You don't need to. If nothing has been done for overclocking there won't be evidence in the BIOS of overclocking.
Warranty When Overclocking!
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You don't need to. If nothing has been done for overclocking there won't be evidence in the BIOS of overclocking.
TonyCarter
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Sorry, it's just that I'm very cynical...and a new poster, posting on a 3 year old thread, in a PCSpecialist customer-centric forum, and linking to a low-traffic 'Indian Times' style website/blog set my Spidey-senses tingling
SpyderTracks
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Have you overclocked? If not, there's no concern.
My current computer cannot be overclocked, but I am thinking about buying a PC based on Intel series K CPU. When I saw that article today morning, I immediately thought about a few things:
- what if I get a CPU which has been returned by someone who damaged it (but not fully so it still works but crashes randomly as described in that article)?
- how do you guys check the parts that are returned to you in order to avoid such scenario?
- I would also like to test waters with overclocking, how will I be able to prove that it wasn't me who damaged the CPU? Will I need to run stress test BEFORE I do overclocking, to know that I got a good CPU?
- If somebody damaged a CPU in this way, but then reset BIOS or something like that (they could even use the CPU in a different motherboard) and then returned it, how will you know?
- even if I can prove a damaged CPU was delivered to me, returning the whole computer is a hassle, then proving it wasn't me (especially if I also want to try overclocking and are buying an overclockable computer).
I wish a CPU either worked or not, without this intermediate state which is described in this article. The life would be much easier.
SpyderTracks
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PCS don't supply used components, only new. Any returned parts under warranty would be exchanged for a new part
Returned parts are faulty, so they're replaced with a new part.
If the overclock was out of the bounds that PCS had applied and damage resulted, then the onus would be on you. If the damage had occured while under the overclock they'd applied during build, then it would be covered by warranty.
All parts have serial numbers, so they know exactly which parts should be in your build.
The easy answer is, there's no benefit these days to overclocking the CPU outside of very niche usecases. CPU's are not like they used to be, they auto overclock extremely efficiently, outside of extreme rendering jobs lasting several days of continuous load, you're not going to really get much benefit from a CPU overclock.
If you want an overclock, order it as such and you're fully covered.
If you want to play with your own overclocks, it's better to do a self build IMHO. You'd get more suitable components anyway, there's only one Mobo that PCS supply that's really designed for "proper" overclocking.
But to be honest, that source doesn't look at all legitimate in any way, I personally wouldn't give it any credit, there's no respected known media sources reporting anything of that nature.
TonyCarter
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Is this a PCSpecialist PC you're thinking of buying? If so, what specifically is driving the need to 'get into overclocking'?
If it's just for gaming performance, then simply get a CPU that performs better - i.e. the 7800x3D!
Is it ASUS Maximus Dark Hero or Gigabyte AORUS Master?
I hope the answer is not that it is Gigabyte only because ASUS Dark Hero is not currently in stock. If both were is stock, which one would be better for overclocking?
SpyderTracks
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We can't advise on individual components as the whole system has to relate.
If you want some advice please open a spec check thread in the sales section.