Hardware maker Dell has stopped taking
orders for its XPS 720 H2C high-end desktop PC after it suffered
from overclocking problems in its Intel quad-core
processors.
The $5,939 computer runs two Nvidia
graphics cards with Intel's Core 2 QX6800 Extreme chip which is
"overclocked" by Dell to 3.73 GHz instead of 2.93 GHz.
The beast was liquid radiator to
dissipate the extreme heat generated by the setup. Dell said on its company blog
that the problem was no so much heat but the fact it could not find
enough QX6800 processors that can tolerate the Bin+3
overclocking.
Intel says that there is no shortage of
the chips, but finding those that can handle the overclocking is
another matter.
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