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"The Kobalt Apache ICE X58 is, to put it simply, one of the most powerful machines we’ve seen here at Driver Heaven thanks to a lethal combination of a 4.2GHz Core i7 CPU and GTX285s in SLI. Consider the SSD boot drive, 6GB of DDR3 Ram and a complete watercooling setup and you have a killer system on your hands. The temperatures exhibited by the system are extremely respectable despite the very high overclocks applied to the system. This is thanks to the watercooling setup that we took a look at earlier in the review and while the machine is audible, it is extremely quiet. Next to a traditionally air cooled machine it is drowned out rendering it completely inaudible. With this system in place your temperatures are something you will never have to worry about."

"The fastest PC we've seen to date.." "This is a PC on which a lot of work has been expended...Its beautifully crafted from the ground up and provides just enough performance to power NASA's space program. That said, you acquire a fair amount of kit for your money. The Kobalt laughs in the face of resolution increase, playing Crysis at 1920x1200 with 4x AA at a silky-smooth 46fps minimum and a 47fps average. The Kobalt clocked up an epic 3,401 points faster than the Beast Breed eVo (in Custom PC benchmark). The superior overclock of the Kobalt machine ensured that it had the fastest overall score with 2,780 compared to the Beast's 2,064, giving the Kobalt a 15% per cent performance lead."