[kikicoco1334]

i've not always been really good with warranty issues and what's covered and what's not..
as some of you guys may know i just started doing some REAL overclocking... as kal may say "you've joined the dark side" with Dice and LN2 all that condensation gonna be happening around it and when i use on the motherboard would that void warranty?
and what dose the warranty on the intel i7s cover?
normally i don't really care too much when it breaks but school is starting i don't really have too much extra funding for me to play around with

i just got another x58 motherboard
now here is what i got
1x Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME
1x Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P
1x Asus P6T Deluxe V2 (NEW)
2x Intel Core i7 920 D0
1x E6300 B2


may beable to borrow a R2E from my friend

and i am just trying to find some Xeon or like a i7 980x (i was getting one from ebay and this dude fucking sniped sold price was 275) or maybe just something nice and not too much and still gonna be great for oc lol

and a REALLY nice DDR3 LGA775 board for oc

[Kal-EL]

For the most part, if you do a proper insulation job and then a proper clean up job, you can't tell the board was dropped into sub-zero land at all. This means staying away from things like spray on electric tape spray or sometimes finger nail polish (it tends to peal after a few sessions).

If you use vasoline around the socket w/papertowel and normal closed cell foam around your pot base, the clean up is as easy as warshing your board with warm soapy water prior to rma.

Regarding the Intel rma process, far as I know regular chips have a 3 year warranty and you just tell them it won't boot with that chip, you've tested several other chips in the same board, and tested that chip in another board, no boot, should be good to go.

[kikicoco1334]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

For the most part, if you do a proper insulation job and then a proper clean up job, you can't tell the board was dropped into sub-zero land at all. This means staying away from things like spray on electric tape spray or sometimes finger nail polish (it tends to peal after a few sessions).

If you use vasoline around the socket w/papertowel and normal closed cell foam around your pot base, the clean up is as easy as warshing your board with warm soapy water prior to rma.

Regarding the Intel rma process, far as I know regular chips have a 3 year warranty and you just tell them it won't boot with that chip, you've tested several other chips in the same board, and tested that chip in another board, no boot, should be good to go.

Kal! you are like the yoda and we are just the jedis!
you got answers to almost too much/many questions

will Intel test the chips that you sent them?
what about overvoltaging? will they beable to test that?
oh yeah and do they send you a referb chip or a new chip

[rickss69]

I have rma'd several Intel and AMD chips and have never been turned down Kiki. (And I am a known volt whore btw)

[Neuromancer]

I only killed one Intel chip. A Q6600. The techs were trying to tell me to do this ir that... I said look it does not work. They said fine send it to Tennessee (I think) and I received a BNIB one a week or so later.

[kikicoco1334]

Originally Posted by rickss69

I have rma'd several Intel and AMD chips and have never been turned down Kiki. (And I am a known volt whore btw)

volt whore NICE!

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

I only killed one Intel chip. A Q6600. The techs were trying to tell me to do this ir that... I said look it does not work. They said fine send it to Tennessee (I think) and I received a BNIB one a week or so later.

that's awesome!

but what is BNIB?
i don't seem find what that is online

[MaadDaawg]

You can do the Intel rma via chat online. Just tell em what Kal told ya and they'll have you send your chip in and send you a new one. KEEP the HSF that came with the proc - Intel wants to know what word is on the fan housing.

Don't know about Gigabyte... EVGA is great for RMA'ing cards and boards.

Asus will RMA but make sure you're registered. They cross ship the first time then make you wait if you do the same board a second time. I sent in an unregistered 295 and they RMAd it cause I was a VIP registered member from my R2E.

Best thing to remember - register (except intel, they don't care) lol

[Kal-EL]

BNIB (brand new in box?)

[kikicoco1334]

Originally Posted by MaadDaawg

You can do the Intel rma via chat online. Just tell em what Kal told ya and they'll have you send your chip in and send you a new one. KEEP the HSF that came with the proc - Intel wants to know what word is on the fan housing.

Don't know about Gigabyte... EVGA is great for RMA'ing cards and boards.

Asus will RMA but make sure you're registered. They cross ship the first time then make you wait if you do the same board a second time. I sent in an unregistered 295 and they RMAd it cause I was a VIP registered member from my R2E.

Best thing to remember - register (except intel, they don't care) lol

i have rmaed things from asus and gigabyte and they are both really good.. but gigabyte never fixed my cmos reset bottom... on the back of my motherboard where I/O is at.. (when i got this board the first thing i did was RMA damn it!)
but last time when i sent my board in they said that my board had a broken/bent pin cpu socket.. and they replaced the socket can you even replace the socket? cuz i see a lot bent pin motherbaord on ebay and they are going for really cheep and also one time i saw on ebay some chinese dude was selling just the sockets 775 and 1366 i don't remember if socket H was on there or not but yeah how do you replace the sockets?
hell! how the hell did those people bent the pins on in the mobo socket? i have never had any bent pin EVER!

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

BNIB (brand new in box?)

gotcha!



thank you

[Neuromancer]

hah hah sorry I am an EBay junkie. Supposed to be NIB but everyone on ebay has to dramatize everything... its not just New in Box its BRAND new in box!!!


Couldnt find it? First link on GOOGLE