Six weeks ago Sharky Extreme reviewed the first AMD-based PC to be configured by the uber-cooling company known as "KryoTech", their "Cool K6-2 500MHz".

Utilizing a proprietary active refrigeration system, the KryoTech machines drop the CPU's temperature down to a staggering -40 degrees Celsius. This in turn allows KryoTech to boost the CPU speed in their machines to much higher levels than stock, while retaining full system stability.

We found the Cool K6-2 500 to be a strong performer, but we felt the cost of the cooling system it required was very prohibitive to the person upgrading on a budget. We also noticed a lack of support for WindowsNT and SCSI based peripherals on that particular system, a malady KryoTech has subsequently fixed. Our final major gripe about the Cool K6-2 500 was due to no fault of KryoTech, it was due to our anticipation at that time of how a K6-3 CPU would perform while super cooled.

After analyzing the reviews of their Cool K6-2 500 system from Sharky Extreme and other online publications, KryoTech ramped up the production speed of their planned K6-3 machine, as well as solved several of the large issues reviewers had with their previous model's format.