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Re: ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread
by
Sandhog
on 08/01/2015, 02:59:20 UTC
I always recall Bitmain being very clear about OC'ing voiding the warranty.  Just because something is capable of doing something does not mean that the manufacturer cannot warranty void that behavior.

Go buy a Jeep and take it off road and brake it...they will not fix it!
Go buy a Corvette and brake it at the track...they will not fix it!

Pretty standard stuff.

ig

Why would you buy a jeep if you didn't want to take it off road....and yes they will fix it...

He's suggesting if you take it off road and ram it into a rock, its not going to be covered under their warranty as that's not something that is warrantyable. In the same way that if I feed an S5 24V and it explodes, its also not covered under the warranty.
We are not talking about using S4 for anything other than different settings that are available to miner on the advance option. When you buy a computer, user setting is available because you are allow to change it. I think analogies should related to computer equipment with user setting than vehicles. Nevertheless, if you drive a Corvette on the track, you do not avoid the warranty. Of course, anything that you buy and you break it, warranty is avoided. However, you drive a Corvette on a race track at 190 miles/hr and blow head gasket, warranty covers since speedometer reads up to 200 MPH. You normally don't drive above posted speed limits not because it would avoid warranty but don't want speeding tickets. 65 MPH is about the highest legal speed limit in US. But it doesn't mean if you drive at 200 MPH which is about the maximum, warranty is avoided. Unless, of course you crash into something.