Economical Uberclok offers high-end PCs

The Chicago-based company Überclock hopes to offer consumers a cheap alternative with two new models of customized CPU’s, both of which utilize overclocking to boost system performance

Garage PC enthusiasts of the 1980’s and big CPU manufacturers like Intel needed to find a common ground which would let tech savvy consumers maximize performance without running the risk of destroying their equipment. Intel also wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t be “too easy to take a $170 chip and make it run as fast as the $975 model,” as the product site states.

The compromise is a line of overclock-friendly chips that had a price-graded component called a “multiplier,” which is unchangeable on all of the chip models except, of course, the most expensive one. The higher the multiplier, the easier it is to overclock your PC to ri-god-damn-diculous speeds. According to Überclock, this means “Intel gets to sell its processors at different price points, allows overclockers to do our thing, and manages to give us…