Quote: A few big retailers and etailers have confirmed that Intel actually can check if you overclocked your CPU. When you burn your CPU Intel asks its retailers and etailers to return the CPU's back and in three to five weeks Intel gets back with the answer to whether the end customer gets a new chip or not.

Fudzilla - Intel CPU's have OC black box


I caught this article the other day..and needless to say I was a bit alarmed!

In case you happened to catch it too, it's a sham...

It just re-affirms you can't believe everything you read on the net that's published, after doing a bit of research, it seems te writer used to work at "The Inquirer" so I did a bit more digging and found this today (Before I posted this thread...wanted to be sure!)

Intel denies they have the capability:

Technology news - Tech.co.uk | No overclocking 'black box' in Intel chips


So don't worry about Intel monitoring your Overclocking habbits, it realy seems kinda silly when you figure out how small the overclocking community is in comparisson to people that don't..and to go to those lengths to defeat us would be finacial stupidity, it would require more money to monitor it then what they might save by refusing RMA's when they catch somone.

Fudzilla is a hell of a lot worse for makeing stuff up then The Inquirer. Pretty much everything on there is pulled out of no where.