OWC suspends sale of overclocked Sonnet upgrades

OWC has sent out an email to its customers (thanks, Erik van Norden and Chris Lewis), confirming what we had already seen reports of on the Web. Here is an excerpt:

"Responding to an anonymous insider tip, we did a closer inspection on the Sonnet Upgrade models we had in stock and found that the Sonnet G3/500 PCI and G3/500 L2 Sonnet upgrades actually had 466MHz marked IBM G3 processors and even more of a stretch, the Sonnet G3/450MHZ PCI had a 333MHz marked IBM G3 processor.

I approached an available Sonnet manager on this issue and she did not seem to have any knowledge of this practice, but did say she would find out what was going on. I expected it to have been an error and was completely shocked when she did get back to me saying it was normal and that they had high-temp rated chips and that was why they could use them for a faster speed than their markings...As a result of this, we have suspended the sales of the affected items."

Update: MacMinute has posted Sonnet's reply on this matter.