Andrew Culverhouse

Review of Overclockers UK

Upper end of the price bracket for components. The...

Upper end of the price bracket for components. The company was bought out at the beginning of the decade. This was a good thing as I had problems with there support team guessing/ not listening in the past. This seems better now and once again I use them for parts when they have what I want at the right price. There is a need for ocuk, if you want gaming parts and binned overclocking parts (cherry picked) then this is one of the few places you can go. But I would say this. If they are binning there CPU's that means that the not so good ones are in there inventory. So I wouldn't be buying OEM CPU's from them because it makes sense that these failed the binning process and your still paying full price for them (but a premium for the test passed ones binned/cherry picked one should you want one), with a higher risk that you cannot overclock the rest of their stock as well as ones bought from somewhere that doesn't bin them, it's also worth noting that Intel don't prebin the CPU's other than assigning the correct model on them based on how power efficient the CPU is at the factory so you get a higher rate of not so great CPU s in there stock.