Wow, have you guys seen this thread????

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread. ... 546&page=2

Talk about freakn strange????? Its obviously not what you would expect from geeks. There is something wrong with this........ poster replying "RMA its bad for everyone?" What? who are they trying to kid??? I mean, the tone is very concerning. they must have some kinda ties for them to be acting this way. does this seem normal to anyone??

I mean keysplayer, would you be saying stuff like this if it was an nvidia card? it just dont seem like normal joe's would be acting this way at all. it really looks suspect to me! am i wrong for thinking this is an obvious dead give away, that this cant be normal geeks but instead ppl that want to protect their companies bottom end?

Well if it is the poster's own fault that they destroyed something that is clearly not covered by warranty, it would be wrong to misrepresent the product so as to get warranty service that is not covered. it is no different than any other insurance fraud.

i don't like to see HW burned up irresponsibly and then sent back as though the company owes anything to them. It doesn't matter what company.

yep, you abuse a product and stuff it up, you get to wear the financial cost of replacement. It is unfair to expect others to subsidize your hardware abuse. If the product developed a fault of its own accord or shipped to you incomplete or faulty then by all means RMA it.

Don't ask, don't tell.

we laways have this on the forums. Everyday we talk about RMA somewhere and its almost always not the components fault. Overclocking boards and the blow up, RMA. CPU that doesnt overclock far, RMA. Heck we even had one recently here. A PSU that burned up harddrives: RMA. And the one here is talking about 3 RMAs over it. (i am just saying)

Nowhere did i ever see people saying "its bad for everyone if you RMA" "that raises cost for everyone" "i think it stealing" or whatever kinda crap. You should read some of those post in the link from certain posters

Think about it in the same context as insurance fraud, its the same thing. If people start committing insurance fraud at a alarming rate who do you think pays for it? Definitely not the company or manufacture.

Ok, I admit doing one thing that is frowned upon.
Back in the old Sega Genesis days, a controller went bad on me and I bought a new one and then stuck the old one in the box and returned it

Now, let's see if anyone else has the balls to come forward on what they've done like this in the past.

The difference is the PSU was faulty, causing other parts to get fried. In this case a hardware defect caused the problems, in the OP the problem was a drunk idiot killed their own hardware being retarded.

Do you see the difference?

If I was running my i5-2500k at 4.3Ghz and 1.25v and it died from usage you can be sure as sh!t I'd RMA that. It's marketed as an unlocked processor, the fact that Intel doesn't cover reasonable overclocking is bogus. It's probably the reason why they did what they did the ivy bridge. Now if I was running it at 5.8GHz and 1.9v on Ln2 and it died I'd accept that as my fault or if I had it running stock and dumped beer on it in a drunken stupor again I'd accept respectability for the loss.

When I got my first GTX 470 from newegg in 2010 I bought a ASUS card that marketed overvolting right on the package. When I got it any voltage adjustment would kick in the OVP causing a system hardlock.

Here is a video of it stock clocks, voltage adjusted to 1087mv



I contacted Newegg, told them I was having this problem and even said it worked perfectly fine at stock. I said it was marketed as a voltage tweak card and tweaking the voltaged was impossible, they sent me a pre-paid label and a new card to replace it.

dp silly forums!

No matter how you look at it, it is up to the conscience of the individual.

i am not qualified to judge circumstances and motive.