Photos: A tour of the HP Blackbird 002

The CPU is water cooled. Okay, it's not as outlandish as Dell's two-stage liquid-ceramic system, but it's simple, elegant, and most importantly, prevents the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 CPU from overheating. It's clocked at 3GHz by default, but has been ramped up to a monstrous 3.69GHz for even more frightening performance. Here you can also see 2GB of 1,066MHz DDR2 memory from Corsair.