Intel has decided to end its Performance Tuning Protection Program which means that it will no longer cover warranty for overclocking mishaps. Intel decided to end the program as of 1st March meaning that its upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPUs won’t have any covering warranty if any overclocking mishaps happen during overclocking them.
The Intel Performance Tuning Protection Program (PTPP) was designed to give people who overclocked their processors a safety net. For $20-30, you could purchase a covering warranty which would protect your investment when overclocking. If anything happened, Intel would provide a replacement chip. Under the PTPP, replacements were offered only once so that people could not abuse the program.
But now Intel has ended its Performance Tuning Protection Program. It gave the following reason for discontinuing the PTTP program.
To PTPP Customers,
The Performance Tuning Protection Plan program has been discontinued.
As customers increasingly overclock with confidence, we are seeing lower demand for the Performance Tuning Protection Plans (PTPP).
As a result, Intel will no longer offer new PTPP plans effective March 1, 2021.
Intel will continue focusing on delivering amazing processors with tuning flexibility and overclocking tools like Intel Performance Maximizer and Intel XTU.
All existing plans will continue to be honored through the duration of the processor warranty period.
For questions, contact Intel Customer Support.
Note about the intel xeon W-31 75X Processor
The intel xeon W-31 75X Processor is automatically covered for overclocking, No additional plan or activation code is required
Thank You,
PTPP Team
Intel will no longer offer new plans for the PTTP program but existing plans are valid until the end. Intel also says that the Xeon W-3175X processor is automatically eligible for overclocking replacements. But as that is a $3000 server CPU, no consumer would be overclocking it. As far as the traditional range is concerned, gamers and other users have been overclocking their processors for a long time with Intel supporting them however with the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S processors, this might not be the case.
We will have to wait and see if consumers miss this offer now that it is gone for the time being. It is also disappointing to see it going just as a new processor family, the Rocket Lake-S was about to arrive.
