Shown above is the system with the main cover removed. The components are well laid out and there are no loose wires or parts anywhere. Along the top of the image is the Xtreme CTX’s main cooler which is responsible for keeping the T2600 and X1800 XT temperatures under control.

Removing the main Copper heatsink reveals the two components mentioned above, the CPU and GPU. The T2600 (core duo 2.16ghz) is on the left with the X1800 XT (550mhz/650mhz) on the right, both had an adequate volume of thermal paste applied, which is always good to see.

It is often the case that opening a review system reveals one of the reasons a manufacturer has been able to keep costs to a reasonable level and that is the choice of “budget” memory. In the case of the Xtreme CTX Rock cannot be accused of this as they have included some decent Corsair modules (2x512mb) rated as PC-5300 with timings of 5-5-5-15.

The final components visible in the CTX are the motherboard chipset and wireless LAN card. The Rock system uses Intel’s 915 chipset and Wireless Pro (A/B/G) card.