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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation - GBS
An enthusiast PC manufacturer appears, shock
IT SEEMS THAT this era will be remembered as the birth age of many enthusiast components. Just like the late 40s and 50s of 20th Century were remembered as times of sports cars [No they weren't, Ed.], the first years of 21st century will be remembered as times when enthusiast PC manufacturers flourished.
After seeing all the success of its predecessors, now Uberclok is coming to market with a line of what it reckons are affordable computers. We won't go into specs and stuff, but it is interesting to see a PC vendor showing up with one model overclocked by 1.2GHz over stock.
Air cooled machines are geared up for serious airflow... yielding in
great overclocks...
We haven't seen this for quite some time, but the Uberclok Ion ships with Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 processor (2.2 GHz) overclocked to 3.4GHz, a 55 per cent clock increase. Guys are selling systems intended for monitor sizes, so Ion is recommended for owners of monitor up to 22-inch. It has sufficient horsepower to run all the latest titles with 1680x1050 resolution.
The second PC from starting line-up is Reaktor, featuring a quad-core processor overclocked by "just" 0.7 GHz, from 3.0 GHz to 3.7 GHz. Both systems use air cooling.
Both systems are based on EVGA's nForce 650i Ultra motherboard, while other components have same common denominator: performance. µ
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But I do believe that the first years of the 21st Century will be remembered as the beginning of days when atrocious terrorist attacks led to Reason and Liberty abandoning the White House, and thus triggering the shortened march of civilization toward World War III.
Big deal, a pentium 2160 will go from 1.8ghz to 3.4ghz using just an artic cooler pro 7. If someone is buying an overclocked system they must know a bit about computers, and therefore they should be ashamed with themselves for not saving their money and building a computer themselves.
The enthusiasts have wrecked the mouse market, too. I went shopping for a $5 mouse. The cheapest I could find at my usual supplier is $10. Some mice were as high as $60! What is wrong with these people? It's just a mouse. On the other hand, my favourite Fujitsu throw-back keyboard from the Lose '95 era was down to $20.

My next PC will be dual-socket quad-core with 8gB RAM, 3 gigabit/s ports and 6 SATA... The price war between AMD and Intel works for me.
You complain about $10 mice and then you say you plan to build a machine that's likely to cost you upwards of $5000? 

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Nothing wrong with pre-overclocked systems, as long as they have decent QC and support, of course. Although I find 3.7GHz quads on air a rather "iffy" proposition.
Cool, love to see some benchmarks on this bad boy.

@Pascal

Despite the similarity in spelling, "enthusiast PC" and "please share myopic political blathering here" are not quite the same. :)

Besides, today's political problems can be traced at least to the early 20th century.

I can imagine the nightmares with these systems for the computer illiterate that are willing to buy overclocked systems.. also imagine the nightmares from the peeps with low quality power in their homes. Any dip in voltage and BAM.. frozen PC. lol.

Being able to purchase overclocked systems saves alot of hassle of doing it yourself.. but at the same time,.. such a big risk.. as there is always the concern of stability. This is why you have video card companies that are only doing moderate overclocks rather than reaching for that maximum from the chip. Let's hope things go smoothly for this company lol