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Topic: It has begun. Video card companies STOP offering warrenties on their video cards - page 2. (Read 629 times)

legendary
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What we will start seeing is a type of BIOS fuse like some Android manufacteurs have to see if a phone was rooted before.

SO if you flash your bios, you blow the fuse and they can tell you bios modded it to mine with it.

Because right now as far as I know, its impossible to tell if it was used by mining.

And honestly mining uses less stress than people who overclock/overvolt their GPU inside a computer case without any intake/exhust fans.

microcenter is price gouging. And they wont honor the warranty anymore. I refuse to pay for a card without a warranty. A company should stand by its product. What microcenter is doing should be criminal

Why does Microcenter care about warranty or not?

When in fact they are not the ones honouring it, its the manufacteur.

Maybe you are talking about some additional 3rd party warranty that some stores offer. Usually for "no hassle in store replacement"
member
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What we will start seeing is a type of BIOS fuse like some Android manufacteurs have to see if a phone was rooted before.

SO if you flash your bios, you blow the fuse and they can tell you bios modded it to mine with it.

Because right now as far as I know, its impossible to tell if it was used by mining.

And honestly mining uses less stress than people who overclock/overvolt their GPU inside a computer case without any intake/exhust fans.

microcenter is price gouging. And they wont honor the warranty anymore. I refuse to pay for a card without a warranty. A company should stand by its product. What microcenter is doing should be criminal
full member
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What we will start seeing is a type of BIOS fuse like some Android manufacteurs have to see if a phone was rooted before.

SO if you flash your bios, you blow the fuse and they can tell you bios modded it to mine with it.

Because right now as far as I know, its impossible to tell if it was used by mining.

And honestly mining uses less stress than people who overclock/overvolt their GPU inside a computer case without any intake/exhust fans.
exactly, with adequete cooling and low core clock and undervolt
the cards should not be dying in less than 3 years.

maybe pny and other other lame companies need to make better products?
full member
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How do they know unless you admit it or try to RMA 20 at a time?

yup don't be stupid and tell them there just as dishonest as you will be trying to get it replaced , am sometimes two wrongs do make it right ...
lol i just rma 9 gigabyte windforce

they ate know to have issues with thier fans though

total junk cards man , not even 8 months old fans dead and some mem
chips too
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
What we will start seeing is a type of BIOS fuse like some Android manufacteurs have to see if a phone was rooted before.

SO if you flash your bios, you blow the fuse and they can tell you bios modded it to mine with it.

Because right now as far as I know, its impossible to tell if it was used by mining.

And honestly mining uses less stress than people who overclock/overvolt their GPU inside a computer case without any intake/exhust fans.
member
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Nothing new. if you mine you void the warranty on your card. Is stated by several gpu manufacturers. This doesnt mean they'll stop offering warranty coverage altogether for normal use. As they'll face legal issues for it.

How the fuck can a company say what you did with your video card? Fans break, things over heat ect ect.

The fact that wording is there makes me want to stay away from that company.

I predict they will start offering 6 months now. Stores won't put extended warranty on it either because of the shortage
legendary
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How do they know unless you admit it or try to RMA 20 at a time?

yup don't be stupid and tell them there just as dishonest as you will be trying to get it replaced , am sometimes two wrongs do make it right ...
hero member
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How do they know unless you admit it or try to RMA 20 at a time?
legendary
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http://www.pny.eu/legal/warranty/en

Period of warranty: Graphic Cards : Due to the significant increase of inappropriate use of GEFORCE GTX graphic cards in applications such as (but not limited) cryptocurrencies mining, data mining, mining farms, PNY reserves the right to not accept a return under warranty.


how can they do that in the US i don't think they can yet . just don't tell them what happen or why .  honestly i think there is more to it then just using them for mining i can see them jacking up the price a lot now ...an there gonna use that as a excuse ...  .  it's out of control .. or they maybe trying to kill mining by offering GPU at a high price with no warranty an yea with trump in office right now there getting a free ride to ripe us off by trumps admin changing some of the accountability and customer laws.
full member
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Nothing new. if you mine you void the warranty on your card. Is stated by several gpu manufacturers. This doesnt mean they'll stop offering warranty coverage altogether for normal use. As they'll face legal issues for it.
member
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http://www.pny.eu/legal/warranty/en

Period of warranty: Graphic Cards : Due to the significant increase of inappropriate use of GEFORCE GTX graphic cards in applications such as (but not limited) cryptocurrencies mining, data mining, mining farms, PNY reserves the right to not accept a return under warranty.
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