Category: Guide
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Best Gaming PC Hardware in 2024 (so far)
With 2023 almost at a close, and after Intel’s 14th gen CPU release, we now have relatively high confidence that there will be no more hardware launches until 2024, we thought it is a good time to share what the best hardware selections are for a gaming PC. We have taken the time to write…
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Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling
Serious about your computer’s performance while keeping it as cool as possible? The advice has usually been to opt for liquid cooling, opposed to the often standard and alternative of air cooling. Generally speaking, this advice makes sense, liquid cooling your CPU or GPU yields better results.* * There are exceptions, such as when comparing…
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Customising a Gaming PC for Apex Legends
Apex Legends is smashing records right now as the most popular PC game. With it’s player count topping 25 million within the first week, it beat out DayZ, PUBG and even Fortnite to claim the thrown as the most successful PC game launch of all time. So what does it take to jump and start…
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Building a Custom Gaming PC for 4K Gaming in 2019
With 4K monitors becoming more and more affordable, 4K gaming is spreading through the ranks of high end PC gaming fast, but what does it really take to push that many pixels? We take a look at a few of the most demanding PC games out right now to find out. Pre-ample : We’ll be…
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Customizing A Gaming PC for Battlefield V & RTX
With Battlefield V’s Tides of War Chapter 2 update being released next week and the RTX2060 to follow soon after we’re decided it would be a great time to jump in and review what sort of gaming PC it requires to play Battlefield V with RTX on (Ray Tracing) at 1080P / 1440P and 4K.…
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Fallout 76 : Building A Custom Gaming PC For The Wasteland!
The release of the long anticipated latest Fallout game is finally upon us and to celebrate we’re diving in to exactly what PC hardware you’ll need in your next custom gaming PC to dive in. If you’ve found this article you probably already know what Fallout 76 so lets get straight down to business. The…
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Customising The Best Gaming PC for August 2018
We often get asked for advise from customers who have a rough idea of what they are trying to achieve but are just not quiet sure what the best configuration for their particular needs is. For the purposes of this article we are going to make a few basic assumptions. Primary Use : Gaming By…
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Building a custom gaming PC for Fortnite @ 4K
Occasionally a game comes around that is so unanimously popular that our sales team start to get asked daily for a recommendations configuration a custom gaming PC specifically to play it. Fortnite is one of those games that will run great on older hardware at 1080P but what will it take to crank out a…
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Building A Custom Gaming PC to Play Overwatch
With Blizzard’s arena first person shooter Overwatch steadily growing to be one of the biggest of it’s kind on the e-sports scene, it’s also been rapidly growing in popularity among gamers, overtaking the likes of CS:GO, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Battlefield 1 as the games our customers ask us about most on a day to day…
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Overclocking A Skylake i5 6600K
Interested in building a new Skylake gaming PC and thinking about overclocking it? This article will break down what you need and what you can safely expect to get out of an unlocked Intel 6600K i5 CPU with the right motherboard & cooler.