Overclocked PCs on sale at Harrods

Though Harrods own Website doesn't bother to mention it, this page at the system builders' own website seems to confirm it.

The refrigerated PC range called Plutonium seems to start exploding at £2702.50 but a recent review of one in Custom PC cost more than £4345.50 for a single processor box, 19-inch AG NEOVO SXGA TFT, speakers and a cute chromed keyboard and mouse, so we think that Harrods, whose current tagline is "Understanding Luxury" may well be the right retail outlet.

Based around an Asetek VapoChill PE vapour-phase change refrigeration system, and available painted up in a variety of colours to match the Lamborghini in your driveway, this Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz sitting in an ABIT IC7 MAX 3 mainboard is clocked at 4GHz and is arguably more extreme than Intel's own effort, and at least it's easily available. Other components under stress are the Kingston HyperX PC4000 RAM pumped up to run at 1GHz (4x 250MHz) and an ATI RADEON 9800XT from friends of ATi Technologies CEO K.Y. Ho, Sapphire.

Custom PC concluded this machine was "the fastest PC we ever tested", though apparently concerned over the price and offended by the loud noise generated by the system reviewed.

For us, these days Harrods isn't what it was, and we wonder what founder Charles Henry Harrod would make of it all. Is he spinning in his grave at 30,000 revs per second, clocking what's going on? µ