Will separating Fusion drive into standalone SSD/HDD void AppleCare?

Since Bootcamp doesn't seem to take advantage of the Fusion drive in any capacity, and I mostly need the bandwidth of the SSD for Windows programs, I was planning on using this tutorial to separate the Fusion drive into a standalone SSD and HDD. (Note: I don't want to run a virtual machine for this, which I've heard uses the Fusion drive fine.) My question is: Does decoupling the hard drives like this violates AppleCare, or could I still receive service if something should go wrong in the future? Thanks.

My guess is sure it would, how can Apple support a machine that has had the hardware tampered with.

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