Our competitors are constantly trying new sales and marketing tactics to earn your business. Sadly, many of the things they have tried in the past and continue to try are not in your best interest. Their latest tactic involves overclocking their computers and then saying that the competition cannot compete in terms of speed. We can most definitely compete in terms of speed, we just will not stoop to their level and sacrifice reliability and stability in order to push a dishonest sales tactic to unsuspecting and gullible customers.

Overclocking consists of increasing the frequency or voltage of a processor to make it run faster than the manufacturer recommended speeds. In return for overclocking you do get some relative increase in speed. On the negative side the heat levels in the computer are higher, the components are not as energy efficient and overclocking increases instability. Overclocking will void the processor warranty as well. Do you want to be in the middle of a trade and have your streaming quotes be incorrect? Do you want to be in the middle of a trade and have your computer turn off? These are only some of the things that overclocking will do.

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Here is some information pertaining to overclocking. The information below is found from various resources on the internet including Wikipedia and Intel's website (Intel is a processor manufacturer, the primary product our competition is overclocking).

Directly from Intel's website:

"Overclocked processors can produce unpredictable results or system instabilities, which might not be readily apparent. The life of the processor may also be shortened. The expected frequency is the frequency at which Intel warrants the reliable performance of the processor." This statement from Intel says that overclocking is unpredictable, causes instability issues and can cause problems down the line when they are not originally apparent. What this means to you is that the competition may get a computer overclocked, and it may work while in their facility, but it will end up not working at your location. This may happen immediately or it may happen several months or even a year down the line. Intel also states that the lifespan of the processor will be shortened meaning that your computer will not last as long as it should. Note that while our competition blatantly says that their computers comes with a full Intel warranty on the processor, Intel, the actual company you would need to work with to get warranty work done, says otherwise. Overclocking a processor will void the warranty and then it turns into a blame game.

“While overclocked systems may be tested for stability before usage, stability problems may surface after prolonged usage due to new workloads or untested portions of the processor core…. Even when your computer appears to be working normally, problems may arise unexpectedly in the future… More common than hardware failure is functional incorrectness. Although the hardware is not permanently damaged, this is inconvenient and can lead to instability and data loss. In rare, extreme cases entire filesystem failure may occur, causing the loss of all data.”

Does this sound like something that you want to do? Our competition use to sell these systems without ever letting anyone know that they overclocked. It wasn't until we discovered that they were offering a clockspeed that Intel does not produce that we realized that they overclock. They hid it, knowing that it is technically a negative thing. It wasn't until we called them on it did they actually put information on their website about it. Now that word is out, they put a spin on it saying that traders need the speed increase. Don't be fooled by their sales and marketing tactics, they are intended to increase their revenue, not to help you.