Many years people have been overclocking to gain extra performance from there PC’s, and risking loosing many standard warranties should hardware failure occur along the way. So Intel has now decided to get with the program and cover warranties on certain CPUs should they become damaged in the OCing process, of course for an additional but nominal fee.
Manufacturers have long been providing us apps for overclocking of both GPU and CPUs, so its long overdue in my humble opinion that Intel should cover warranties on unlocked CPUs damaged from OCing.
Intel on Wednesday introduced a new pilot plan targeted at the enthusiast community. The new pilot service plan for “K”, “X”, and LGA2011-socketed boxed processors called the performance tuning protection plan (PTPP) provide certain out-of-warranty service’s in the event of damage caused by overclocking or overvoltaging by the end user. Available at a cost between $20 and $35 (depending on processor), this plan enables users to receive a one-time replacement processor if the user’s overvoltaging or overclocking causes the original processor to fail. The plan only applies to issues directly related to performance tuning.
CPUs covered at this time are:
| Intel® Core™ i5-2500K |
| Intel® Core™ i7-2600K |
| Intel® Core™ i7-2700K |
| Intel® Core™ i7-3930K |
| Intel® Core™ i7-3960X |
