I'm surprised that with all the overclocking there aren't that many chess computer competitors on freechess.org
I have a pretty high rating and I only have a AMD 64 4000+
What am I talking about?
You can setup your computer to run a chess engine and compete against other computers. There are a lot of free chess engines out there right now. I'm running Rybka which isn't free.
There are engines that perform better then others. Ofcourse your number crunching speed has a huge effect on your performance.
I would like to see some people with some insane specs compete against my machine. DeepThoughts(C)
go check it out.