Only What You Need The Ion is your ticket to high-performance gaming on a reasonable budget. It is the pinnacle of our achievements, combining overclocking with cutting-edge technology to provide you with the best gaming value. The difference between the Ion and the $900 “Gaming PC” is pure submersion. You can say goodbye to bad graphics, and finally see how your game was meant to be played. You won’t shoot where your target was three seconds ago, and you can stop the aggrivation from all the choppy motion. How do we do it? Of the thousands of computer components to choose from, the Ion is a collection of the industry’s smartest selections. We weed out the products that sacrifice game quality, and disqualify options that cost ludicrous amounts of money for phenomenal performance. (In most cases, careful choices can get you 90% of maximum performance for half the price or less!) We combine the right parts with considerable skill at overclocking to give you the same performance found in processors that cost three to four times as much.

Processor: E7300, E8400, Q6600 or Q9400 Chosen for their astounding mixture of overclockability and stability, these Intel Core 2-series processors (CPUs) offer far more processing power per dollar than anything AMD (Intel's only rival) has to offer at the moment. Gamers who want to embrace quad-core processing at this early stage have an excellent option with the Q6600 and Q9400. Muticore gaming is still in its infancy, and it will probably be at least two years before the majority of PC games are written to take advantage of four cores. For those who want to reap the more immediate benefit of running at a faster speed, the E7300 and E8400 typically ship at higher speeds than their quad-core siblings, and will run all games slightly faster than the quads until multicore gaming becomes more common.

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