Lets find out just how extreme these gaming rigs can be when tweaked to their best. If you thought that the results at default speeds were amazing, wait till you check out the overclocked scores.

AMD FX RIG

CPU: For the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processor on ABIT's Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard, the default processor speed is 2,612MHz. After meddling with ABIT's uGuru and BIOS settings, we managed to overclock it to 2,838MHz - rock stable.

GFX: HIS graphics card's default speed for the Core and Memory are 520MHz and 1080MHz DDR respectively. As you have read from our review, this card overclocks impressively thanks to its expensive cooling module and it managed to overclock the card to 588MHz and 1266MHz DDR for its Core and Memory respectively. Here are the benchmarks before and after overclocking:-

Intel Extreme RIG

Default Settings

Overclocked Settings

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz processor on a MSI K8N Diamond did very well in overclocking too. From the default processor speed of 3,733MHz, we forced the system into overdrive and managed a final stable clock speed of 4,270MHz.

GFX: The performance of Leadtek's GeForce 6800 ULTRA in SLI mode is definitely impressive but to maximize its exorbitant cost, we tried our hand at overclocking it. From a default speed of 400MHz for its core, we managed to ramp it to 435 MHz. Here are the benchmarks before and after overclocking.

So, there you have it - the Editor's Choice of Gaming Rigs as of June 2005. We hope you enjoyed reading this article as not many of us have the capacity to purchase such high-end systems and experience what the best systems are capable of achieving. Until the next set of outstanding components loom upon us in the near future, we will be monitoring the tech front to update our Editor's Choice of Gaming Rigs at the right timeframe.

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