Rock Xtreme CT notebook

I will agree that for the price, the Rock Extreme CT notebook is worth a second look if you are in the market.

Not long ago, we looked at a pre-production example of the first notebook to come with NVIDIA’s GeForce Go 7800 GTX chip, which was the Evesham Voyager C720. We established there that the Go 7800 part is just as fast as its desktop equivalent - an astounding feat for a notebook chip, and one which finally makes notebooks viable desktop replacements for hardcore gamers.

Rock, notebook specialist based in the UK, is now stepping up to bat with a fearsome rendition of the chipset, but one which is rather well priced. Rock also claims that the notebook can be overclocked to provide better performance for no extra cost and no loss in stability. How does it fare in our real-world testing scenarios? Let’s find out… [Read the rest]