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The Difficulty with DRAM – New Innovations to DDR5 RAM with Corsair
RAM is a crucial aspect of any gaming PC, and you can never have such a thing as too much RAM. In fact, Corsair has been making innovative strides to help change the fundamental design of DRAM to boost maximum capacities, speeds, and, ultimately, performance. Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at DRAM, its limitations, and the latest developments made by Corsair in their new generation of RAM kits. What is DRAM? Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO DDR5 RAM Kit DRAM, or ‘’Dynamic Random Access…
Our Fave Five Badass Gaming Women
To continue our celebration of all the incredible women in gaming, we asked around the Overclockers UK office, for everyone’s favourite female video game characters and put together our list of the top five badass gaming women. Lara Croft – Tomb Raider: Lara Croft is the protagonist of the infamous Tomb Raider series. An archaeologist, treasure hunter, and tomb raider, throughout the franchise Croft embarks on a series of thrilling adventures on the hunt for powerful and deadly artifacts. Her iconic ponytail, tank top, shorts,…
The Best PCs for Working with Pi
This Pi Day, we’ve decided to take a closer look at our incredible line of workstations and powerhouse PCs. A powerful PC can be designed for much more than high-speed AAA gaming. Our configurable workstations and powerhouse PCs have been crafted utilising cherry-picked hardware, primed for creative and intensive workloads. This includes 3D rendering, simulations, AI modelling, and much more. Today, we’ll be highlighting a few of our favourites, along with showing you how you can build the workstation of your dreams to enhance your…
Level Up Your Streaming: How to Capture PSVR 2 Footage
Released back in February 2023, PSVR 2 is a brand-new virtual reality headset that is compatible with the PlayStation 5 console. Designed to deliver next-gen performance, mind-blowing visuals, and ultra-realistic gameplay, PSVR 2 promises to take your gaming to new heights. Especially for live streamers. Therefore, we’ve put together this blog post showing you how you can capture PSVR 2 footage, including all the necessary hardware you need. What is PSVR2? PSVR2 combines the power of the next-gen PlayStation 5 console with immersive virtual reality. …
Best Gaming Laptops for 2024: 10 Incredible Laptops You Can Buy Right Now!
We're always being spoilt for choice for gaming hardware with all the top names bringing out cutting-edge tech designed to level up your performance. All of which has certainly got us thinking about upgrading our set-ups - therefore we've put together this list of the top ten gaming laptops that you can buy right now. Each of these laptops are equipped with all the latest hardware to enhance your performance in gaming and streaming alike. Gigabyte AORUS 15 Gaming Laptop Enhance your gaming and streaming…
OcUK’s Ultimate Mixtape: Our Fave Gaming Songs
The soundtracks to games are often phenomenal. One Monday morning, the OcUK team were talking about our favourite gaming soundtracks. An idea after another snowballed, and now we have another collaborative blog for you! With a matching mixtape playlist. (Hands up those who always want a matching playlist for blog content. Just me?) Music elicits emotion, and gaming composers have mastered that art down to a tee. The score will tug at your heart strings in the sad cut scenes, or signal danger is just…
Spend the Weekend with These Five Puzzle Platformers
The long-awaited weekend is finally here! We can’t think of a better way to de-stress other than playing one of our favourite puzzle-platformers. Portal Portal is all about solving puzzles with your handy dandy portal gun. Trapped in the Aperture Science Laboratories, play as Chell, who must solve a series of unique puzzles set by GLaDOS, an artificial intelligent lifeform. To solve these puzzles, utilise your trusty portal gun to defy gravity by manipulating various portals and objects through time and space. Official PC System…
Women in the Gaming Industry We Stan!
This International Women’s Day, we’ve decided to celebrate all of the fantastic and influential women in the gaming industry. There are thousands and we couldn’t possibly name them all, but we’ve selected a few of our favourites that deserve a shout out! Amy Henning: Amy Henning is a video game director and script writer, who has worked on some of the most popular game franchises, including Jak and Daxter and Uncharted. Henning has worked in several different areas and companies in the gaming industry. Starting off…
Console Controllers: What You Need to Know
Console controllers are a must-have gaming accessory. Perfect for playing your favourite games on your next-gen console and gaming PC. Here at Overclockers UK, we’ve got a fantastic range of console controllers, plus flight and racing sim peripherals, designed to take your gaming to the next level. Today, we’re showing you a selection of our favourites that are compatible with both PC and console. Before we go into our round up of all the different console controllers, here's how you can connect your controller to…
Add a Splash of Colour With These Colourful Gaming Peripherals
Everything looks great in black? Poppycock! Nothing beats a modern white aesthetic? Balderdash! Life is better in full colour and your gaming setup is too. RGB lighting isn’t the only way you can add a splash of colour though. That’s why we’ve scoured the Overclockers UK website to find these gorgeous colourful gaming peripherals just for you. Better Off Red If PC gaming had its own trinity of primary colours, its members would be black, white, and red. That being said, a little bit of…
Cyberpunk 2077 is Steam Deck Verified!
We can finally play Cyberpunk 2077 on the go! Enter Night City, succumb to cyber-psychosis, and hang out with our chooms. Valves Steam Deck packs some impressive performance into a relatively small package. With an APU based on AMD’s Zen 2 and RDNA2 architecture alongside optimisation for handheld gaming, the Steam Deck is more than capable of AAA gaming. Is the Steam Deck Good Enough for AAA Gaming? Read More Earlier this week, CD Project Red took to Twitter and Steam to announce Cyberpunk 2077…
Great Visual Novel Games to Play This World Book Day
World Book Day is all about celebrating the magic of books and reading. As avid readers, we’re always looking for ways in which we can incorporate our favourite books into video games. In fact, there is a whole genre of games called visual novels, which often tell an interactive and thrilling story with beautiful illustrations and an element of decision-making. Therefore, to celebrate World Book Day, we asked around the Overclockers UK office and put together this list of our favourite visual novel games. Digimon…