No, I am so sorry. These are still not the minimum requirement for Vista to work properly. LOL

Valmir, Compton, U.S.

Is this the minimum requirement for Vista to work properly?

Illucutz, London, UK

The noise! Imagine what the "three huge fans" put out in dB! No silent PC here.

bichuf, Doral, USA

It may be fast but in 6-12 months time newer i7 cpus will make this one look as slow as a Boeing 747 was slow next to Concorde.

The good news with i7 is the price of current cpus will drop so better for people building fast budget PCs.

I don't trust Vista, will stick with XP until Windows 7.

Jetinder Sira, Romford, Essex , UK

It's still Windows though isn't it? All that effort, and all for nothing...

Alastair, Alicante, Spain

I think its the fastest (tested) production pc - ie one that is mass produced.

in this case speed in not processor speed - it is actual number of meaningful computations per second - very different to processors speed.

Finally its running custom vista not XP
Linux would be better though...

Sam, london, UK

ARGH. Moore's Law FAIL.

"Moore's Law" refers to the number of transistors manufacturing capability can put on a single die, which is not really the same thing as what most people think of when they say "computer power".

Jimbo, Columbia,

The World's fastest PC?
Not only is it not the fastest it isn't even close.
You want to see fast, then come to www.xtremesystems.com and see where the best are. This runs at 3.7GHz?
So doesn't my Nehalem,at 3733mhz, on air,at 100% load 24/7 Will bench at 4226..and many faster than mine at XS..

David Hunt, Litchfield, USA

Fastest computer in the world? :-D

What about my core i7 920 "overclocked" (yeah - OVERCLOCKED! ;) ) from 2.66 to 4.2 Ghz stable 24/7 for..£1400. - guys, go to extremesystems.org - there you'll see meaning of the word..."fast" :) kudos for fun read...made my day :)

Overfiend, London, UK

Or you could build it yourself and save £2000.

David Mudkips, Reading, UK

"For the first time in the personal computing age, the power of consumer hardware has overtaken that of the machines in your office. " Say what say why say when? My PCs have been faster than office PCs since the 1990s. The Times must have some great PCs.

ian, sheffield, uk

For decades faster and faster computers have been shackled by Microsoft's bloatware. As the great Niklaus Wirth observed (long ago), "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster". Otherwise, today's PCs would work hundreds of times faster than those of the 1980s.

Tom Welsh, Basingstoke,

Interesting article, though not terribly informative. More plugging YoYoTech than anything.

Hardly the worlds fastest computer, any one with more than £4000 could build one faster. 2 x 4870 X2, 6 SSD's in Raid 0 etc etc

And by definition a PC is not a Supercomputer

E, BSE, Suffolk

I don't understand this. for the money this "worlds-fastest-PC" costs I could build a rig with 2 processors, 4 of the very same ATI video cards, and 128GB of ram, not to mention at least 6 1.5terabyte HDDS, and 2 120GB SSD drives. this is ridiculous. Who decided this was the fastest PC in the world

Alex, Miami,

Say, guys, with this little number at home, we could all be running our very own global warming simulations. No doubt there is a games company already working on it: prizes for a good title.

Dwight Vandryver, Scholar Green, UK

JFLS are also offering similar product, and also with superior support.

john, watford, england

yes, tony from plymouth, why not try windows 3.1 or perhaps DOS? then it'd be REALLY fast.

Why spend four grand on a computer and then run a 32-bit operating system? it's not worth the money. get yourself a netbook instead. forward compatability is the name of the game when spending like that

Saul, Madrid, Spain

what would be the point in running xp / linux on a out and out gaming machine?
Differences in speed between xp / vista are tiny.. and vista offers better security and generally feels a lot 'smoother', not to mention the fact with all the latest patches Vista is totally rock solid.

Andrew, Norfolk, UK

I agree with John of London. This machine is a nonsense.

I reckon I could build the same machine myself for around £2-2.5k

And as someone else says, put XP Pro on it (64bit if you need >2gb ram).

I also couldn't stop laughing about the "we build our machines with love" bit !!!!!!!!

Hahahaha !!!

Jez, Crowborough,

When volume brings it down to $39.95 - I'M IN !

Bob Hall, New York, USA

The link to 'home vs work' is a stretch. People have had more powerful machines for gaming than they use at work for years. 99% of jobs don't require this power, fun as it is, unless you're folding proteins, designing games etc. Will my boss let me work from home now I have a new gaming machine?

Ryan G, London,

So it's not a British computer - it's a computer made of foreign parts that was put together in Britain. Since computer parts just slot together, it isn't really that amazing. This article reads like an advert for Yoyotech.

George, Exeter, UK

Assembly apart, which part of this machine is British? The case maybe? And if you increase the voltage of your processor, it will melt. It's the clock frequency you increase. Nice to see gamers having fun, though.

Colin, shrewsbury,

only about 10% of UK workforce need a computer this fast. no one is clever enough to fully utilise its power. good to have tho.

liam, aberdeen, scotland

Last time i checked, Windows XP could only run up to 4gb of RAM.

Adam, Anglesey, UK

Dear Santa,

Please see above for details.

Thanks,

Dave

Dave D, London, UK

PR article. Why would anyone buy this overpriced gaming PC. It nowhere near powerful workstation. For same money you can get 2,8 TFLOPs machine and not this cheap looking teenager's dream PC.

John, London,

Awesome! I study right next to YoYoTech! It's just off Tottenham Court Road towards Goodge Street and it's towards Charlotte Street.

I'm going to go check it out now! To Hell with my work!

Kazuki, Tokyo, Japan

When it crashes, do you just turn it off then on again?

ab, quimper, france

So it can just about run Vista OK then?

It's no good having the world's fastest computer if you have the world's most inefficient operating system on it! Try running it with Windows XP or Linux release, then it'll be fast!

Tony , Plymouth, UK