7950 waterblock warranty?

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jamesriley94

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Hi,

I'm gunna be buying a new graphics card soon, for watercooling, and wanting to know whether taking the stock cooler off voids the warranty?

I'm looking at a 7950, various brands, do any of the brands maintain your warranty after the block?

Just dont want to spend £400 on a faulty card to void the warranty on it straight away. How do you guys get round this?

Cheers
 
Removing the cooler voids the warranty unfortunately. I don't think there are any manufactures for the AMD cards that allow it in their warranty, if it was Nvidia, Zotac and EVGA cover it in theirs but they don't do AMD, only Nvidia.

You can buy them with the blocks fitted which are covered by the retailer, I think Overclockers.co.uk sell them, also Novatech.

EDIT

Like this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-081-OE&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673
 
yes it will void the warranty, but if you try the card first as standard then you'll know if it works properly or not and then just be very careful how you take it a part
 
So say I went with nvidia, what would you recommend?

I'm only gaming on 1, 1080p screen. I would get a 670, but it's too short for my liking, and the 680 pcb is probably a little expensive :/
 
Your in the same situation I'm in then dude. I wanted a 670 but they are UGLY, the 680 is too expensive and so are the long PCB 670's. I'm thinking ATI now for the 7970/50 are they are cheaper and perform well, as near as dam it 670/80.
 
If you go with Nvidia get a reference EVGA card, they cover removing the cooler, plus you get a life time transferable warranty.

Also it makes me laugh how people wont buy a 670 just because it has a short PCB, it's still a 670.
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SieB said:
If you go with Nvidia get a reference EVGA card, they cover removing the cooler, plus you get a life time transferable warranty.

Also it makes me laugh how people wont buy a 670 just because it has a short PCB, it's still a 670.
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If I wasnt watercooling, I would have bought it. But I do think it would look ridiculous in a full system loop with dual rads, a raystorm, then a gpu that barely extends past the pcie slot...

What do you lot think to:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-081-OE&groupid=962&catid=2091&subcat=

I know its more expensive than buying parts separately, but if they still list that as a 3 year warranty then they have to honour that, regardless of whether it voids the warranty with MSI.

Same as:

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/Alphacool-NexXxos-NVXP-NV-GeForce-GTX-580-1536MB-GDDR5-PCI-E-Pre-Watercooled-Graphics-Card-pid-15454.html

Just dunno what you'd recommend?

I may just buy a card now to test for a month before. I dunno. I'm very quickly being put off watercooling
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No point in getting the 580, the 7950 is the better card. You get three years warranty with it, which is how much you would get from a normal card, so you are still covered if anything goes wrong.
 
Yeh, I'd prefer to get something from at least last year
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Plus, I only have a 750w psu and after overclocking a 3770k as much as i can i may be a little limited, so i'd rather go for the newer energy efficient chips. Also, I'd like the ability to crossfire at a later date, and I know a 750w psu isnt ideal, I think it would just about live
 
hahaa i know. BUT, it's lasted me 3 years so far, and it's been the most reliable part of my pc through those years, never had any issues whatsoever with it.

Their SSDs on the other hand in my experience havent been great.

Nevermind!
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