Silicon providers main beneficiaries of enthusiast PC growth; opportunities exist for vendors to raise profits with innovative products, says HWinsights

The rapid expansion in demand for premium PC hardware from the enthusiast and overclocking segments has given hardware vendors a much needed opportunity to bolster declining sales in the mainstream consumer space. But while related players have all enjoyed some gains from their efforts to design and market products primarily for overclockers, the main winners so far have been the chip providers. In first-quarter 2015 the cost of the CPU and graphics card accounted for over 66% of the EUR1050 (US$1151) cost of a typical overclocking system, according to the latest quarterly report from HWinsights.

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