We've seen a lot of these rigs since Intel and YOYOtech went all
Norris McWhirter on us with their combined Fi7epower MLK 1610
efforts for the launch of the Core i7. That was the fastest
machine available in 2008 and a year and a half later we've the
Hydro Nemesis from Cryo PC that makes it look like Babbage's
difference engine.  In between, YOYOtech has tried its hand
again with the Fi7epower refresh: the MLK3, and that's a rig
that's gotten pretty damned close to the speed of this machine.
The Hydro Nemesis has got something beating in its silicon heart
that makes it a much speedier beast: Intel's brand new Core i7
980X Extreme processor. Yup, the £800, six-core processor has
found a home in Cryo PC's liquid-cooled gaming behemoth.  Along
with the twin HD 5870 graphics cards that makes this the fastest
gaming PC available today.   The Core i7 980X holds six cores,
and in Intel's HyperThreaded world that makes for a mammoth
twelve threads of processing performance in this powerhouse of a
chip. The is the se