The best part about owning a new system is reveling in its performance. But not everyone wants to pay full price for the best parts when a little elbow grease can unlock so much performance from more mainstream components—and that’s why many of us overclock. Yet, there are always gamers who don’t have the time (or skill, let’s face it) to assemble a computer in the first place, let alone tune it up. After all, isn’t reliability more important than raw speed ?
Überclok knows a few things about building reliable, overclocked systems. Rather than attempt to set records for the ultimate in speed, Überclok designs its systems to last many years. So sure is the company of its technical prowess that it backs each system for three years, even going so far as to pay to have the system shipped back to its lab in case of needed repairs. And just in case you weren’t satisfied with the performance of your new Ion PC, Überclok will even let you return it within thirty days of purchase.
Here’s a quick look at the configuration Überclok sent us :
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 3.0GHz, FSB-1333, 6MB Cache |
| Custom Overclocked to 4.0 GHz, FSB-1780 | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte EP35, BIOS F5 (07/16/2008) |
| RAM | Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX, 2x 2.0 GB CAS 4-4-4-12 |
| Custom Overclocked to DDR2-1066 CAS 5-7-7-25 (2T) | |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS |
| 500 GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache, SATA 300 | |
| Networking | Integrated Realtek Gigabit Networking, PCIe |
| Audio | Integrated Realtek High-Definition Audio (7.1-channels) |
| Graphics Cards | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4850 512MB |
| 675 MHz GPU, GDDR3-2200 | |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-550VX (550W, ATX12V V2.2) |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| OS | Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Build 6001 (SP1) |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10.0 |
| Graphics Driver | ATI Catalyst Version 8.7 |
| Peripherals | |
| Keyboard | Logitech Internet 350 USB |
| Mouse | Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical |
| Warranty and Support | |
| Warranty | 30-Day Money Back, 3-Years Free Replacement |
| Support | Toll-Free Telephone Support |
| Repairs | Free Shipping to and from Repair Center |

Overclocking should be about using liquid nitrogen, pushing pash 5.5GHz, and shortening the lifespan of the chip to 3 hours. Not years.
But still, I'd buy this PC.
I do this every year or two and end up paying out of pocket $300 or so and for around 8 years now I always have a very current system in warranty...
Why would you only want your chip to last three hours anyway? Thats STUPID! Goof...
E-peen of course!
15min of fame for a chip with a 3hr lifespan?
each to their own....
It's warrantied by Uberclock, not by the component manufacturers--hence the addition of $600 to the price tag for the insurance (aka warranty). So if something like the CPU dies, getting it replaced (for free apparently) has nothing to do with the manufacturer.
Granted the stock parts would not be overclocked but with the spare $600 you can buy a quadcore, a better gpu, a larger hardrive and better ram, so it will probly be faster. There is no point buying this pc except if you plan on spilling a pint of water onto it. (or i suppose just so you can say "it's overclocked man!")
I wonder what the temperature is like
Not for the average user to try to reconfigure these....
Most of those I build pc's for don't really use them for much hightech stuff. What if a company like this could provide them with an overclocked pentium dualcore with cheap pc2-6400c5, a 1tb spinpoint f1, and a overclocked 8800gt (or similar) packed in an antec sonata 3 chassis or some other lowcost-but-nice chassis?
I mean - let's face it .... those systems I built years ago with x200 onboard and 2gb memory are still running, and if I'd been able to deliver an oc'ed system with warranty, they'd run another year more. They ARE too slow now though, and need replacing. Which means I'll have to built more pc's which I'd rather not.