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The Best Gaming PC’s to Play: Valorant
Valorant exploded onto the gaming scene in 2020 and this tactical shooter from Riot Games has become a firm favourite for gamers and esports enthusiasts, alike. Valorant: Following the FPS Blueprint Riot has been intelligent when it comes to the gameplay and features of Valorant. The title is comparable to popular games like the Counter-Strike franchise and Overwatch 2. Counter-Strike 2 launched in September 2023 after much anticipation, and Valorant has garnered its own loyal fanbase. Counter-Strike is successful because of the game’s accessibility. It’s…
Overclockers Top 5 upgrades to improve your Gaming PC
If you’ve read our helpful Guide on why and when to upgrade, tried to squeeze the most out of your existing hardware and still aren’t happy with how your PC performs it’s time to decide what part to replace. There are plenty of diagnostic programs available to help you determine what component is holding your performance back. Some examples worth trying are User benchmark, HWiNFO, System explorer, Crystaldisk Info, CPU-Z and even the inbuilt Windows performance monitor. For gaming, it’s likely to be your GPU…
Gaming PC vs Laptop? Which is Best?
If your old PC can’t handle the latest AAA games or if that noisy laptop with its terrible battery life is giving you a headache, it’s certainly time to spoil yourself with a cheeky upgrade. However, it’s the age ol’ question. Do you go for a PC or a gaming laptop? To help you make this impossible decision, we’ve put together this handy helpful detailing the key differences along with their pros and cons. Hopefully, by the time you’ve finished reading, you’ll be ready to…
Top 10 Products to Improve Working From Home
Due to the current situation in the UK, Many offices are closing and more and more workers are taking the initiative to work remotely. This will hopefully aid the fight against the spread of Coronavirus and secure people’s jobs in the long term. In this guide, we would like to introduce you to some of our top products that will help improve your home office space and make working from home easier and more effective. First of all, we would like to thank all those…
Wasteland 3: How to Get The Best Experience on PC
What is Wasteland 3 about? The history of Wasteland goes way back to the first game published in 1988. The series was revived in 2014 with the release of Wasteland 2 and the latest release Wasteland 3 follows on from the events of that game. You play the role of a desert ranger battling to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The aim is to build a new base, train recruits and help save Colorado to form an alliance and rescue your homeland…
The Top 5 Products To Keep Your Gaming PC Clean
With the average computer desk harbouring 400 times more bacteria than a toilet seat, it's time for a spring clean! This week we take a look at the top 5 products to keep your gaming PC and peripherals shipshape. Looking at the facts According to CSG, “around 80% of infections are spread via contact with contaminated surfaces and NOT coughing or sneezing”. This statement alone really helps to put things into perspective. You wouldn't wear the same pair of pants every day - yet we…
Half-Life Alyx: Optimise Your Gaming Experience
Half-Life Alyx: Everything you need to know to get the best gaming experience possible Since 2016 when the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift came to market and brought VR into the mainstream we’ve been treated to a wide variety of immersive titles from a host of different developers. With the release of the Valve Index in June 2019, it's no surprise that Valve’s latest release is made exclusively for the VR platform. What better way to break into the market than with one of their…
HDR Gaming Deep Dive: Secrets to Vibrant Gaming!
HDR: Bringing Games to Life Recently, a new VESA standard was brought forward to help define HDR specifications in the context of PC monitors. DisplayHDR - aka High Dynamic Range for PC monitors – leverages its capacity for displaying a greater contrast ratio in order to reproduce more vibrant and realistic scenes. This is due in part to the deeper blacks and higher white levels. The result is greater depth of detail and, more importantly, a picture that appears more lifelike to the human eye. There is…
The noblechairs Experience
The noblechairs Experience It’s important to keep comfortable when you’re in the middle of a long gaming session – and there’s no better way to make it happen than with noblechairs. It’s no good having a world-class gaming rig if you’re sitting on an uncomfortable chair. You won’t play at your best if you’ve got an aching back, and you won’t be able to concentrate if you’ve spent hours going numb because of an awkward seat. Thankfully, noblechairs is here to save the day. The…
FireCuda and Barracuda: Seagate’s World-Class Storage
There aren’t many organisations that know more about storage than Seagate. The Cupertino-based company has been at the head of the hard disk business since 1978, and its current products aren’t just maintaining that lead – they’re extending it. Seagate's latest drives tick the right boxes when it comes to performance, reliability and capacity, and there isn’t a better place to buy than with Overclockers UK. We’re going to find out exactly what’s so special about Seagate's current range. Straight Fire Seagate's range of FireCuda drives deploy…
How to get in to content creation
Content Creation Explored Content creation sounds like a corporate buzzword, but it refers to making YouTube videos and streaming on Twitch – two of the biggest areas in gaming and technology right now. They’re growing fast, so it’s no surprise that more people than ever count on these websites for their income – whether it’s their full-time job or just some cash on the side. YouTube was formed back in 2005 and has grown to become the world’s dominant video-sharing site. It’s tried to muscle…
Mechanical Switches Explored!
Every serious PC gamer will rave about their favourite keyboard – and 99 times out of 100 that’s going to be a mechanical unit. There’s a reason that these old-school devices are the perfect companion for a modern gaming rig: they provide a solid, snappy and consistent typing action, the best speed and the most features. The key to every top-quality keyboard is the mechanical switch under each button. Typically, this isn’t a simple situation – several companies make different switches, and they’ve got game-changing…