything, b4 it dies,

after the computer died, send it back for warranty replace?

if they cant find out he actually overclocked it..., replace for new one? OMG!


But they may got a way to know it, just want to know how they do ..

 

Aslong as you dont jack your GPU up to 1.1mghz and blow a hole in the laptop and delete your OC'er, some registry files it leaves maybe, then yeah they cant tell.

 

WOW, 1.1ghz on GPU, i think no more than 5 sec you can smell something is melting and turn into black screen immediately.

I see, thanks everyone answer my question

 

I have always returned my notebook with the hard drive removed for security reasons. Seems to work well with the OC detection problem.

 

You did overclock on the notebook before? and they didn't find it out?

 

Theres no way for them finding out because a burnt out GPU from OC'ing dies the same fashion a normal gpu would die. OC'ing just accelerates the dying process

Unless of course Nvidia slipped something on the video BIOS which enables the technicians to see if the clockspeeds have been altered. *puts tin foil hat on*

 

LMAO. I like how you phrase that sentence, straight to the point, true and yet sound funny. So apparently all of our computers are essentially dying everyday - slowly. True, all of us are dying slowly as our birthdays arrive.

Yeah, anyway back to the topic, yeah I agree there's nothing wrong O'Cing, but just be careful of how the overclocking is done and how frequently if you really want your laptop to last. I only O'C mine as and when I need to game on Crysis, while on startup and normal usage just set it back to default clocks and you should be fine. Besides, if anything were to happen (God forbid LOL), even Dell wouldn't find out what can really cause a GPU to get busted; never heard Dell or even other brands rejecting a laptop that was caused by overclocking... That is, so far till now in the forums from what I read around from many people as well. Also, I never heard of anyone accidentally killed their laptop GPU by overclocking, maybe heat issues but not that I heard of a killed GPU at the moment.

So yeah, they won't know what you did to it unless if they see spilled custard on it.