Gateway to Support Overclocking

A surprising part of Gateway’s announcement is that the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 dual-core processor can be ordered overclocked from the factory while retaining the full warranty. However, it is unknown what the clockspeed increase will be, or whether or not the end-user will have any control over clock frequencies.

This is quite surprising to say the least, but in a good way! It is likely to be a very minor overclock… in the 5% range. I cannot see them going much higher, but anything to help them gain a little more “respect” and sales.