Its should be clear TBH, as "Overclockedpc"(not to be confused with "OCPC" again) is only a sponsor.
But to answer your question:-
Its very true that Coolhardwares inital source of revenue is from Overclockedpc, but it has other sponsors now.
The facts:
The partners own all three :-
Coolhardware
Overclockedpc
OCPC.
Coolhardware is just a hardware site, it has ATM(this is important) given a couple of forums for the support of side of Overclockedpc, but this is hardly permanent. The Admin of Coolhardware have been appointed, and all control of the site was passed over to one of the most experienced Admin's that we knew - Jason Kennedy(aka JK23). If the members feel that it can't offer the forums for Overclockedpc - then I'm sure Coolhardware's admin will decide to remove them. This is much like certain forums offing Epox support etc., nothing more. Coolhardware is free from any political crap that dogs 3/4's of the forums based in the UK> any link can be posted, if its a competitor to Overclockedpc, Chillblast, Kingdom etc it does NOT matter.
Now to show the differences between OCPC & Overclockedpc.
Any company wishing to sell/retail OCPC products can, the products are not exclusive to Overclockedpc. Overclockedpc was set-up to just fill a gap in the market. Both have budgets to work from, and Overclockedpc will soon start to stock lots of other core components not manufactured by OCPC- its a shame still though, since certain stores have done deals with some of the best component to ONLY supply them , this artificially keep prices high.
It certainly troubles me to even be mentioned in the same thread as OCZ TBH, but its better to be honest and keep the intentions clear.
I personally pride myself on my honesty , and a specific thing we don't do is to put our integrity at risk. If you can't trust a Co. IMHO you should never deal with them.
I hope that answers the question fully, since I know this has bounced about a few times on some forums that would not even allow(due to competitors names mentioned
) the question to be answered - hell I hardly even bother going to these forums any more..
pHaestus - sorry if this is touching on Advertising , I am just trying to answer as honest & clearly as possible.
....Jess
*edit* fixed links