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The quest to provide consumers with high-power computers has reached new levels of competitiveness in 1999.

From the 17 different models of Intel's Pentium III processors introduced this year to the introduction of both the K6-3 and Athlon lines from AMD, 1999 will likely be remembered as a year that produced a bumper crop of high MHz CPUs.

Today Sharky Extreme looks at a product that will likely end up holding the bragging rights for being the fastest rated x86-based PC of 1999, the "KryoTech Cool Athlon 900".

As its name proudly discloses, this Cool Athlon 900MHz PC was designed and developed by the thermal acceleration specialists at KryoTech Inc., who have been taking stock AMD processors and boosting them through overclocking methods to run at much higher speeds for two years now.

The KryoTech Cool Athlon 900 uses their proprietary technique and lifts a standard Athlon 700 CPU to 900MHz, while retaining full system stability and practicality.

Let's examine the Cool Athlon 900 system in depth, and see if it's right for your PC needs.

Before we explain the process KryoTech uses to supercool their PC's CPUs, lets look at the Cool Athlon 900 package itself.

What exactly do users get for paying the Cool Athlon 900's price tag of $2,200?

Answer: A basic platform to build from, no more, no less.