Gaming System Review: Überclok's Ion

[Crashman]

Well established in performance circles, Überclok’s factory-overclocked systems are now available for well under $2,000. But how does the brand's new Ion PC perform against our $1,500 SBM machine?

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[kitsilencer]

Sensible, still-under-warranty overclocking. Those words don't belong together.

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.

 

[ap90033]

Uh why worry about Three Year Warranty? WHat you do is build it then sell it after a year or two and put that $600 you would have had to use on the Above system and you have a brand new latest and greatest system.

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...

 

[ap90033]

Oh and kit, overclocking is so much more accepted and used. A lot of people overclock a little for say a 10% gain but keep it safe...

Why would you only want your chip to last three hours anyway? Thats STUPID! Goof...

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]ap90033[/nom]Why would you only want your chip to last three hours anyway?[/citation]
E-peen of course!

 

[kitsilencer]

Of course E-peen. Plus I'd get featured as an article.

 

[kittle]

[citation][nom]kitsilencer[/nom]Of course E-peen. Plus I'd get featured as an article.[/citation]
15min of fame for a chip with a 3hr lifespan?

each to their own....

 

[ThePatriot]

Entertaining a niche market...... clever move.

 

[guyladouche]

[citation][nom]kitsilencer[/nom]Sensible, still-under-warranty overclocking. Those words don't belong together.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.[/citation]

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.

 

[guyladouche]

It's a nice idea, but I don't see this going anywhere because of the terrible problems they could likely encounter with need for support/returns. One simple BSOD loop would require the entire rig to be shipped back for analysis (if the user isn't computer-savvy, which is likely the demographic they're aiming at). I wonder if the $600 overhead (in addition to whatever profits they make on the system as a whole) will recoup it? I remember "back in the day" when monarch computers would custom-build systems (no overclocking) and they went belly-up with all the returns and warranty-service (granted, if things are built carefully, there are rarely any needs for services after sale).

 

[skalagon]

$600 security for $1100 components is retarded. This is only usefull if the entire pc dies. However its likely that only maybe 2 parts will die completely within the 3 year warranty time and even that is a long shot. So lets say two parts die,the cpu and the hardrive and Uberclock replace them. That means youve paid $600 for two parts worth about $270 together.
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!")

 

[kyeana]

But you have to figure that the people who would be getting this computer wouldn't have the know how to build their own system, overclock it, or fix it if something went wrong. In that group this computer makes perfect sense, and lets face it, you would have to recommend this over a dell or alienware.

 

[ViViF]

nice one...but i don't get enough money...

 

[mgl888]

Isn't 1.45V a bit high for vcore?
I wonder what the temperature is like

 

[Guest]

What if the CMOS-battery dies, and all BIOS/overclocking-settings with it?
Not for the average user to try to reconfigure these....

 

[rhysee]

Not bad , nice case and very good cabling.. like my cablekami!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I really like their business strategy. I'd like to see them make a discount model though!

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.

 

[warlordsagan]

I live in Edmonton, Canada and bought a custom Reactor from Uberclok. I won't bore anyone with my story of what happened but Thomas Glen went out of his way to make sure I was happy with it. The cables inside the Cosmos S case where as neat as anyone could possibly get them. And it was stably overclocked by 33% and still running at a good temperature. A happy customer here.