Sunday, 17 May 2015

Palicomp Overclocked i7 Ranger Bundle

Palicomp Overclocked i7 Ranger Bundle

Moving back up the price scale, we have this intriguing configurable bundle from Palicomp, which can range from the base price of £399.99 through to an eyewatering £928.98.

The bundle consists of an Asus Maximus VII Ranger motherboard, an Intel Haswell Core i7-4790K processor overclocked to 4.4GHz, a ThermalTake Contac21 High Performance Ultra silent cooler and the option to add from 4GB of Cruicial 1333MHz memory through to 32GB of Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133MHz RAM.

CCL Alpha Brilliant Bundle

CCL Alpha Brilliant Bundle

It’s all fine and well having an extreme Intel-based, overclocked bundle to help drive your gaming to higher levels of performance, but what if you simply require an entry-level bundle that costs less than £200?

CCL may have the answer for you in the form of its Alpha Brilliant Motherboard Bundle. This package consists of an Asus A88XM-E motherboard, 8GB of Kingston 1600MHz ValueRAM and an AMD 3.6GHz A8-6600K CPU.

OC Gigabyte Magma Z97 Bundle

OC Gigabyte Magma Z97 Bundle

Our second Overclockers UK bundle represents a higher grade of components and features at, obviously, a higher price than the previous one. But what you get for your money makes this particular bundle stand out from the crowd.

The Overclockers UK Gigabyte Magma bundle consists of a Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force motherboard, a choice of 8GB or 16GB TeamGroup Vulcan 2133MHz memory, an Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell Refresh CPU overclocked to 4.5GHz and a Prolimatech Genesis CPU cooler.

Scan MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Bundle

Scan MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Bundle

Scan has an interesting gaming bundle on offer consisting of an MSI Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard and an Intel Core i7-4790K CPU. But is this a setup worth spending your hard-earned pounds on?

The MSI Z97 Gaming 5 is an immensely stylish and capable ATX, LGA 1150 motherboard. It has four DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum of 32GB of overclocked 3300MHz memory, three PCIe x16 slots, four PCIe x1 slots and an M.2 port. The rear IO consists of a gigabit Ethernet port, four USB 3.0, four USB 2.0, VGA, DVI, HDMI and six audio jacks.

OC Recon Anniversary Intel Bundle

OC Recon Anniversary Intel Bundle

Overclockers UK has a range of gaming motherboard bundles available. The Recon Anniversary Intel bundle is the cheapest from the range (at present), but don’t let the price fool you into thinking corners have been cut.

The bundle is certainly good enough for the modest gamer on a budget. It features an Asus H81M-Plus Intel motherboard, an Intel Pentium K Anniversary Edition G3258 processor overclocked to a decent 4.2GHz, 8GB (2 x 4GB) Kingston HyperX 1866MHz memory and a Prolimatech 68 CPU cooler.