14 DAY TRIAL // Asus just announced that it soon plans to add another product to its ROG line designed for hardcore gamers, this time a desktop PC that is built around a factory overclocked Intel Sandy Bridge processor and a Nvidia GTX 590 graphics card.
The system in question will be dubbed the ROG CG8565 and it features an almost all-black chassis inspired by the design used for stealth airplanes.
Inside the matte box, users will find an Intel Core i7-2600K processor with quad computing cores and Hyper-Threding support, that was overclocked to 4.2GHz from its original 3.6GHz base clock speed.
However, this isn't the maximum that owners of the system will be able to get out of Asus' desktop in terms of CPU speed, as the ROG CG8565 also comes fitted with a special overclocking button.
This is placed alongside the frontal I/O chassis connectors and enables the user to increase the CPU speed to either 3.4GHz or 3.6GHz with just the press of a button.
When in overclocking mode, the system changes the LED color from blue to red and simultaneously adjusts the cooling system to cope with the higher heat output. Speaking of the cooling system, Asus went with a closed water cooling loop designed by Asetek.
The rest of the system specifications include a motherboard based on the Intel Z68 chipset, a whopping 16GB of DDR3 system memory, a pair of Intel SSDs in RAID 0 seconded by a 2TB hard drive spinning at 7200RPM, and an Asus Xonar DX sound card.
All these are paired together with an Asus GeForce GTX 590 graphics card built using two Nvidia GF110 graphics cores.
Asus Republic of Gamers CG8565 will be out in late September in Sweden and has an estimated retail price of 27,500 SEK including VAT. This translates into $3274 US or 2400 Euro, after VAT is taken out of the equation. (via SweClockers)