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for overclockers.co.uk

Rating Summary based on 131 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		35
  • 4 Stars
    		15
  • 3 Stars
    		4
  • 2 Stars
    		7
  • 1 Star
    		70

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  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 Radical-Machine

    Member since 09/11/2005

    Reviews written: 31

    5 Stars Raising the Bar, Not Just Your PC Speed! Review with images 17/07/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lovely Site, Massive Product Range

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Shipping and Products often expensive!

    In over 6 years of intimate experience with online shops, I've come to demand a lot. As retailer after retailer constantly better themselves, customers demand not only basic service, but want to feel looked after, in a similar way we all expect from traditional shopping. Let's take a look: Typically, a customer would expect to be greeted warmly by a sales assistant, spoken to politely and given relevant and crucial information on products, perhaps in comparison to similar items in store. The customer would then make an informed decision after visiting many stores, weighing up price against ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 Truckle

    Member since 20/04/2005

    Reviews written: 12

    5 Stars I feel the need, the need for speed 23/01/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Top quality products

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not for novices

    www.overclockers.co.uk What do they sell? Overclockers stock a good range of computer upgrades and peripherals. Products include motherboards, memory, CPUs, graphics cards, sound cards, hard drives, CD/DVD drives, monitors, keyboards, case and CPU cooling basically everything you need to build/upgrade your computer. They even sell complete systems. Overclockers do not have the biggest range available compared to some of the big online retailers like dabs, savastore, ebuyer etc. but they tend to have the most popular/top end products available, so if you are an avid PC games player looking to ... more
  • 43 of 44 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 yhwman

    Member since 16/07/2000

    Reviews written: 292

    4 Stars Selling to be broken 01/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Hard to find hardware

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't answer emails, products can occasionally be found cheaper elsewhere

    Overclockers UK (Or OcUK as they like to be called) is the place to go if you’re after either obscure, extreme, or extreme and obscure hardware for your computer. There’s more than just a shop though, they have everything from a motosport team to a discussion forum – it’s a hardware site quite unlike any other. * The Site Itself * OcUK has to the best looking hardware retailer on the web. Tastefully decked out with white and red on a black background everything is clear, nice looking and most importantly, none headache inducing. The colour scheme does swap around a ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 Jambo1976

    Member since 26/10/2008

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star Avoid Overclockers!!! 26/10/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages High Spec systems (if they work)

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very poor customer service, broken systems, terrible courier company

    I ordered an "Ultima Vortex" GX2 PC from Overclockers a month and a half ago. I wouldn't use this company again under any circumstances. As a caveat to this review, some of the issues may have stemmed from the courier company City Link. However, if this is the company Overclockers insist on contracting for their deliveries, I believe the buck stops with them. A brief summary of my issues with them: 1) I paid £35 for a Saturday delivery. City Link attempted to deliver on a Tuesday. They assured me they were not instructed to deliver on a Saturday. 2) I took the next day off work to receive the ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    C_W_Monkey

    4 Stars Overclockers - Under-rated 29/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great range, great service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not for novice PC users like me

    Upon some recommendations from Rabid, I went to overclockers.co.uk and purchased some goods which he had suggested to me. Overclockers sells computer components. They don't do complete machines but sell pretty much everything else. From motherboards to fans, you can pretty much find anything here. I bought 1 x 2.8GHz P4 Prescott, an MSI motherboard to support it, some fans and some heat sinks, some thermal interface pads. All of this totaled to about £200. The odering process was pretty simple. The site is split into easily recognisable sections (such as "CPU's, Motherboards, Graphics") and ... more
  • 46 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Judgee

    Member since 19/08/2001

    Reviews written: 130

    5 Stars Does your computer need a face lift or tummy tuck 13/03/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Reliability

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can be expensive

    I have recently upgraded my computer. What was once a top of the range speed machine, had sadly become a little dated and needed a bit of a boost. Surfing the Internet I stumbled across overclockers.co.uk and it immediately caught my attention. The name ‘overclockers’ immediately suggest a site specialising in performance upgrades for your computer. They do tend to lean towards the more highly priced end of the market. But lower specification hardware can still be found, albeit in a very limited choice. So let me tell you a little bit more about the site. ~~~The look~~~ The homepage is quite ... more
  • 33 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 cjkace

    Member since 28/09/2000

    Reviews written: 139

    5 Stars Tweakers paradise. 07/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Pre-tested hardware, sells top quality products.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not for the nervous

    I happened upon this UK computer hardware online shop, by following a link from Hexus.net, a hardware info website, that deals mainly with overclocking your hardware. Shops like this have done a roaring trade in the US, Canada and Australia and I was very pleased to find this one based here in good old Blighty. They sell a variety of computer hardware, from specially modified cases to unlocked and pre-tested processors, with everything necessary in between. The important thing when running hardware further than it's supposed to, they get hot and good cooling is an absolute must. The online ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 av4tar

    Member since 18/09/2007

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star poor customer service and returns procedure 18/09/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages good range of products

    Disadvantages Disadvantages terrible after sales returns policy and staff not being accruate

    After purchasing a new motherboard and processor a year ago all was going well untillthe motherboard caused the pc to crash from time to time, then it wouldnt even boot! it would pass the post but when it came to loading windows or attempting to use the recovery screen the pc just wouldnt have it. I tried 3 brands of ram from 512mb to 1gb along with IDE and SATA hard drives and still would not get to the windows installation screen! So i spoke with oc's tech support, who told me exactly what i had tried, but to make sure i did it all again with no joy. I obtained an RMA very quickly and posted ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 darthvader666uk

    Member since 15/09/2008

    Reviews written: 5

    1 Star Worst Service Ever 15/09/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages There wasnt any

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I would never deal with them again!

    The Worst site and customer service i have ever experienced. I have always used Ebuyer.co.uk for all my computing needs. A year ago, i thought i would try overclockers as some of the parts were cheaper than on Ebuyer. That proved a costly mistake. The motherboard i received was already a returned product and, when i tried building my computer, the motherboard didn't work! I sent it back and 'Apparently' they couldn't find anything wrong so they sent it back. I then sent it back to them say it was faulty (don't forget, i had to pay for p+p without any refund) and this time (after 6 weeks of ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 calroz666

    Member since 08/10/2008

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! 08/10/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap, huge stock list.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Illegal return policy

    Good company until something goes wrong. I used them for a while with no problems, I live nearby and so would use "the shop" to purchase items. I purchased a new Motherboard, RAM and a Graphics card. After building everything the system crashed every time I tried to install XP. I checked all settings in bios, checked leads etc. to no avail, still crashed whilst installing windows. I tried various combinations with other kit, swapped out PSU, RAM, graphics etc, again wouldn't work. I then noticed a resistor in the bottom of the bag the motherboard came in. After about an hour I managed to find ... more
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